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Pierre Bouchard is on the show to talk about somatic therapy, the traumatic roots of depression, and the role ketamine-assisted somatic psychotherapy can play in healing that trauma, and thus the depression it produces.

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Alexander Beiner joins us on Adventures Through The Mind to discuss the rise of psychedelic capitalism, its impact on the culture, and the risk of us losing something promising if we get swept up by various narratives for-profits models are seeding into our minds.

We also discuss modern Western culture’s crisis of meaning, the dissolution of trust in institutions, "the internet of beefs", and the challenge of sensemaking in our modern technological landscape.

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What are heightened sexual experiences? How do we access them? How do they relate to our ability to access pleasure, multiple orgasms, and a profound sense of intimacy with ourselves and with others? What do we need to watch out for on our journey of awakening to these heightened sexual experiences in order to stay safe in ourselves and avoid accidentally hurting others? And, what roles do our psychedelic experiences serve in this sexual awakening?

We welcome Miriam Elyse to Adventures Through The Mind to explore these questions and more.

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What is the best way to address both the acute and systemic problems present in psychedelic culture?

It's a big question, so we have invited a number of people to have a psychedelic café about it.

Our guests, (in alphabetical order according to their last name, excluding host James W. Jesso)

• Marta Ketchmarchek, co-founder and coordinator of The Psychedelic Society of The Netherlands and Facilitator at Synthesis, a psilocybin retreat centre in Amsterdam
• Trevor Millar, owner of Liberty Root therapy, Chair for MAPS Canada, and on the founding board of the Canadian Psychedelic Association
• Jeronimo MM, member of ICEERS, which is the International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research, and Service
• Anya Oleksiuk, psychedelic documentary filmmaker co-owner and co-director of The Psychedelic Society UK
• Brian Pace, the politics and ecology editor for Psymposia and lecturer of psychedelic studies at Ohio state university
• Mareesa Stertz of Film maker and co-founder of Lucid News
• Bett Williams, author of The Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey

Carlos Tanner, director of The Ayahuasca Foundation, is on the show to talk about what childhood trauma is, how it's developed, and not only how ayahuasca can help heal it, but how we can set ourselves up for, and understand, that healing in a way that truly betters our lives.

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Episode Breakdown

• Carlos’ journey of recovering from addiction with ayahuasca and into ayahuasca apprenticeship
• What is childhood trauma and how is it made
• The role of ayahuasca in healing childhood trauma
• Why ayahuasca helps heal trauma better than psychoanalysis
• The importance of having a safe context to release stuck traumatic emotions
• The role of accessing hypersensitivity states during ayahuasca to remap traumatic memories
• The essential role of ceremony in guiding our ayahuasca experiences into a healing experience
• Inner environment metaphor to understand the science of healing with ayahuasca
• "whatever it takes"
• The role of stating your intention
• The connection between inner environment and relational context
• Are there certain traumas that ayahuasca can heal better than others?
• How do spirits fit into this childhood trauma healing process?
• How our beliefs inform our sense of what's real, and how our sense of reality isn't necessarily what's real
• What about dark sorcery, demons, psychic warfare, and magic darts?
• What about trauma that causes psychiatric conditions, like psychosis or bipolar?
• Ayahuasca's influence on epigenetics and inherited family trauma
• Integration specific to returning back to your life after doing ayahuasca in South America
• The results of the ayahuasca foundation’s research on ayahuasca impact on mental health
• The second phase of their research

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WHAT DOES THE PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE OFFER US IN SO FAR AS THE MEANING OF BEING IN RELATIONSHIP?

That is the question we are exploring for this episode of The Psychedelic Café. Our Guests are: Mel Cassidy, Bruce Sanguin, Miriam Elise, and Adam Wilder

Robert 'Rio' Hahn is on the show for this episode to present the explorer's mindset to us, and all that it can offer us, through sharing his history as not only an explorer but one of the founding fathers for ethnobotanical research of psychoactive plants in the Amazon. He is not only a curious and sharp-minded man but an important figure in the history of psychedelic culture as we know it today.

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Episode Breakdown

• Rio journey into the amazon on the  R/VHeraclitus to study psychoactive plants with Wade Davis and Dennis and Terrence McKenna
• What it was like to drink ayahuasca before anyone knew what ayahuasca was
• Is there regret for helping pave the way for ayahuasca tourism?
• How an explorers mindset can protect us from shamanic exploitation
• How and explorers mindset can help us navigate the pandemic crisis
• Surrender, acceptance, curiosity, and breath
• How to be explorers while holding psychoactive plants as teachers
• Rios journey into datura with a Hindu swami (swamis sacred plant)
• Keep hold of the explorers' mindset

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In 2017, Andrea Bird received her terminal diagnosis. In December of 2018, having no experience with it up to this point, she received underground psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy to grapple with the challenge of dying. She is on the show for this episode to share her psilocybin story publicly for the first time.

(If you noticed this episode's mp3 dropped before the end, that was an issue on my end! The corrected file has been uploaded and should be available shortly.)

Dr. Douglas Tataryn joins us to explain the Four Facets Of Human Transformation, how they develop (or don’t develop) over time, what roles those facets play, what it looks like when one is more developed than the others, and how we might develop those facets in a way that leads us to removing perceptual distortions and living happier, healthier, more embodied lives within ourselves and within our relationships.

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Episode Breakdown

• A quick overview of topics from our first interview together
• What are the four facets of transformation
• Waking up
  • Transcending identification
  • Development of identity/locus of identification
  • Challenges of meditative disidentification
  • The end of thinking is possible
  • Different types of waking up
  • Recognizing the lie of what we thought was our self
  • Where is God in enlightenment?
• Cleaning up
  • After enlightenment
  • Why do enlightened masters still do dumb things
  • Accidental conditioned history, emotional impressions, feeling beliefs, and perceptual distortions
  • Accidental conditioned history includes trauma but isn't only trauma
  • The importance of clearing perceptual distortions
• Growing up
  • Increasing complexity
  • Growing up can damage our relationships with those who aren't growing up
  • Spiral dynamics integral: Traditional consciousness VS modern VS postmodern
  • Why do social justice warriors embody the very relational and behavioral values and patterns they claim to be championing against?
  • The profound importance of co-learning in communities of practice
  • Sharing and exploring feelings and emotions are needed to form deep bonds
  • How Jordan Peterson illuminated the ethnocentric gang mentality of SJWs
  • The stages of growing up
• Looking around
  • How a lack of emotional intelligence can damage our relationships
  • Developing sensitivities to perceive different aspect of reality
  • Shamanism's capacity to navigate realities that others are unable to perceive at all
• How the 4 facets of transformations overlay Ken Wilber's 4 quadrants of the self
• How the self and the world you are creating within yourself is being co-created by the four facets of human transformation

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Maria Balaet is on the show to talk about the impact of psychedelics on memory processing, the neuropharmacology of memory, the interplay of memory and personal consciousness, and the ethics of memory modulation with psychedelics.

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Episode Breakdown

• Foundational concepts of memory, brain, and consciousnesses
• Neural Darwinism
• Memory as an operation of the brain
• Memory is not just about remembering things
• Encoding, consolidation, retrieval (and reconsolidation)
• Implicit vs explicit memory
• Different theories of memory retrieval
• The pharmacological mechanism of memory consolidation
• The malleability of memory over time - how memory is liable to disruption
• The memory of meaning
• The neurobiology of memory
• The impact of psychedelics on memory processing
• Her research using a ketamine analog to disrupt the reconsolidation process
• Psychedelics as memory modulators
• How we can use psychedelics therapeutically to change memory
• Research with ketamine to alter memory cues around alcoholism
• The dangers of at-home efforts to alter memory resulting in accidental self-harm
• Psychedelic brainwashing and malicious intent
• Differing psychedelics, different neuropharmacology, different memory modulation?
• The fleeting memories of DMT, dream recall, and state-dependent learning
• Is it possible to increase our ability to remember our psychedelic experiences?
• The role of glutamate in memory and how different psychedelics pharmacologically change that process (LSD vs ketamine)
• Maria's upcoming research on how people's cognition under psychedelics compares to the average sober population

Jerónimo M.M. joins us on the show to discuss the cultural issues we are presented with insofar as integrating psychedelics into the mainstream of the Western World of the Global North. We also talk about preparing for the unintended consequences of ending prohibition and the amputation of culture that comes with our globalized export of psychoactive plants.

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• How we are both coping with the pandemic
• What the pandemic look like on the ground in New York City
• Discussing the growth of COVID-19 reported cases and why there are so many more already and even more coming
• Is COVID-19 our great war? Humanity vs the destructive consequences of our civilization
• Rates of changes and the present dying of our civilization
• Will a better world come out of this or a totalitarian nightmare?
• The pandemic lockdown is forcing us to slow down and be in the present moment
• The impact of COVID-19 on people in poverty and people with drug dependence
• China is now in the aftermath and going about their business. What will our aftermath be like?
• Why flattening the curve is our most reasonable response, now that containment is impossible
• Canada's healthcare system and how it is already starting to cripple our care due to a lack of supplies
• Doug Ford is Ontario Canada's Trump-Lite (but apparently he is, personally, very supportive of psychedelic medicine)
• Test shortages for the population, mask shortages for the healthcare workers and why it's so important to follow social distancing measures
• The difference, for Patrick, between watching his friends die during and after overcoming his heroin addiction
• Comparing the experience of his friends dying with the recent death of his mother
• People we know are going to die of COVID-19 and we shouldn't ignore this fact
• Patrick's experiences of death offer us as perspective in these frightening, and fatal times
• Final thoughts and perspectives for all of us stuck in this together

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Dr. Oliver Grundmann joins us on Adventures Through The Mind to talk about Kratom. We discuss its traditional cultural use, legal history, pharmacology, modern cultural use, preparation best practices, its benefits and its risks, and how to safely start using kratom.

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Episode Breakdown

• What is kratom?
• Kratom’s cultural traditions and history of use
• Is its prohibition being lobbied by the drug trade?
• Traditional preparations of kratom
•  Pharmacology and effects in the brain
• G proteins, opioid receptors, and the beta arrestin 2 pathway
• How kratom gives you an opioid high without suppressing breathing
• The differing addictive potentials of Kratom's alkaloids, mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine
• What opioid receptor is being activated with kratom?
• Is kratom addictive? What are the symptoms of withdrawal?
• Doctors might give you methadone for kratom withdrawal
• The difference betweenness addiction and dependence
• How good therapy might mean nothing for addiction if there are no social supports to help people into healthier social-economic circumstances
• Why people use kratom and how effective it is according to the research
• Adverse effects | kratom side effects
• Is kratom toxic for the liver? Yes, but it’s not that simple.
• How to know if you have an addiction to kratom
• What to watch out for when first starting with kratom
• How to get the most out of your kratom (skip the OJ!)
• Do different strains make a difference?
• Is the DEA trying to suppress kratom to protect the profits of big pharma?
• The importance of more research
• Further links and resources

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Dr. Frank Anderson joins us on Adventures Through The Mind to explore the Internal Family Systems model of therapy and its perspective on the nature of mind, trauma, “triggers”, and the symptoms of mental illness. We also talk about the transpersonal context of the self, choosing to grow up in the face of our own traumas, IFS’ application to psychedelic therapies, and how to use IFS to navigate the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Episode Breakdown

• What is Internal family systems therapy? 
• Systems thinking and the multiplicity of the mind
• Everybody is born with 'self-energy' and we don't need to build it or cultivate it
• We all have multiple personalities, IFS calls them 'parts' 
• The problems of parts taking on extreme roles 
• The different types of parts and their roles 
  • the two types of protective parts: mangers and firefighters
  • the wounded parts: exiles
• All our parts have positive intention - even if those intentions have negative results 
• How IFS is different than conventional therapy insofar as how it addresses 'problematic behavior': e.g. Cutting, addiction and suicide 
• How important therapist authenticity of affect is during the co-regulation process between client and therapist
• The difference between managing symptoms and healing wounds 
• What an IFS session looks like and the vital importance of 'getting the permission of the protective parts' before doing any healing work 
• The client does the healing, the therapist is an adjunct
• Healing happened through the internal relationship between the self and the parts 
• Self-energy: what is it, what does it feel like, what is its role and how do we connect with it 
• How trauma impacts our relationship between the self and our parts 
• In the IFS context of trauma, what does it mean to be an adult
• Growing up and healing trauma is a choice we need to need to make, even when our capacity to choose is different in different contexts (e.g. Systemic disenfranchisement) 
• The metaphysics of choosing our trauma before being born as a spiritual process 
• We all have the capacity to heal our trauma
• How does IFS understand psychedelic therapy, generally and specifically: MDMA, psilocybin, and ketamine
• There is such a difference between low dose and high dose ketamine insofar as doing therapy 
• Low-dose ketamine psychotherapy using IFS protocol, compared to MDMA protocol 
• The exciting potentials of how different psychedelic therapies can be optimized through IFS 
• The impotence of differing between recreational, therapeutic, spiritual and harmful use
• An IFS interpretation of the imperial ACE psilocybin model 
• Should therapists experience psychedelics before providing psychedelic therapy 
• How does understanding IFS as a paradigm for living help us with or without trauma 
• How to use self-facilitated IFS processes to deal with the trauma/pain/fear of the COVID-19 pandemic 
• Unblending from our past so we can show up to what's actually happening right now

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Francoise Bourzat joins us on Adventures Through The Mind to discuss the Mazatec mushroom tradition and her decade-long journey bridging indigenous wisdom with the western tradition while apprenticing under traditional mushrooms curanderas. She joins us to help us better understand the wisdom of the sacred mushrooms and how we might deepen our relationship with them.

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Episode Breakdown

• What is different about Francoise's approach to healing with psychedelics and expanded states of consciousness
• The cultural loss of focusing too much on the psychedelic experience itself
• The value of using psychedelics and expanded states of consciousness for personal transformation
• Applying the holistic model for a balanced life to psychedelic healing
• The central importance of nature wisdom in the Mazatec tradition
• The role of spirits in Mazatec mushroom healing
• You have to come with a question for the mushroom to 'doctor' you
• "when the mushroom takes residence in you"
• The mushrooms are more than tools; they are a living entity
• Everything exists in relationship
• We and the mushrooms share the same mother
• The inherent wisdom of the mushroom and how to awaken it
• The relationship goes both ways; "The mushroom gets to know you"
• Does ketamine or MDMA have an intelligence?
• The space the MDMA creates in us is a holy space
• Legacy of use is important, but anything that opens a holy space within us is deserving of relationship
• What about people who take mushrooms and still embody hate and violence?
• Shadow work with sacred mushrooms can get ugly
• What it means to metabolize the shadow
• The role of Compassion and self-compassion in deep healing with mushrooms
• Repairing the broken bonds between parents and children
• The Mazatec's cultural perspective on avoiding sex and mushroom healing
• Bourzat's perspective on Sex, and psilocybin and psychedelics in general
• Sexual healing during a psilocybin mushroom ceremony
• The stages of psychedelic integration and what practices fit best during which stages
• The vital importance of embodying our psilocybin lessons.
• The role and importance of community in psychedelic integration

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Patrick Kroupa and I share an off-the-cuff conversation about COVID-19. We talk about how it is impacting each of our lives, our thoughts on the socio-political responses to the pandemic, and what Patrick's experiences of watching friends and family die offers us insofar as how to show up to the upcoming mass fatalities due to the virus.

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***Full Topics Breakdown Below***

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Episode Breakdown

• How we are both coping with the pandemic
• What the pandemic look like on the ground in New York City
• Discussing the growth of COVID-19 reported cases and why there are so many more already and even more coming
• Is COVID-19 our great war? Humanity vs the destructive consequences of our civilization
• Rates of changes and the present dying of our civilization
• Will a better world come out of this or a totalitarian nightmare?
• The pandemic lockdown is forcing us to slow down and be in the present moment
• The impact of COVID-19 on people in poverty and people with drug dependence
• China is now in the aftermath and going about their business. What will our aftermath be like?
• Why flattening the curve is our most reasonable response, now that containment is impossible
• Canada's healthcare system and how it is already starting to cripple our care due to a lack of supplies
• Doug Ford is Ontario Canada's Trump-Lite (but apparently he is, personally, very supportive of psychedelic medicine)
• Test shortages for the population, mask shortages for the healthcare workers and why it's so important to follow social distancing measures
• The difference, for Patrick, between watching his friends die during and after overcoming his heroin addiction
• Comparing the experience of his friends dying with the recent death of his mother
• People we know are going to die of COVID-19 and we shouldn't ignore this fact
• Patrick's experiences of death offer us as perspective in these frightening, and fatal times
• Final thoughts and perspectives for all of us stuck in this together

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The Dank Duchess is on Adventures Through The Mind to discuss hashish, from what it means and how its made to why it matters in the modern cannabis market. We also discuss the ongoing impact of cannabis prohibition on black culture in the united states, harmful trends in the modern cannabis culture, and the power of hashish (and cannabis in general) to bridge our social divides and lay foundations for a better world.

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Episode Breakdown

• The anatomy of the cannabis plant.
• All about trichomes and how different cannabis concentrates interact with them.
• Bubble hash making 101.
• The Market’s misunderstanding about what denotes hashish quality
• What “full-spectrum” means in the context of hash making.
• The definition of hash ‘meltability’ and why it matters to dabbing.
• What makes good hash good.
• How to test how good your hash is.
• Why hashish matters.
• The difference in experience between smoking buds and smoking hash.
• The harmfulness of competitive cannabis consumption.
• Positive trends in intentional cannabis culture.
• How the racism of cannabis prohibition continues to harm black people within cannabis culture.
• The evolution of hip-hop cannabis rock stardom into Xanax/Lean/Percocet/etc overdoses.
• Why Duchess thinks more back people need to step up in support of responsible substance use.
• The continued racism of prohibitionist law enforcement.
• The bridging capacity of communal cannabis use (the value of cannabis communities to bridge modern racial and social divides).
• What 'growing up' means and what it takes to grow up.
• The psychological harm of smoking cannabis alone.