This is a conversation with Adrian Oberg. Adrian is one of the first professionals to go through a Canadian Health Approved training to become a psychedelic clinical counsellor. Adrian works as a harm reduction professional and integration specialist who has been holding space for transcendent experiences for the past 6 yrs. He is the director of Victoria Association of Psychedelic Studies as well as the Celium, a volunteer based harm reduction organization.

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Stephanie MacKay, founder of Fianna Wilderness School - https://fianna.ca/

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The following is a conversation with Deus Fortier. Deus is a plant medicine facilitator who leads workshops in Mexico and does other forms of transformational coaching in Vancouver, Canada. To find out more about him go to https://www.deusfortier.com/ or https://www.thesomaheart.com/

Show Notes:

(2:44) Example of establishing a container, a welcoming ritual

(9:51) Introducing Deus Fortier

(11:00) Long term growth. Value of preparation and integration

(13:05) Are Psychedelics for growth or healing?

Rak Razam on 5-MeO-DMT: https://youtu.be/0PtZ-58xZjQ

(18:40) Bufo and 5-MeO-DMT

(19:15) How to prepare for optimal psychedelic outcomes

Somatic Scan. https://www.mindfulnessmuse.com/mindfulness-exercises/increase-somatic-awareness-with-a-body-scan-mindfulness-exercise

Also an introduction to Somatic Work. Waking The Tiger: Healing Trauma, by Peter Levine and Ann Frederick - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/384924.Waking_the_Tiger

(27:00) Tips for solo psychedelic trips

(31:30) Devon Christie, of Numinus Wellness. Emphasis on somatic experiencing for psychedelic processes

(30:09) Spotlight of attention and addressing difficult sensations

(32:15) Science vs Spirituality

Observational Studies: https://www.iwh.on.ca/what-researchers-mean-by/observational-vs-experimental-studies#:~:text=Observational%20studies%20are%20ones%20where,two%20types%20of%20observational%20studies.

Initiative to collect data on psychedelic therapies

(35:44) Entourage effects. How psychedelics are both therapeutically potent as well as holistically powerful across "many dimensions of our beings simultaneously"

https://psychedelicreview.com/the-entourage-effect-in-magic-mushrooms/

(40:33) Psychedelics eliciting "Mystical Experiences" that participants rate as 1 of their top 3 life experiences, research by R. Griffiths of John Hopkins University

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press_releases/2006/griffithspsilocybin.pdf

(43:09) What should people avoid when going into a psychedelic experience? The importance of intentions

(48:20) The basic don'ts

(50:10) Examples of great psychedelic practitioners. The benefit of letting go, having support, and acknowledging whatever is true in the present moment

(56:05) The value of having a facilitator, and group vs solo settings

(1:01:19) The size of groups, 2:1 ratio of participants to facilitators

(1:03:13) Research showing group therapy and solo therapy may have equal healing outcomes

https://societyforpsychotherapy.org/individual-vs-group-psychotherapy/

(1:07:57) Role of Music in psychedelics

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The range of your sensory awareness, aka the Umwelt:

Medicine Songs, South American Icaros

(1:16:21) Modern medicine songs for Westerners

(1:18:00) Deus's Mentors:

(1:22:15) What personality traits or practices are encouraged across different self development frameworks? Somatic scans

David R. Hawkins: "Power Vs. Force" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19795.Power_vs_Force

"Letting Go: The Pathway To Surrender"

John Vervaeke's 52 part series free on YouTube called "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY

(1:27:15) Board game recommendations

(1:31:28) Imagination is one of the most important qualities we can cultivate

(1:38:10) Passive and active integration

(1:40:30) Radical accountability, honesty of practitioners

(1:45:20) Psychedelics as Jetpacks or Hiking

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The following is a conversation with Shine Edgar. Shine is a renowned didjeridu master, sound healer and plant medicine guide with 30+ years of experience. He is also worked as a nurse and trained as a permaculture designer.

(3:22) Western Australia Indigenous Group, Noongar https://tinyurl.com/yhk3bmhz

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Vancouver Psychedelic Meetup is pleased to bring you a talk by Blake Rupert.

Blake shares his insights at the intersection of psychedelics and Buddhism. He will explore how we might integrate practices, enhance our epistemic and ontological foundations, and deeply ground ourselves in the unyielding present. Blake will consider how this knowledge can allow us to alleviate suffering, discover our true freedom, and surf the uncertainty in our lives.

Blake is an accomplished mentor who combines a Buddhist practice with psychedelic insights and nature-based wisdom. He has a BA from Dalhousie where he doubled majored in psychology and philosophy, studying topics like consciousness and the feasibility of producing thinking machines.

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Today's guest Andras Lenart works in health policy in the BC government. He also helps support compassionate access to psychedelic medicine through his work with TheraPsil. https://www.linkedin.com/in/andras-lenart/?originalSubdomain=ca

The Psychedelic Society Online Meetup, on Feb 27th, 2021. Registration is free

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An Open Letter and Call to Action for MAPS Canada by Keeno Ahmed-Jones And Ava Daeipour

MAPS Canada - https://mapscanada.org/about/

What is Privilege, Really? - https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/fall-2018/what-is-white-privilege-really

Wheel of Power/Privilege - https://twitter.com/ontspecialneeds/status/1303065038882836488

What is White Fragility? - https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/white-fragility-definition

"The Brain That Changes Itself" Norman Doidge - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brain_that_Changes_Itself

NeuroPlasticity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELpfYCZa87g

MAPS MDMA Research - https://maps.org/research/mdma

Psychedelic Psychotherapy Forum - https://www.psychedelicpsychotherapy.ca

Women In Psychedelics MAPS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubkdgDQVLGI

What Happened to George Floyd? - https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-death-of-george-floyd-in-context

Luther Nails his 95 complaints to the Church's door - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-five_Theses

Criticisms of MAPS project to treat Police members' PTSD - https://www.psymposia.com/magazine/acab/

Psychedelics Promoting Prosocial Behaviours, as well as compassion - https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/can_a_psychedelic_experience_improve_your_life

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Work with Aga -

History of the Bufo alvarius Toad and Cultural use of 5-MeO-DMT -

What is 5-MeO-DMT? -

Who is doing the healing work?

Already Free, by Bruce Tift Registered Buddhist Counsellor - https://www.amazon.ca/Already-Free-Buddhism-Psychotherapy-Liberation/dp/1622034112/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

How we inherit our ancestor's experiences. Epigenetics -

The Science of How Our Minds and Our Bodies Converge in the Healing of Trauma. PTSD and how traumatic experiences can linger in the body -

The Importance of Supervision in Psychedelic Therapies - https://maps.org/news/bulletin/articles/429-maps-bulletin-spring-2018-vol-28-no-1/7260-clinical-supervision-in-mdma-therapy-training-spring-2018

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself, by Michael Alan Singer - https://untetheredsoul.com/

Thoughts Without A Thinker, by Mark Epstein. A great introduction for westerners to buddhism, by a Harvard educated psychiatrist and one of the first westerners to learn practice modern buddhism. Note, in Blake's opinion the first half of this book is the most important as a historical account of buddhism. Epstein's notions of neuroscience is dated and he tends to overestimate the importance of Freudian theory. I appreciated his history lessons, not his analysis of the why things are - https://www.amazon.ca/Thoughts-Without-Thinker-Psychotherapy-Perspective/dp/0465050948

Somatic Scan. https://www.mindfulnessmuse.com/mindfulness-exercises/increase-somatic-awareness-with-a-body-scan-mindfulness-exercise

Also an introduction to Somatic Work. Waking The Tiger: Healing Trauma, by Peter Levine and Ann Frederick - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/384924.Waking_the_Tiger

Integrating Transformational Experiences, Rick Doblin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwEmZW7H05g

Neuroplasticity and changing your patterns, https://medium.com/swlh/to-break-bad-habits-you-really-have-to-change-your-brain-the-neuroscience-of-change-da735de9afdf

Aga recommends "Consciousness Medicine", by Francois Bouzat

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This episode I speak with Manesh Girn, a PhD student in Neuroscience at McGill University and has been lead or co-author on over a dozen scientific publications and book chapters on topics including psychedelics, meditation, daydreaming, and the default-mode network.

We discuss what it's like to be a PhD student in Psychedelics, the role of buddhism in introducing him to "esoteric" or mystical experiences, the value of mentorship, and how to start a blog and learn in public about the topics you're passionate about!

Manesh is currently conducting research on the brain mechanisms underlying LSD, psilocybin, and DMT, in collaboration with Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris and others from the Imperial College London Center for Psychedelic Research. In his free time, he also runs the YouTube channel The Psychedelic Scientist, where he discusses the latest findings in psychedelic science in an easy to understand, but non-superficial, form. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCccafaIN6dwBwyl1cwNH90w

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