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**Entheogen**

Entheogen focuses on psychedelics used in therapeutic, medicinal, sacramental, and recreational contexts.

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**Mid-2016 Listener Update** Aug 01, 2016
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**031: Dr. Julie Holland** Jul 12, 2016
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031 Dr. Julie Holland Brad, Kevin, Joe

This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within.
Today is June 6, 2016, and we are talking with Dr. Julie Holland, psychopharmacologist, psychiatrist, and best-selling author of several books.
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Topics:
Julie’s origin story: how did she get interested in this area of research
Julie took MDMA with Rick Doblin on the last day it was legal: June 30th, 1985
“Cancer of Yang” – Jeremy Wolff’s phrase (Julie’s husband)
Vaginal administration of cannabis to avoid the liver from edible ingestion, 11-OH-THC
Edibles: Julie emphasizes the need to wait two hours before re-evaluating dosage
Overmedication of society
“Do you ever overeat and then feel bad about it?” Big pharma’s answer: strong, long-lasting amphetamine daily.
Medical and Recreational Entheogens
*“Recreation is therapeutic”*
THC, CBD and Terpenes
Some people don’t want to get high from their medicine.
Munchies mitigation tip: don’t start eating.
Punishment doesn’t work with addiction
Pornography and the “new normal”: no pubic hair vs. “very bushy” 70’s
Julie’s Books:
Moody Bitches: The Truth About the Drugs You're Taking, The Sleep You're Missing, The Sex You're Not Having, and What's Really Making You Crazy
Ecstasy: the Complete Guide
The Pot Book
Weekends at Bellevue

029: Build Entheon with Alex and Allyson Grey May 25, 2016

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029: Build Entheon with Alex and Allyson Grey Brad, Kevin, Joe

This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within.

Today is May 24 2016, and we are discussing Building Entheon with Alex and Allyson Grey.

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Entheon is a place to discover the divine within
Why build a psychedelic temple?
BuildEntheon.com – Almost to the stretch goal of $200K
Entheon is a 12,000 sq ft building, three floors including a gallery of international visionary art
Prehistoric artifacts document early cultures who made art and had a relationship with entheogens
“It’s important for our psychedelic sacramental culture to have evidence that in our generation there were people who valued love, unity, spirituality, and peace over commerce and war.” - Allyson Grey
LSD is derived from ergot fungus, which shares similar characteristics with psilocybin mushrooms.
Allyson recommends Robert Barnhart’s movie, A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin. (We have interviewed the producer and discussed the film on Entheogen.)
Visit BuildEntheon.com to support the campaign! Check out the amazing original works of art and other rewards.

**028: Intro to Entheogenic Comedy with Matteson Perry** May 17, 2016
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028: Intro to Entheogenic Comedy with Matteson Perry Brad, Kevin, Joe

This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within.
Today is April 3rd, 2016 and we’re talking about Entheogenic Comedy.
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We’re delighted to be talking with Matteson Perry, writer and performer based in Los Angeles.
We start with a quote from Bill Hicks.
Matteson has a humorous memoir coming out on May 24.
Topics:
Comedy as an Entheogen
Laughter is an involuntary response, requires no thought.
Some people are just funny. Even just adjusting a mic stand.
Andrew Dice Clay
Jerry Seinfeld’s theory of comedy: getting an audience to laugh at joke is like getting them to jump across a ditch
George Carlin
Steven Wright a.k.a. Bucky Goldstein
Mitch Hedberg: “I used to do drugs…. I still do, I used to too.”
Jon Stewart, carrier of Carlin’s torch
Missed satire: the Steven Colbert effect.
Comedy is tragedy avoided; or, comedy = tragedy + time
Storytelling as quasi therapy
Lincoln jokes vs. JFK jokes
When you laugh so hard you cry
The Psychedelic Yawn can yield entheogenic tears, discussed in episode 025: Psychedelic Medicine Trials with Participant Kirk Rutter.
“Kids” movies: entheogens for everyone!
In Living Color, Kevin’s “gateway drug” into Entheogenic Comedy.
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

027: Sacred Plant Retreats with Maxwell Wieland of Munay Medicine in Peru, Part 2 Apr 26, 2016

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027: Sacred Plant Retreats with Maxwell Wieland of Munay Medicine in Peru, Part 2 Brad, Kevin, Joe

This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within.

Today is February 21, 2016, and we are discussing Sacred Plant Retreats with our guest, Maxwell Wieland of Munay Medicine in Peru.

Topics:

Munay Medicine – what’s the vision, how does a retreat work, what do they offer?
The 10-day Retreat
“La Dieta” – lifestyle more than diet.
Yoga as adjunct therapy to plant medicine.
Yoga class as track meet? Yoga more as philosophy than merely athleticism.
Reconsidering “traditional” use of ayahuasca in a long historical context.
Alchemist? E.g., extraction of alkaloids.
The duality of the ego. “I just sleighed my ego.”
“Avoid the dreaded underdose. Dose high. Dose healthy.”

**026: Sacred Plant Retreats with Maxwell Wieland of Munay Medicine in Peru, Part 1** Apr 12, 2016
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026: Sacred Plant Retreats with Maxwell Wieland of Munay Medicine in Peru, Part 1 Brad, Kevin, Joe

This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within.
Today is February 21, 2016, and we are discussing Sacred Plant Retreats with our guest, Maxwell Wieland of Munay Medicine in Peru.
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Topics:
Max has been in a working relationship with wachuma (san pedro), ayahuasca, changa (dmt), psilocybin mushrooms, iboga, morning glories, salvia, and other plant entheogens for a decade.
How did Munay Medicine come to be?
What is a typical stay like?
Munay is in the Sacred Valley of Peru, a wonderful location with a number of retreat centers, convenient to Machu Picchu and other sacred sites.
San Pedro vs. Peyote, the sustainability and eco-friendliness of San Pedro – can grow up to a meter per growing season. Can be propagated easily.
The word wachuma translates to “removing the head” (wach- meaning “remove” and -uma meaning “head”) which metaphorically might mean the death of the ego. The word comes from Quechua, the language of the indigenous culture of the same name in the central Andes.
As Maxwell told us, “The name San Pedro was an adaptation that came as a result of Catholic contact via Spanish conquistadors.” This is fascinatingly similar to the Bwiti tribe in Gabon who use ibogaine in a syncretic Christian-tribal tradition; it seems that part of the Andean adaptation to missionary influence was to rename this sacred plant after Saint Peter, implying that the entheogenic cactus holds the keys to the gates of heaven just as its new namesake, Saint Peter, is said to do.
“Breaking open the Head”, Daniel Pinchbeck’s book about his initiation with the Bwiti (using Ibogaine).
Max shares some of his backstory including trouble related to the illegality of plant medicine in the United States, which led to his moving to Peru.
San Pedro “Jeff Bridges” variety: Trichocereus bridgesii
Also, please check out this link from last show's guest, Kirk Rutter: Psychedelic Science Org UK – "Psychedelics could be for psychiatry what the microscope is for biology or the telescope for astronomy."

025: Psychedelic Medicine Trials with Participant Kirk Rutter Mar 30, 2016

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025: Psychedelic Medicine Trials with Participant Kirk Rutter Brad, Kevin, Joe

This is Entheogen. Talk about tools for generating the divine within.

Today is February 28, 2016, and we are discussing Psychedelic Medicine Trials with a participant in a recent psilocybin study, Kirk Rutter.

Special thanks to our guest on today’s show, Kirk Rutter, who offers listeners a rare glimpse of what it’s like to participate in a psychedelic medicine trial. Kirk worked with Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris, David Erritzoe (who sat in on the sessions), Prof. David Nutt (who oversaw the project), and Mark Bolstridge at the Imperial College of London, studying the impact of psilocybin on depression.

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Kirk shares a bit of background about why he sought out this study

The screening process
Kirk’s prior experience (none) and opinion of psychedelics before the study
No interaction with the other participants during the trials, meeting these automatic allies after the conclusion of the trials.
The benefit of the “dry run” of set and setting a week ahead of time. Compare this protocol to the DMT studies by Strassman – demonstrates the importance of a comfortable setting.
Kirk offers the term “psychedelic turbulence”, and the analogy of taking off in a plane: passing through the clouds, there may be some turbulence, and then once you reach a certain height it becomes calm.
Sanskrit text flashing in the darkness, faint geometrics, jewels, golden structures…
Describing the session room: niceties like ambient laser lights, aroma machine, candles, fresh flowers.
The music in the room. The care given to the playlist. The importance of the playlist as part of the protocol.
Psychedelic lacrymation.
The “psychedelic yawn”.
We all share our deep cries.
Using music to help embed the experience.
The roles of David, Robin, and Mark and how they factored into the experience.
Robin: “one of the nicest people I’ve ever met.”
We all don’t like the zoo. (E.g. “Meerkats basking under sunlamps.”)
Kirk’s experience of seeing “an Indian god ‘look in on me’ like a parent looking over a baby's crib”
Kevin’s experience seeing the same deity as Kirk: Ganesh, the "remover of obstacles", the "God of wisdom, knowledge and new beginnings". He sounds like a good totem to have through the 25mg experience”
Chanting, meditating

Check out Kirk’s blog for a first person description of what it’s like to participate in modern psychedelic research, including videos from your accommodations at the Imperial College campus in London.

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