Adventures Through The Mind

The Dank Duchess is on Adventures Through The Mind to discuss hashish, from what it means and how its made to why it matters in the modern cannabis market. We also discuss the ongoing impact of cannabis prohibition on black culture in the united states, harmful trends in the modern cannabis culture, and the power of hashish (and cannabis in general) to bridge our social divides and lay foundations for a better world.

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Episode Breakdown

• The anatomy of the cannabis plant.
• All about trichomes and how different cannabis concentrates interact with them.
• Bubble hash making 101.
• The Market's misunderstanding about what denotes hashish quality
• What "full-spectrum" means in the context of hash making.
• The definition of hash 'meltability' and why it matters to dabbing.
• What makes good hash good.
• How to test how good your hash is.
• Why hashish matters.
• The difference in experience between smoking buds and smoking hash.
• The harmfulness of competitive cannabis consumption.
• Positive trends in intentional cannabis culture.
• How the racism of cannabis prohibition continues to harm black people within cannabis culture.
• The evolution of hip-hop cannabis rock stardom into Xanax/Lean/Percocet/etc overdoses.
• Why Duchess thinks more back people need to step up in support of responsible substance use.
• The continued racism of prohibitionist law enforcement.
• The bridging capacity of communal cannabis use (the value of cannabis communities to bridge modern racial and social divides).
• What 'growing up' means and what it takes to grow up.
• The psychological harm of smoking cannabis alone.

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Dr. Sam Gandy joins us is on Adventures Through The Mind to explore eco-therapy, nature-immersion, where the scientific observation that psychedelics increase nature-relatedness does and does not weave into our facing of the climate crisis.

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Episode Breakdown

• the transformative power of awe in the psychedelic experience
• psychological disconnect and the climate crises
• some criticism of Extinction Rebellion's Gale Bradbrook's comments at Breaking Convention
• nature-relatedness and its connection to pro-environmental behaviors
• eco-anxiety and environmental melancholia
• the ecological costs of civilization's materialist success
• Gandy's research showing that psychedelics increase nature-relatedness
• the difference between nature-relatedness and nature-immersion
• the massive diversity of benefits of nature immersion
• the connection between nature-relatedness and pro-sociability
• nature-immersion and nature-connection increase capacity for self-reflection
• psychedelics as tools for eco-therapy
• ego-dissolution and the impact of nature-immersion
• how nature immersion might fit in clinical practice with psychedelic therapy
• the sense of 'connection' and its value in positive outcomes with psilocybin for depression
• the practice of acknowledging nature and the value it offers our wellbeing and cognition
• microdosing the forest
• there's something special about psilocybin over other psychedelics
• are psychedelics "agents" or "tools"?
• psilocybin is more like ayahuasca than LSD
• future research with psilocybin and nature-relatedness
• what is psilocybin's role in nature? Debunking the insect repellant theory
• the failures of sensationalist reporting on psychedelic science
• psychedelics will not save us from the climate crisis, but they might help
• the risks of going mainstream
• why I won't read Michael Pollan's How To Change Your Mind
• the value of feeling the grief and pain of ecological destruction
• the wellbeing benefits of accepting unpleasant emotional state
• details about Sam Gandy's upcoming research plans and contact details

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Mel Cassidy is a relationship coach and sex-positive nerd who guides social misfits and cultural rebels to experiences of joyful, embodied, authentic open relationships. Mel has also been engaging in a relationship with psychedelics since they helped Mel heal after multiple miscarriages earlier in life.

Mel joins us on Adventures Through The Mind to explore how their models of understanding and engaging human relationships apply to understand and engaging our relationship to psychedelics, psychedelic healing, and psychedelic communities.

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Episode Breakdown

• How psychedelics helped Mel heal through multiple miscarriages
• Building a relationship to psychedelic medicine
• Are psychedelics agents or tools?
• Value difference in how different cultures view non-human elements of life
• Two sides of me-centered relationships with psychedelics: materialism and spiritual bypassing
• The risk of losing our deep cultural to psychedelics in favor of the capitalist and medical agendas of psychedelic legislation
• How Canadian cannabis legalization screwed over generational cannabis farmers
• The 4 layers of relations and their associated fears
• Why we rush into intimacy before receiving safety and the consequences on our nervous system
• The dangers of using psychedelics as merely objects to get our needs met
• How dysfunctional relating behaviors may express themselves in psychedelic communities
• The vital importance of layers of safety and knowledge of boundaries before journeying with psychedelics
• Being "traditional trained shaman" doesn't necessarily mean they are a safe provider
• The risks/benefits of surrendering our control to a shaman or healer
• Treating our psychedelic experiences the same way we treat our sexuality
• Sexuality cautions and considerations as a model for engaging in psychedelic experiences
• Four things to ask/discuss before sex or a medicine journey
  • look at your fears;
  • talk about your hopes/desires
  • talk about your boundaries
  • aftercare
• Our aftercare processes for both sexual and psychedelic experience
• The failures of group-shunning
• Exploring the presence of and complexities of sexual abuse in psychedelic communities
• Steve Bearman's interchange was a cult
• The dangers of supremacy stretch whiten psychedelic communities.
• Dyadic relationships do not exist in isolation
• "open window check-in"
• Both supremacy and trauma create similar problems
• Supremecy structures within shamanic communities
• The deep healing needed for our relationships

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David Grillot and Jonathan Glazer are the founders of #ThankYouPlantMedicine, a global wave of gratitude for happening on February 20, 2020.

They are on the show to both talk about the movement itself and respond to some of my criticisms. We speak about the possible risks of "coming out of the psychedelic closet", the potentially adverse outcomes of destigmatizing psychedelics too quickly, the importance of actualizing our psychedelic learning, and the problems of politicizing the psychedelic movement.

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Episode Breakdown

• what is #thankyouplantmedicine?
• stigma against psychedelics hurts your integration
• the value of speaking your truth
• there will be risk for many people, is it worth it?
• the value of sharing your stories
• coming out of the psychedelic closet
• the complexities of using the language of the gay movement in the psychedelic movement
• the deep healing value of re-connection
• the ideal outcome of #thankyouplantmedicine
• how this movement might go wrong, personally and socially
• stigmas and taboos exist with a purpose
• why it takes more than psychedelics to better your life or the world, but they may help
• how to not talk about psychedelics
• the value of transcending political divides
• the risk of politicizing the psychedelic movement
• is #thankyouplantmedicine informed by psychedelic exceptionalism?

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Chad Charles is a Conscious Connected Breathwork practitioner, intimacy/eros educator, and substance(5-MeO-DMT)-assisted body-based therapist. He has been very active in helping co-create projects that bring 5-MeO-DMT/bufo practitioners together in hopes that the worldwide standards of facilitation may rise to the best possible practice.

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Episode Breakdown

• why 5-MeO-DMT is called "The God Molecule"
• what is 5-MeO-DMT and what does it do, subjectively
• Chad's history of involvement and role in the 5-MeO-DMT scene
• the difference between 5-MeO-DMT and "Bufo"
• what is the 5-MeO-DMT Conclave and
• the importance of psychedelic communities
• Bufo Smoking is modern, there is no ancient tradition
• The 5-MeO-DMT conclave best practices and code of ethics
• creating a structure for conflict resolution between 5-MeO-DMT facilitator
• BIG egos in the 5-MeO-DMT scene
• the spiritual bypassing enabled by 5-MeO-DMT
• protecting each other from prohibitionist law enforcement
• the calling out of Octavio and Dr. Gerry
• the importance of restorative justice circles in place of #cancelled
• 5-MeO-DMT flashbacks aka "reactivations"
• finding 5-MeO-DMT facilitators for dealing with trauma
• 5-MeO-DMT facilitator burnout and how it affects their clients
• The dangers of repeated use, how to assess those dangers, and how to protect your loved ones

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Dr. Rosalind Watts joins us on the show to help breakdown and better understand the nuances of the psilocybin for depression trials she leads at Imperial College London. We also talk about what her team's research helped her understand about the nature of depression, the value of feeling into our emotional pain, and what makes the difference between those who's lives turn out for the best and those who fall back into depression. --LINKS-- For links to Bruce's work, full show notes, and to watch this episode in video, head to Https://bit.ly/ATTMind112 **Full Topics Breakdown Below --- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST — Patreon: https://patreon.com/jameswjesso Donations: https://www.paypal.me/JWJesso Merchandise: https://www.jameswjesso.com/shop/ More options: https://www.jameswjesso.com/support/ Sponsor: FORMULA Nootropics https://www.jameswjesso.com/formula Use promo code "jesso" to get 20% off your first order. Newsletter: https://www.jameswjesso.com/newsletter -- EPISODE BREAKDOWN --

• the current state of psilocybin for depression research at Imperial College London
• exploring the results of their previous study of treating depression with psilocybin
• when do the results fade?
• why do some people have no effects when the take psilocybin
  • how that relates to safety and polyvagal theory
• the visualization metaphor they use to help people prepare for their psilocybin session
• how society pushes us to dissociate or emotions and the value of feeling our uncomfortable feelings
• the value of safety during psychedelic therapy
• "this is not just a brain reset; this is a journey."
• the positive potentials and problematic pitfalls of microdosing psilocybin
• why the depression comes back after psilocybin treatment
• it takes so much courage to do this thing
• the value of grief and sorrow to heal your life
• depression and self-forgiveness
• how directive is psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy during the psilocybin session?
• how psilocybin helps people heal depression
• does psilocybin hold an innate healing intelligence?
• the Accept, Connect, Embody (ACE) model for finding meaning through emotional journeying
• how Watts' team using the ACE model in their psilocybin for the treatment of depression study
• experiential avoidance and its role in depression
• meaning, what is it? is it found or made or both?

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David Krantz and I talk about how genetics affect the metabolism of cannabis (nutrigenomics) and the resulting impact of cannabis use on our epigenetic health. Furthermore, we reach into a discussion on how the same framework of understanding applies to our metabolism of psychedelics and the potential future of a genome-specific screening program for psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.

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• a general rundown of nutritional genomics and its application in understanding biology
• the profound health issues David faced that brought him into nutritional genomics
• (special note about the value of understanding polyvagal theory)
• the failure of the pre-packed dietary approach, be it veganism, paleo, or low-carb
• the endocannabinoid system
• the genetic differences of cannabis metabolism between different people
• why some people can "smoke weed every day" and make millions, and others can't get off the couch
• how cannabis effects working memory differently in different genetic predispositions in each people based on baseline dopamine levels
• how our brain hides from itself
• the phenomena of "used to smoke all the time without issues then all of a sudden cannabis creates anxiety and paranoia"
• epigenetics and how cannabis changes how our genes express
• the genetic variant that increases the chances of developing cannabis-induced psychosis
• genetic profiling as a screening platform to understand what medical intervention would be most helpful for specific people
• the institutional complications that might prevent the introduction of genetic-specific medical care into the medical infrastructure
• how these ideas fit inside the modern context of the climate crisis
• how do genetic profiles influence dose-response differences with psychedelics
• speculating on the long term epigenetic impact of psilocybin use
• speculating on the long term epigenetic impact of therapeutic/healing work

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Hamilton Souther joins us on the podcast to talks about what it takes to become a true shaman, the medicine of the plants, and what the new age culture gets wrong about ayahuasca. --LINKS-- For links to Bruce's work, full show notes, and to watch this episode in video, head to Https://bit.ly/ATTMind110 --- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST — Patreon: https://patreon.com/jameswjesso Donations: https://www.paypal.me/JWJesso Merchandise: https://www.jameswjesso.com/shop/ More options: https://www.jameswjesso.com/support/

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-- what it takes to become a recognized shaman -- what it takes to prove your capacity as a shaman -- what western ayahuasca cultures gets wrong about plant healing -- sound healing and the art of the icaro -- why do some people enter psychotic delusion when trying to become shamans -- how to protect westerners from the psychological dangers of ayahuasca retreats -- what is a psychotic break from the shamanic perspective and how to heal them -- why talk therapy isn't included in ayahuasca healing at blue morpho -- stepping beyond person trauma in order to heal and regain personal agency -- what about malevolent forces, demons, or dark entities and how to navigate our encounters with them -- the danger of fear -- shadow work, personal responsibility, and the suffering in the context of universal love within which Hamilton Souther works -- the fallacy of psycho-magical thinking in western/new age ayahuasca culture -- the climate crisis, governmental denialism, and what we need to do about it

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This episode features Amanda Seibert, a freelance cannabis writer, author award-winning journalist, photographer, videographer, and the author of The Little Book of Cannabis: How Marijuana Can Improve Your Life.

We sit down to talk about what the science says about the pharmacology of the plant's various components as well as the anecdotal uses of cannabis for bettering different areas of our lives, from sex to death. Of course, we also talk about the negatives, from cannabis addiction to cannabis hyperemesis syndrome.

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• the chemical composition of cannabis
• how different cannabinoids affect us differently
• all about CBD
• the pros and cons of concentrates
• all about terpenes and the entourage effect
• can terpenes alone get you high?
• can black pepper stop THC-induced anxiety?
• is the difference between indica, sativa. and hybrid a meaningful way of assessing psychoactivity?
• how do CB1 and CB2 activation in the brain affect neurochemistry
• how cannabis can better your sex life
• cannabis for palliative care
• deconstructing and exploring the "lazy pothead" stereotype
• cannabis addiction and trauma
• cannabis hypermedia syndrome
• is Dab culture damaging cannabis culture?
• the flaws of Canadian legalization of cannabis

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In this interview, R. Coleman takes us through the wealth of knowledge he has earned over his 30 years of healing trauma with psychedelic psychotherapy. We discuss trauma in general, the value of psychedelic to heal it, and the nuances of working with different psychedelics, for different people, at different times, for different issues.

**full episode breakdown below**

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• the nuances of where trauma comes from
• how psychedelic therapy heals trauma
• developmental/attachment traumas are more insidious
• regression and re-parenting during psychedelic experiences
• the importance of having a sitter to do the deep healing work
• psychedelics may or may not completely heal people from trauma
• expansion; contraction
• the importance of doing the shadow work outside of the psychedelic experiences as well
• why and when to provide different psychedelics in therapy
  • MDMA therapy
    • contraindications to MDMA
    • dangers of constipation before MDMA?
  • LSD Therapy
  • Psilocybin Therapy
  • Cannabis as a psychedelic and an agent of therapy
  • combining MDMA and Psilocybin
  • combining MDMA and LSD
  • combining LSD and Psilocybin
• what does the therapy look like before and after the journey
• a list of who should NOT work with psychedelic therapy and why
• a case for the value of pharmaceutical antidepressants
• the complexities (and prevalence) of trauma from satanic ritual abuse
• encounters with demonic forces during psychedelic therapy
• the most important piece of advice for being a psychedelic sitter

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