Thomas Hatsis aka Bane Ana on the roller derby rink is in Grimerica to chat about The Witches Ointment the Secret History of Psychedelic Magic. his latest book.  Tom is a historian of witchcraft, magic, medieval pharmacopeia, and entheogens. And host of the website linked below...   Thomas schools us in Witchery and the history of different psychedelics. We chat about the credibility of psychedelic research, some of the positive and negative feedback with his research and we even touch on the modern drug war including CIA involvement and disinfo.   http://arspsychedelia.com/    http://www.innertraditions.com/Contributor.jmdx?action=displayDetail&id=1923    In the intro Red Pill Junkie joins us and catches us up on his latest podcast appearances. Darren concludes the fortune cookie challenge, and we chat about inner earth type mysteries. Check out Marty's "Learn Performance" workshop coming up in Canmore and one of our favorite listeners band Wasted Nation is playing at Morgan's pub this weekend.   See all the links below for local events coming up and to stuff we talked about in the intro and the show.   https://twitter.com/red_pill_junkie?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor   http://dailygrail.com/blogs/red-pill-junkie    http://www.wheredidtheroadgo.com/    http://mactonnies.com/    http://www.m-2sport.ca/workshops/learn-performance/    http://humansarefree.com/2015/10/the-top-8-paranormal-scientific-studies.html    http://www.presidentialufo.com/   http://www.chopra.com/   Grimerica’s Honey DoBeDoBeDo List: !! – Please Help support the show. Grimerica is fully and solely listener supported. We adhere to the Value for Value model.  0 ads, 0 sponsorships, 0 breaks, 0 portals and links to corporate websites… just many hours of unlimited content for free. Thanks for listening!! Check out all the other donation types, and get a Grimerica email addy: http://www.grimerica.ca/support/   Listen live and join the chat: www.Mixlr.com/grimerica . Check out the updated schedule @: http://www.grimerica.ca/backstage/ Send us a postcard: http://www.grimerica.ca/contact/ Sign up for our newsletter http://www.grimerica.ca/news Leave a comment, ideas and guest/topic suggestions under any episode or blog http://www.grimerica.ca/ Leave a voicemail http://www.grimerica.ca/ SPAM Graham = and send him your synchronicities, feedback, strange experiences and psychedelic trip reports!! graham@grimerica.com Tweet Darren https://twitter.com/Grimerica Leave a review on iTunes and/or Stitcher https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-grimerica-show/id653314424?mt=2# http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-grimerica-show    Thanks to Wayne Darnell for help with the website. http://www.darnelldigitalink.com/   MUSIC Grimerica Theme - Lock & Key Remainder of Music Provided by Beatz Boutique https://rvnez.bandcamp.com/