We are excited to host Mauro Zappaterra on this episode of the Mangu.tv podcast.

Mauro Zappaterra, MD, PhD, earned his degrees from Harvard Medical School and specialises in physical medicine and rehabilitation, focusing on human performance, awareness, and pain reduction. Pra

ctising mindfulness since 1998, he has taught it to chronic pain patients since 2018. As Director of Multidisciplinary Care at Synovation Medical Group, he integrates new research on cerebrospinal fluid and pain management. Dr. Zappaterra has authored numerous scientific papers and books, including I Am, All One, All Love, and Close Your Eyes, What Do You See? co-written with his son, emphasising awareness and imagination. His alphabet book, A is for Awareness, and programs like Awakening Awareness reflect his dedication to mindfulness, healing, and expanding consciousness.

Mauro shares the story of his upbringing, and early curiosity in human development and the power of the mind. He speaks about his studies in molecular biology and dissatisfaction with the format of his learning thus leading him down the holistic path and Craniosacral therapy which informed his PhD in Cerebrospinal fluid.

Giancarlo and Mauro discuss the mystical and scientific significance of cerebrospinal fluid as well as ways to tune into this fluid and space through breath and meditation. Mauro shares his philosophy that by doing these practices, we understand who we truly are, and the connection with the totality of the universe.

We are delighted to host Simeon Schnapper on the Mangu.tv podcast series.

Simeon's passion and expertise span over 30 years in the fields of research, philanthropy advocacy, policy, and criminal justice reform in the science of psychedelics. He provides valuable guidance to various organisations including nonprofit, psychedelic and impact start-ups, family offices as of states and several newly formed governments. He co-founded the GLS fund, groundbreaking venture capital in this field, and spearheaded the world's inaugural psychedelic investment summit at the start of the decade. Recipient of the MacArthur Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, he's an Aspen Institute fellow. While embracing a global outlook of impact and when not living on aeroplanes, visiting portfolio companies, he spends his time between Manhattan, Montenegro and Western Central Africa.

Simeon speaks about his upbringing, his parent's work with Peacecore, his childhood in Western Samoa, and later in Chicago. He talks about his teen years, his curiosity in spiritual practices and altered states, as well as his time in Ghana. Simeon discusses his role in opening the first psychedelic art gallery and medical marijuana dispensary in California, and subsequent involvement in alternative medicine, as well as investing in philanthropic and holistic endeavours.

Giancarlo and Simeon discuss the medicalisation of Psychedelics such as Psylocibiin and MDMA as well as the complexities of their use in a Western medicinal context, ways to manage approved drug use to minimalise their abuse as well as informing the global perspective on Psychedelics as medicine.

We are excited to host David Luke, for an episode on the Mangu.tv podcast series.

Dr David Luke is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Greenwich where he has been teaching an undergraduate course on the Psychology of Exceptional Human Experience since 2009, and he is also Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College.

His research focuses on transpersonal experiences, anomalous phenomena and altered states of consciousness, especially via psychedelics, having published more than 100 academic papers in this area, including thirteen books, most recently: Breaking Convention: A Seismic Shift in Psychedelia (2022) and DMT Entity Encounters (2021.

When he is not running clinical drug trials with LSD, doing DMT field experiments or observing apparent weather control with Mexican shamans, he directs the Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness salon. He is a co-founder and trustee of Breaking Convention: International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness.

He has given over 400 invited public lectures and conference presentations; won teaching, research and writing awards; organised numerous festivals, conferences, symposia, seminars, retreats, expeditions, pagan cabarets and pilgrimages; and has studied techniques of consciousness alteration from South America to India, from the perspective of scientists, shamans and Shivaites. He lives life on the edge of Sussex.

David speaks about his upbringing, experimenting with psychedelics, shamanism, parapsychology, entheobotany, and his PhD thesis on the psychology of luck. Giancarlo and David discuss synchronicities, the double-slit experiment and the power of thought.