This week, we are welcoming Lauren Taus to the table! Lauren is a beautiful heart-centered clinical psychotherapist. She works with ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Her wide range of experiences as a therapist, psychedelic practitioner, yoga teacher, and meditation guide provides her clients with a powerful healing experience. Lauren provided us with beautiful perspectives and teachings, such as "interrupting the default allows for a new mind." Listen for:

• Lauren’s journey with psychedelics and how she came into her work as a psychedelic-assisted psychotherapist
• Why life is psychedelic without psychedelics
• The limitations of traditional talk therapy
• What is ketamine and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy?
• How psychedelics allow for a new way of thinking and resetting generational beliefs that proceed our lifetime
• The dark side of ketamine: abuse, addiction, and k-holes
• How Lauren introduced her father into the world of psychedelics, who is also a medical doctor
• Lauren’s unique approach to working with her clients
• How trauma gets stored in our bodies and how psychedelic may help release it
• The common thread that connects psychedelics, therapy, yoga, and other healing modalities
• Lauren’s take on integration
• Detachment, healthy completions, and letting things go in a healthy way
• How to approach working with psychedelics with reverence

Mentioned in the episode:

• MAPS MDMA training in Israel
• MAPS Phase 3 trials with MDMA
• Trauma Institute
• Rick Doblin
• Adele Lafrance
• Carl Rogers

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Welcome back! Today we are talking about microdosing! This is a very popular topic and method of consuming psychedelics. In fact, microdosing a gentle entry into the world of psychedelics for many. Hit play to hear about our experience with microdosing in this short and sweet micro-episode! We chatted about: 

• What is a microdose?
• What is a microdosing protocol?
• Who typically microdoses?
• How microdosing “lifted the veil” of depression
• Our personal experiences
• Productivity in relation to microdosing
• Precautions for microdosing / the dark side of microdosing
• Microdosing as a spiritual bypass
• Microdosing while working with other medicines
• Microdosing as an integration tool
• How to use these medicines intuitively

Mentioned in the episode:

• The Psychedelic Explorers Guide by James Fadiman [book]
• Fadiman protocol
• Stamets Stack
• Is microdosing a placebo? [article]
• You Are the Placebo by Dr. Joe Dispenza [book]

More Microdosing Episodes on Modern Psychedelics:

• 052 | Busting Microdosing Myths & Overcoming Your Fears 
• 050 | Microdosing LSD: Finding FLOW During a Full Season of Life w/ Jenalle & Lana
• 046 | Microdosing Psychedelics & Empowering Citizen Science w/ Dr. Jim Fadiman & Adam Bramlage
• 038 | Paul Austin on Microdosing Psychedelics 201 & Psychedelic Integration Coaching

Learn more about microdosing:

• The Third Wave's Ultimate Guide to Microdosing
• A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life by  Ayelet Waldma [book]
• The Science of Microdosing Psychedelics by Torsten Passie  [book]
• Microdosing Psychedelics by Paul Austin [book]

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Tricia is a remarkable woman with a powerful story of personal healing. She is a trained Iboga Provider who has been initiated by the Bwiti in Gabon, Africa. Iboga is a sacred and ancient medicine that grows indigenous only in Gabon. This episode is packed with information about this medicine, ancestral healing, and working with sacred medicines in a Western setting. 

• Tricia’s journey becoming a facilitator of Iboga
• The process of getting initiated by the Bwiti
• What an Iboga ceremony experience is like
• The ancient traditions and rituals in the Bwiti
• How Bwiti view the Western world and illness
• Sustainability and black market issues around Iboga
• Ancestral healing with Iboga

Mentioned in the episode:

• Psychedelic Journeys
• Blessings of the Forest [donate]
• Ancestral Heart

Where to find Tricia:

• Psychedelic Journeys
• Psychedelica Season 2 on Gaia
• @psychedelicjourneys
• Ancestral Heart

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Welcome, Steve Rio! Steve is such an impressive human being: a social impact entrepreneur, transformational guide, and musician. Steve has focused his life's work on helping people realize their full potential and raise consciousness. In this episode, we explore the toad medicine (aka 5-MeO-DMT), where the psychedelic industry is heading, and profound ego-death experiences. Tune in for: 

• Steve’s journey with psychedelics, consciousness, and opening a psychedelic retreat center
• What is 5-MeO-DMT/toad medicine?
• Ethical issues around toad medicine
• Synthetic vs. organic psychedelics
• The unique rituals and protocols at Enfold Institute retreats
• The type of people commonly called to Steve’s retreats
• Steve’s first experience with 5-MeO-DMT and how that lead to the development of their protocol at Enfold Institute
• How Steve and his wife came to curate their retreat approach at Enfold Institute
• Ego death and “dying before you die”
• Advocating for bringing psychedelics to the market with reverence as they become mainstream

Mentioned in the episode:

• My Full Review of Enfold Institute 
• Check out episode 79 for my trip report at Enfold
• And my second interview with Steve in 2024
• An Urgent Plea to Users of Psychedelics: Let’s consider a more ethical menu of plants and compounds (Article)
• Hamilton’s Pharmacopia
• Consciousness Medicine (book)
• Stan Grof's work (books) [1, 2, 3, 4]

Where to find Steve:

• Enfold Institute 
• Nature of Work 
• @steverio
• @enfoldinstitute
• @natureofwork.co

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Today Lana and Zoey are sharing all about how they integrate ayahuasca ceremonies. They take you through their entire process from preparing for the ceremony to integrating all the teachings and blessings. They give you some powerful tips for making the most out of each experience.

In this episode we talk about:

• The process of preparing for an ayahuasca ceremony and the Dieta
• Anchoring the day with a morning and evening routine
• Hape as an integration tool
• Microdosing psilocybin as an integration tool and being initiative about microdosing
• The role of listening to music during integration
• Integrating new diet choices after messages received during a ceremony
• Staying in contact with your medicine tribe
• Therapy and coaching as a support
• Listening to yourself and following your intuition while walking this path
• Building trust with the Universe
• How our boundaries have changed since we started working with the plants

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Welcome, Courtney Barnes from Barnes Caplan LLP to the podcast! Courtney is a passionate criminal justice and drug policy reform advocate. Courtney serves as State Policy Advisor for Decriminalize Nature, and has extensive experience drafting and helping to implement state and local policy change relating to the regulation of cannabis and the decriminalization of psychedelics.

In this episode we talk about:

• Courtneys impressive accomplishments in the space of cannabis and psychedelic advocacy
• Mistakes that happened with Cannabis and how cannabis is paving the way for psychedelics
• The primary issues that are most important for creating a future regulatory environment for psychedelics
• Equitable access and equitable opportunity
• Legalization vs. Decriminalization
• Importance of public knowledge and acceptance for the movement for psychedelics
• Why both the clinical therapeutic model and community access models will be beneficial upon legalization
• How Courtney got involved in decriminalization
• De-stigmatization around mental health with psychedelics
• The legality around microdosing and how to know if it’s legal in your country
• Legal hurdles for psychedelics
• Why Courtney continues to fight for the legalization of psychedelics
• How you can get involved in policy reform

Mentioned in the episode:

• Barnes Caplan LLP
• Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
• Decriminalize Nature
• Oakland Community Healing Initiative
• Heroic Hearts Project

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Welcome, Shelby and Madison from DoubleBlind Magazine to the podcast! Shelby and Madison are the co-founders of DoubleBlind - a print magazine, digital media outlet, and education platform at the forefront of the rapidly growing psychedelic movement!

In this episode we talk about:

• How DoubleBlind Magazine came to be
• How Shelby and Madison discover untold stories in psychedelics
• Sacred reciprocity and the DoubleBlind community
• Shelby and Madison’s journeys with psychedelics and their medicine of choice
• How psychedelics have aided Shelby and Madison’s healing
• Drinking Ayahuasca in Peru versus the United States
• The therapeutic use of MDMA
• How to “come out of the psychedelic closet”
• Some “out there” psychedelics and “deep-state psychonauts”
• Caution against positioning psychedelics as a panacea

Mentioned in the episode:

• DoubleBlind Magazine
• ICEERS: Non-profit Organization
• DoubleBlind Mag Issue 2
• DoubleBlind Mag Issue 4
• DoubleBlind Mag: Issue 5 (Coming out June 2021)
• DoubleBlind Courses
• Temple of the Way of Light - Ayahuasca Retreat Centre
• The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby (Book)
• The Ayahuasca Visions of Pablo Amaringo (Book)
• Pablo Amaringo Prints
• Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
• Thank You Plant Medicine
• Psychedelic Communities
• Zoeys Sananga YouTube Video

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Today's episode is a very special story time. On Lana's 30th birthday, we took a journey with the Sacred mushroom that we will NEVER forget. In spirituality, people often say "we're all just walking each other home," and in this episode, we tell the story of how Zoey was guided back home to her star family.

Psychedelics can open us up to higher realms of consciousness. Many, many, many people have experiences with higher-dimensional beings under psychedelics. We wanted to share this experience with you all because it was truly awakening in so many beautiful ways. We are always surrounded by a loving universe around us, including other entities from other places. We have learned that there is nothing to fear when it comes to one's personal awakening - whatever that may look like.

If you are into aliens, higher dimensions, and astral travel, you will love this episode. Press play, starseed!

In this episode we talk about:

• Lana’s journey of coming to a place of forgiveness and unconditional love for an ex
• How Zoey transformed Lana’s painful energy
• Co-healing the wounds from past relationships
• Portals to other dimensions opening
• Pleiadians making contact with Zoey
• Zoey’s experience leaving her body to astral travel to the Pleiades
• Who are the Pleiadians?
• Zoey’s lifelong struggle with being a human being on Earth
• The conditions that were divinely orchestrated in order for Zoey to astral travel
• The journey of coming back to Earth/3D awareness
• A glimpse into what life has been like since this life-altering experience

Mentioned in the episode:

• The water cleansing song
• The Master Cleanse
• Zoeys Master cleanse videos [1, 2, 3]
• Zoey’s Pleiadian and Starseed videos [1, 2]
• The chanting song
• Beauty in the Breakdown
• Sananga eye drops
• Pleiadian entities

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Welcome, Manesh Girn - AKA The Psychedelic Scientist - to the podcast! Manesh is doing his Ph.D in Neuroscience with a focus on the Default Mode Network and Psychedelics! If you are ready to expand your understanding of psychedelic neuroscience, go ahead and press play. In this episode, we talk about:

• Manesh’s work with Robin Carhart-Harris
• The Default Mode Network and Neuroplasticity
• Ego dissolution and mystical experiences
• The lack of research in microdosing psychedelics
• The similarities and differences between the four classic psychedelics
• Expectation effects around psychedelic experiences
• The complicated neuropharmacology of Iboga
• Why Iboga and other psychedelics are so effective for treating addiction
• How to measure mystical experiences in research
• “Second-generation psychedelics” without the trip
• The call for philosophical openness in science
• Newtonian versus Quantum views on consciousness
• Personality changes from psychedelic use

Mentioned in the episode:

• Manesh’s YouTube channel
• Manesh’s video on Default Mode Network
• Research on meditation reducing activity in the Default Mode Network
• Johns Hopkins mystical experience study
• “Psychedelics without the trip” - Manesh’s video on second-generation psychedelics + the studies
• Psychedelics as psychoplastogens study
• Mystical Experiences Questionnaire
• Matthew Johnson’s research on the nature of consciousness and the “hard problem:” of consciousness [1, 2]
• Manesh’s research on psychedelics and creativity
• Manesh’s research on Expanding the Scientific Study of Self-Experience with Psychedelics
• Manesh’s research on LSD flattens the functional hierarchy of the human brain

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Join us in welcoming our first guest to the podcast, Carlos Duran. Carlos is a co-founder of Four Visions Market, an online marketplace that connects the Western path-walker with the Amazonian tools their path requires. Join us for this inspiring heart-centered interview.

In this episode we talk about:

• The story of Four Visions Market and their mission
• Carlos’ work with Magic Fund Amazon and cultural reciprocity
• Carlos’ personal story of profound transformation
• The role of plant teachers along Carlos’ path
• Embracing all the tools that the divine creator left for us
• Tips for how you can connect and work with plant medicines
• Working with plant medicines from the heart (not the mind)
• Why Carlos believes cultural appropriation doesn't exist with plant medicine
• Why we will never lose the sacredness of plant medicines

Mentioned in the episode:

• Four Visions Market
• Magic Fund Amazon
• Taita Juanito Chindoy
• Rythmia Life Advancement Center
• Sananga Eye Drops
• Hapé or Rapé sacred tobacco medicine
• Hopi prophecy
• Finca Ambiwasi center

Where to find Carlos:

• Four Visions Market Website
• Magic Fund Amazon Website
• @fourvisionsmarket
• Finca Ambiwasi

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