Lucid Cafe

In this informative episode, professional psychedelic therapist and educator Daniel McQueen shares how to transform cannabis into a reliable and safe psychedelic medicine. He describes the hidden healing potential of cannabis blends to create experiences akin to psilocybin, MDMA, and even ayahuasca. 

Daniel is the author of Psychedelic Cannabis: Therapeutic Methods and Unique Blends to Treat Trauma and Transform Consciousness. In 2012, he co-founded the Center of Medicinal Mindfulness which is the first legal plant-based psychedelic therapy center in the United States. Daniel specializes in using Cannabis-Assisted Psychedelic Therapy and Ketamine-Assisted Psychedelic Therapy as tools for transformation and healing. 

In this episode, Daniel discusses:

• Cannabis classification
• His early experiences using cannabis as a therapeutic tool
• How cannabis can be surprisingly similar to other psychedelics
• How users maintain a sense of agency during the experience
• The benefits of staying in control during the experience
• Being able to pause the psychedelic cannabis experience
• The difference between being high and having a psychedelic experience
• What the psychedelic cannabis experience is typically like
• Why setting an intention is important
• The holotropic principle
• His experience as a guide
• The typical length of a psychedelic cannabis experience
• How to create the psychedelic experience using cannabis
• Different cannabis strains
• The guide’s role
• The emotional, psychological and physical healing potential of psychedelic cannabis
• How he and his team work with folks
• Misconceptions about the healing ability of cannabis in the psychedelic therapy world
• His MAPS training
• How cannabis is neuroregenerative
•  Is cannabis addictive?
• The Psychedelic Sitters School

Medicinal Mindfulness website

Daniel’s book Psychedelic Cannabis 

The Magical Path Shamanic Workbook is available for purchase on:

• Wendy’s website 
• Amazon 

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To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/

Using astrology as a diagnostic tool, author and licensed clinical social worker Lisa Tahir shares how to use the astrological placement of the minor planet Chiron in your birth chart to identify the core wounds and unconscious patterns that block your capacity to have self-empathy and to forgive. 

Lisa is the author of The Chiron Effect: Healing Our Core Wounds through Astrology, Empathy, and Self-Forgiveness and the host of the popular podcast All Things Therapy. Lisa has private practice office locations and residences in both Los Angeles and New Orleans.

In this episode Lisa discusses:

• How her background inspired her to become a psychotherapist
• Her unexpected introduction to the archetype Chiron
• The gifts Chiron offers
• How she incorporates Chiron insights into her work with clients
• Her approach to writing The Chiron Effect
• The symbolic meaning of Chiron 
• How to find your Chiron placement 
• How to work with Chiron to help you through life’s challenges
• Thoughts and beliefs
• Forgiveness
• Trust

Lisa’s website: https://www.nolatherapy.com/

Lisa’s podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-things-therapy/id1142723432

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To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/

Mitch Horowitz invites us to break through the walls of convention and explore the numinous, mysterious, and uncertain places that lie beyond those walls. In this episode Mitch serves as a tour guide taking us on a thought provoking journey of the spiritual, the occult, the magickal, and the extra-physical.   

Mitch is a historian of alternative spirituality and one of today’s most literate voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult. ​Through his many lectures, books and articles he shines a light on outsider history so that we can understand its relevance to contemporary life. 

In this conversation, Mitch discusses:

• His latest book Uncertain Places
• The influence of primeval civilizations
• How UFOs are now a part of the mainstream conversation
• His current ideas regarding mental causation
• The concept of faith
• Persistence and passion and pushing boundaries
• How his spiritual inquiries led to an exploration of Satanism
• Thy will be done vs. My will be done
• The current state of skepticism
• The book Extraordinary Knowing by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer

Mitch’s website: https://www.mitchhorowitz.com/

The Magical Path Shamanic Workbook:

• Wendy’s website 
• Amazon 

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To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/

After an emergency surgery that saved his life, Ed Cohen had a spontaneous healing experience that prompted him to ask the question: Why doesn’t medicine know about healing? In this episode Ed explores how Western medicine turned from an “art of healing” toward a “science of medicine” and how this shift has affected both medical practitioners and their patients.

Ed Cohen has a Ph.D. in Modern Thought from Stanford, and for the last three decades, has been an award-winning professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. He is the author of On Learning To Heal, or What Medicine Doesn’t Know and A Body Worth Defending. 

In this episode, Ed discusses:

• His diagnosis with acute Crohn’s disease at the age of 13
• The surprising origin of the concept of immunity
• How having a chronic illness inspired him to understand healing
• His spontaneous post-surgery healing experience 
• His desire to understand why medicine doesn’t know about healing
• The difference between healing and curing
• The concept of disease
• The history and evolution of medicine 
• How his healing journey changed him
• The relationship between desiring to heal and being willing to learn
• How we are more than we imagine
• How he helps those struggling with chronic illness reframe their difficult circumstances

Ed’s website: https://healingcounsel.com/

Ed’s books: https://healingcounsel.com/publications/

Wendy’s article: The Ultimate BFF: Your Body 

The Magical Path Shamanic Workbook:

• Wendy’s website 
• Amazon 

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To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/

Acharya Shunya has written a feminist manifesto rooted in class Vedic teachings and brought to life through India’s primary goddess archetypes titled Roar Like A Goddess: Every Woman’s Guide to Becoming Unapologetically Powerful, Prosperous & Peaceful.

She is a highly-rated motivational speaker, podcast host, workshop facilitator and retreat leader with over 20 years of experience as a spiritual, wellness, relationship and women's empowerment coach. 

In this episode, Shunya discusses:

• How she lost her power in an arranged marriage
• The concept of Dharma
• How she changed when she took her power back
• The 3 Hindu goddesses she has a relationship with and how she works with them
• How these goddesses can be role models for women
• Wholeness vs holiness
• The different flavors of anger
• The important role anger plays
• How the goddesses can teach us about anger
• Super-conscious anger
• How to work with the goddesses
• Discernment
• Women and power
• Underlying imbalances
• Self-value

Shunya’s books: https://www.acharyashunya.com/

Shunya’s workshops:  https://www.awakenedself.com/

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To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/

Howard G. Charing is the author of The Accidental Shaman, a book recounting his incredible introduction to shamanism as well as the co-author of Plant Spirit Shamanism and The Ayahuasca Visions of Pablo Amaringo. He holds workshops internationally and plant medicine retreats in the Peruvian Amazon. 

In this episode, Howard discusses:

• His relationship with artist Pablo Amaringo
• How the oracle deck came to be
• The process of creating each card and its meaning
• His introduction to shamanism
• The Near Death Experience that changed his life
• How he healed after the accident that led to his NDE
• His first encounter with angelic beings
• How forgiveness opened the door to healing
• How his view of reality has changed as a result of his experiences
• How he perceives non-ordinary reality
• The power of thoughts
• The difference between tarot and oracle cards
• How to use the Amazonian Angel Oracle deck

Episode Image: "The Angel of the Feminine Mystery" - courtesy of Howard G. Charing

Howard’s website: https://www.hgcharing.com/

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To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/

Taylor Ellwood encourages people who are interested in practicing magic, as well as veteran practitioners, to break free from dogmatic approaches to practicing magic. Instead, as the manifesto on his website states, he encourages you to become a Magical Experimenter; to create your own magical systems, develop your own magical workings and challenge what’s known by venturing into the unknown.

In this episode, Taylor discusses:

• The broad scope of the many books he’s authored, both fiction and non-fiction
• His introduction to magic as a teenager
• The dangers of getting caught in one way of thinking
• How he relates to spirits
• The importance of having direct experience
• How working with magic has opened him up
• Experiential embodiment
• The gift of difficult experiences
• The subtle nature of spiritual connection
• His unique approach to Elemental Magic
• Daemons and demons
• How spirits mirror things back to us
• The invitation to “work the book” rather than just read it
• The importance of having discipline

Taylor’s website: https://www.magicalexperiments.com/

Taylor’s fantasy and science fiction books: https://www.imagineyourreality.com/

Taylor’s YouTube channel/Magical Experiments podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/taylorellwood

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To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/

Dr and Master Zhi Gang Sha is a Tao grandmaster, healer, teacher, and author of 30 books, including 11 New York Times bestsellers. He’s both a Western medical doctor and a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture.

In this episode, Master Sha shares:

• How Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus author John Gray encouraged him to write his first book
• His motivation for writing books and teaching
• His introduction to Taoism through studying martial arts
• How the soul is the true boss
• The two lives of the human
• The anatomy of the soul
• Tai Chi
• His introduction to Tao Calligraphy
• Using Tao Calligraphy for healing
• The nature of Tao
• How to use Tao Calligraphy to heal your back pain
• His scientific formula for Tao Healing
• The purpose of life
• Mind over matter vs. soul over matter
• Creation law
• How Tao science is different from traditional Chinese medicine
• His work with Masaru Emoto and water crystals
• Using spiritual healing for depression
• An example of using Tao Calligraphy for increasing income
• How to use the calligraphy on the cover of his book Tao Calligraphy to Heal and Rejuvenate Your Back to heal
• The financial blessing NFT he created
• A two-minute healing for listeners of this episode

To learn more about Master Sha and his offerings: https://drsha.com/

Financial Blessing Tao Calligraphy NFT: https://opensea.io/collection/mastersha

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To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/

Amikaeyla Gaston is an international award-winning singer, activist, and executive director/founder of the International Cultural Arts & Healing Sciences Institute.

In this episode, Ami discusses:

• The profound role that music and vibration plays in our lives
• The hate crime that almost took her life, and the near death experience she had
• Her TEDx talk: Dare to Be Dauntless 
• Performing for the Dalai Lama 
• Our damaging cultural worldview
• Unconscious bias
• Being beyond
• The barrier mindset
• What will it take to actually make a shift in the collective consciousness?
• Dr Fran Peavey’s conversation modality: Strategic Questioning

Learn more about Amikaeyla: 

•  World Trust: https://www.world-trust.org/amikaeylagaston
•  International Cultural Arts & Healing Sciences Institute: https://icahsi.org/
• Ami’s TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw09D3GJrAE

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To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/

My guest Linda River Valente offers her clients a lifetime of collected, eclectic wisdom through her work as a seasoned astrologer, witch, holistic sexuality educator, tarot visionary, magic maker, and Burlesque producer and performer. 

In this episode, Linda discusses:

• What Holistic Sexuality Education is
• Reasons why someone might seek out this service
• Breaking the ice with clients
• American culture’s twisted relationship with sex
• Your erotic self
• Staying warm to get hot
• Pleasure
• Devotional orgasm
• Burlesque shows 
• What it’s like to perform Burlesque
• The diverse offerings on her Patreon 
• The complexities of consent
• Her take on Gwyneth Paltrow’s Sex, Love & goop Netflix series

(Episode Photo courtesy of Linda River Valente)

Linda’s website: https://www.lindarivervalente.net/

Linda's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LindaRiverValente

Find cool totem animal, cosmic, psychedelic t-shirts, blank notebooks and journals at the Lucid Path Etsy Shop! 

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Lucid Cafe episodes by topic: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/lucid-cafe-podcast

Listen to Lucid Cafe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSseC4eLwkov3lFSZVkYDYA

To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/