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

--LINKS--   For links to our guest' work, full show notes, and to watch this episode in video, head to https://bit.ly/PsyCafe4 ***Full Topics Breakdown Below***   --- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST —   ► Patreon: https://patreon.com/jameswjesso ► Donations: https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=383635S3BKJVS ► Merchandise: https://www.jameswjesso.com/shop/ ► More options: https://www.jameswjesso.com/support/   ► Newsletter: https://www.jameswjesso.com/newsletter   *** Extra BIG thanks to my patrons on Patreon for helping keep this podcast alive! Especially, Andreas D, Clea S, Joe A, Ian C, David WB, Yvette FC, Ann-Madeleine, Dima B, Eliz C, & Chuck W       Episode Breakdown

• 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?

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