Nikita Petrov talks to the visionary artist David Poleski about drugs, travel, childhood, identity, language, speaking in tongues, and freedom from the ego.

Nikita Petrov and John Horgan talk about tripping on DMT and discuss how to integrate psychedelic experiences into daily life.

Nikita Petrov and John Horgan talk about the nature of time, the simulation hypothesis, whether humanity has made a lot of progress since its hunter-gatherer days, John’s frustration with quantum physics, war, suffering, politics, and Nikita’s latest DMT trip.

Nikita Petrov and John Horgan contemplate the nature of ideas and their relationship to individual people and cultures.

In the first of a series of bi-weekly conversations, Nikita Petrov and John Horgan talk about John’s hockey career, the Covid pandemic, Nikita’s escape from the city and search for a new lifestyle, the 60s, Russian laws about “foreign agents,” amanita muscaria mushrooms, inner emigration, the social responsibility of an artist, and more.