This episode is a reshare of my conversation with Rachael Spyker from her podcast Deconstruction titled Conscious Festivalling: Healing in the Psychedelic Playground. We explore these vibrant gatherings where music, movement, ceremony, and community weave together to create powerful containers for transformation.

These aren’t just parties; they’re modern-day rituals that reconnect us with our inner truth, the Earth, and each other. From ecstatic dance to sacred sound, conscious festivals offer a unique space to explore expanded states of awareness, deepen spiritual practice, and remember what it means to live in alignment with the soul. Let’s explore why these gatherings are so much more than events — they’re medicine.

Rachael is a Registered Clinical Counsellor in Kelowna, BC, Canada, with a passion for holistic healing and trauma-informed therapeutic modalities, including psychedelic somatic therapy, IFS and EMDR. She is committed to harnessing the therapeutic potential of medicines such as ketamine, cannabis, psilocybin, and MDMA to facilitate profound transformation and healing. As a facilitator, she leads women's retreats, group ceremonies, workshops, and events, providing nurturing spaces for individuals to explore and heal.

She is also the host of the Deconstruction Podcast, where she engages in meaningful conversations around personal growth, spirituality, and the journey towards wholeness.

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This episode is a reshare of my conversation with Rachael Spyker from her podcast Deconstruction titled The Commodification of the Sacred: Psychedelics, Activism and Feminine Reclamation. We recorded this in mid-March 2025. It was powerful and deeply insightful for me to share this time with Rachael and I hope you will enjoy as well!

Rachael is a Registered Clinical Counsellor in Kelowna, BC, Canada, with a passion for holistic healing and trauma-informed therapeutic modalities, including psychedelic somatic therapy, IFS and EMDR. She is committed to harnessing the therapeutic potential of medicines such as ketamine, cannabis, psilocybin, and MDMA to facilitate profound transformation and healing. As a facilitator, she leads women's retreats, group ceremonies, workshops, and events, providing nurturing spaces for individuals to explore and heal.

She is also the host of the Deconstruction Podcast, where she engages in meaningful conversations around personal growth, spirituality, and the journey towards wholeness.

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Strengthen Your Light to Sustain the Fight!

As we actively resist what is happening in the US government right now, it is more important than ever to engage in practices that help you reconnect to your center and the powerful light with in. Through this stabilizing and enhancing of your inner light are you able to more clearly discern truth from lies, hold strong in the face of tyranny and intimidation and have the courage to not back down while protecting the vulnerable.

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Shelby Hartman is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Double-Blind, a media company at the forefront of the psychedelic movement. She worked in broadcast news production for CBS News, covering presidential elections, protests, natural disasters, and other breaking news. Spurred by a passion for print, she transitioned to magazine writing, working as an editor and receiving her master’s degree in long-form journalism from Columbia University. She has extensively covered traumatic stress disorder in the veteran community, the cannabis industry, the psychedelic research boom, and the popularization of ayahuasca.

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Bruce Tallman has been in private practice as a full-time spiritual director for the past twenty years (since 2002). He works mainly with clergy from every Christian denomination. He also works with laity and with people who are agnostic, atheist or “spiritual but not religious.”

He has published two books for professional spiritual directors: Archetypes for Spiritual Direction: Discovering the Heroes Within (Paulist Press, 2005) and Finding Seekers: How to Develop a spiritual Direction Practice from Beginning to Full-Time Employment which is a bestseller in the field of spiritual direction.

He has also published two books for the general public: A Thousand Spiritual Lessons: Wisdom and Peace for the Over-Busy, Over-Informed, Over-Worked and Over-Whelmed (an ebook from Kindle Direct Publishing 2021) and God’s Ecstatic Love: Transform Your Life with a Spiritual Masterpiece (Apocryphile Press, 2021). God’s Ecstatic Love is a 21st century commentary on St. Francis de Sales’ 1616 spiritual classic Treatise on the Love of God. The goal of the book is to teach people the most important life-skill of all: how to love God/be a contemplative mystic.

From 1988 to 2002 Bruce was the director of two adult religious education centers for the Roman Catholic Diocese of London, Ontario, Canada. As part of that ministry, he helped couples prepare for marriage and continues to do so. Since 1988 to the present, he has facilitated marriage preparation courses with almost 4000 couples.

Bruce has a Doctor of Ministry degree in Spiritual Direction from the Graduate Theological Foundation and hundreds of his articles on spirituality, theology, ethics and religion have been published. He is also an adjunct faculty member of the Haden Institute for Spiritual Directors Training and is on the board of “Christian Spiritual Directors” (formerly known as the “Canadian Fellowship of Christian Spiritual Directors”).

He and his wife Grace, a crisis mental health counselor, live in London, Ontario, Canada and have three adult children: Hailey (art therapist), Brandon (landscaper) and Alana (lab scientist).

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Jeff is an Emmy Award-winning actor currently recurring on the shows Big Sky and NCIS: LA and General Hospital. Other acting work includes Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace, Sully, directed by Clint Eastwood, and many credits over his years in the business.

Jeff has been a teacher of Vedic Meditation since 2007, working from his home in Studio City and elsewhere around the globe. He has recently published his book, Embracing Bliss (available

In his spare time, Jeff makes tintype photographs using the 19 th Century wet plate collodion process.

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In his new book, The Synchronicity of Love, John shares his extraordinary stories of what happened when while at rock bottom, he threw himself into Unconditional Love with sincerity and earnestness. His stories about his journey inspire, uplift, heal, shock, awaken and transform. They contain the seeds of potential to change habits, beliefs and one’s deepest assumptions about what is possible and have the power to radically transform anyone’s life.

Today, John David Latta is a mystic, author, teacher, and former founder and CEO of a multimillion-dollar consumer products company. He shares intimate and personal stories and teaches workshops on leadership, healing, transformation, awakening, love, synchronicity, and wisdom that unite and expand human experience. He lives with his wife, Wendy, in Redmond, Washington. 

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Meditation can be easier than you realize. In my latest episode of Love, Service, Wisdom I share with you my tips, tricks and understandings that can help make the art of concentration accessible to you too 😌.

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Divneet Kaur Lall is an author, speaker, and consciousness expert. She is the discoverer of the Law of Unification which empowers people to create new creations for the world and conscious life of purpose. She is an integrative thinker who forgathered diverse components of research using her visionary perspective to devise the formula of creation to unlock our highest potential.

Divneet helps individuals to master innovation, mental clarity, and self-knowledge for personal & social transformations. She inspires them to think in creative, innovative, and radical ways to develop new solutions. She is dedicated to supporting individuals and leaders in accelerating their journey to fulfillment.

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Millana Snow is a leading voice in wellness, in the US and abroad. She is a trusted source for wellness expertise and resources to a diverse global community of clients, followers, brands, celebrities, corporate companies and even members of the royal family. As a woman of color with Afro-Latina/Panamanian, mid-western and British roots she speaks to an audience as diverse as her background.

As a former model, turned wellness entrepreneur and healer she has carved out a unique and modern path for her mission of deep healing and connection for everyone, everywhere. Millana has spoken at NYU, Syracuse University, Summit LA, PopSugar PlayGround, BlogHer Heath, Soho House (NY, LA, London, Barcelona) just to name a few. She has had brand partnerships and campaigns with Nike, Lululemon, YSL, Covergirl, and Toyota. Based in LA, Millana is also the model winner of Project Runway and the winner of the “Best Travel + Adventure Show” Webby Award.

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