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Kyle and Joe - Q&A: The Many Uses of Psychedelics
Psychedelics Today
11/19/19 • 67 min
In this episode, Kyle and Joe sit down to cover questions from listeners of the show. They discuss topics that include psychedelic use for exorcisms, cluster headaches, athletic performance, processing grief and more.
3 Key Points:- There are a few examples where psychedelics are used to increase athletic performance. Psychedelics can also be used to help realign those who are using sports as a form of distraction from internalized issues.
- When eliminating variables for psilocybin consistency in mushrooms for therapeutic use, freeze drying helps. But there are so many variables in mushrooms versus synthesized psilocybin.
- When addressing the sustainability of the Toad, according to the data, there isn't a real difference between 5-MEO-DMT from a toad and synthesized 5-MEO-DMT
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- Joe brings up an issue that was brought up to him by a physician from the Wholeness Center, Dr. Craig Heacock, out of Fort Collins, CO
- Dr. Heacock warns about Kratom
- It is safer than opioids, but it can be physically addictive and getting off of it can be horrible
- Kratom withdrawal closely imitates opioid withdrawal
- The receptor site activity is the same as opioid pills
- Kyle thinks of shamanic uses for plant medicines, and with the idea of purging and spiritual emergence, working in non-ordinary states can exacerbate these states and maybe help with this kind of work
- Joe and Kyle go into writings from Stan Grof, explaining the physical appearance of those going through LSD psychotherapy or breathwork, and how it assimilates to an ‘exorcism’ of releasing the bad
- The purging during a psychedelic experience may feel evil, or alien
- Joe and Kyle say, do not perform an exorcism, leave it to the trained people
- Cluster Busters is an organization for the research on cluster headaches
- LSD works for some as well as oxygen treatments work for others
- We know a lot more about migraines than cluster headaches
- The migraine is where neurons in the brain start misfiring and create a firing storm
- Joe says the practical solution is to have a really large amount of psilocybe cubensis, all blended up, and then split in even doses
- There are potency differences between species, strains, etc
- There are so many variances with mushrooms versus synthetic psilocybin
- Freeze drying also promotes close to 0% loss of psilocybin when drying mushrooms
- There may be psychological blocks that are getting in the way of a person reaching the peak performance of their genome
- It could be trauma, or psychological blocks
- Athletic performance could be a distraction from what you're really here to do
- Athletes have a lot of dysfunctional behavior
- Psychedelics may show us our bad behavior and help us align
- Kyle says he had this passion to snowboard and dedicate his life to snowboarding, and then he received a message in journeywork that told him snowboarding is simply a hobby and he needs to focus his life on other things
- “Sports are a great way to cover up our emotions” - Joe
- Kyle mentions tow other episodes that cover similar topics
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PT282 – Rabbi Zac Kamenetz & The Rev. Hunt Priest – Judaism, Christianity, and Embracing Psychedelics
Psychedelics Today
01/07/22 • 100 min
In this episode of the podcast, Joe revisits the topic of religion and psychedelics with a Priest and Rabbi both very interested in using religion to frame the mystical: Rabbi Zac Kamenetz and Episcopal priest, Hunt Priest.
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Psychedelics, Philosophy, Transhumanism and Peter Sjöstedt-H
Psychedelics Today
04/20/17 • 62 min
- Peter's website
- Neo-Nihilism: The Philosophy of Power (essay) Kindle Audiobook - Audible
- Ragnar Redbeard - Might is Right or Survival of the Fittest (1889)
- Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future - Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries - Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann
- The Psychedelic Influence on Philosophy - Higher Existence
- Patrick Lundborg
- Open University
- Warren Ellis
- Transhumanism
Psychedelics Weekly – Psychedelics and Sports, The Risks of Over-Regulation, and What Makes Music Psychedelic?
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05/05/23 • 69 min
In this episode of Psychedelics Weekly, Joe and Kyle record in-person again, discussing psychedelics and parenthood, sports, music, and more.
They cover:
-an Elle (!) article about how mushrooms are becoming the new ‘Cali sober,’ with more and more people starting to microdose – including parents;
-ESPN's documentary, "Peace of Mind," highlighting the rise of psychedelic use among athletes, including retired NHL player, Riley Cote;
-An article discussing how interest in psychedelics has skyrocketed in Oregon since the passing of Measure 109, and how over-regulation and the glacial speed of the government is only driving the growth of the black market;
-An essay attempting to define what it is that leads people to describe music as psychedelic (with several recommendations from Joe);
-DMT aficionados using AI to create and catalog depictions of the entities they've seen;
and more!
And they have larger discussions about the drug war, how famous athletes are opening people's minds to psychedelics, how strict regulation in psychedelic legislation can create more harm, how we need to collaborate more in the psychedelic space, the concept of a DMT 'hyper-slap,' and the problem of psychedelic exceptionalism and thinking your drug is good while others are bad.
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Veronika Gold - Methods of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
Psychedelics Today
05/07/19 • 76 min
In this episode, Kyle hosts a conversation with Veronika Gold from the Polaris Insight Center, a center that offers Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy. They compare and contrast Ketamine Psychotherapy methods and Ketamine Infusion.
3 Key Points:- The most studied way of using Ketamine has been infusion, mainly used for treatment resistant depression and PTSD. Veronika used lozenges and intramuscular Ketamine therapy working for Polaris.
- When people are healed from depression, there is a lot of anxiety and activation that happens. Infusion clinics don't offer the therapeutic help that comes with Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
- The dissociation that happens with Ketamine is a different dissociation that happens with trauma. With trauma, dissociation happens when the nervous system can't handle the stress in someone's life, with Ketamine, it allows people who feel dissociated from their trauma, to feel again.
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Show Notes About Veronika- She specialized in trauma treatment
- She is involved in the clinical trials for the treatment of PTSD, sponsored by MAPS in San Francisco
- Veronika is originally from Czech Republic
- She studied at CIIS
- She grew up in the Czech Republic in a communist time so she dealt with a lot of trauma
- She met Stan Grof at 16 at a Transpersonal conference
- She was fascinated with his work and Transpersonal Breathwork became a part of her healing
- It lead her to study psychology and become a psychotherapist and study non-ordinary states
- Ketamine therapy has been studied from the late 60’s until today
- The most studied way of using Ketamine has been infusion, mainly used for treatment resistant depression and PTSD
- In Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, the therapy is as important as the medicine
- There is a biochemical effect of Ketamine
- When people are healed from depression, there is a lot of anxiety and activation that happens
- Infusion clinics don't offer the therapeutic help that comes with Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
- The treatment method used at Polaris includes a comfortable room, eye shades, music tailored to the therapy, and an ongoing therapist
- They use non-ordinary states of consciousness as a part of the transformation
- They use lozenges and IM (Intramuscular)
- Only 30% of the ketamine from the lozenges are effective
- The lozenges allow for a slow onset of the medicine
- With IM, a higher dose can be used because it's less taxing on the body and more effective
- The property of Ketamine is dissociation
- Veronika says she prompts people to explain where they are, to share about what comes up for them
- “Sometimes there are memories that come up that are connected to their struggle. Sometimes they do full trauma processing. There are times where they go inside and then come out.” - Veronika
- They used Ketamine as a means to do the work legally
- For the work that is being done underground, the therap...
11/12/19 • 90 min
In this episode, Kyle sits down with Jac Harrison, a grammy nominated music producer. Kyle and Jac talk about music as therapy, how DMT mimics the near death experience, and how Jac produces music based on frequencies of mystical experiences.
3 Key Points:- Jac shares his story about his near death experience, and how DMT has been a therapeutic option for him to cope with his crippling anxiety and PTSD.
- Jac is a music producer, who uses frequencies from mystical experiences to produce music. His music helps people with addiction, sleep issues, anxiety, and more.
- Music is not an FDA approved medicine, but if there is music that tricks your mind into thinking you have taken a medicine, then it should be an option for those suffering.
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- In 2008, Jac was newly married with a baby on the way
- He needed a new job, and accepted one with Whole Foods Magazine
- Around 2011, the owner of the company became ill, and gave his company to his daughter, who was awful
- Jac said that he knew something had to change
- He started his music career, went under a lot of stress, and went through a divorce
- Everything started to go okay with his music career, money was pouring in
- His first album was Musicians Collection Project
- He had a ton of anxiety after the divorce, and had high blood pressure
- He took some cold medicine, on top of his blood pressure medicine, totally forgot about it, then decided to have a glass of wine with a friend
- The next thing he knew, he was in an ambulance getting his chest pounded on
- They told him he was in and out all night, and practically died
- After this near death experience, he felt amazing!
- But the feeling of greatness only lasted about 3 weeks, and then his anxiety came back, and it was crippling
- Jac says he doesn't believe in magic or witchcraft or any woo woo
- For his 39th birthday, he was working a trade show
- He ran around his hotel in Las Vegas, screaming that he felt he was going to die
- He didn't know how, but he could feel it
- Everyone thought he was crazy
- Moments later, was the shooting right outside of his hotel
- It was the Las Vegas shooting
- He does believe in coincidence
- He had this overwhelming feeling that something bad was going to happen, it was his intuition
- After trying to figure out what this all meant, he took a 2000mg bar of chocolate to blast off, trying to relive his near death experience
- He said, there was a lot of frequency, and as a musician, he felt like he could mimic it
- His first album, and first song on the album, Relief, was about his experience when he died
- His music is found at MindToyBox
- Each song he did after that, catalogs the DMT experience he had
- “An old projector TV, I had one for a while, it was great. The light came on and told me I needed to change the bulb. I changed the bulb and saw in a new and clear way forever. That's what DMT is like.” - Jac
- Kyle says that when he attended COSM for the DMT Spirit Molecule release party, Rick Strassman was there and said that the idea that DMT comes out of the pineal gland is just a hypothesis, and people took it and ran with it as truth
- After he smoked DMT, he heard this humming, and so he started humming and recording it as a frequency for the album
- He took opium, and then figured out the frequency that sub...
In this episode, Joe and Kyle interview Lenny Gibson, Ph.D.: philosopher, Grof-certified Holotropic Breathwork® facilitator, 20-year professor of transpersonal psychology at Burlington College, and the reason Joe and Kyle met many years ago.
He talks about his early LSD experiences and how his interest in the philosophy of Plato and Alfred North Whitehead provided a framework and language for understanding a new mystical world where time and space were abstractions. He believes that while culture sees the benefits of psychedelics in economic terms, the biggest takeaway from non-ordinary states is learning that value is the essence of everything. And as this is being released on Bicycle Day, he discusses Albert Hofmann’s discovery and whether or not it’s fair to say that Hofmann intentionally had the experience he did on that fateful day.
He also discusses:
- The end of Cartesian thinking and the need for a new understanding of reality that incorporates the insights of quantum mechanics
- How philosophy has been taught as an intellectual endeavor, and how we need to embrace the practical and conceptual side of life
- John Dewey and quantitative thinking, William James and pragmatism, and was Aristotle a Platonist?
- The novelty of the creation of LSD, and how it gave us a path to a mystical experience that wasn’t culturally bound
and more! For links, head to the show notes page.
Joe Moore - News and Current Events in the Psychedelic Space
Psychedelics Today
03/19/19 • 25 min
In this episode, Joe gets on the mic to chat about some current events in the psychedelic space such as the recent passing of psychedelic icon Ralph Metzner, the Psilocybin decriminalization initiatives in Denver and now Oakland, and psychedelic use in the Military.
3 Key Points:- Psychedelic Icon, Ralph Metzner passed away on March 14th, 2019. He had a remarkable career and published a ton of books around psychedelics in his time.
- A recent study found that a single dose of Psilocybin can enhance creative thinking and empathy for up to 7 days after use.
- Activists are planning an initiative to decriminalize Psilocybin in Oakland. Denver will vote on decriminalization on the May 7th ballot.
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Show Notes Ralph Metzner- Ralph Metzner passed away on March 14th, 2019
- He was a part of the Leary, Alpert trio
- Ralph was a psychologist, writer and researcher who participated in psychedelic research in the 60’s.
- He had a remarkable career and published a ton of books:
- The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
- Maps of consciousness;: I Ching, tantra, tarot, alchemy, astrology, actualism
- The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience
- Green Psychology: Transforming Our Relationship to the Earth
- Sacred Mushroom of Visions: Teonanácatl: A Sourcebook on the Psilocybin Mushroom
- Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca
PT461 – Vinitha Watson, CHT & Judson Frost – Holding Space, Hypnotherapy and Psychedelics, and the Importance of Courage
Psychedelics Today
11/17/23 • 63 min
In this episode of Vital Psychedelic Conversations, David speaks with two current Vital students: Certified Depth Hypnosis Practitioner and Founder and Executive Director of Zoo Labs, Vinitha Watson, CHT; and artist and outdoorsman with decades of experience in bodywork, structural integration, and Vipassana meditation: Judson Frost.
They talk about their personal paths: Watson’s work educating musicians about the music business and their value with Zoo Labs and Frost’s work as an artist; as well as how their experience as parents has grounded them, and how they found Vital. They discuss the importance of integration, having a process, and recognizing how long that can take; being adequately prepared and learning mindfulness skills ahead of a journey; and bringing courage to the space (and as the space-holder, encouragement). They talk about how they hold space, and how one needs to view integration from a spiritually-open perspective to enable people to find their own meanings behind what they experienced.
They discuss how Watson uses a combination of hypnotherapy, transpersonal psychology, and buddhism to create a slowed down mystical experience; how hypnotherapy can benefit a psychedelic experience; bodywork and how we can’t view the mind and body separately; and more. And since they’re nearing the end of their Vital experience, they discuss what they’ve gotten out of it, and reflect on something they didn’t expect: a collective feeling of regenerative healing inside their Vital community. Click here to head to the show notes page.
PT263 – Michelle Janikian – 920: The Magic Mushroom Holiday
Psychedelics Today
09/20/21 • 70 min
In this episode, Joe and Kyle celebrate 9/20 by talking with friend, writer, and Editor in Chief of the blog, Michelle Janikian. She talks about rituals, reconnection to family, and her book, Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion.
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