#031 Cameron Wenaus: meditation and psychedelics for self-realization

03/03/22 • 30 min

Episode summary:
We chat with Cameron Wenaus — CEO at Retreat Guru — about surpassing mental health baseline, understanding the root of fear, and experiencing death.
Highlights:
— NUGGET AND A NOODLE: Psilocybin improves health for a year; how do we support solo explorers? (0:36)
— What has surprised Cameron about this psychedelic renaissance? (2:28)
— Why is it so hard to let go and explore altered states? (5:21)
— In the last 12 months at Retreat Guru, what was one hard-earned lesson? (9:44)
— Cameron's shares his journey with psychedelics (16:12)
— Ray and Cameron share profound mystical experiences (19:53)
— SOUL SEARCH: You get to relive the life of any historical figure... (27:11)
Cameron Wenaus
Cameron is inspired by the evolution of consciousness. He has been working with retreat centers and organizations focused on many wisdom lineages for more than 2 decades.
He is the CEO and co-founder of Retreat Guru – an ecosystem of products and services for a growing community of retreat seekers and professionals.
He is also a meditation teacher and director of his local Buddhist center, and is curious about the connection between mediation and psychedelics and how they can support the discovery and stabilization of non-dual awareness.
Find Cameron here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameron-wenaus
https://retreat.guru/

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#030 Zappy Zapolin: we have a right to our minds

Summary:
We talk with Zappy Zapolin — Chief Visionary Officer of Psycheceutical — about shaking the sense of dissatisfaction, novel ketamine delivery, and witnessing atomic vibrations.
Highlights:
— NUGGET AND A NOODLE: The DEA announce the prohibition of research on 5 new psychedelic compounds; How do we find the sweet spot between the extremes of psychedelic over-medicalization and excess of woo-woo? (0:33)
— Zappy compares the psychedelic climate now vs 2015, when he was filming his documentary The Reality of the Truth? (2:24)
— Looking back at the last 12 months at Psycheceuticals and KetaMD, what's one hard-earned lesson and one current challenge? (4:47)
— Zappy shares his journey with psychedelics, and what he learned after using them to find a new path in his life. (12:10)
— What is one mystical experience that still resonates with him? (18:11)
— What does a future world with widely legal psychedelic use look like for Zappy? (20:33)
SOUL SEARCH: Who is one person, dead or alive, you'd like to trip with... (25:05)
Zappy Zapolin
Zappy Zapolin is a well-known futurist, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and award-winning filmmaker who is dedicated to the expansion of human consciousness.
Zappy believes his life mission is to right the wrong of psychedelic prohibition, which began the day after he was born. He founded the Mind Army social movement, which is fighting for legalization of psychedelics via an Executive Order.
Always on the cutting edge of trends, Zappy leads the vision behind this intersection of psychedelic compounds and pharmaceutical medicines at Psycheceutical, Inc. using patented, cutting-edge delivery technologies to provide safe and effective bioavailable psychedelic pharmaceutical medicines.
Zappy also co-founded KetaMD, a telemedicine platform that provides affordable and life-changing at-home medical ketamine treatments, and The Ketamine Fund, which has already provided more than 500 free ketamine treatments to veterans suffering from PTSD or those having suicidal ideations.
Find Zappy here:
https://zappyzapolin.com/
https://themindarmy.org/
https://psycheceutical.com/

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#032 Jenalle Dion: when psychedelics shift your life

Episode summary:
We talk with Jenalle Dion — Founder of Wakeful Journal and Director of Content at Third Wave — about custom journey journals, multiverse jumping, and when it's just flat-out easier to savor the moment.
Highlights:
— NUGGET AND A NOODLE: Oregon decriminalization law has already led to a 60% reduction in arrests; Wave function collapse and the multiverse (0:34)
— What has taken Jenny down the path of creating the Wakeful Journal? (2:25)
— What Jenny finds so compelling about the psychedelic industry? (5:36)
— Looking back at the last 12 months at Wakeful and Third Wave, what is one hard earned lesson? (8:26)
— What has been Jenny's journey with psychedelics? (12:05)
— Ray and Jenny share profound mystical experiences (19:10)
— SOUL SEARCH: What does the world look like after 10 years of widespread legalization and intentional psychedelic usage... (25:18)
Jenalle Dion
Jenalle Dion is a passionate psychedelic advocate, MAPS Canada volunteer, content creator and community builder.
Her organization, Wakeful Travel, is the ceremony companion company, creating integration and microdosing journals for psychedelic seekers, brands, retreat centers, clinics, and conferences. She’s also Head of Content for the world's largest psychedelic education platform, Third Wave.
You can pre-order a journal through her site: wakefultravel.com, or see what she's up to on social media.
Find Jenny here:
https://www.wakefultravel.com/
https://www.instagram.com/wakefultravel/
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