In this episode I discuss Psychedelics and Psychedelic Therapy with an Underground therapist. We talk about the benefits and challenges associated with this work and go into details of some of our own experiences with these plants and compounds.

Bradey sits down with Jane Puckey, to talk about helminth worms, autoimmunity and our evolutionary past and how these all can come together to help people today. They dive into our evolutionary history and how potentially vital keystone species such as Helminths might be missing from the modern world and what we might have lost along the way.

Janes Website:

https://www.biomeora.com/helminth

Helminth Wiki For Further Information on Helminth Therapy:

https://www.helminthictherapywiki.org/wiki/Helminthic_Therapy_Wiki

Also here is the video of Jane discussed in the podcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbT2EzMNphY

Todays guest is Dr. David Clarke an Author, Medical Doctor and Expert in stress based illnesses. Bradey and David discuss the connection between mind and body and trauma, how David got into this sort of work and what people should know about stress based conditions.

The instagram for the podcast where you can reach out with feedback or guest suggestions:

https://www.instagram.com/tryingtomakesensepodcast/

Podcast Email: [email protected]

Davids Book that introduced me to him:

https://open.spotify.com/show/3raq7dTHZ9P8ObKik4g4BA?si=d962467abe3946f5

Davids Website: https://www.symptomatic.me/

Davids Full Bio:

Dr. David Clarke is the President of the Association for Treatment of Neuroplastic Symptoms (ATNS), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to ending the chronic pain epidemic. Dr. Clarke holds an MD from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, and is Board-certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. His organization’s mission is to advance the awareness, diagnosis, and treatment of stress-related, brain-generated medical conditions. Learn more at Symptomatic.Me.

Bradey sits down with Dale, a good friend of his who overcame a serious gambling addiction. They discuss how something like this can develop and the difficult experiences and emotions that can arise when someone finds themselves stuck in these sorts of addictive behaviours. They also discuss addiction in general and what aspects of this are present in the gambling addiction.

Our Instagram for any guest suggestions, feedback or comments: https://www.instagram.com/tryingtomakesensepodcast/

Our email if you would prefer:[email protected]

Bradey Discusses the safety of bedsharing and its evolutionary history with Biological Anthropologist Dr. James Mckenna. The conversation starts with what Bradey learned from James book and then branches into other interesting areas relating to science generally and our place in the natural world.

Our Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/tryingtomakesensepodcast/

You can find more of Dr. Mckenna's work on his website here:

https://cosleeping.nd.edu/

His bookSafe Infant Sleep: Expert Answers to Your Cosleeping Questions can be found on amazon here:

https://www.amazon.com.au/Safe-Infant-Sleep-Cosleeping-Questions/dp/1930775768

Audiobook Link:

https://open.spotify.com/show/7cGKOnruNmjKHNLxx0wcym?si=7d5bd5eb782547c4

As always any comments, feedback or guest suggestions, you can email me here:

[email protected]

My first solo episode, giving some updates about the current and future direction of the podcast and discussing some other topics that have been on my mind of late.

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Igor is a great speaker and spiritual guide who has quite a large presence on youtube and runs retreats all over the world. Igor focuses on an embodied approach to spirituality and has a great wealth of knowledge on these topics, spanning across both eastern and western frameworks.

As always, if you have any comments, guest suggestions or feedback, send me an email at:

Below you can find links to the various places you can find Igor online:

Youtube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@FlowingWakefulness

Website & Retreat Information:

https://igorkufayev.org/

Bradey interviews Katherine about her past experiences conducting psilocybin research at Johns Hopkins, which was fairly close to ground zero of the psychedelic research resurgence. They touch on where Katherine's interests are now and discuss the ultimate value that the mystical experience can and does have, when the lessons and values that it reveals are integrated into a modern life. They finish the discussion with the immaturity modern culture has around death and dying and the connections this final journey has with the mystical states precipitated via psychedelics.

You can find more information on Katherine MacLean here:

Katherine's Website (Where you can find her book):

https://www.katherinemaclean.org/

Katherine's Fantastic Tedx Talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZljALxpt3iU

On todays episode Bradey has on guest Julian Palmer. I will let Julian introduce himself with an exerpt from his website, which you can find below. The conversation touches on a variety of topics ranging from psychedelic plants and their effects on humans, to some of the issues with modern world and the effect this can have on our well being if we do not find ways to resacralise our lives.

"Julian was born in country North East Victoria in Australia, where his father worked as an agricultural journalist and editor.

In his early 20’s, he explored many forms of spiritual inquiry, practiced purification of intent and worked in web design and multimedia for companies and freelance work.

After moving to the far north coast of NSW when he was 24, he quickly got seriously into psychedelics and since that time hasn’t really stopped exploring and learning about them and the states they could catalyze.

His book Articulations is his life work (at least to this point), and sums up about everything he wants to say about psychedelics. His next projects involve creating innovate film erotica and exploring indigenous psychoactive plants that are unknown to the western mind.

Julian has a podcast and in January 2023 released a 2 hour documentary called “Contemplations: On The Psychedelic Experience” "

Here is the link to Julians website where he has various interesting writings and where you can find out further information about him. https://julianpalmerism.com/

Bradey has Jas & Lucy on, to dive deeper and explore the topic of open relationships further, from the inside out.

Here is some of the evidence that Bradey discussed regarding the effect that was mentioned for children exposed to step/biologically unrelated adults/parents, there is plenty more research there, so if you would like some more sources feel free to reach out.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16263983/

"Results: We identified 149 inflicted-injury deaths in our population during the 8-year study period. Children residing in households with unrelated adults were nearly 50 times as likely to die of inflicted injuries than children residing with 2 biological parents (adjusted odds ratio: 47.6; 95% confidence interval: 10.4-218)"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0162309585900123