The riveting Rebecca Martinez in a conversation about her new book, Whole Medicine! In this episode you will hear about the natural world as central in the conversation about people, plant medicine, ethics and expanded states; Alma Institute; being on both sides of the altar; power, harm and responsibility; normalizing conflict; a wish for this book to educate and empower the psychedelic naive; shrinking the power dynamics between facilitators and journeyers; and a pondering of, how are the medicines doing? Finally, Rebecca reads an excerpt from Whole Medicine for us.

I highly recommend the book! Link to purchase in the show notes.

Rebecca Martinez is a Chicana parent, writer, community organizer, and social entrepreneur living in Portland, Oregon. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Alma Institute, a nonprofit educational institution that equips trainees from marginalized communities to become legal psilocybin facilitators. She is also the author of Whole Medicine: A Guide to Ethics for Psychedelic Therapy and Plant Medicine Communities, published by North Atlantic Books in 2024. She is a voice on psychedelic justice and has been featured in NPR, Business Insider, STAT News, Lucid News, and Psychedelics Today.

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