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Adam Lamb Adventure Club

Adam Lamb Adventure Club

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 The Adam Lamb Adventure Club is a place for adventures... led by Adam Lamb! We explore the shadowy, mysterious edges of the human condition in the modern world. Polyamory, psychedelia, nudism, BDSM, metamodern spirituality, rationalism, are a few of the areas we tread into. Buckle up! Adam is a sex worker, life coach, massage therapist, and yoga teacher. And most recently a podcaster! He has a private coaching practice in NYC and online at http://alamb.co

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  • Duncan Horst on NeuroConvergence and the Erotic Path to God

    Duncan Horst on NeuroConvergence and the Erotic Path to God
    Apr 16 2025
    Duncan Horst discusses his work with Fifth Wall Productions, an interactive theater company aimed at breaking the distinction between actor and audience to foster a sense of community and combat nihilism. He explained the concept of the "fifth wall," which involves audience members actively participating in performances. Horst also delved into the importance of neuro convergence, integrating neurodiverse individuals into a unified framework, and emphasized the role of sexual practices and financial management in personal growth. He highlighted the need for trust and shared frameworks to create meaningful connections and enhance cognitive and creative capacities.Transcript:Adam Lamb 0:02 Welcome Duncan,Duncan Horst 0:05 thank you, Adam.Adam Lamb 0:07 I've followed your work for some time through our Facebook connection. I just spent the last half hour listening to your album that came out in late last year, and I have so much curiosity about you as a person. I will start by asking, What are you up to now? What lights you up in your your work in the world?Duncan Horst 0:40 Well, there are a couple of different things that feel really germane to this conversation. They're all ultimately connected. It's kind of like a higher IQ version of like the Marvel Avengers arc, where they set up with like 23 different movies that all joined together to defeat Thanos. And in this case, like Thanos or Thanatos, like the ultimate Thanatos is not like a risk of death, but it's the risk of nihilism within a matter modern context. The two biggest ventures that I'm actively engaged in that combat nihilism are fifth wall productions, which is an interactive theater and event company that aspires to break the fifth wall so it's breaking the distinction between actor and audience, breaking The distinction between people who come in to consume entertainment to people who come in and create from the moment so creating, you know, clan size to tribe size gatherings where the identity structure is re knit from passive observer to active co creator within a meta, mythic lens that incorporates a lot of improvisation in order to get people to interact with and enact the archetypes as they're applied to the present moment. Is something that I feel is a plausible answer. It's a plausible answer like, is it the answer, no, but what it can do is it can create identity at the tribal level that is sufficient to modern nervous systems to begin to embody what is necessary in order to remain human.Adam Lamb 2:41 I'm gonna slow you down, just not at the risk of infantilizing my audience or whoever happens across this recording, I want to back up and like I found that what you just said is I absolutely agree, and I find it very fascinating and interesting, and I want to unpack some of the language. So when you you talk about the fifth wall, and then you you mentioned a few dichotomies that you're breaking apart like, or rather fusing together the audience and the spectator, and being one of them. Can you give some background, perhaps, to this phrase the fifth wall is that something that already exists, or is that a something you made up?Duncan Horst 3:31 Yes. So I have, like I have my own special little neuro convergent lens on things, the breaking the fourth wall is an established theater term. It's like in house of cards or Shakespeare, when an audience, when an actor, like breaks out of the thing and like does a whispered aside to the audience. Isn't this person ridiculous? And that's my secret plan, like, you know, to get people copacetic your the fourth wall is between what is on the stage and a stage. All theater is implicitly religious theater. You know, all acting started as a way for polities like Athens Greece to honor the local gods and create cultural unity so they could defend themselves against the Persians, or so that they could make sure that their own identity was safe against the barbarians, which are literally, it's a Greek word, meaning the people who speak blah blah, the blah blah, rien barbarians, blah blah, I did not Know that the blah blah people, basically, people who didn't speak Greek but who didn't speak the mythic language of the Greeks were the blah blah people. Okay, so it's like making sure that there's a shared cultural language.Adam Lamb 4:54 So you're saying that theater reinforces the culture, which is. Necessary to defend the culture against intruders like the blah blah people. That'sDuncan Horst 5:04 right. I mean, it it separates in groups and out groups, but it also creates the shared framework that people can use to connect with one another and connect more deeply. Without that shared framework interactions tend to be shallow and more head based. So it creates a set of, you know, security protocols, essentially, yeah, you know, you're that the system can't be hacked by rogue thought forms, or rogue, you know, Thanatos, aka nihilism, is what stalks the land. You know, a specter is haunting Europe, the ...
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  • Masculinity and Intimacy with Mikaal Bates

    Masculinity and Intimacy with Mikaal Bates
    Feb 26 2025
    Mikaal Bates and I discuss men's work, intimacy, rites of passage, masculinity, initiation, brotherhood, sacred theater, acting, self-discovery, community, purpose, combat sports, nudism, political landscape, and tribal societies.Adam 0:02 I'm here with Michael Bates. He is a men's coach and a coach of of intimacy between men and women. I met him in New York right before the pandemic, literally two weeks before the the first news of it, and I had attended a men's circle he held in Brooklyn, and then it was only years later, three years later, that I did my own initiation into men's work. And now I've been paying a lot more attention to what he's been doing, and he's doing some really interesting things. So thank you for being here, Michael,Mikaal 0:38 it's a pleasure to be here. Adam, thank you for having me. It's good to see you again.Adam 0:43 Yeah, you too. So, like many of us, myself, I moved to New York coming from a jazz performance area. And you, I understand, are coming from an acting background. I'm I'm curious, like, what was your journey to come to New York and in general, how did your acting inform the work that you're doing?Mikaal 1:05 Now, it's a great question. I was actually a jazz saxophone player in college, but, uh Oh, wow.Adam 1:11 Which, which sacks, etc. Nice. I played Alto and Perry Right on man, BMikaal 1:18 flat to B flat. You know? It's a nice the nice, big gap, yeah, yeah. Man acting, I mean the arts in general, I would say that you know, so much of the work that I do, especially in the in the rites of passage and initiation space, there is a component of sacred theater to it. There's a component of enacting these rituals, the ritual of masculinity, the ritual of manhood, the transformation of going from one state to another and studying acting in New York at the the Esper studio, which is Meisner technique, was a revelation. It's a spiritual, deep spiritual practice to live or do truthfully under imaginary circumstances. And so it was a huge time for me of self self discovery and learning to use my entire body as an instrument. I had been, as I mentioned, a musician, and I've been an athlete, but there was something about getting to know myself and the instrument of the body so deeply that I could be open to any experience and to take on any experience or role, any any of the vast potentiality of what it means to be human and to be a conduit of that. I honestly don't think there's anything I recommend people do more than go to acting school. It's just such an incredible skill and just an incredible way of getting to know yourself. And so I would say, I use, I use skills that I learned in acting school every day, and the work that I do, literally in the one on one coaching work, and also in the the group, the groups as well. Yeah,Adam 2:58 the being open to any experience really stood out at me, because in my own experience of men's work, I realized how much, how kind of myopic my my life was, just I'm only operating from my own perspective. So being in, and I imagine this would be group therapy in general, but being in experiences where I'm I'm seeing, in this case, men coming from all walks of life, experiencing all kinds of different issues, and in a way, holding space for that, being a vessel for that, it makes me less judgmental and less reactive to other people's experiences in general.Mikaal 3:37 Yeah, that's a good way of putting it. I mean, once you once you meet the entire retinue of human potential, and I think New York is so great for that, you know, just go and go on the subway in New York and just sit and watch. And the whole human spectrum is just there, just laid out in, in, in every single individual and the uniqueness of the individuals there. So it's a beautiful thing. And one of my favorite things about New York to say the least,Adam 4:04 yeah, so what is men's work? And why does it matter?Mikaal 4:12 That's a great question. Men's work is a term that's become pretty popular in the last, you know, five to 10 years. I mean, it's, it's the process of men working on themselves. It's the process that once happened to us when we were young men, when we were living in intact tribal societies for hundreds of 1000s of years, regardless of where our genetics come from, if you go back far enough we were living as tribal peoples, and there have been extensive studies done on the peoples of Earth. And one of the beautiful, just unifying aspects of this work is that as teenagers, you and I with the rest of the men of our. Tribe, or the boys of our tribe, would have been taken by the men away from our mothers, away from the comforts of the hearth and the warmth of mother's skirt tails. And we would have been taken out, usually into the dark, into the cold, with the men. And we would get to learn the experience of what it means to be men, the ethos of our tribe, the the mythos, the myths, the stories and we would be literally put through a process of becoming men. And ...
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  • Claire Berjot on Thriving in Relationships

    Claire Berjot on Thriving in Relationships
    Jan 17 2024

    I interview Claire Berjot about her upcoming course "Thriving in Relationships" 2024. View more details and apply here.

    01:15 - What brought you to healing work?
    03:30 - What's the connection between inner peace & finding peace in relationships?
    08:45 - Why is it sometimes hard to do what is best/healthy?
    10:15 - How to broach the subject of therapy with one's partner.
    11:50 - Couples waiting too long to go to therapy
    14:40 - What are the different struggles between ENM/monogamous couples?
    17:45 - What should someone do if they're struggling with difficult, repeating patterns while dating (one night stands, being ghosted, etc)?
    22:00 - "Parts Work" skepticism
    24:00 - Bridging Differentiation/Attachment models (a unique offering)

    Course Details
    Dates: Saturdays 12-2pm EST: February 10 & 24, and March 9 & 23
    Location: Zoom
    Cost: $79 Early bird (before Jan 22nd), $95 General

    Learn to thrive in your relationships, starting with the relationship you have with yourself.
    Whether you are:
    - Struggling with either challenging emotions or behaviors and striving for more inner peace
    - Wanting to learn how to “love yourself” but haven’t found the manual
    - Looking for a more harmonious relationship with your loved ones
    - In (a) relationship(s), wanting to develop depth and intimacy and a more conscious way to relate
    - Heartbroken, wanting to understand repetitive patterns and make peace with your past

    This class will help you develop skills and a roadmap to bring more consciousness to your relationships.

    FAQ:

    Do I need to attend all four sessions?

    While it is ideal, you do not need to attend all of the sessions. Each one will be recorded for your private use for up to a month following the completion of the course.

    Can I join with my partner(s)?

    Yes, simply share this form with them and indicate below that you're joining together.

    Will this be lecture-style, or interactive?

    The course is highly interactive. While you are welcome to opt out at any time, there will be many opportunities to work directly with Claire, in small groups, and 1-1 with other participants.

    Can I listen in on the call if I'm unable to attend by video?

    We ask that all participants do their best to keep video on. We also ask that participants join the call from a private space with minimum potential for distraction. If you're not able to participate in this manner, please review the recording afterwards and add your voice to the group chat.

    Can I join after the course has begun?

    We will close registration at 12pm EST on February 9th, 24 hours before the beginning of the course.

    About Claire Berjot:

    Claire is a psychotherapist and a coach, with a specific interest in how we are in relationships with ourselves, with others, and with the world around us.

    This led her to explore modalities such as mindfulness meditation, authentic movement, intuitive voice, altered states of consciousness, NVC (Non Violent Communication) as well as SE’s trauma work (Somatic Experiencing). She then eventually pursued her master's degree in Transpersonal Psychotherapy at Naropa University (Boulder, CO).

    She’s completed her relational education with a level 2 PACT training (a Psychobiological Approach to Couple’s Therapy), based on the latest advances in neuroscience, nervous system regulation, and attachment theories. She also trained in IFS (Internal Family Systems) and IFIO (Intimacy from the Inside Out) and loves how parts work naturally weaves in curiosity and compassion for our experiences.

    As she holds holistic containers for deep transformation, her work is equally anchored in the experience of the body, mind, and soul.

    She feels passionate about transmitting the tools, skills, and psychoeducation we all need to thrive relationally.



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