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Using Psychedelics To Dismantle Racism | Akua Ofosuhene ~ ATTMind 139 Feb 26, 2021

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Akua Ofosuhene is on the show to discuss the role psychedelics can play in dismantling racism in society by helping us learn to let go of the conditioned beliefs we are taught to hold about race in general.

We also talk about how the dismantling of racism is actively harmed by the politics of outrage being carried into our personal relationships, and how getting beyond racism as a society can only truly come about in a cultural context based on the sacredness of the individual.

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Why it serves us to talk about racism with less trigger charge between us
How racism is at the foundation of capitalism
How colonialism creates the problems colonialism presents itself as being the solution to
How racism expresses the identity of both white people and black/brown people
Using psychedelics to dismantle and reject the title of 'white' in "white" people
The possibility of redemption requires a culture that allows for mistakes to be learned from and relationships that encourage that
The profound complexity of this process, and the importance of doing the personal healing work first
The importance of going beyond personal work
How we come together on social issues is important
Akua's journey of Using Psychedelics To Dismantle Racism
Dismantling the "racist within" herself through psychedelic use
Narrative warfare, polarization, and being conditioned into a constant threat response
Using psychedelics to heal ourselves from feeling constant threat empowers us to create positive change
Psychedelics can help to heal polarized divisions, but not by default. It has to be a choice Going beyond race
What it looks like to dismantle the racist within, both as a white person and as a person of color
Recognize even difficult, or seemingly self-limiting, transitions towards positive social change are steps towards that change
We are so much more than we currently believe ourselves to be
What does it look like to actively stand up to racist institutions as a person of color?
Summarizing the conversation so far
Do protests actually create change?
Why Akua is skeptical of aligning with BLM as a response to racism
What does it look like to actively stand up to racist institutions as a white person?

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MDMA for Couples | The Love Doctor, Charley Wininger ~ ATTMind 138 Feb 12, 2021

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Charley Wininger, author of Listening To Ecstacy: The Transformative Power of MDMA, joins us to talk about MDMA for couples, as well as MDMA for personal healing, spiritual awakening, and staying connected to the joy of being alive as we age into the winter years of our lives. Of course, MDMA comes with certain risks, and we talk about that too.

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MDMA for couples / MDMA in our aging time
How this interview came into existence
The history of MDMA, MDMA for couples, and MDMA's prohibition
Rediscovering MDMA at 50 years old
The benefits of MDMA for the individual
MDMA is the chemical of connection
Accessing profound self-love, and how it changes you
Transforming one's relationship to their body with MDMA
The benefits of MDMA for romantic partnerships
Using MDMA for couples therapy
The power of deep love and safety in resolving long-standing relationships conflicts
We all have these little dark secrets that we'll be rejected if known
The importance of being careful with who you take MDMA with
How a cult of two collapses a relationship
How our relationship fail when we forget generosity and gratitude within it - and how MDMA helps remind us
The profound value of touch
MDMA is sensual, not necessarily sexual (but cannabis helps)
How reconnecting with the loving vulnerability between you and your partner can reawaken sexual intimacy
WARNING: MDMA within abusive relationships might make things worst
Taking MDMA as a senior citizen
The danger of taking MDMA as an older person
Losing the magic – Can taking a lower dose of MDMA help to bring the magic back?
Integration: A different way of understanding the MDMA hangover
The pain of using MDMA to open your heart.
What does aging offer us; what does it take away; where does MDMA fit in the process
The disadvantages of aging vs internalized ageism
How MDMA has impacted Wininger's relationship to death and dying
Bridging the age apartheid with MDMA and the rave scene
You don't know what you've got till it's gone; learning how important our relationships are before death ends them
The most important lesson MDMA has to teach us during the troubled times we are in

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Sensemaking Psychedelic Capitalism with Rebel Wisdom | Alexander Beiner ~ ATTMind 137 Jan 29, 2021

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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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Adderall, modafinil, and attention in a world of distraction
Rebel Wisdom, sensemaking, and the meaning crisis
Multi-level narrative warfare and the culture war in a multipolar world
How psychedelics are impacting us negatively, in the context of the meaning crisis
Psychedelics lack the cultural framework needed for them to have a positive impact impact
Can psychedelic culture become antifragile?
Psychedelics' potentially positive role | the transformational power of truth
Game-B and the rise of psychedelic capitalism
The legal and ethical complexities introduced with for-profit models for psychedelic therapy
Who should be regulating the psychedelic industry, and how?
Prohibition (and profit) block the generative public discourse needed to address the problems psychedelic capitalism is introducing
The power and importance of talking openly about our thoughts on psychedelics and psychedelic culture
How profiting through the psychedelic industry will begin to silence us from speaking up against harm and damage done within those industries
The changing quality of discourse on the complexities facing psychedelic culture
The epitome of psychedelic capitalism is in the language of 'wellness'
Will mainstreaming psychedelics fundamentally alter the psychedelic experiences itself?
Will the mainstream change the psychedelic experience, or will the psychedelic experience change the mainstream?
The unfortunate lack of recognizing plant intelligence in our presently mainstreamed models for psychedelic experiences
The strange game of appearing respectable in order to be respected in psychedelic research can't go on forever
A taste of what's coming up on rebel wisdom regarding psychedelic content

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A Somatic Relational Approach to Psychedelic Therapy | Tooth Fairy & Curlz ~ ATTMind 136 Jan 15, 2021

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We feature two anonymous guests on today's episode to talk about applying psychedelics to somatic relational therapy. One of whom is a practicing underground therapist. The other is not a therapist or doing therapy, but a social worker and researcher specializing in somatic healing, interpersonal neurobiology, and psychedelic therapy.

This is a radically different approach to the psychedelic-assisted therapy you are likely aware of--headphones, eye shades, therapist there to hold a hand if needed. This is a therapy that is fully interactive and engaged.

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Weathering transference during a session; positive versus negative transference
Why we were talking about somatic therapy with psychedelics
Healing our social fabric and up-skilling our community [link to Sweden lecture]
Neurobiology of connection and trauma healing
Neurobiology of co-regulation in infancy and adulthood
Applying co-regulation practices to psychedelic therapy, plus an example
How early life attachment wounds can become trauma in adulthood and how they are healed
How attachment wounds contribute to physical illness
The role of intellectual understanding during somatic healing
How to carry somatic healing into our lives afterwards; integration
"Symbolic" versus body-based healing trauma
The first healing response to the wound is not always the final step in that healing
Becoming human through healing trauma in the body
How connecting to the earth is a vital part of our healing process
Connecting with the intelligence of plant medicine
The value of slowing down; finding optimal arousal state for entering into psychedelic spaces
Trauma expressing as hyper-function
What role does feeling the pain—shadow work—play in healing trauma with somatic psychedelic therapy
Bypassing shadow work euphoria addiction
A story of healing through abject terror on 5-MeO-DMT
The vital role of love in healing trauma through somatic therapy with psychedelics
How do different psychedelics fit with different needs and phases of somatic healing
MDMA, 3MMC, 5MEODMT, ketamine, psilocybin
The healing power of connecting with Transcendence
Healing ancestral trauma
More on the healing power of connecting with Transcendence

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Psilocybin And The Cultivation Of Compassion | James W. Jesso ~ ATTMind 135 Dec 31, 2020

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PSILOCYBIN AND COMPASSION ARE BOTH LINKED TO OUR ABILITY TO FEEL EMOTIONAL PAIN AS IT ARISES

By examining this correlation from a trauma-informed, psychotherapeutic framework, we find an understanding of emotional healing and healthy emotional processes, with or without psilocybin on board.

This lecture will explore the essence of compassion and how a lack of it is related to early childhood trauma and emotional repression. Furthermore, it will explore the potential of psilocybin in the resolution of emotional trauma and the cultivation of healthier relationships, as well as the potential of suffering as a necessary skill for being an adult. (p.s. please be aware that there is quite a bit more cursing in this episode than normal.)

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Heightened Sexual Experiences and Psychedelics | Miriam Elyse ~ ATTMind 134 Dec 18, 2020

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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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The similarities between the psychedelic experience and the sexual experience
Working with energy, with psychedelics and with sexuality
Logic and the isness of existence
Discerning spiritual awakening from manic episodes
The profound real-ness of your inner experience
Getting out of the adult mind with heightened sexual experiences
Learning to let go of control, in psychedelics and with sexuality
Balancing between control and surrender in accessing multiple orgasms
Similarities and differences between male and female sexual experiences
The dynamic field of orgasm and how psychedelic can help us access it
Feminine and masculine are not only male or female
Differing pleasures in different bodies through different means
"My pleasure" but what about other people?
Spiritual bypassing the self-serving ego trap of spiritual sexual practices
Other than spirituality, what value do these practices offer our relationships?
New Relationship Energy (NRE) vs Old Relationship Energy (ORE) for heightened sexual practices
The importance of a secure relationship container to explore profound sexual states and the misuse of power dynamics
Peter Pan spiritual fuckboys
Cleansing the lens of perception through heightened sexual experiences
Tantra and healing through sexuality
Further breaking down spiritual fuckboys vs responsible polyamory
Opening up into our parental wounds through sexual ecstasy
The connection is more important than the sex
Personal experiences with polyamory and why we both have chosen monogamy
How polyamory revealed our shadows around our vulnerability
How heightened sexual experiences are medicine for the modern world

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Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy For The Terminally Ill | TheraPsil ~ ATTMind 133 Dec 04, 2020

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TheraPsil is a coalition of healthcare professionals, patients, and advocates dedicated to fighting for the rights of Canadians facing end-of-life or illness-related distress to have legal access to therapeutic psychedelics.

Members of the TheraPsil team join ATTMIND for a discussion about their legal argument for access to psilocybin-assisted therapy for the terminally ill here in Canada; the role of psilocybin in helping alleviate the existential suffering that comes during a person's dying time (and thus into talk about life's meaning and its presence or absence in that dying time.

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What access to psilocybin-assisted therapy for terminally ill patients matters
Our constitutional right to psilocybin
How psilocybin has helped me with the anxiety of knowing I will die
The ignorance of the modern medical paradigm around mental health issues
The modern medical paradigm's focus on suppression rather than healing
The cultural limitations to undoing bad laws
Why society more receptive to psychedelics now then they were in the 60s
Psilocybin revealing the meaning of life through the dissolution of cultural ideologies
The psychological context of a dying person and why psilocybin-assisted therapy for the terminally ill is helpful in that context
The negative cultural paradigm we have around death worsens end of life distress and how psilocybin helps
Dying people are generally on a lot of drugs, how to assess the pharmacological safety of psilocybin in that context
The complexities of pain management during psilocybin-assisted therapy for the terminally ill
Advice to palliative nurses based on lessons learned in psilocybin assisted therapy for terminal anxiety
Pain management reduction of total pain after a psilocybin experience
The increase of spiritual care in palliative medicine
What it took for therapsil to succeed in getting access to dying patients in Canada
Will decriminalization hinder medical access?
The impact increased access to psilocybin might have for society
The successful progression of medical science; achieving patient access to psilocybin-assisted therapy for the terminally ill

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How to Address Corporate Influence and 'Bad Actors' in Psychedelic Culture | Psychedelic Café 4 Nov 20, 2020

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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

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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?

Being A Psychedelic Person In The Modern Political Landscape | Bett Williams ~ ATTMind 132 Nov 06, 2020

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Bett Williams and I explore a number of issues facing the modern politically switched on psychedelic person. We do so with special reference to the damaging impact of social media technologies on our perceptions, identity, and behavior; cultural appropriation within psychedelic ceremony building; and the Dark Side of leftist psychedelic politics. All of which grounded in a discussion around what it means to live psychedelically, as a psychedelic person in relationship with the psilocybin mushroom.

For context, this interview was recorded a couple months ago and it's actually just a coincidence (or accidental synchronicity) that it is being released during the week of the 2020 US presidential election. I'm definitely holding a particular curiosity as to how much the ideas discussed in this episode will be relevant or illuminating to the events that are going to follow in the next coming weeks. But that is a topic for larger wanderings beyond the podcast. I will leave it to the r/ATTMindPodcast subreddit.

In the meantime, though, enjoy this interview with Bett Williams

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There is no psychedelic without culture
The satanic trinity of Facebook Reddit and Instagram
How mushrooms can help us break out of social media reality
James' first psilocybin experience
Social media becomes our mind : our mind becomes social media
"Psychedelics and the internet go hand in hand"
The importance of discipline with psychedelic practice
Building ceremony culture as a non-indigenous person
How culture defines what comes of our psychedelic experiences
Are mushrooms have wisdom or do they just connect us to wisdom
"The mushroom contains multitudes"
The mushroom experience is build by our relationship to them
Mushrooms revealed the ego saturation of social justice outrage politics
What does it mean to engage politics 'psychedelically'?
The politics of the history or Maria Sabina
Getting beyond party line politics to appreciate the good work being done
Bett Williams's criticisms on Micheal Pollan
Growing mushrooms | What it means to be in relationship with the mushroom
Respecting the risk being taken by those who grow and provide psychedelics
Respect your drug dealer!
The potential (and failings) of the psychedelic left to be leading the political conversation in a good way
The moral obligation of breaking unjust laws
There is something gained by psychedelic being illegal
The unknown unknowns of the history of traditions
Will more people eating more psychedelics help us with the crisis we are fading?
What it means and what it takes to live a psychedelic life
Psychedelic mushrooms are serious work, but won't work if you take it too seriously
How to live life with psychedelics without hurting yourself
Working out your buffalo problem
How does age impact our ability to access depth with psilocybin
The wild kindness

Bending Reality With Pop Magick | Alex Kazemi ~ ATTMind 131 Oct 30, 2020

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Alex Kazemi, author of 'Pop Magick: A Simple Guide To Bending Your Reality', is on the show to talk about using magick and magickal rituals to bend reality, but also how magick has both helped and harmed him on his path into, and through, substance addiction and early fame. We also talk about learning to free ourselves from the simulation of mainstream consumer reality, why the dogmas of the occult world are holding magickal practitioners back, drug-induced psychosis, and even NoFap as a powerful practice of inner alchemy.

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What is Magick
The theatre of modern culture
What about occam's razor? Why do we need a higher power to understand Magick
What is reality; what is freedom?
Magical perspective vs magical practice
Accessing desire deeper than material
Being selfish and self-centred with your magical power
Pop magick and the dogma of the occult
Magick as a non-discriminatory spiritual option
The value of tradition vs the cage of dogma
Spirits and how we create entities
The value of accessing a higher power
Magick as a frame of reference for psychotherapy
Healing trauma and addiction with magic
How Magick both helped and harmed Alex's journey through addiction
The anatomy of a magical ritual
Accessing natural energy, within and without
An important risk with doing Pop Magick
Using magic to feed our addictions
Abstract outcome vs specific outcome
How questing for our own desires can hurt others
James' journey into addiction and drug-induced psychosis
Sigil Magick and candle Magick
Charging your Magickal symbols
Suspending Disbelief; Just give it a go
Drug Magick
Why Alex avoids drug Magick
Sex Magick
Nofap, porn, and inner alchemy
The dangers of porn for young minds
Pornography addiction

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