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Treating OCD with Psychedelic Medicine | Adam Strauss ~ ATTMind 106 Sep 13, 2019

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Adam Strauss is on the show for this episode to dive into the painful lived experience of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and what it was, exactly, that psychedelics did for him that helped him regain agency over his life.

**full episode breakdown below**

***SPOILER ALERT: Ender's Game / Xenocide Novel Series ***

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SEE ADAM STRAUSS' THE MUSHROOM CURE AND/ATTEND MAPPING THE MIND, BOTH IN TORONTO

The Mushroom Cure Thursday, September 19 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm The Grand Gerrard, 1035 Gerrard St E, Toronto, ON M4M 1Z6 Canada + Google Map https://mappingthemind.ca/event/mushroom-cure-adam-strauss/?tickets_process=#buy-tickets

Mapping The Mind Satruday, September 21 @ 9:00 am - 6:00 pm Earth Sciences Center, 5 Bancroft Ave Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B3 Canada https://mappingthemind.ca/event/mapping-the-mind-2019/?tickets_process=#buy-tickets

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a general overview of what inspired The Mushroom Cure
the patient-shaming tone of the term "treatment-resistant"
the structural biases that prevent the growth of psychiatry as a field of medicine
the common failings of psychiatric drugs to treat mental illness
SPOILER ALERT: Ender's Game / Xenocide Novel Series
an intimate look of living with OCD
how psychedelic surrender/humility helped Strauss overcome his OCD
psychedelic lessons vs. the learning (referring to my talk from Breaking Convention)
feelings vs stories in our heads - the profound value of feeling as a skill
how psychedelics helped Strauss track the origins of his OCD
the challenge of our nervous system's ancient defense system living in the modern world
do psychiatric pharmaceuticals fundamentally change how we experience psychedelics?
how psychedelics taught Strauss how to face profound fears of feelings
the context that gave rise to the psychedelic experiences that made his OCD worse

More Considerations on Dying in a Deathphobic Culture | Stephen Jenkinson ~ ATTMind 105 Aug 30, 2019

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Stephen Jenkinson joins us to discuss arguments against psilocybin for the dying, death as a god, the failures of hope, the cowardice of misanthropy, and the dangers of being arrogant when facing the divine.

**full episode breakdown below**

--LINKS-- For more psychedelic content like this and/or to access this interview on youtube, head to https://bit.ly/ATTMindEp105

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SEE STEPHEN JENKINSON WITH GREGORY HOSKINS AND BAND FOR NIGHTS OF GRIEF & MYSTERY

Kitchener, ON Date: Thursday, September 12 Venue: The Registry Theatre EB link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/night-of-grief-mystery-concert-kitchener-tickets-66229555383 FB link: https://www.facebook.com/events/686962731767381/

London, ON Date: Saturday, September 28 Venue: Wolf Performance Hall EB link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/night-of-grief-mystery-concert-london-on-tickets-63091197470 FB link: https://www.facebook.com/events/36870378376202

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death is a god
death is like matrimony
death is your most faithful companion
your death means you no harm
the divine is not there to benefit you
the consequences are encountering the divine aren't supposed to be good
the dangers of being arrogant when facing the divine
arguments against psilocybin for the dying
the losses of going mainstream
arguments against medically assisted suicide
(why I have not and will not read Michael Pollan)
hope does not serve us as we face the environmental crisis
proceed as if your actions have consequence
the meaning of understand
misanthropy is a complete unwillingness to learn

A Jungian Approach To Psychedelic Integration | Maria Papaspyrou ~ ATTMind 104 Aug 16, 2019

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We welcome Maria Papaspyrou to the show to discuss what Jungian Psychology has to say psychedelics in general and psychedelic integration in particular.

Maria is an integrative psychotherapist and systemic constellations facilitator in private practice in Brighton, UK. She has given talks and published articles on the sacramental and healing properties of entheogens, supporting their re-introduction in psychotherapy. She is co-editor "Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine", and is developing T.R.I.P.P. network, a U.K. wide psychedelic psychotherapy integration database.

What Happened To Tobias Aug 04, 2019

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This post contains a discussion on suicide, psychosis, and abuse of power. It might be best to look at it at another time if you are not in the headspace to explore those topics right now.

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As many of you heard in my intro to episode 102 with Are Thoresen, kambo facilitator and former guest on the show, Tobias [last name removed on request of the family] died on July 11, 2019.

I mentioned in that intro that the context around his death was bizarre and that I would make a statement about it. I made a video about it, this is the audio track.

More details and content here

~{TL/DR: Tobias killed himself during a psychotic episode that was most likely brought on by, primarily, the excessive (daily) use of Bufo/5-MeO-DMT. This video discusses the context that led to and surrounds his suicide and why it's relevant to us as a psychedelic culture.}~

A Psychedelic Trip To The Psych Ward | Shane Mauss ~ ATTMind 103 Aug 02, 2019

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Comedian Shane Mauss is on the show to talk about the context that led up to his drug-induced psychosis, his time in a psychiatric institution, and why he still sees psychedelics as valuable tools for mental wellness in general, but comedy culture in particular.

**FULL EPISODE BREAKDOWN BELOW**

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A little bit about prohibition preventing the very medicine that would help heal the people tasked at propagating prohibition
Behind the scenes of his documentary Psychonautics: A Comic's Exploration Of Psychedelics
How Shane Mauss' psychosis influenced the final product of the documentary
How excessive mushroom use set him up to fall into psychosis with ayahuasca
Mental health issues in comedian culture and the potential of psychedelic to help
The ayahuasca trip that pushed him over the edge (this story continues from the trip through his return to his home, all the way into his psychosis)
What it was like to be admitted to and stuck in a psychiatric institution
The difference between wild ideas and delusions
How the care providers engaged his ideas during treatment
What type of support might have prevented his progression into psychosis
What happened with the ideas he was having during his psychosis after he recovered
Shane's relationship to psychedelics now

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Spirit Entities, Disease, and Demons | Are Thoresen ~ ATTMind 102 Jul 19, 2019

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This episode seeks to explore the phenomenon of spiritual forces, demons, and disease. But not so much from the "are spirits real?" perspective but from the position of assuming they are real and thus an exploration of what are they and how they operate on the human being.

For this exploration, we welcome Are Thoresen, a veterinarian, acupuncturist, and scholar of anthroposophy. Are is also recognized as an expert in spirit entities and demonic possession, with a particular focus on their role in illness and healing.

(...FULL EPISODE BREAKDOWN BELOW...)

Of course, the ongoing skepticism of the "realness" of all this is present throughout this discussion as I, your host and interviewer, am not sold on the whole thing. At least not in the beginning, my heavy skepticism waning towards responsible ambivalence by the end of it all.

*** That said, I invite people to please keep their higher reasoning intact fo this interview as, real or not, getting obsessed with the presences of "demonic forces" and "battles between good an evil" can take us down dangerous roads psychologically. ***

--LINKS-- For full blog entry, all relevant links for this episode, and to watch this episode in video: https://bit.ly/ATTMind102

An introduction to Are's work with spirits and the spiritual healing
The dangers of "translocation" of sprits in healing
"We are an expression of the spiritual reality"
Icelandic elves
Belief doesn't necessarily make something real
"the spiritual world is not energy"
How spirit entries are created
What qualifies some spirits as demons
The different between translocating and transforming demons in the healing process
Bacteria and fungi are/have spirits
Are spirits/demons "intelligent"?
"I consciousness" and protecting yourself from spirits/demons
What it feels like to be in "I consciousness"
How to see spirits
What psychedelics do to the body/mind insofar as encounters with sprits
Why psychedelics, eventually, hold you back
If disassociation / loosing "I consciousness" is dangerous to the soul, what about the positive benefits of ego dissolution and mystical encounters with psychedelics?
How to tell the difference between benevolent and malevolent spirits and how to tell the difference
What does any of this even matter if it can be proven one way or another?

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DMT, Aliens, and The Meaning Of Life | Dr. Andrew Gallimore ~ ATTMind 101 Jul 05, 2019

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Dr. Andrew Gallimore. Neurobiologist, chemist, and the author of 'Alien Information Theory: Psychedelic Drug Technologies and the Cosmic Game' joins us on the show to talk about extended-state DMT, the structure of reality, hyperdimensional alien intelligences, and the implications of dying while tripping DMT.

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The fundamental structure of reality
What DMT shows us about reality
The brain is our world-builder
The difference between dream reality and waking reality in the brain
What makes reality, "real"? (psychosis vs baseline vs psychedelics)
True vs hallucination
What is meaning and where does meaning fit into the structure of reality
Psychedelics and the increased perception of "meaning"
What exactly are psychedelics doing to your brain?
What makes DMT different from other psychedelics
Is the DMT space a place somewhere?
Some critical pushback against Gallimore's theory
Entities, aliens, and elves: are they extrinsic phenomena?
how to tell between DMT" hallucinations" and experiencing "real" phenomena of the DMT space
If DMT space is a "real place", what does that mean for our baseline reality?
"Where" is the DMT reality?
DMT's redemption and entry into citizenship in hyperspace
The meaning of life and the role of DMT
If life is a game (Gallimore's claim) where we win when we get to DMT, what about our responsibility towards climate change, war, poverty. etc?
The extended-state DMT protocol: what is it, how they will do it, and why?
If extend state DMT works, how might be used it to communicate with entities?
Could extended-state DMT present a risk of brain damage?
Is it possible that if we go to the DMT space into a long time, could we return permanently psychotic?
What if they die under the DMT?
Reality is strange, far stranger than we may realize.

Asking 3 Potent Questions To 8 Psychedelic Luminaries ~ ATTMind 100 Jun 21, 2019

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To acknowledge the celebratory context of this epsiode I had done two things special with it. The first is that I took a pretty long time, in the beginning, to talk about my journey with the podcast (the actual episode starts 12:45, and the interviews at 18:00). Then, the second special thing, instead of one guest, or even two, or even three, there are EIGHT GUESTS!!!! That's right. 8 Guests.

I recorded several short, on location interviews during my travel through Europe in the summer of 2018. Most of them we shot at OZORA FESTIVAL, in Hungary. I had the amazing opportunity to be surrounded by the amazing psychedelic thinkers and researchers and I took that opportunity to ask them some questions. Three questions in fact.

THE 3 QUESTIONS

What do you feel is the best use of psychedelics at this time?
What does the psychedelic experience show us about what it means to die?
What is an area in psychedelic culture that is important but under-represented in the major discourse?

THE 8 GUESTS

(In alphabetical order. head to https://bit.ly/ATTMind100 for further links to their work)

Julian Vayne
Nikki Wyrd
Kilindi Iyi
Marta Kaczmarczyk
Meriana Dinkova
Moudou Baqui
Leor Roseman
Rosalind Watts

I will let them introduce themselves during the episode, and the structure of the episode be explained in the intro.

Thanks for 100 episodes!

Enjoy.

Liminal Dreaming| Jennifer Dumpert ~ ATTMind 99 Jun 07, 2019

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Jennifer Dumpert, the author of 'Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness At The Edge Of Sleep,' joins us on the show today to offer an introductory primer on the hows and whys of liminal dreaming, the differences between liminal dreaming and other forms of dreaming, as well as the cross-applicable skillsets shared between dream-tripping and psychedelics.

***Full Episode Breakdown Below --LINKS-- For links to Jennifer's work, full show notes, and to watch this episode in video, head to Https://bit.ly/ATTMind99

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What is liminal dreaming and what does it offer us?
Sleep cycles, brainwaves, and dreams all the way through
Hypopompia vs hypnagogia
REM dreams, vs liminal dreams, vs lucid dreams
The continuity of consciousness through dream states
Myoclonic jerks and "falling" asleep
Harnessing cannabis induced REM rebound to enter sleep paralysis
Imagination as a faculty of perception
Autosymbolic phenomena
Liminal shamanism
The limitations of dream interpretations
A practice for harnessing hypnagogia for creative insight
The cross applicable skillsets between psychedelics and liminal dreaming
Oneirogens (compounds that help stimulate dreaming)
Dream-tripping
The liminal state during birth and death
Two practices for entering a liminal dream states

Healing Childhood Wounds With Psychedelic Therapy | Bruce Sanguin - ATTMind 98 May 24, 2019

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This episode of the podcast narrows in on the manner in which early childhood experiences inform, often unconsciously, our adult perceptions, behavior, and self-identity. Our guest, author and former Christian minister Bruce Sanguin, takes us into and through a (common) legacy of early childhood wounds, the relational context through which they are inflicted and later reiterated, as well as the role psychedelic therapy plays in healing those childhood wounds.

Bruce is not an armchair advocate for this work, but a man that has learned from his own healing with psychedelic medicines. Along with a structural discussion on his model for healing childhood wounds and the potential of psychedelic therapy to help the process along, he shares his personal story of how his childhood wounds led him to the Church, how healing them required leaving that church behind, and how psychedelics help him learn to love again.

**Full episode breakdown below**

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How our early life explains set us up for our perceptions of reality and self in adulthood
Core Unconscious Beliefs (CUBs) how they form our personality
Personality vs Authentic Self
What is happening when we become "triggered"
the traumatic origins of existentialism
How our CUBs and CABs guide us into toxic relationships
We are wounded in relationships; we heal in relationship
Enter psychedelic therapy
Healing with Ayahuasca
Healing with LSD/MDMA (candy flip) psychotherapy
What psychedelics do in the therapy
The (attachment) role of the therapist in psychedelic therapy
Getting trapped in the spiritual ego
Sanguin's journey into and out of the Church
How the church helps reaffirm childhood trauma
What is God, both before and after psychedelics.

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