Show Notes
Episode 28 welcomes Cassidy Rosenblum, founder and editor-in-chief of Thunder Perfect Mind magazine, for a deep conversation about the intersection of psychedelics, the divine feminine, and cultural and religious transformation.
Highlights:
- Cassidy sharing her journey from a hippie upbringing (her parents named her after Neal Cassady from On the Road.) to reporting on psychedelics for Rolling Stone.
- The inside story of a transformative group mushroom ceremony with former Mormon women.
- How Mormon women are choosing ketamine and nitrous over alcohol, which is forbidden by their religion.
- How Rick Perry (former Governor of Texas and Secretary of Energy) is using Biblical scripture to promote the use of psychedelics.
- The rising role of the goddess and the divine feminine in personal and collective healing.
- How psychedelics are influencing spiritual and religious landscapes, including challenges to traditional churches.
- The vision behind Thunder Perfect Mind: a print magazine as a devotional offering to the goddess.
- How to integrate psychedelic experiences into environmental activism and ethical cultural engagement.
Bio
Cassady Rosenblum is the founder and Editor in Chief of Thunder Perfect Mind, a new print magazine about the Goddess and psychedelics that will be released this spring. Prior to launching her own magazine, Cassady wrote and edited for the New York Times and Rolling Stone. She lives in Taos, New Mexico, home of the Red Willow People.
Links
Learn More About Cassady & Thunder Perfect Mind
https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/thunder-perfect-mind
Thunder Perfect Mind Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/thunderperfectmag/
Links from Show
Original Good Friday Experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_Chapel_Experiment
Updated Johns Hopkins Good Friday Experiment
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/26/this-is-your-priest-on-drugs
Cathy Coleman’s book on Ralph Metzner’s life: Ralph Metzner Explorer of Consciousness
https://www.greenearthfound.org
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