East Forest wants your attention for two hours. In 2025, that’s borderline illegal.
I called East Forest from Buenos Aires. He answered from Boise, Idaho, inside what he casually referred to as “my studio.” Same planet, same year.
Culturally, though, the gap closed fast. Two urban guys on opposite ends of the hemisphere, talking through a screen about nervous systems, panic, mushrooms, capitalism, and why modern life keeps insisting that you become separate, isolated, and personally responsible for problems that are obviously structural.
Born Krishna-Trevor Oswalt, reborn East Forest, this mystical person in front of me on a screen has a new documentary out, Music for Mushrooms.
It follows his work at the edge of music, ceremony, and what passes these days for mental health infrastructure. It also follows his quests. He puts some doubts on camera too, both in the documentary and in our friendly get-together, which already puts him ahead of most people selling “personal transformation” on TikTok.
And in a move that feels generous and militant, he’s putting the film online for free.
Music for Mushrooms is available on YouTube starting Sunday the 21st, free to watch, initially through the end of January, possibly longer “if it’s working.”
The central hub is MusicForMushrooms.com, and the movie is online here.
As the responsible journalist and human experience lover that I try to be, I watched the film, which fortunately isn’t a sales pitch for psychedelics, and listened hard to most of the material that East Forest has online.
What I can tell you is that Music for Mushrooms is kind of a field report from someone who has spent nearly two decades watching people crack open at his shows without really understanding why, but trying to understand why.
A late bloomer with a recorder
Author: Rolando García / High Times
