The Psychedelic Leadership Podcast

This is the final interview I'll be publishing under "the Psychedelic Leadership Podcast" featuring an in-depth conversation about psychedelic integration with Author of Psychedelic Integration: Psychotherapy for Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness, Marc Aixala.

Learn more about Marc Aixala and access the full transcript here.

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Apply Psychedelic Neuroscience to Optimize Integration & Personal Development with Manesh Girn - 68

How can we learn to leverage our understanding of psychedelic neuroscience to optimize integration so that we can more effectively support ourselves and others on the path of personal transformation?

This is the central question of today's episode featuring psychedelic neuroscientist, Dr. Manesh Girn.

Manesh Girn is also a guest teacher for TRANSILIENCE where he will dive much deeper into the topics we explored here today.

In this episode:

• Neural plasticity & self directed adaptive neural plasticity. 
• 3 Reasons it’s important to understanding the neuroscience of psychedelics. 
• And how we apply those 3 reason to inform optimal integration. 
• The effect that psychedelics have on the 5HT2A
• Critical periods, and the specific critical period that psychedelics help to open. 
• Metaphor and meaning making. 
• Why transformation is a slow and steady process, and why that’s actually a good thing
• Manesh's perspective on how mental health issues originate as nervous system dis-regulation
• Discomfort as part of the transformation equation.
• The power of stress and how stress can be highly adaptive. 

Access full transcript and learn more about Manesh Girn here.

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We live in a culture that holds the “Light” as superior to the Dark. 

In spiritual and medicine communities there’s a strong underlying narrative to move towards “enlightenment” but what is the impact it’s having on our health and wellbeing? 

Does the darkness hold the key to help us collectively move back into balance within ourselves? 

In this episode, Debohrah Eden Tull , the author of Luminous Darkness An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown, joins Laura Dawn to explore the medicine inherent in darkness and just how crucial this medicine is for us at a time of accelerating change and transition. 

Eden is a Zen meditation/mindfulness teacher, spiritual activist and sustainability educator. She has been practicing meditation for the past 30 years and teaching for over 20 years. She spent seven years as a monastic at a silent Zen Monastery, and has been immersed in sustainable communities for 25 years.

In this episode we explore:

• The concept of Endarkenment
• The 5 pillars of Endarkenment
• Life as a teacher of love
• Cultivating resilience through restoration
• The darkness as a source of creativity
• The Shadow & Spiritual bypassing
• Our incessant need to fill space with stories and narratives
• The inner compass of interoceptive awareness 
• The medicine of grief 
• The potency of anger
• Transmuting sacred rage
• The necessity for compassion
• Our connection to this earth and how Nature models and illuminates the wisdom of darkness. 

And so much more.

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In today's episode, I share the 7 core pillars of how I weave psychedelics into my creative process as a content creator, entrepreneur, and thought-leader.

This episode is the follow up to episode #62 from Ideation to Implementation Psychedelics and the 5 Phases of the Creative Process.

• The 7 core pillars of my creative process.
• Why creativity is inherent in the process of inner transformation, and why creativity and transformation are two sides to the same coin.
• The essence of what 25 years of journeying with psychedelics and sacred plant medicines has taught me.
• A definition of creativity
• Exploring psychedelics as both "inspirogens" and "ideagens" (and why the names we give psychedelics matter.)
• Monophonic vs. Polyphasic cultures.
• Why my philosophy of life and creativity are one and the same.
• Why thinking in frameworks is helpful.
• Understanding that navigating medicine space is a skillset that you can learn to cultivate.
• Two hidden assumptions that prevent optimized cognition.
• My perspective on Intention Setting.
• The science of imagination.
• What is an Idea Space?
• What defines our best ideas?

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The primary narrative paving the pathway for the emergence and acceptance of psychedelic compounds into Western society is the narrative surrounding Psychedelic Therapy; psychedelics as a clinical treatment for mental illness.

But what are the implications of viewing psychedelics through this lens? Laura Dawn speaks with Alexander Beiner about The Bigger Picture and not only the impact that lens has on our personal experience but on the culture at large.

Alexander Beiner is a journalist and author of the book: 'The Bigger Picture: How psychedelics can help us make sense of the world'.

In this episode of the Psychedelic Leadership Podcast we explore:

• The hidden and far-reaching implications of mainstreaming psychedelics through a “medicalized” and clinical lens within a capitalistic model. 
• Why “Psychedelic Therapy” is the dominant narrative and why we need to widen our frame. 
• What is "The Psychedelic Trojan Horse"? And why is flawed? 
• Power dynamics surrounding who makes decisions around psychedelics. 
• Why the names and labels we use to describe psychedelic compounds matter. 
• Why psychotomimetic might still be an appropriate word given our pathological cultural framework
• How do we avoid the mainstreaming of psychedelics becoming an elitist movement, the importance of access, and “the virtuals vs the physicals”.

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Over the course of 20 years, Chris Basche, PhD embarked on  73 high-dose LSD journeys where he experienced dimensions of reality beyond space and time.

Chris  received visions about the evolutionary trajectory of humanity and transcribed this wealth of teachings in his book "LSD and the mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven"

In this episode, Laura Dawn talks with Chris about the future of humanity and this pivotal time in human history.

Chris Basche was a professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University for 33 years. He is an award-winning teacher and international speaker, and his’ work explores the philosophical implications of non-ordinary states of consciousness, especially psychedelic states.

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The World Economic Forum named creativity the most important skill set for leaders of our time.

In this episode, weaving science with ceremony, Laura Dawn explores the broader question: Can psychedelics enhance our creative process?

There are many different definitions of creativity. In the broadest sense, we could say that creativity is the process of translating our ideas and inner visions into tangible reality.

Do you pay attention to how that process unfolds in your professional life? Could you articulate it? How do you come up with compelling ideas that have the potential to inspire change and then transmute them into reality? How do you evaluate them? How do you implement them?

In this episode of the Psychedelic Leadership Podcast, we explore:

1. 5-phase framework for the creative process
2. The different modes of cognition or mental states that underlie the various phases. Creative cognition is not a single state of mind; it is multiple states of mind. 
3. How psychedelics might help enhance specific phases of the process, and how we might want to integrate them (safely and responsibly) into the larger arc of bringing our ideas to life.
4. How different phases of the creative process benefit from leveraging different kinds of creative thinking skills. 
5. Suggestions for how to apply this in your life.

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Welcome to Season 3 of the Psychedelic Leadership Podcast!

As we enter this new era of artificial intelligence, we are being called to level up, and upgrade our human cognition, step into the full expression of our innate intelligence, unlock a deeper sense of wisdom, and leverage the aspects that make us uniquely human. We can do this by expanding our capacity to vision, to perceive possibility, imagine and dream the impossible, and then make those visions a reality.

And I believe that my work at the forefront of psychedelics and creative cognition is more relevant than ever before. I genuinely feel compelled, inspired, and a deep sense of responsibility to share this knowledge with you, so that we can meet our growth edge together.

Because, from my perspective, sacred plant medicines and psychedelics are arguably the most powerful bio-technologies available to us, that we can learn to work with to support this kind of mind expansion and neural upgrade and teach us the crucial skillsets and mindsets to successfully navigate these times of accelerating change.

If you rely on your mind and your capacity to think in order to succeed professionally, whether you are an entrepreneur, content creator, coach, creative or thought leader...If you are interested in understanding the science and wisdom of how psychedelics and sacred plant medicines can help optimize your capacity to:

• Think more creatively
• Vision more clearly
• Strengthen your mental resilience,
• Stay more focused and hone your awareness and attention
• Make better decisions
• Learn more quickly
• Generate better ideas
• Ask better questions
• Manage stress, prevent burnout, and mitigate overwhelm.

This season of The Psychedelic Leadership is for you.

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Claudia Cuentas is a Peruvian marriage and family therapist, specializing in the treatment of healing trauma, trauma recovery, cultural identity, and decolonization of healing. 

In this episode, we explore the concepts of right relationship, sacred reciprocity and AYNI, a Quechua word that points to an embodied understanding of our symbiotic relationship with all of life, and how to meet life with balance, harmony, and equilibrium of exchange and mutuality. 

Right relationship, AYNI, and sacred reciprocity are powerful concepts that can be applied to all forms of leadership. 

In this episode with Claudia, we explore a range of topics, including: 

• The importance of slowing down enough so we can return to our senses
• How sacred plant medicines train our senses to tune into another dimension of reality we can’t perceive with our eyes, in order to perceive the multiverse. 
• The importance of listening as a daily practice.
• Nervous system regulation. 
• How sacred plant medicines help to clear our channels
• The power of forgiveness as a practice 
• Curiosity as a mindset
• The power of song as a modality of transmutation. 
• How plant medicines inform and influence the way we show up to lead. 
• Understanding what decolonizing the mind means, and exploring this topic through the lens of creativity. 

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