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Iboga And The Bwiti School Of Life | Tatayo ~ ATTMind 130 Oct 23, 2020

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Living in Gabon for 50 years, Tatayo was the first westerner to be initiated into the Bwiti Fang iboga tradition. He joins us on Adventures Through The Mind to discuss what he has learned about Bwiti after living in Gabon and working with iboga.

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Episode Breakdown

How Tatayo came to Gabon and why he decided to stay
How he came to do his initiation
What is Ebando
What is the Bwiti, what is its connection to Iboga
Bwiti different expression in Gabonese culture
Iboga is love
What is a Bwiti initiation?
The complexities and dangers of cultural differences between Gabonese and westerners
The necessity of intercultural mediation to protect both locals and westerners
What is a Bwiti Iboga initiation ceremony like
Iboga and the realm of the dead
Iboga connects you with the synchronicity of your life
The roles and presence of spirits in the Bwiti cultural paradigm
How Iboga heals
Tatayo's craziest rescue mission
Ebando's upcoming Bwiti: school of life course
Racial issues of being a white man speaking n behalf of an African culture
The only secret is the plants
being a bridge between cultures

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Healing Childhood Trauma With Ayahuasca | Carlos Tanner ~ ATTMind 129 Oct 09, 2020

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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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The Role Of Psychedelics In Healthy Relationships | Psychedelic Café 3 Sep 25, 2020

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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

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The importance of relationships on the path of personal betterment through psychedelics
The role of psychedelics in dissolving dysfunctional social paradigms of codependency
Wounded in relationship, healed in relationship (and where psychedelics fit into the process)
Learning to love oneself through peyote
The similarities between kundalini sexual awakenings and psychedelic awakenings
The power of accessing authenticity
Psychedelic work is not about "me" and simply learning about oneself with psychedelics doesn't equate to being healed
Integration happens in relationship
Love as the bridge to the other
An invitation to return to an a priori relational reality
Learning how to love better and let love in better
Being inauthentic people for unconscious efforts to get old attachment needs met
Healing ourselves to go beyond the wounded pattern of trying to fulfill needs and step into celebrating being together
Learning to be ok with putting up boundaries even if people won't like you for it
Psychedelics helping us being ok with feeling shame and feel loved simultaneously
The fallacy of self-sovereignty and connection being polar opposites
The relationship between oneness and personal boundaries
Ayahuasca and accessing profound eroticism within oneself
Psychedelics helping us let go the shame of embodying our sexuality
Do psychedelics make us polyamorous?
Deconstructing the shame we hold for our natural sexual tendencies
"Psychedelic erotic confusion"
Is it an addiction to falling in love that feeds polyamory?
Polyfuckary vs polyamory
The power of psychedelics to bring us into our individual embodied sovereignty
The will to grieve as a skill that helps us sustain healthy relationships
Learning to be intimate with the unknown

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An Explorer's Mindset; Sailing The Psychedelic Seas | Robert Rio Hahn ~ ATTMind 128 Sep 11, 2020

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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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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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Psilocybin Therapy and Mushroom Wisdom | Francoise Bourzat and Dr. Rosalind Watts ~ ATTMind 127 Aug 28, 2020

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Each a leader in the field of psilocybin therapy and medicine, Francoise Bourzat and Rosalind Watts are on the show to talk with each other about psilocybin for depression, trauma, dying; as well as integration, the role of community in getting the most out of our psychedelic experiences, why the depression comes back after psilocybin therapy, and the challenges of being a woman in psychedelic research. We also discuss the ethics of screening people for therapy, using mushrooms in naturalistic settings, ego inflation, and the impact of venture capitalism is having on psychedelic culture.

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The basis of why these two women have come together for this episode
Francoise's upcoming Research on psilocybin and grief
Navigating the Challenges of being a woman in psychedelic research, and science in general
Team support structures for handing difficult psilocybin therapy sessions as a facilitator
Preparing a team to research psilocybin therapy and processing grief
The masculine striving and the feminine building of community and family
The role of grief and grieving in the process of healing with psilocybin
Encounter with eternity help us reconsolidate the dying process
The integration processes used during the psilocybin for depression trials
How long should we wait between psilocybin journeys?
A point about the value of heart rate variability as something o measure during psilocybin research
Discussing why (and how) the depression comes back after psilocybin
Psilocybin therapy and trauma healing
Comparing MDMA to psilocybin insofar as trauma healing
Concerns around how fast psychedelics are being mainstreamed
The ethics of screening people for psilocybin therapy
The role of community in getting the most benefit from psilocybin
Building that community using the 'pollinator model'
Discussions on the psilocybin service initiative in Oregon
Using mushrooms in natural settings
Discussions about psychedelic medicine in the context of capitalism
Psychedelic ego inflation and narcissism increased by psychedelic use
Why profitable psychedelic therapy will likely be poor therapy
Quality psilocybin therapy vs 'kfc' therapy
How big business legislation may hurt good people to keep doing their work in the context of legalization

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Systems Thinking and Psychedelics - A Letter To Our Future AI Overlords | Greg Kieser ~ ATTMind 126 Aug 14, 2020

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Greg Kieser is on the show to explore a hypothetical future where society is led by Super Aware Intelligence Machines as a framework to talk about systems thinking, supersystemic thinking, idea ecologies, the two cognitive impediments that prevent humanity from solving the largest problems it faces, and where psychedelics are sewn into the mix.

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Introducing the concept and themes of Dear Machine (a letter to a super aware intelligent machine in the future)
Bringing a different quality of thinking to humanity's problems
Systems thinking, supersystemic thinking, and idea ecosystems
Comparing idea ecosystems to forests and the microbiome
What ideas and ideologies best serve humanity's evolution?
The problem-solving tools we are currently using are fundamentally incapable of solving the problems they propose to solve
What perspectives and goals would a super aware intelligent machine will have for humanity?
Why good ideas will grow and eventually outplace bad ideas, despite the tendencies for bad ideas (or ideologies) to spread more virally
Regenerative agriculture as an example of how good ideas will eventually take over the bad ones
Accounting for the limitations of human emotional immaturity
Why psychedelics can help decrease irrational thinking
Greg Kieser has optimism despite how disparaging the situation currently seems
The two cognitive impediments that prevent humanity from solving our largest problems
The illusory self and how it is baked into our social institution
The interweaving of the self beyond the lifespan and into the natural world
"We lack the brain capacity to acquire data, analyze it for actionable insights, then rank the value of the resulting knowledge." [source]
Informational overload and the disintegration of objective reality
The challenge of making decisions while trying to juggle all the knowledge we might have about that decision - analysis paralysis
How to buy to apple
Our governments are not prepared to solve our problems and are actually incentivized not to
The value and the failures of democracy
Psychedelics' place within humanities progression towards harmony
Why psychedelics, themselves, will not actually help us better ourselves as a society
What has he pandemic revealed about the validity of Greg's thesis in Dear Machine
Comparing the pandemic to the occupy movement
What are the first steps we can take to start developing supersystemic thinking

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What Psychedelics Can Teach Us About Dealing With Crisis | Psychedelic Café 2 Jul 10, 2020

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What lessons do our psychedelics experiences offer us in making sense of the global pandemic and all the crises that have come with it?

Our guests exploring this question are Rachel Harris, Maria Papaspyrou, Tarzie McLean, and Kyle Buller.

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Introduction of each guest
Sensemaking reality
How do we make our challenges 'medicine'
When does the ceremony end?
Internal vs external challenge | active engagement vs passive receptivity
Doing the work vs letting the work be done
Learning to sit in uncertainty
How does our perspective on death impact how we respond to the pandemic
The pandemic, like psychedelics, places our dying front and center in life
"The grief and the loss and the fertility of it all"
The complexity between reconnecting with nature for our individual health and the demand to stay out of the wilds for the sake of planetary health
Do our psychedelic experiences support our capacity to navigate crises in general?
A question of meaning-making during the pandemic crisis
We are all being affected differently
The privilege to see this as a learning opportunity
Exploring the unintended consequences of acting while highly embodied with 'triggered' energy
The complications of reactive social media engagement during times of protest
Are we integrating our pandemic lessons well enough to prepare for the growing climate crisis?
Psychedelic integration has no end
The ongoing process of meaning-making
Failing to live up to our psychedelic lessons
It takes a long time to integrate crisis, psychedelic or otherwise
The selfishness of 'Yolo'
What do you bring back for the world from your psychedelic experiences?

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Psilocybin At Sunset (Learning How To Die) | Andrea Bird ~ ATTMind 125 Jul 03, 2020

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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.

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Receiving the terminal Diagnosis
Deciding to take psilocybin during her dying process
Learning to be a dying person
The context of her first journey
The story of her first journey
What her first psilocybin journey taught her about how to die
Learning to love yourself
Integrating that first journey into life (and dying)
The shadow winter
What brought her into her second journey
'Saying to good to everyone I love'
Dying of cancer during the pandemic
A fierce training of living in the present moment
Giving back the gift of life
Andreas suggestions in preparing for psilocybin during your dying time
The role of poetry in learning to die

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On Being A Black Advocate In The Psychedelic Renaissance | Psychedelic Café 1 Jun 26, 2020

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Welcome To The Psychedelic Café, a structured group conversation on curated topics, with curated guests, exploring a central question. This session's question is: What does it mean to be a Black advocate in the Psychedelic Renaissance?

Our guests are The Dank Duchess, Darron Le Baron, Chor Boogie, Akua Ofosuhene, and Moudou Baqui

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The Four Facets Of Human Transformation | Dr. Douglas Tataryn ~ ATTMind 124 Jun 19, 2020

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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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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