A State of Mind

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Harvey Schwartz, PhD has written numerous books & articles, including  and the Alchemy of Wolves and Sheep and Dialogues with Forgotten Voices and co-authoring  Integral Psychedelic Therapy.

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Partial List of Topics in chronological order:

• MAPS
• Lykos - a new organization
• KAP for acute suicidality
• Career before his interest in Psychedelic medicine
• How PTSD became first recognized as a diagnosis in 1980
• How millions of people suffering from trauma were misdiagnosed and shamed and blamed
• Judith Herman's book Trauma and Recovery 
• The challenge of healing internalized negative beliefs, especially as part of PTSD. 
• Children before 8-10 yrs old automatically blame themselves because of their level of cognitive development. 
• The power of Psychedelic medicine to heal and to connect what has been disconnected and break apart the negative belief systems
• Most of our medicines are suppressive in nature
• Scott Shannon's paper on how Ketamine assisted therapy is a  paradigm shift
• Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex which manages symptoms versus curing the root causes
• The way millions of people have been treated as objects by doctors and psychiatrists - the essence of humanity has not been fully taken into account
• How 4 million people had done LSD by 1969
• Ways people are harmed in the mental health system
• Psychologists that lose their license
• No one should do this work of therapy alone.
• Be Held while Holding 
• 3 types of Therapeutic Touch:
• Safety touch - mandatory
• Supportive Touch
• Therapeutic Touch - more complicated - for release work. 
• The need for touch in psychedelic assisted therapy. It is important to talk about this before hand - and have the agreement that clients cannot change their mind about it during session, it needs to be decided on before hand.
• How Disassociation is a huge spectrum.
• Psychedelic based disassociation
• Dissociation is always Positive. 
• We need Dharma not Dogma. 
• The growing issue of Tribalism in our culture and the shadow side of human nature to form in and out groups

 https://www.elementalpsychedelics.com/ - A Women-Led Training Center For Education, Experience, and Ethics in Psychedelic Practice

https://www.reflectivehealing.com/

https://www.elementalpsychedelics.com/event-details-registration/mushroom-myths-and-misconceptions-a-webinar-for-psychedelic-professionals

Topics in Chronological Order: 

• Modalities that align and use psychedelic therapy & the spiritual component.
• The most important thing in psychedelic assisted therapy is the therapeutic relationship
• Diagnosed with learning disability at age 5 - neurodivergent 
• So much of therapy is teaching - a class about you! 
• The Value of therapy 
• Sometimes have to tell a client that you're not right person
• Endings
• First experience with psychedelics. - salvia, at age 15
• Ketamine work - for depression
• Advice for Ketamine Assisted Therapy (KAP)
• What type of issues KAP is recommended for
• Depression is a symptom cluster - sometime a symptom of something else
• Mushroom journeys
• The current state of regulations and laws around psychedelics in the state of Colorado
• Women retreats for therapist wanting to learn about psychedelics and other trainings
• MDMA assisted therapy in the MAPS trial and studies
• Value of supervision
• Not leading the client - they are leading us. 
• Challenges of MDMA assisted therapy for the therapists. 
• The importance of not having a goal
• Finding one's unique calling
• How Greif is at the forefront of our ability to heal
• LSD and the mind of the universe

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Psychedelic Buddhism: A User's Guide https://www.amazon.com/Psychedelic-Buddhism-Traditions-Symbols-Ceremonies/dp/B0C2S4VHF3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1V3EWLA1MTQ&keywords=mike+crowley&qid=1707593181&sprefix=mike+crowl%2Caps%2C318&sr=8-1

Epsiode #71 of A State of Mind Podcast with Lama Mike Crowley 

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Intro: 0:00 - 9:30

Conversation with Mike Crowley begins at  9:49 

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Partial List of Topics in Chronological Order:

• Meditation Teacher Reggie Ray and the importance of meditating with the Body
• Vibrational Healing
• De-armoring
• Amplifying the field of Awareness
• The importance of light
• How our Technology actually limits our perception
• And many more

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Introduction: 0:00 - 12:45

Conversation with Pima Duddul starts: 13:05

Partial List of Topics

• His early discovery of Buddhism around age 11 and recognition that he was already a Buddhist
• Pema Duddul shares about his meditation and spiritual path
• Simplicity in practice versus ritual
• Importance of the Bardo teachings
• Ngondro or preliminary practices in Buddhism
• Psychedelics/ ethics/ 5 precepts including the precept against taking intoxicants
• Guru Yoga
• Orientalism 
• Racist views 
• Karma
• Is this benefit or harm? Look yourself and determine it. 

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Learn more about Jess at: https://www.jesscrutchfield.com

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• Links to Connect with Bloom and see his upcoming shows and events:
• https://beacons.ai/bloomurian
• https://www.instagram.com/bloomurianmusic/
• https://soundcloud.com/bloomurian

• Saoirse Watters: https://ashtreecreativecollective.com/

• Seer Music: https://www.matthewderubertis.com/seer

• Chances R Good: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2ynbBi1b4nc3yPpwzShEXL?si=I5eg49UQTi-9vMpcJwpo8g

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Intro: 0:00-9:00

Conversation with Lyle: 9:30

Topics covered include:

• digital therapeutics
• Potential of software and video game technology to change lives 
• The video game industry is larger than combined Film and Music industries 
• The beauty and power of creating immersive environments for healing and transformation
• The near future of VR and Augmented reality, for better and worse
• 3 different categories of Digital Therapeutics 
• Using digital therapeutics to cope with chronic pain conditions 
• The first FDA approved video game to help treat ADHD
• Downsides of ADHD medications such as Adderal 
• Dope Sick documentary
• How pharmaceutical industry is a passive healing model, whereas we did an active approach
• How a lack of engagement and turning to comfort contributes to the epidemic of Depression and Anxiety in our society 
• A Content Detox
• Web 1, Web II, Web III
• How many Health measurements can be determined just from analyzing someone's voice, including a recent study on this from MIT
• How there is one mental health therapist per every 1,600 people in the USA 
• And more

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Learn more about Keith at: https://www.keithmartinsmith.com

Partial List of Topics in Chronological Order:

• How Keith is a Long time martial artist
• Bringing together embodiment practice, Buddhist meditation, attachment theory &trauma
• How premodern societies were more securely attached
• Exploring how many of our psychological issues are a product of our contemporary world which premodern societies did not experience
• Meditation as a way to dissolve ego identities
• How your practice can only go as deep as the amount of safety you can access & how that is related to attachment wounding.
• Anxious attachment style with cell phones
• The way in which becoming awake or enlightened leads to much more effective activity in the world
• Adyashanti said that 90% of the questions he received are basically a version of “How do I get away from the present moment?”
• Looking at the attachment issues of putting young children into monasteries
• The role of social status given to spiritual or meditation practice or practitioners
• How every society has a role and value for a kind of shaman/yogi/monk figure
• The psychedelic renaissance and how medicines are encouraging our evolution and to honor that practice again
• Integrating Eastern and Western science
• Spiritual emergencies and not having cultural contexts for spiritual experiences
• How a long meditation retreat can disrupt the default mode network of the mind in a way that is similar to psychedelic use
• The ways in which intensive meditation can bring about a traumatic response
• How the meditation traditions aren’t equipped to handle trauma
• Keith’s point that meditation cannot touch or transform psychological issues which are truly in the shadow or unconscious mind.
• The teaching that no one has ever MADE you angry
• Anger in its most simple terms is clarity
• You can’t get angry if you don’t care
• Tribalism and Conformity
• Levels of Development

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About Kendra: Kendra Kemenyas is a Somatic Intuitive Healer, Educator, and Coach. Her own personal healing journey led her to develop Soulmatic™. Combing over 7 years of experience with Somatic Education, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Attachment Repair, Chinese Five Elements Medicine, self-inquiry, and clinical hypnosis. An effective modality that heals the nervous system, trauma, and burnout. She works with clients both in person & virtually, teaches workshops, and hosts both 1:1 retreats and group retreats. She comes to this work from a decolonial lens and believes that the body holds the wisdom to not only heal but to thrive and that by learning/creating relationship with the body we can shift from override/survival mode. She lives in Boulder, Colorado nestled next to the Flatiron Mountain Range.

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• https://www.nvdaily.com/nvdaily/andy-schmookler-contact-with-the-realm-of-the-sacred/article_21d25725-5e42-5931-94a8-e346fc2c93f2.html
• http://abetterhumanstory.org/2019/09/19/when-evil-rises-among-a-people/
• https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/08/the-ugliness-we-see-in-human-history-is-not-human-nature-writ-large.html

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Psychedelic Integration Circle with Julian: https://astateofmindcounseling.org/index.php/psychedelic-integration-circle-with-julian-royce/

Partial list of Topics:

• The excitement around psychedelics
• The importance of having a good working effective model of therapy in order to truly heal deeply with psychedelics
• We are the Medicine
• The etymology of Psychedelic as Mind Manifesting and what this means.
• The paradox and limitations of 'life hacking' and self improvement projects
• Ego as the culmination of our defense strategies
• Limitations of many common experiences with psychedelics and the need for true Integration
• Making important distinctions between the approaches of Therapy versus Spirituality vs Recreational uses with psychedelics
• The immense value of being held and supported by a good therapist
• How to have a self healing session with cannabis
• Set and Setting
• Choice of music
• Somatic or body based ways to access and begin to heal unresolved trauma and dis-ease

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies https://maps.org

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The Emergence Festival happening October 1 in Denver: http://bit.ly/emergencefest

Learn more about Shannon at:

https://www.enduringlovetherapy.com/shannon-hughes

The Nowak Society: https://www.thenowaksociety.org

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies https://maps.org

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• A State of Mind #80: Shadow Sides of Naropa University #80  Shadow Sides of Naropa University with Kate Vosti, Somatic Educator
• Jonathon Haidt The Coddling of the American Mind: https://www.thecoddling.com
• John McWhorter
• Douglas Murray: https://douglasmurray.net
• Bret Weinstein: https://bretweinstein.net
• Making Sense with Sam Harris: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts
• s04e81 | Courage & Cowardice In Canadian Public Schools, with Chanel Pfahl🇨🇦
• Coleman Hughes on BLM: The Revolution Will Not Be Criticized with Zac Kriegman

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https://newdiscourses.com/

https://www.commonsense.news/p/i-criticized-blm-then-i-was-fired

https://youtu.be/YRJCFrC65gU

https://colemanhughes.org/

https://www.commonsense.news/

https://heterodoxacademy.org/

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Topics (in chronological order)

• Introduction, mindfulness, the primacy of consciousness
• Attachment theory: how we show up in relationships as well as our pursuit of life
• We are most likely to have the same attachment styles as our care givers
• How the dismissive attachment style shuts down their own relational needs
• How our early childhood relationships with our primary caregivers impacts our relationships today
• Defining "Attachment Style"
• Studies show 75% chance that one will die with the same attachment style they developed by age 2
• 4 Attachment Styles: Secure, Avoidant, Anxious and Disorganized
• Primary caregivers only have to show up in an attuned way 30% of the time is enough to develop secure attachment
• Explaining the Anxious Attachment Styles, which is called Preoccupied in adults
• Anxious Style tends to be more insecure in their exploration
• Discussing the Dismissive(also called Avoidant) attachment style
• How Disorganized attachment styles tends to develop in response to neglectful or abusive care givers
• Different attachment styles can show up in different contexts
• Trans-generational trauma
• How healing Attachment involves implicit memory, not just from cognitive understanding
• The Strange experiments and the work of John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth
• How Anxious attachment style in the child comes about in part from a lack of reliability in care givers.
• How all the different attachment styles are  evolutionarily intelligent adaptation strategies that are actually the best response to particular dysfunctional environments.
• How the attachment styles one develops from 0-2 years old often becomes the same attachment style one has in the context of intimate relationship as an adult.
• How our largely unconscious internal working models
• How the development of meta cognition can lead to healing our attachment patterns.
• That many with dismissive attachment styles get into meditation and intense spiritual pursuits
• Just because someone is a Spiritual Teacher does not mean they have healthy relationships
• And how that often comes from a lack of awareness or respect of the relational needs of others
• The Qualities of Secure Attachment
• Strategies for healing insecure attachment styles
• The role of self regulation for helping Pre-Occupied
• The importance of the Dismissive attachment styles to work on receiving and letting in intimacy and love

Terminology:

• Secure (both child and adult)
• Anxious-ambivalent (for children) is called Preoccupied (adult)
• Avoidant (child) is called Dismissive (for adults)
• Disorganized in both child and adult (sometimes referred to as fearful-avoidant or fearful-preoccupied)

Resources:

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• https://insig.ht/aLmAh4HKIrb

• https://thelostyak.com

Find his books at:  

• https://cup.columbia.edu/book/food-of-sinful-demons/9780231179966 
• https://wisdomexperience.org/product/the-faults-of-meat/

Partial List of Topics in Chronological Order:

0:00 Introduction

3:34 Introduction to Geoffrey Barstow

7:25 Conversation with Geoff begins

• Geoff's background
• Studying Tibetan language
• How Geoff is both a Scholar and a Practitioner
• No one believes in myth of academic impartiality
• 2 Books on Vegetarianism and Buddhism
• First book is an Attempt to make sense of vegetarianism in the Tibetan context
• Using Buddhist positions to critique idea of lone gun man doing ego driven science
• How he got interested in vegetarianism
• How he went to Kham, Eastern Tibet and interviewed scholars and monks about eating meat
• 3 Levels of Vows in the Tibetan Buddhist traditions: Individual Liberation, Bodhisattva, Tantric.
• How vegetarianism was an issue in Tibetan for at least 1,000 years
• Being Vegetarian was seen as unhealthy - and seen then as an ascetic practice that someone could choose to do for the dharma but was a kind of sacrifice.
• Separation between buying and killing animals - and debate about this
• Not causing harm by eating less - or mitigate the harm through buying more 'humanely' raised meat
• Most chickens never see day light - they have very difficult lives
• Role of family and culture and tradition in eating meat
• Value in reducing the amount of meat you eat
• How we can't escape causing some harm
• The View sometimes expressed in Tibetan Buddhism that eating meat can be part of being a dharma practitioner because one forms a karmic connection with the animal and Geoffrey's response to this view.
• The question of the conceptual division between 'human' and 'animals'
• How neuroscience has shown that animals and humans are not actually so distinct biologically.

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Learn more at https://www.allocations.com

List of Topics (in chronological order):

• 0:00 Introduction
• 04:16 Conversation with Kingsley begins
• Kingsley's background, being born in London, and participating in competitive sports such as football (soccer), squash &  cricket
• His early interest in computers and Torrenting, peer to peer sharing services
• Technology and music sharing platforms
• Discovered Bitcoin in 2011
• Advising long term investments of 10 years or so
• Democratizing Investing
• Founding Allocations.com to democratize investing
• Allocations.com now has over $1 Billion in assets and over 1,000 SPVs on the platform
• SPVs (Special Purpose Vehicles): what they are and different possible uses for them
• Private markets have out performed public markets in general
• How only 'the suits' had access to SPVs in the past
• How technology can automate processes and replace the need for expensive lawyers
• Scaling Awareness
• Creating tech platforms to spread Awareness and teachings and practices
• Abundance Mindset: what it is and how to cultivate it
• Life Currency as a guiding metric
• How Allocations hired a Chief Mindfulness officer early on
• Awareness is one of the core values of Allocations.com
• The need for new ways to value companies that include measures of environmental and societal well being
• Luminous Awareness School
• Awareness as a natural birth rite of every human and life form
• The Equality of all things
• Economic freedom and Scarcity mindset
• The importance of Gratitude

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• Mindful U Podcast: https://mindful-u-at-naropa-university.fireside.fm
• Look Again Podcast: https://lookagain.fireside.fm
• David Devine's Website: http://www.david-devine.com
• Spotify: HigherGlyph

0:00- 8:36 Intro

8:36 - 1:20:46 Conversation with David DeVine

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Learn more about Andres Zambrano & Innate Path at: https://www.innatepath.org

Topics (in chronological order):

• The Innate Path Psychedelic Psychotherapy Training
• Andres' background from growing up in Columbia to working in wilderness therapy to his current work with psychedelic assisted therapy.
• How learning about somatic therapy and the importance of the body changed everything for Andres in terms of his own process and healing and in his work with clients.
• Recognizing his own traumas that needed healing
• How the reactions of our nervous system to traumatic situations can lead to ongoging symptoms
• How Disassociation is a more subtle and often unnoticed response to trauma
• Signs of Disassociation, one of which is when you notice it, feeling like your body is oddly shaped or disproportionately shaped
• Life itself is overwhelming at times for all of us and so we all build up stress, to one degree of another.
• When stress builds up and passes a certain threshold, then we are in the realm of trauma. This threshold can be lower or higher depending on our life circumstances.
• Costs of trauma: less energy, aliveness, intimacy, resiliency, more reactiveness, depression, anxiety, etc.
• Parts Work: The role of the 'loyal soldier' as a 'part' that can show up to help one get through life
• The practice of 'touch and go'
• The healthy expression of our Sympathetic and Parasympathetic nervous system responses
• Andres says that most meditative practices actually bring in a healthy dissociative state
• The importance of  pratyahara (withdrawal) in Patanjali's schema of the '8 limbs of yoga' and it's relation to healthy disassociation
• How Disassociation, even in healthy forms, that can come from spiritual practices, may be an important part of why so many scandals keep happening in spiritual communities.
• "non-meditation" in the Dzogchen tradition of Buddhism
• How Andres notices and brings attention to Disassociation in the moment in a therapy session
• How working with Cannabis and Ketamine can help
• Differences between working with Ketamine and with Cannabis
• The massive difference that the set and setting and context of deep therapeutic work has in the experience of using psychedelics.
• And more

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Learn more about Stephen at: https://www.facebook.com/stephen.hatch.902

Partial List of Topics in Chronological Order:

• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:26 Julian shares about working with depression and insights from a weekend attending a Tony Robbins virtual seminar
• 6:16 Conversation with Stephen Hatch begins
  • His upbringing with Christianity
  • how his parents were fundamentalist and Stephen was attracted to the Quakers at a young age
  • Dads side Armenia, Mom's side Quaker
  • Carl Jung's writings that people from the West  should not study yoga
  • What Stephen got from fundamentalist upbringing
  • What is contemplative Christianity?
  • Spirituality through the vehicle of Nature
  • Wilderness mysticism
  • Inter-spiritual
    • 3 Different ways to do this
    • Stephen is mostly the first way
  • The contemplative path
  • Meeting the great contemplative Christian teacher Thomas Keating
  • What is Spiritual Direction?
  • To be a Christian - to listen to the presence of the divine in whoever you are with.
  • The Book of Psalms: "We are all Gods, sons and daughters of the most High"
  • Process Theology: there is an aspect of God that is learning and growing
  • There was a time in the 1980s where he didn't want to use the word 'God'
  • Ways to understand Jesus Christ and Christ Consciousness
  • Thomas Keating was Christ in a sense for Stephen Hatch
  • Book of Psalms
  • Mary Magdalene as the chief apostle
  • The Dead Sea scrolls
  • Jesus as the light and Mary as the warmth
  • The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
  • Gnosis - Knowledge
  • No such thing as static perfection
  • To be perfect is to be on the journey continuously
  • Constant Growth
  • The oppression of the idea of 'perfection'
  • Everyone has their flaws and because of this we need each other!
  • What is 'the body of Christ'
  • A true Patriarch is a person who has wisdom and they take the responsibility and are an honorable person, just as a true Matriarch is.
  • It is all Relational.
  • Mytho-poetic Men's Movement
  • Ken Wilber's influence on Stephen
  • Solitude as such an important part of the spiritual path to discover your inner source
  • Stephen's reflections on the scandal with Shambhala Buddhism: it's because humans are involved.
  • 'The same measure you judge by, you will be judged by.'
  • Stephen thinks that it is dangerous to have a teacher as your prime source to God or Spirit.
  • Stephen's tradition comes from the Radical Reformation
  • How institutions are inherently flawed
  • Book recommendation: 'The New Monasticism'

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www.RadianceMatrix.com

www.DiamondLightNetwork.com

https://www.facebook.com/RadianceMatrix

https://www.facebook.com/groups/427067691208283

Partial List of Topics

• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:57 Conversation with Paul Temple
• Why Paul Temple does not call himself a 'sound healer'
• Nada Yoga or Brahma Yoga
• Sound as the vibrational pulse of the universe
• He does Tibetan Vajrayana mantra chanting with the music and singing bowls
• How Healing comes from within
• Core vibrational forces called Brahma
• Chakras and the Subtle Body
• The vibratory nature of Reality
• Paul's friend Jonathon Goleman who coined the term 'sound healing' defines sound healing as vibration plays intention
• Seed Syllables in Vajrayana Buddhism
• The Importance of the Heart
• The Heart as the center of Integration & at the middle of the subtle body.
• Different meanings of 'hearing' and 'feeling' and how to develop greater sensitivities.
• The War in Ukraine
• Discussing the history of Psycho-pharmacology and Psychedelic Plant Medicines in Academic Anthropology and Psychology and how a Shaman was defined as 'psychotic' in the 1950s and 1960s and earlier eras in Psychology.
• 42:00 Paul explains his sound creations and where the singing bowls come from in Nepal and a little about the mantras he is chanting.
• 43:35 Paul's Sound Transmission & Journey (Recommended to listen on good speakers or headphones!)
• 103:56 Concluding our Conversation

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Learn more about Scott at https://scotttusa.com

Two good organizations helping Ukraine right now:

https://www.unicefusa.org

https://disasterphilanthropy.org

Topics in Chronological Order:

• 0:00 Introduction
• 4:29 Conversation with Scott
• Scott was a monk for 9 years
• Tsoknyi Rinpoche
• Returned his vows in 2017
• Differences between Ningma and Gelugpa Buddhist lineages
• The essence is the same according to Scott
• Keys to Buddhist teachings: Renunciation Mind, Bodhicitta & Emptiness
• Bodhicitta & Evolution
• Buddhism as a Subjective science
• Meaning of lineage
• Meaning of Renunciation Mind in the Buddhist teachings
• Renunciation as giving up clinging to an experience of reality that doesn't exist. Which is not saying Reality does not exist.
• How are Idols oppress us
• The importance of the Heart
• Different spiritual paths versus following one path
• Sancocha soup - all mixed up.
• Ayahuasca
• Psychedelics: we are the medicine.
• Nonduality: transcending circumstances.
• Ethics, Meditation and Wisdom.
• Ethics and Insight into the nature of mind.
• Downsides of social media, outrage & cancel culture
• Emptiness: Going Beyond Beliefs.
• There is only constructive miscommunication or unconscious miscommunnication
• Just Being.
• Engaging in the path to re-learn how to Be.
• Re-Awakening rather than Awakening.

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https://www.stevennewmanart.com

https://soundcloud.com/steven_newman

Partial List of Topics in chronological order:

• Growth and evolution with podcasting
• The art of Meditation as Listening and Responsiveness
• Letting everything go and trusting that when the time comes, it will be here
• Writing, Recording and Performing music
• Electronic music versus live music performance
• The Universal Heart beat of the universe
• The light up Medicine Buddha image Steven made for Julian
• Steven's trip to Iraq and Turkey and the Middle East
• Creating Laser Art
• What a Laser is
• Mental health and environmental dooms-day-ism
• The Pandemic
• Wearing or not wearing Masks
• How diversity of opinions and debate around Covid is actually a good thing
• Mark Zuckerberg's PR problems
• Reflecting on the global economic system and the problem of Inequality
• Capital in the 21st-century by Thomas Piketti and The Meritocracy Trap by Markovits

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Learn more about Rosh and the Blind Café at: https://www.theblindcafe.com

Partial list of Topics in chronological order:

• 0:00 Intro, launch of Season 3! And feedback from listeners
• 2:07 Discussing the situation of allegations of abuse being levied against a former podcast guest
• 5:12 'The Crown' by Rosh and the Blind Café Orchestra
• 8:39 Conversation with Rosh begins
• Rosh's music tour in Iceland
• How he had the Idea for blind cafe
• First experience darkness in Iceland
• How we are captivated by our sense especially sight
• How we see concepts
• Blind cafe next level experience
• Couples experience in the dark
• Meeting your lover in the dark
• Dark retreat in the Buddhist traditions
• Rosh shares from his work with The Art of Conscious Loving & Charles Muir
• How consciousness transcends spatial awareness
• Listening to one's inner compass
• Entering into and leaving Community

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https://innerlightrevival.com

https://www.facebook.com/dan.balgooyen

(partial) List of topics (in chronological order):

• Facilitating experience that invite connection, exploration of self and turning towards what is true
• Authentic Relating
• Our need to belong and the epidemic of isolation
• 'Edge work' & what an being at one’s edge can feel like: the voice of resistance, of discomfort.
• Co-creating community
• Living in an intentional community home
• How becoming financially wealthier tends to lead to greater isolation.
• Owning & claiming our power and becoming free of society’s expectations
• Exploring what ‘creating one’s own experience’ means
• How bring a ‘speck of dust’ gives you unlimited possibilities
• Breathwork
• Danny’s journey with Breathwork
• The way Danny approaches Breathwork
• The language of the Breath
• How Danny applies mindfulness & Breathwork in the the day to day normal life.
• Breath as a guide into the present.
• Danny's relationship with Cannabis
• 'a groove grooved too much can become a rut'
• How breath work can release and heal negative beliefs about ourselves and unprocessed trauma
• Danny's journey from competitive golf player to what he does now.

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Psychedelic Integration Group with Julian Royce: 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month, find out more and register by emailing AStateofMindCounsel@gmail.com

Consensus Trance by Charles Tart http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html

Partial List of Topics

• Jen is the clinical director of Innate Path, which opened in 2018. Innate Path specializes in PTSD using Psychedelics and a Somatic oriented therapy model.
• How Cannabis can be a powerful tool for therapy, especially in the type of somatic trauma informed therapy specialized in by Innate Path.
• How the experience of Cannabis and / or Ketamine in the context of psychotherapy is often very different from the preconceptions people had about these substances from their life before.
• Innate Path did a study on working with Vets who had combat PTSD; the results were positive
• Why if you use cannabis to manage your symptoms you may not want to use it to do deep processing of PTSD.
• Cultural attitudes towards cannabis and how different this medicine is in the context of therapy
• How psychedelics work well with somatic oriented therapy
• The importance of using somatic processing to access subconscious material
• MAPS studies with PTSD and MDMA
• The importance of safety in order for subconscious material to emerge
• Working with Panic Attacks
• How trauma can lead to relapse
• How psychedelics can help us to deprogram
• Asking the guiding question: What serves Life?

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Learn more about Melinda at: https://melindareilly.com.au/

Topics in chronological order:

• Introduction
• Becoming is new book and first book of fiction
• Integrating different healing modalities
• How the Inspiration for the book came from the characters
• How important unstructured time is
• Burn Out and how to find your natural balance
• We are all one
• Wallees - Australian slang
• Spiritual not religious
• The age of 'the guru' being over; how we are entering the 'age of Aquarius'
• Yogi Bhajan
• Kunadlini yoga - energetic body - tapping into the energy at the base of the spine
• Story of Eckhart Tolle taking LSD and feeling no different.
• Integrating energy
• Reiki healing - similarities with yoga and how such 'alternate' healing modalities are becoming more widely accepted
• How mindfulness paved the way for alternate healing modalities like Reiki to be offered in hospitals
• The importance of being open minded and trying things out to find what works for you.

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Star Trek Discovery | Lieutenant Stamets Succed To Quickly Create Spore Drive

USS Discovery Enters the Mycelial Network To Save Tilly | Star Trek: Discovery

https://ifst.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ijfs.13522

https://fungi.com/blogs/articles/beta-glucans-and-the-seven-pillars-of-immunity

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59473960

Paul Stamets:

https://instagram.com/paulstamets?utm_medium=copy_link

http://paulstamets.com/news/society-for-the-protection-of-underground-networks-spun

Topics (in chronological order):

0:00 Introduction and holiday wishes

6:02 Music: 'Through the Dark' by Ruby Begay with Jon Sousa

10:20 Conversation with Stephen begins

• Mycology, university research

12:20 Myco-remediation, energy

15:20 Environmental purpose for mushrooms, causes and human impact on resources, biofuels vs electrics

18:00 Cultural supply vs demand, environmental cost

19:00 Soil, horticultural, farm practices, food preservation

22:00 Bacteria, fermentation and probiotic process

24:00 Digestive systems, processed vs nutrient dense food

26:00 Mushroom connections and as a medicine

27:00 Foraging morels and other wild mushrooms

28:00 Fungal connection to trees

30:00 Gourmet mushrooms and cultivation

32:00 Garden integration with mushrooms

33:00 Mycelial networks and communication within nature

35:00 Gourmet vs medicinal

37:00 Ideas of centralized vs de-centralized intelligence

38:00 Flow, present moment, and surrender

39:00 Appreciation of nature

40:00 Global anxiety, hope perspective, nihilism

44:00 Mycology and information eco-systems

45:00 Star Trek

46:00 Space, science, and networks

49:00 Cycles of nature, symbiosis of mycology

51:00 Nutrition, health, and mis-information

55:00 Vaccines and polarization in society

60:00 Vaccine status

62:00 Anti-vax social party

63:00 Exploring and resetting through the pandemic

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www.the360emergence.com

The 360 Emergence: Instagram & Facebook: @the360emergence

Amber Ryan Instagram &Facebook: @the360.amberryan

Topics Discussed (in chronological order)

0:00 Introduction

• Christopher Wallis &the Tantrika Institute (the book Julian recommends is Tantra Illuminated): https://tantrikainstitute.org, https://hareesh.org

3:02: Conversation with Amber Ryan begins

• The impact of the Pandemic on Amber's life and work
• Pros and cons to connecting and taking classes virtually
• Differences between in person and online dance experiences
• Deep Listening and Intuition
• Power of coming together in person for community
• The 360 Emergence: the different aspects and nuances of this offering and what is meant by a '360 human'.
• Discussing the Vaccine and the different perspectives on it that are causing conflicts in communities
• Dance, movement and embodiment.
• What is ecstatic dance?
• Conscious Dance and different dance modalities
• Gabriel Roth, the creator of Five Rhythms, and how she offered a map for Westerners to find their way to embodiment and ecstasy
• How the Western world had ways of ecstasy suppressed historically
• Embodiment. The Body is like an Encyclopedia, holding memory.
• What is ecstasy

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https://sanctum.coach

Learn more about Guy:

https://www.facebook.com/The-Coaching-Guy-109878688196496

Topics Touched Upon (in chronological order):

Intro

05:03 - Conversation with Kevin and Guy begins

Death

Balance

Leadership

Reclaiming your own feminine

Integration through development

Frequency levels a la Hawkins

Higher developmental stage

BS: belief systems

Spiritual bypassing

Responsibility vs. freedom

Depression

Is duality a necessity?

Reverse racism + privilege

Peace

Protests and contradictions

Victim mentality

Parting words

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http://www.rhythmsanctuary.com

https://www.facebook.com/groups/44591474049/

https://www.a4uj.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstatic_dance

Partial list of topics (approximate times)

0:00 Introduction - The MeetDelic Conference & the corporatization in the emerging field of psychedelic medicines

6:38 Conversation with Ahva begins

• What is Rhythm Sanctuary and Ahva's role in helping found it
• How Rhythm Sanctuary has been a community, a place many people have made friends and Ahva has now facilitated 3 weddings of folks from Rhythm Sanctuary
• 11:38 What is Ecstatic Dance
• 12:39 Ahva's background with dance and as a dance teacher and her own teachers and journey with learning about dance and embodiment

15:00 - How Ecstatic Dance is a practice and way of finding connection and ecstasy while being Sober together

15:38 - the structure and elements of the Rhythm Sanctuary ritual, including the importance of not speaking on the dance floor

17:30 How Rhythm Sanctuary has saved people's lives

20:38 How Rhythm Sanctuary is not about the DJ, it is co-created by everyone who shows up together.

21:38 the power of sharing in a circle

24:30 Evolutionary reasons for why Public Speaking is so challenging for many

27:00 Ahva's background, being a single mom at a young age, how she lived in an intentional, off grid, sustainable community that included farming on 600 acres

35:38: The human needs for love and joy

• How to find your joy and purpose

39:30 New definition of Hierarchy

42:00 Ahva’s witnessing of a wild geese funeral service

42:30 Ahva's work as a Death Douhla and her work as a ceremonialist

• Rites of passage

52:00 Prosperity circulator abundance

54:50 - Ahva's work with Conflict Resolution

56:30 - When Ahva was unfairly attacked online for re-starting Rhythm Sanctuary and had her own brush with 'cancel culture'

65:30 Ahva's connection and roles with Arise Music Festival

1:12:00 - Ahva's work with Conflict Resolution and the Alliance for Unitive Justice which is based on Restorative Justice.

1:19:34 - the poem 'Courting the Muse' by Tiffanie DeBartolo, read by Ahva.

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Learn more about Sureya at www.sureyaleonara.com

Instagram: @sureya_leonara

Discount code for listeners: STATEOFMIND for 15% off the course called 'the Art of Transmutation' starting Nov 13

Partial List of Topics (approximate times):

• 5:44 Conversation with Sureya begins
• Sureya introduces herself as a holistic sex and relationship coach and shares what she means by holistic and how sex and relationships connect with so many areas of life
• How a non-dual perspective can help make sense of the many different healing and meditative and spiritual modalities
• How becoming debilitatingly sick with Lyme disease and a Cohn infection and other health problems eventually lead to a transformation for Sureya to become more empowered and to stop being in a victim mentality
• Getting out of victim mentality
• How to fully feel and face the challenges of life, without bypassing and also without staying in a victim mentality
• The illusion of 'free will' and how that does not contradict taking responsibility
• How Sureya was in a very toxic relationship that felt parasitic and how she found the strength to leave that
• 20:20 - a wise older friend saying to her 'You are responsible for everything that is happening in your life right now"
• 22:45 - how sometimes ending a relationship is the best thing for all involved
• 24:25 - role of addictions can play in relationships, for both the one in the caretaker role and the one who seems in need of saving
• 28:33 - Sureya's new course on the Art of Transmutation
• 29:54 Finding your sovereign truth
• 31:54 The Trauma and Fear of being Ostracized and kicked out of a group
• 33:25 - How Sureya works with almost all her clients on people pleasing and becoming authentic
• 34:33 - How Sureya was raised to be polite and people pleasing and how she used to be so shy
• 37:15 Importance of connecting as humans even when you believe different thigs or have different politics and view points
• 38:00 Creating good boundaries - and how there is an energetic component to it
• 40:00 - Story from the life of the historical Buddha of how he chose not to accept the 'gift' of anger after a man spat on his face.
• 44:00 - how to channel anger in a good way
• 45:00 Have people tried to "cancel" Sureya ?

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https://shedrub.org/

www.ryi.org

www.dharmasun.org

Partial List of Topics (times are approximate):

0:00 Introduction

8:05 Conversation with Catherine Dalton begins

• How the traditional Buddhist teaching are not something one ‘makes up’ or is unique to a particular individual teacher
• How Catherine first moved to Nepal and began study Buddhism and Tibetan language

21:00 - The impact of culture, culture shock and how being amongst people of a particular culture affects how we see the world

24:00 Boudhanath Stupa

28:00 spread of Buddhism around the world

42:00 the lack of a word for a gender other than male or female in the premodern Tibetan language

How Tibetan Buddhism is Tantric Buddhism or Vajrayana Buddhism.

46:50: the concept of having a 'guru' or teacher in Buddhism and what that means in the tradition

50:00 - how Vajrayana is described as the path of devotion

60:00 - the possibility of Dharma transmission through Zoom

1:01:00 - how Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche offered teachings online because of the pandemic and how they set that up

1:06:15 - Reincarnation and the 'Tullku system' of certain teachers being able to consciously reincarnate, how Catherine has met many Tulkus who "are not ordinary people"

1:14:00 - Question/ Observation that in the West, we are very driven by the idea of progress while in 'the East' and in traditional Buddhist cultures, there is more of a cyclical notion of existence, without the same idea of 'progress.'

1:20:00 - how dharma not about self improvement. Side effect not the goal.

The whole point is the pursuit of happiness.

1:22:30 the meaning of Buddha in Tibetan and in the Buddhist teachings and the possibility of bringing that into scientific inquiry

1:28:00- idea of Omniscience in Buddhism, Julian's skepticism and the traditional teachings of what that means

1:32:00 Karma and how everything we experience is our own mind or consciousness

1:36:00 Everything that happens is karma from the traditional point of view

1:38:00 the practice and power of making offerings

1:41:00 The importance of the three trainings: Ethical conduct, Meditation and Wisdom

1:46:00 - That our practice should be happening all the time, and how important it is to honor our relationships and actions in the world.

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Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/dankphart

Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/dankphart

Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/DankPhart

Twitter- https://twitter.com/dankphart

Learn more about Gary Snyder: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gary-snyder

Riprap by Gary Snyder read in the intro: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47178/riprap

Learn more about Allen Ginsberg: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/allen-ginsberg

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-Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/ciprianoband/

-Insta Handle: @ciprianoband

-Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/c/CiprianoOrtega

-Soundcloud:  https://soundcloud.com/lowrockhighart

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https://www.melissamoffet.com

https://www.instagram.com/melissa.moffet/

Topics (in chronological order):

• Being Impulsive vs being truly Spontaneous
• Taking risks, trusting your instincts
• How Melissa built a social media following and went from being an engineer to working as a coach and teacher
• Melissa shares how she was shy in real life while at the same time building a big following on Instagram
• Quality over Quantity
• Her background with dance and ballet
• Social media and Confidence: how to have an intentional relationship with social media and the importance of having good boundaries
• Suggestion to clean out everyone you are following and then carefully choose who to follow
• The danger of being in an information Bubble where you only hear from sources of information you want to and agree with
• The practice of choosing to listen to other perspectives you don't agree with in order to challenge yourself and grow
• Vulnerability in sharing publicly
• How it is so important to go to the edge of your comfort zone and then have time for Integration.
• Melissa shares about ways to Integrate and what that means.
• The importance of titrating and going slowly so that it is sustainable and so one does not burn out or shut down after a flurry of activity.
• The importance of Intention

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• Darrell’s background with the Unitarian Universalist Church, where he almost went down the path to become a minister.
• Darrell's experiences with the early internet and pre-internet computers and bulletin board systems.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system
• Burning Man and the Burning Man Principles: https://burningman.org/culture/philosophical-center/10-principles/
• Contact Improvisation - what it is and Darrell's discovery of it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_improvisation

• The creation of Camp Contact - http://campcontact.org
• Authentic Relating, how it is a part of Camp Contact and a bit about what it is
• Cryptocurrency: Darrell shares some of his knowledge and wisdom about cryptocurrencies
• El Salvador and it's adoption of Bitcoin:  https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/06/25/adults-in-el-salvador-to-get-30-in-bitcoin-as-nation-unveils-details-to-make-crypto-legal-tender/?sh=14909474109c
• Psychedelics: their potentials for healing and transformation and creativity.
• Their potential in psychedelic assisted therapy.
• The War on Drugs
• The problems with a for profit health care industry
• Reasons why distrust of the medical establishment is at an all time high
• The issue of Vaccines and specifically the Coronavirus Vaccine and the Pandemic
• Renee Girard and Mimetic Discourse   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimetic_theory
• Meta Integral and the Wisdom Deck https://www.metaintegral.com/wisdom-card-deck/
• The Stoa online community of thinkers and thought leaders http://thestoa.ca
• Daniel Schmachtenberger  https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=daniel+schmachtenberger
• OCEAN: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism - Big 5 personality factors
• Your Undivided Attention:  Podcast from the Center for Humane Technology:  https://www.humanetech.com/podcast
• Scuttlebut as a non profit Social Media platform, and one without an algorithm to drive engagement.

http://ScuttleButt.nz  -- Decentralized Social Network (Use Manyverse on your Phone: http://manyver.se)

• How 5,000 friends is not enough for Darrell on Facebook

Facebook Friend Limits - Best summed up by this Interintelect salon description:  https://interintellect.com/salon/cheating-on-dunbar-maintaining-our-growing-social-networks/

- Accountability: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AhANo6wzBAA&feature=youtu.be

Learn more about Hilary at: https://hilarymorrislpc.com/meet-the-team.html

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hilarymorrislpc/

Articles by Hilary Morris:

Somatics and Psychedelic Therapy in the Treatment of PTSD:

https://psychable.com/psychedelics/somatics-and-psychedelic-therapy-in-the-treatment-of-ptsd/

Why Combat Veterans Seek Out Psychedelics for PTSD

https://psychable.com/psychedelics/why-combat-veterans-are-seeking-out-psychedelics-for-ptsd/

Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy

https://psychable.com/psychedelics/ketamine-assisted-psychotherapy-where-did-my-body-go/

Topics:

• Trauma and how serious concussions and traumatic brain injuries can be, physically as well as psychologically
• Healing from Physical trauma and Psychological trauma
• Post Concussion Syndrome
• Different therapeutic modalities she works with, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Somatic Therapies, EMDR, and Brain Spotting
• Her work helping women entrepreneurs
• Challenges women face in business
• Feminine and Masculine energies and how we all have these different energies to differing degrees
• The importance of having unstructured time
• Brain Spotting - what it is and how it works
• The importance of Pleasure - how to allow oneself to more fully experience pleasure
• Psychedelic Assisted Therapy and specifically, Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
• Different ways Ketamine can be administered therapeutically, for example with Treatment Resistant Depression versus the lower doses that Hilary usually works with
• Ways in which Ketamine assisted therapy can help
• Ego dissolution and the temporary dissolving of the 'default mode network' in our brain/nervous system and how valuable an experience of being alive without being stuck in one's usual suffering can be so immensely valuable and life affirming
• Hilary shares an anchoring or grounding technique with us: I am here.

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Topics Covered

0:00 Introduction

• Derek Demuth's music video made it past the YouTube censors and you can watch it on episode #79
• More stories of disfunction and extreme social justice ideology at Naropa University
• Introducing Dr. Jenelle Kim
• 7:13 Conversation with Dr. Kim begins
• Her background and family lineage
• The 3 M's: Movement, Meditation and Medicine
• Reflections on 'Eastern' and 'Western' Cultures and Pre-modern and Modern eras
• How to make the right choices in your life- The "True and Right Method": True= what is true for you in that situation and Right = what is best for everyone involved.
• Meditation and Non-duality
• Stories of her father and his meditation teacher
• Advice around herbal medicine and taking supllements
• Her upcoming book: Myung Sung: The Korean Art of Living Meditation

Learn more about Dr. Jenelle Kim here:

https://jenellekim.com

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFGEysqqsXuI8LvT_KeltBQ

https://www.instagram.com/drjenellemkim/?hl=en

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Instagram: @rhythm.rose

Topics (in Chronological Order):

• 0:00-11:28 Introduction
• Buddhist Perspectives on Human Development and Spiritual Development
• Her early interest in the Buddhist teachings
• Self Doubt as a form of Laziness
• Different ways to understand ‘doubt’ and ‘the mind of  not knowing’
• Being ‘spiritual not religious’
• New age spiritual beliefs
• The relative rarity of talking with someone practicing within an authentic spiritual lineage
• That modern or contemporary people have a ‘God shaped hole in their hearts’
• The surprising success of Trader Joe’s in offering us less choices
• 27:30: The reasons why Naropa University seemed to make so much sense for Kate
• The events, health struggles, discovering Ecstatic Dance and Five Rhythms that lead to Kate eventually going to the graduate school for Somatic Psychology at Naropa University
• The Calling to become a somatic dance movement therapist
• Issues with the current state of Naropa University from the perspective of being a student
• How Naropa University seems afraid to challenge it's students
• 40:00 How Kate feels psychologically traumatized by attending Naropa
• 50:00 - Issues of Cultural Appropriation around Buddhism and other forms of spirituality at Naropa
• 54:00 - how the Masters in Dance Movement Therapy program lacked learning how to practice or teach dance movement therapy; how their one class on Dance Movement Therapy focused instead on the colonialism of ballet and related topics.
• 57:00 - a few of many stories of social justice attempts gone awry from Julian's experience in the Graduate School of Psychology
• 62:00: Is it advancing the cause of Social Justice to apologize for the color of your skin?
• Discussion of the shadow sides and down sides of the current state of education at Naropa
• 90:00 - not allowed to use the word 'mute' to refer to muting oneself while on Zoom because it is not politically correct.

Links to articles and books mentioned:

Even "Trigger Warning" is Now Off Limits by John McWhorter https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/brandeis-language-police-have-suggestions-you/619347/

The Coddling of the American Mind: https://www.thecoddling.com

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www.derekdemuth.com

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Topics:

• April shares how she works with a Somatic orientation, with wilderness and with psychedelics - and ways these three are all similar
• EMDR Trauma therapy
• What is Trauma in context of psychology and therapy?
• April's experience with NGOs and policy work
• Somatic
• Psychedelics
• Wilderness
• Ketamine and Cannabis assisted therapy and what that can look like
• The stigmas and stereotypes around Cannabis and how different it is in the context of therapy
• Why she named her practice Lions Breath Counseling.

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