How to Address Corporate Influence and 'Bad Actors' in Psychedelic Culture | Psychedelic Café 4
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
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***Full Topics Breakdown Below***
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Episode Breakdown
- How psychedelic exceptionalism informs how we think about bad actor's in the scene
- The importance of community to resource people addressing conflicts and harm in psychedelic culture
- Introducing Psymposia and their perspectives and approach to addressing problems in the culture
- Introducing The Canadian Psychedelic Association and the value of community
- Creating events to help discuss serious issues psychedelic culture is otherwise bypassing
- Wondering about whether or not psychedelics should be held as part of a public politic
- Why anti-rival maturity is vital for actual progress in culture, psychedelic and otherwise
- Introducing the Netherlands’ Guild of Guides and how they are dealing with bad actors
- The psychedelic industry is being led by huge players of corporate Influence
- Can the psychedelic experience help us change the business of psychedelics?
- What comes after the end of prohibition and how do we get there?
- Positive peer pressure and becoming a community that forwards culture towards the future we want to see
- The psychedelic community is not "one" community, so how do we work together?
- How the forces at work with colonialism are the same forces shaping the modern psychedelic industry through corporate influence
- The value of working where you can work rather than trying to work everywhere
- Optimism VS naiveté
- How distorted exceptions causes those “doing their best to do better” to get torn down for not already being perfect
- Medicalization is NOT access
- Capitalism and climate change
- Not letting ourselves get manipulated into tearing down the lowest hanging fruit
- Will the psychedelic industry actually be profitable?
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