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Acacea Lewis has traveled beyond deep into the spiritual and healing realms of the sacred mushroom Teonanacoatl, or psilocybin. Not only that, she has a brilliant mind and the verbal chops to communicate her knowledge and insights clearly and eloquently.

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G. William Barnard is a brilliant expositor of the Santo Daime path of awakening with the holy ayahuasca sacrament, or as they call it, the "Daime." Professor Barnard has had many deep spiritual journeys with the Daime, encountering powerful Spirit beings in the Astral, and working through his own shadow material. Not only is he wise and insightful, he's a beautiful and clear-eyed writer. And if that wasn't enough, he exudes the warmth, kindness, and joy that one would hope for from advanced spiritual warriors.

Please learn from, enjoy, and share this interview for the benefit of all beings at this unprecedented historical moment of great upheaval, great change, and great possibility for the birth of the new human and a mature planetary civilization.

NB: Professor Barnard will also be one of two dozen brilliant spokespeople on behalf of psychedelics and consciousness transformation at the iconic 12th Spirit Plant Medicine Conference, Nov. 3 to 5 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Info and tickets at: https://spiritplantmedicine.com where tickets are still 20% off. You can also use my personal discount code "savetheworld" for an additional 10% off the regular price.

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Seeing Through the Smoke by Peter Grinspoon MD is poised to be a game changer around cannabis. Dr. Grinspoon skillfully "untangles the truth about marijuana" with a balanced and thorough examination of the evidence around cannabis and psychosis, addiction, trauma, pregnancy, driving, cognition, adolescence, opioid withdrawal, cancer, sleep, autism, ADHD, PTSD, CBD, and more.

Cannabis has been badly mistreated and misunderstood for the past 90 years. Much of the public discourse and research is unfounded in reality or reliable evidence. This book sets the record straight.

Seeing Through the Smoke: A Cannabis Specialist Untangles the Truth About Marijuana is absolutely a must read for policy makers, researchers, health care providers (Get with the program doctors!), retailers, growers, and anyone who wants to know what this amazing plant can do - as well as those claims for which there's no reliable evidence (yet).

And in case that all sounds daunting, it ain't. The book is written in an accessible, user-friendly style often spiced with warmth and humor.

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Dr. Dominique Morisano, clinical psychologist and professor, shares important insights on how psychedelics can help with trauma, addiction, depression, and other conditions. Dr. Morisano's experience is deep and wide. She is knowledgeable about several psychedelics and has much experience using ketamine in her therapy practice.

Other topics we covered were:

• How ketamine leans more toward the positive than some other psychedelics and can help with addictions, including cigarette addiction

• cannabis dependency and ketamine for that dependency

• pros and cons of MDMA in therapeutic work

• problems with long-term use of anti-depressant pharmaceuticals like SSRIs

• the necessity of follow-up care after medicine sessions (integration)

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Flavio Santi is a rare wisdom carrier with essential messages for the world. He holds an ancient lineage of Ecuadorian healers working with plant medicines. In my experience, Flavio's knowledge of how to heal with plants is deeper than anyone else I've encountered or heard about.

Flavio works with several master plants, especially ayahuasca, wayusa, and tobacco (nothing like industrial cigarette tobacco).

In this interview he talks about the connection between the plants, the land, and the Spirits, or as he sometimes says, the ancestors. As Flavio says in the interview, his grandfather charged him with the responsibility of telling the people of the "North" about this deep knowledge for the benefit of all humanity.

A central aspect of Flavio's work is the reclamation of their ancestral land in Ecuador to be protected for the generations to come. They're raising money to buy back 5000 acres of forest and to build a school—the Wayusa School— for children from around the world to learn these powerful traditional ways of healing and of protecting Mother Earth.

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Jessica Rochester is an incredible font of wisdom, insight, and knowledge on many aspects of healing and spiritual awakening. Her bona fides are impeccable. She is an ordained Inter-Faith Minister with a Doctorate in Divinity. She trained with the legendary Stanislav Grof and among her numerous responsibilities is the director and primary ceremony leader of Céu do Montréal, the ayahuasca-using Santo Daime church she founded in 1997. Dr. Rochester has written an all-but-exhaustive two-volume book that gathers her long decades of experience into a highly accessible and practical guidebook on just about everything anyone needs to know and consider on healing pathways. 

The book's title is: Ayahuasca Awakening: A Guide to Self-Discovery, Self-Mastery, and Self-Care. As implied by the subtitle and my comments above, the contents of the book extend far beyond discussions around ayahuasca. "Ayahuasca Awakening" actually refers mainly to the source of much of Dr. Rochesters's inspiration and understanding. She also has a delightfully positive and warm presence in this hour-long interview.

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Keith Lowenstein MD is an authentic wisdom carrier with a great deal of beneficially guidance to share. He has over 40 years of experience teaching and practicing Kriya yoga, and 35 years of clinical experience in integrative medicine, psychiatry, and nutrition.   

Perhaps even more important for our purposes here, he also has extensive experience in psychedelic healing modalities and has direct understanding of the potential of skillfully combining plant medicines with yoga and meditation. This is a challenging area of development that is certain to take an increasingly prominent role in healing and awakening work.  

Arguably the most important component of Keith's journey toward wisdom and working in these ways was his studies under legendary "crazy wisdom" cannabis guru and Kriya yoga master Sri Mahant Swami Ganesh Anand Giri Saraswati, more popularly known as Ganesh Baba. Keith was Ganesh Baba's last main student, working closely with him for 5 years. In fact it was Baba who directed Keith to become a doctor.  Keith is the author of "Kriya Yoga for Self-Discovery."

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Salvia divinorum has great potential as a gentle and kind yet direct healing medicine when used in carefully protected low-dose settings, preferably with a guide or at least a sitter. Christopher Solomon is a clear and articulate advocate—as well as a guide—for this misunderstood healer. 

Most people who have encountered Salvia in unstructured contexts, such as with the "extracts" like the 5X, 10X, 20X etc, want nothing further to do with its often bizarre and sometimes frightening effects. But Christopher understands that in low doses, Salvia is almost like a different medicine altogether. It relaxes and nurtures. It works in a somatic fashion—directly with the felt body rather than through cerebral insights. 

This unique member of the mint family has been badly misunderstood. When encountered with this knowledge in hand, Salvia divinorum has an important role to play in the healing and awakening journey.

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Daniel Pinchbeck is a controversial figure in the psychedelic "movement" and has openly admitted past mistakes of behavior. But he is undeniably one of our sharpest and most well-informed cultural observers—a passionate and visionary advocate for transformational change beyond sustainability to "regenerative societies" of universal well-being as we face increasing destabilization on multiple fronts.

Jeremy Narby​ is a cultural treasure with decades long experience as an anthropologist with plant medicines in their traditional settings in South America. He's the author of several important books, including the iconic The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge. In this interview, Jeremy shares eye-opening, and highly relevant, knowledge on ayahuasca that even the experienced among us often don't know, like concerns about commonly-used admixtures: the importance for us Westerners of seeking out yellow (sky)) ayahuasca over black ayahuasca; the dangers of sorcery and of power corruption among ayahuasqueros, how the common DMT-heavy brews emphasize tripping over healing; the Banisteriopsis vine itself without a DMT-containing plant as the master teacher, and much more.

The knowledge he shares on tobacco is almost more remarkable. This plant is badly misunderstood and misused, especially in the commercial tobacco industry. The Asháninka people of South America say tobacco is the number one plant teacher. It is used as a diagnostic tool and has multiple healing properties. The "real" tobaccos (up to 20 times more nicotine than industrial tobacco) are powerful and can be dangerous. This sacred medicine needs a proper hearing and Jeremy is perfectly positioned to help provide it.