For the first episode of Into the Stream I'm joined by Finbar Shields, poet, steadfast devotee on the path of self-healing, and one of my favourite mind palaces to visit.

We reflect on his chronic disease, explore the inevitability of humans falling from the holy heights of spiritual reverie into the sullen troughs of Netflix binges, and recount his love-fuelled adventures in the Peruvian Amazon stumbling into an Ayahuasca healing centre and listening to his lover's orchestral belly-gurglings.

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The podcast's music is "Good Morning" by Bonaparte and Acid Pauli, who kindly gave their permission for use.