Is cannabis really just about getting high, or is it a misunderstood gateway to holistic healing?

In this insightful conversation, Elevate Holistics CEO Aspen Noonan shares how cannabis helped her reclaim her health, build a purpose-driven company, and serve over 150,000 patients across the U.S. From personal healing to public education, Aspen’s mission is to de-stigmatize plant medicine and expand compassionate, telehealth-powered access to medical marijuana.

What You’ll Learn:

• The real story behind how cannabis helped Aspen get off pharmaceuticals

• What “non-euphoric cannabis” is and why it matters for anxiety, trauma, and inflammation

• Why women and veterans are leading new conversations around cannabis and holistic care

• How Elevate Holistics is transforming access through state-by-state telemedicine

• Why cryotherapy, community, and emotional resilience matter in executive wellness

Episode Highlights:

• 01:38 – Aspen’s personal healing journey: ADHD, Adderall, and discovering cannabis
• 05:47 – Building Elevate Holistics: from NORML activism to CEO
• 10:23 – What your doctor doesn’t know: endocannabinoid system & cannabis education
• 15:09 – Medical vs. recreational use: Why getting a card still matters
• 19:36 – Cryotherapy and how Aspen primes her nervous system each morning
• 24:42 – Patient stories that changed everything
• 28:12 – Closing thoughts on the future of medicine, motherhood, and healing

Meet the Guest:

Aspen Noonan is the CEO of Elevate Holistics, a national telemedicine platform dedicated to expanding safe, affordable access to medical marijuana. A mother, advocate, and speaker featured in Business Insider and Leafly, Aspen has led the company to serve over 150,000 patients while championing holistic, non-judgmental care rooted in science and compassion.

Tools, Frameworks, and Terms Mentioned:

• Endocannabinoid system

• Telemedicine cannabis certification

• CBN, CBG, THCA (non-euphoric cannabinoids)

• Cryotherapy

• Cannabis tax advantages for medical users

• WOM-led cannabis entrepreneurship

Closing Insight:

“It’s not about getting high—it’s about healing in a system that’s broken.” – Aspen Noonan

This episode is a reminder that plant-based healing isn't fringe—it's foundational. Whether you’re a patient, practitioner, or policymaker, the future of medicine must include access, empathy, and ecosystem care.

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What does it mean to reclaim your identity through ceremony, not therapy?

In this powerful episode of Medicine with the Medals, Indigenous spiritual leader Shane Norte invites us into his world of earth-based sacraments, decolonized healing, and ancestral reconnection.

As founder of the Church of the People for Creator and Mother Earth, Shane offers a rare window into Native-led psilocybin ceremonies, sacred land defense, and what it means to heal in communion with the Earth, not in isolation.

Listeners will discover a radical, rooted alternative to clinical psychedelics, and learn why community, sweat lodges, and spiritual responsibility matter just as much as the medicine itself.

What You’ll Learn:

• Why psilocybin mushrooms are sacred, not psychedelic, and how they support ancestral memory

• How the Native American Religious Freedom Act protects Indigenous ceremonial medicine

• What the Wamkish ceremony is and how it integrates land, prayer, sweat lodges, and community

• Why over-commercialization of sacred plants risks severing people from their spiritual responsibility

• How Shane guides non-Native people to reconnect with their own earth-based identities and practices
  

Episode Highlights:

• 02:05 – Shane’s awakening: how one mushroom ceremony shifted the course of his life
• 06:45 – “Some families were forced to forget”—reclaiming culture after colonization
• 10:12 – What the Native American Religious Freedom Act actually protects
• 15:40 – From football fields to sacred land defense: Shane’s spiritual activism journey
• 20:31 – Founding the Church of the People: what Wamkish ceremony really looks like
• 28:10 – Why psilocybin is the most accessible earth-based sacrament
• 32:22 – The tension between clinical psychedelic therapy and traditional Indigenous medicine
• 38:48 – How to reconnect with spirit when you feel lost or culturally disconnected

Meet the Guest:

Shane Norte is a spiritual leader, land defender, and founder of the Church of the People for Creator and Mother Earth, a Native-led ceremonial nonprofit located on the La Jolla Indian Reservation in Southern California.

As a board member of Decriminalize Nature and appointee to Maryland’s psychedelic policy task force, Shane bridges grassroots ceremony with national advocacy—all while offering free, community-based healing rooted in the wisdom of his Payómkawichum, Paiute, Lakota, and Serrano ancestors.

Tools, Frameworks, and Strategies Mentioned:

• Wamkish Ceremony – Shane’s immersive healing practice blending psilocybin, sweat lodges, and sacred plants

• Native American Religious Freedom Act – Federal law protecting ceremonial use of sacred medicine

• Decriminalize Nature – Advocacy framework for culturally rooted plant medicine access

• Sweat Lodge Integration – A spiritual framework for post-journey embodiment and prayer

• Earth-Based Healing – Reconnection with land, ancestors, and the divine through non-clinical models
  

Closing Insight

“How we treat the Earth is not far from how we treat ourselves.” – Shane Norte

This episode is a must-listen for anyone seeking a deeper, decolonized path to healing, one that honors sacred plants, spiritual responsibility, and the wisdom of the land.

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Could psilocybin become a cornerstone of mental health care?

In this episode of Medicine with the Medals, we explore how Colorado is building a state-regulated framework for psychedelic therapy, centered on accessibility, safety, and long-term healing.

What You’ll Learn:

• Why the “medicine-only” approach to psychedelics is incomplete without community-centered integration.

• How Colorado’s psilocybin therapy program differs from Oregon’s, especially for licensed mental health providers.

• Which conditions and medications affect psilocybin safety, and what SSRIs really do to your neuroreceptors.

• How psilocybin opens a doorway to healing generational trauma, addiction, and unworthiness through somatic and psychological integration.

• The future of plant-based care, decriminalized healing, and Indigenous reciprocity in the evolving psychedelic landscape.

  
  

Episode Highlights:

• 03:41 – What is the Healing Advocacy Fund and why it matters for Colorado’s psilocybin future
• 08:52 – From ballot initiative to leadership: Tasia’s personal journey into psychedelic healing
• 12:30 – Why Colorado’s therapy model includes non-diagnostic access for grief, creativity, and spiritual care
• 16:48 – How facilitators are trained, and whether they’re required to have personal psychedelic experience
• 21:40 – The real risks of psilocybin use (mental health, heart conditions, medication interactions)26:17 – Can you have a psychedelic therapy session at home? Legal guardrails and safety requirements explained
• 33:10 – What clinical dosing looks like (and why all mushrooms are not created equal)
• 37:56 – Indigenous reciprocity, sourcing concerns, and the ethics of expanding access to iboga and ayahuasca
• 42:30 – What success looks like in 5 years: affordability, community access, and shifting public trust

Meet the Guest:

Tasia is the Colorado Director of the Healing Advocacy Fund (HAF), a nonprofit advancing safe, affordable, and state-regulated access to psychedelic therapy. A political strategist turned plant-medicine advocate, Tasia brings both personal experience and public policy acumen to the front lines of psilocybin healing in Colorado.Tools, Frameworks, and Concepts Mentioned:

• Healing Advocacy Fund (HAF) – nonprofit championing psychedelic policy and education

• State-Regulated Psilocybin Therapy Programs – Colorado vs. Oregon comparison

• Facilitated Integration – post-journey support framework for trauma-informed healing

• Microdosing Access Models – therapeutic and community integration applications

  Indigenous Reciprocity Model – ethics-first approach to medicine sourcing and stewardship

  
  

Closing Insight:

“We need care at every level, care for ourselves, for the plants, and for the people who’ve carried these medicines for generations.” – Tasia Poinsatte

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What if the key to unlocking deep emotional healing lies not in escaping your body, but in truly coming home to it?

In this episode of Medicine with the Medals, hosts Mark and Michelle sit down with somatic psychedelic integration coach Amber Helgeson to explore the transformative synergy between psilocybin and the lineage medicine Tepezcohite (Abuelito).

From reactivating dormant neural pathways to releasing trauma stored in the body, Amber reveals how plant medicines, when paired with intentional integration, can catalyze lasting mental, emotional, and spiritual breakthroughs.

What You’ll Learn:

• How somatic psychedelic integration bridges body, mind, and spirit for lasting transformation.

• The neuroscience behind psilocybin’s “great connector” effect on neural pathways and emotional regulation.

• What makes Tepezcohite a unique “love medicine” and how it works in ceremony.

• Why integration, before and after the ceremony, is more important than the medicine session itself.

• Real-world results from MS research involving psilocybin strains like Golden Teachers and Blue Meanies.
  

Episode Highlights:

• 01:25 – Why psychedelics are becoming the “new avocado toast” and why integration matters more than the trend.
• 04:50 – Amber’s journey from massage therapy to creating the Amber Helgeson Method.
• 08:15 – How the body “keeps score” and stores emotional trauma at the cellular level.
• 14:05 – Psilocybin’s ability to reactivate dormant neural pathways and shift fight-or-flight patterns.
• 20:40 – Introducing Tepezcohite: history, preparation, and ceremonial use.
• 27:10 – The synergistic healing power of combining psilocybin with Tepezcohite.
• 33:00 – Why pre- and post-ceremony integration shape long-term outcomes.
• 38:25 – Valerie Langhoff’s powerful story of transformation through ayahuasca, bufo, and mushrooms.

Meet the Guest:

Amber Helgeson is a somatic psychedelic integration coach, medicine woman, and shamanic practitioner with over seven years of plant medicine facilitation experience. Drawing from studies with Lakota, Navajo, Cree, and Apache traditions, she created the Amber Helgeson Method, a body-centered approach to psychedelic integration that bridges ancient wisdom and modern science.

Tools, Frameworks, and Strategies Mentioned:

• Amber Helgeson Method – Somatic Psychedelic Coaching Model

• Sacred Rage Release – Structured emotional expression

• Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) integrated with shamanic practices

• Somatic Emotional Scales for trauma release

• Embodied Feminine Program for women’s multidimensional self-connection
  

Closing Insight:

“Plant medicine is just a tool; the real work happens before and after the ceremony.” – Amber Helgeson

When we integrate the lessons of psilocybin, Tepezcohite, and other sacred medicines into daily life, we step into our fullest humanity, connected, grounded, and free.

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While Mark & Michele take time to deepen their own work in the Brazilian rainforest, we're bringing you some of our most beloved conversations from the vault.

This week, we revisit an unforgettable episode with Durga Magnetta, a plant medicine integration coach and intuitive healer, who offers rare insight into what really matters after the ceremony. If you've experienced entheogens like ayahuasca, iboga, or psilocybin, and you're still asking “What now?”,  this is the conversation you didn’t know you needed.

What You’ll Learn:

• Why integration is more important than the medicine itself

• How to work with your body’s energy and cellular memory for deep trauma release

• The difference between healing from your lineage (DNA) and from your soul (karmic path)

• How to set meaningful intentions, even if you don’t know where to begin

• Why intuitive readings are about empowerment, not prediction
  

This episode reflects the core concepts of lived experience as medical knowledge, embodied healing, and trauma integration beyond talk therapy, all rooted in survivor-led frameworks and energy-first healing paradigms.

Episode Highlights:

• 01:03 – Why integration is more important than the medicine itself
• 04:25 – What to do if you don’t remember parts of your journey
• 07:10 – How to set meaningful intentions, even if you feel uncertain
• 11:32 – The difference between trauma in your DNA and soul-level pain
• 15:06 – How plant medicine “cleanses” the nervous system and gut
• 18:44 – What energy healing really means (and how it clears stored trauma)
• 22:01 – The role of inner child work and past life memory in healing
• 24:40 – Why intuitive readings are about validation, not prediction

👤 Meet the Guest

Durga Magnetta is a psychedelic integration coach, intuitive reader, and energy healer who helps individuals bridge mystical insight with daily embodiment. She specializes in trauma recovery using energy movement, intuitive downloads, and post-ceremony support.

Her work centers on empowerment through presence, energy as evidence, and healing beyond the clinical model. Learn more at Free to Be Authentic.

Tools, Frameworks, or Strategies Mentioned:

• Cellular Trauma Mapping

• Karmic Integration through Conscious Witnessing

• DNA vs. Soul Lineage Healing Model

• Conscious Intention Framework for plant medicine

• Intuitive Empowerment Readings
  

Closing Insight:

“Integration is where you turn transformation into truth. It’s not just about what you saw, it’s how you live it.” – Durga Magnetta

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While Mark and Michele are deep in sabbatical retreat in the Brazilian rainforest, we're revisiting some of our most-loved conversations from the archives.

And this one is legendary!

In this featured favorite episode of Medicine With the Medals, renowned ethnopharmacologist Dennis McKenna shares the origin story of his psychedelic path, the accidental mushroom awakening that reshaped his worldview, and his take on the future of plant medicine.

This conversation bridges the scientific, the spiritual, and the deeply personal, offering a masterclass in sacred medicine, integration, and inner ecology.

Whether you're plant-curious or walking the ceremonial path, this episode is your compass.

What You’ll Learn:

• Why psilocybin was the real “teacher” that emerged from a failed search for the Amazonian ukuhe

• How set and setting shapes the healing of psychedelics, and why “the set is you”

• The key differences between ayahuasca, iboga, psilocybin, and 5-MeO-DMT

• A cautious but grounded approach to microdosing for anxiety, energy, and integration

• How psychedelics act as perceptual instruments, revealing sacred geometry and nature’s hidden design
  

Episode Highlights:

• 04:08 – LSD, Berkeley, and the myth of Dennis’s first trip with Terrence
• 13:22 – Discovering mushrooms instead of ukuhe at La Chorrera: an origin myth retold
• 23:47 – The “mushroom agenda” and how they became the real teachers
• 31:10 – Microdosing vs. pharmaceuticals: Dennis weighs the mental health potential
• 41:29 – Comparing psychedelic medicines: iboga for addiction, ayahuasca for the heart, and 5-MeO for ego
• 50:02 – Why sacred geometry appears in altered states, and what it tells us about perception
• 58:14 – Shared psychedelic visions, ancestral lineages, and mentoring the next generation
• 01:06:00 – Dennis reflects on ritual, ceremony, and respecting Indigenous medicine while walking your own path

👤 Meet the Guest

Dennis McKenna is an ethnopharmacologist, co-founder of the McKenna Academy, and one of the world’s most respected voices in entheogenic science and Indigenous plant medicine research.

Tools, Frameworks, or Concepts Mentioned:

• Psychoecology: Understanding how mind and environment co-create perception

• Default Mode Network (DMN): How psychedelics disrupt mental conditioning

• Neural Gating: The brain’s mechanism for filtering sensory overload

• LDO Integration Loop (implied): Awareness → Surrender → Meaning-making → Action
  

Closing Insight:

“Psychedelics are tools we can use to become better lovers of ourselves, others, nature, and reality.” – Dennis McKenna

This timeless episode reminds us that plant medicine is more than a trend; it's a path of remembering, reconnection, and responsibility. Whether you’re listening from ceremony, city, or solitude, may this wisdom meet you where you are.

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What if cancer wasn’t a punishment, but an invitation to transformation?

In this deeply personal and paradigm-shifting episode, cancer survivor and Healing Cancer Journeys founder Dan Callahan opens up about his 21-year battle with multiple cancers and how psychedelic medicines helped him confront fear, reduce suffering, and find meaning in the face of mortality.

Dan’s story isn’t just about surviving cancer; it's about learning to live with it. Through therapeutic psilocybin journeys, guided breathwork, and a return to childlike curiosity, Dan reshaped his relationship with illness, death, and healing itself.

This episode breaks open the triple stigma surrounding cancer, psychedelics, and mortality while offering hope, community, and a new framework for integrative healing.

What You’ll Learn:

• Why psychedelic medicine can transform how cancer patients process trauma, fear, and grief

• How microdosing psilocybin + breathwork became part of Dan’s emotional recovery protocol

• A new perspective on “talking to cancer” during a guided therapeutic journey

• How Healing Cancer Journeys is building digital community and storytelling platforms for survivors

• The practical and legal challenges of accessing psychedelic care for cancer patients
  

Episode Highlights:

• 03:01 – Dan shares his dual diagnosis: testicular and thyroid cancer
• 08:19 – “Cancer doesn’t say a damn thing.” A guided psilocybin journey reveals radical acceptance
• 13:42 – Why psychedelic healing often starts with suffering and breaks you open
• 17:50 – Microdosing + breathwork as a therapeutic tool, not a daily ritual
• 24:26 – Addressing the “triple stigma”: cancer, death, and psychedelics
• 30:45 – The birth of Healing Cancer Journeys and the StoryCorps-inspired Voices initiative
• 36:13 – Legal gray zones, affordability, and barriers to psychedelic access
• 39:40 – What dying can teach us about living well with or without cancer

👤 Meet the Guest:

Dan Callahan is a two-time cancer survivor and founder of Healing Cancer Journeys, a nonprofit building community and education for people exploring psychedelic medicine as part of their cancer journey. He is an advocate for de-stigmatizing both psychedelics and mortality in public discourse.

Tools, Frameworks & Strategies:

• Therapeutic Psilocybin Journeys – High-dose, guided sessions for confronting trauma

• Microdosing + Breathwork Protocol – Low-dose psilocybin paired with intense breathwork

• Healing Cancer Voices – A StoryCorps-style project for cancer patients using psychedelics

• Digital Community Outreach – Leveraging Instagram, TikTok, and podcasting to reduce stigma
  

Closing Insight:

“Cancer doesn’t have to be cosmic punishment. Sometimes, it’s just random. And sometimes, that randomness is your path to meaning.”

Dan’s story is a courageous testament to the power of vulnerability, storytelling, and non-traditional healing. If you or someone you love is exploring psychedelics on a cancer journey, let this episode be a signpost: you are not alone.

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What if the root of your trauma isn’t just emotional but parasitic?

In this extraordinary episode, plant medicine facilitator Jules Rivers (aka Julio Rivera) reveals how he blends high-dose psilocybin therapy with spiritual parasite extraction to catalyze breakthroughs in trauma release, addiction recovery, and identity transformation. His method, SHAPE (Spiritual Healing by Astral Parasite Extraction), invites a bold new paradigm in the healing arts, one that bridges neuroscience, epigenetics, and the metaphysics of consciousness.

Whether you're exploring psychedelic medicine for the first time or guiding others through non-ordinary states of consciousness, this conversation will challenge your assumptions and expand your healing vocabulary.

What You’ll Learn:

• The hidden role of “astral parasites” in chronic trauma loops and emotional relapse

• Why high-dose psilocybin sessions may reach deeper than ayahuasca for some types of healing

• How to differentiate between trauma-based identity and true self

• A new model of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy built around energetic extraction

• Why SHAPE attracts CEOs, clinicians, and spiritual seekers seeking permanent breakthroughs

Episode Highlights:

• 04:15 – The double life of a bank executive and underground healer

• 09:02 – The moment that led Jules to drink ayahuasca for the first time

• 14:37 – What SHAPE really is and why mushrooms revealed what ayahuasca couldn’t

• 21:50 – “Astral parasites”: a new paradigm for trauma-based identity

• 28:04 – How deep healing requires voluntary ego death and entity separation

• 36:40 – SHAPE retreat protocols: why consecutive heroic doses are essential

• 44:00 – The neuroscience behind ego dissolution and default mode deactivation

• 51:12 – When integration becomes transformation and the truth behind relapse

Meet the Guest:

Jules Rivers, a retired banking executive turned entheogenic healer, is the founder of SHAPE (Spiritual Healing by Astral Parasite Extraction). With over 27 years of experience in plant medicine, he’s facilitated thousands of ayahuasca ceremonies and now guides high-dose psilocybin retreats in Jamaica designed for deep trauma release and multidimensional healing.

Tools, Frameworks, or Strategies Mentioned

• SHAPE: Spiritual Healing by Astral Parasite Extraction

• Heroic Dose Protocol: 4-day consecutive high-dose psilocybin journeys (7–12g)

• Lemon Tek Method: Enhanced psilocybin absorption and onset acceleration

• Quantum Model of the Psyche: Multiplicity-based inner architecture

• Egregore Theory & Jungian Shadow Integration: Spiritual and psychological entity work
  

Closing Insight:

“Your entity is not your identity. True healing begins when you learn to separate the two.”

If you’ve tried everything and still feel stuck in a trauma loop, this episode offers a radically new path forward. Tap into the transformative power of psilocybin, entity extraction, and integrative soul work.

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What happens when a Silicon Valley-raised anthropologist gives his life back to spirit and becomes the first Western-trained Amazonian shaman?

In this transformative episode of Medicine With the Medals, Maestro Hamilton Souther shares his path from modern disillusionment to sacred mastery. We explore the intersection of plant medicine, digital sovereignty, and the psychedelic renaissance while unpacking frameworks that support safe, integrative, and culturally respectful psychedelic practice.

What You’ll Learn:

• Why integration is more important than the ceremony itself

• The true nature of Amazonian apprenticeship and how it builds spiritual and psychological resilience

• How Gaia Labs bridges Web3 infrastructure with sacred economies

• Why Blue Morpho Academy trains facilitators in ethical psychedelic practices

• How to create safe containers for plant medicine without relying solely on clinical systems

Episode Highlights:

• 02:12 – Hamilton's spiritual turning point: giving his life back to spirit
• 06:08 – What it takes to become a traditional Amazonian maestro
• 09:40 – When your family joins the medicine path with you
• 12:36 – What is Gaia Labs? Bridging Web3 and consciousness work
• 16:11 – Why starting a psychedelic business is still a radical act
• 20:04 – Inside Blue Morpho Academy: Foundations and facilitator pathways
• 24:39 – Cannabis as a misunderstood ancient visionary medicine
• 28:45 – Integration: the real work of healing begins after the ceremony

Meet the Guest:

Maestro Hamilton Souther is a master shaman, founder of Blue Morpho Retreats and Blue Morpho Academy, and co-founder of Gaia Labs. He is among the first Westerners to be fully trained and initiated into Amazonian plant medicine lineages.

Tools, Frameworks, and Concepts Mentioned:

• Blue Morpho Academy – Online training in plant medicine facilitation

• Sacred Container Design – Practices for safe solo or group psychedelic work

• Gaia Labs – Web3 venture linking blockchain with spiritual technology

• Ethical Psychedelic Facilitation – Value-based model inspired by indigenous rites

• Psychedelic Neurointegration – How integration supports long-term brain healing
  

Closing Insight:

"The time on the mat is only a few hours, it's the integration that shapes the rest of your life." — Maestro Hamilton Souther

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What if your next breakthrough in mental health came not from a lab, but from the forest floor?

In this powerful episode of Medicine With the Medals, hosts Michele and Mark Medal sit down with mushroom cultivation expert Adrian to explore the healing intelligence of psychedelic and functional fungi.

From the legendary Golden Teacher to high-performance cordyceps, Adrian breaks down the science, spirit, and semantics of mushroom medicine.

Whether you're microdosing for mental clarity or navigating a deep journey, this episode reframes fungi as frequency medicine—bridging ancient mycology and modern neurobiology.

What You'll Learn:

• Why Golden Teacher remains the “OG” mushroom for healing and introspection

• How alkaloid synergy may be more important than psilocybin percentage

• The truth about strain potency vs. dosage in microdosing protocols

• How functional mushrooms like lion’s mane and cordyceps impact brain health and athletic performance

• Why mushroom medicine is about recalibration, not recreation

Chapters & Timestamps:

04:11 – Adrian’s origin story: from tech entrepreneur to ethical mycologist
11:02 – What makes mushroom growing closer to science than farming
14:45 – Golden Teacher as the archetypal psychedelic strain
21:20 – Are alkaloids the missing link in mental health medicine?
28:55 – Comparing Mamados’ four new strains: GT, Bluey Vuitton, Mechilogorilla, Albino Penis Envy
36:07 – The vibrational frequency theory of mushroom healing
41:33 – Functional fungi decoded: lion’s mane, cordyceps, chaga, and reishi
48:10 – Why sourcing, testing, and trust matter in the mushroom supply chain

About the Guest:

Adrian is a mushroom cultivator with 12+ years of experience in cannabis and mycology. Based in Los Angeles, he specializes in both psychedelic and functional mushrooms—partnering with researchers and growers to uncover the healing potential of fungi.

Tools, Frameworks & Strategies Mentioned:

• “Alkaloid Synergy”: the idea that multiple compounds—not just psilocybin—create therapeutic effects

• The Three Pillars of Use: medicinal, recreational, and mental/spiritual healing

• Resonance-Based Healing: a perspective that treats alkaloids as vibrational agents of recalibration

Closing Insight:

“You are your own guru. These medicines just help you see what's already inside.” — Michele Medal

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