In this conversation, James explores the foundations of his inquiry — from his early encounter with quantum physics through the questions that eventually led him beyond the limits of physicalism, and into the metaphysical framework he calls syncretic idealism. He speaks to the hard problem of consciousness, the rise of contemporary idealism, the role of psychedelic experience, and the place of contemplative traditions within a rigorous scientific worldview. We consider whether the unconscious is best understood as an ontological category or an epistemological one, drawing on the Sāṃkhya distinction between puruṣa and prakṛti. Along the way, we touch on symbolic cognition, synchronicity, the re-enchantment of the cosmos, and what it might mean to live in a participatory universe at a moment when humanity is, by many accounts, in a crisis of meaning.