Questioning the Stories: Awakening Through Ceremony, Identity & Belonging with Gil Bar-Sela

What happens when you start questioning everything you were taught about who you are, what’s real, and how we’re meant to heal?

In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, Nadja Haldimann sits down with Gil Bar-Sela — a psychedelic guide, facilitator, and trainer from Israel whose work bridges ancient wisdom, queer identity, and modern healing.

Together, they explore how Gil’s journey — from apprenticing with a medicine woman in the lineage of María Sabina to guiding others through expanded states of consciousness — has led him to challenge mainstream narratives around healing, identity, and belonging.

Gil shares insights on:

• Growing up queer in Israel and how it shaped his relationship with identity and freedom
• Apprenticing in a sacred psilocybin lineage and what it taught him about ceremony, healing, and humility
• Questioning the status quo of Western models of therapy and transformation
• Merging psychology with indigenous wisdom in his medicine work
• How community, compassion, and deep listening can transform personal and collective conflict
• Why integrating expanded states is just as important as accessing them
  
  

This is a spacious, thought-provoking conversation that invites you to look at your own assumptions — and consider the possibility that healing isn’t about fixing, but about remembering.

Connect with Gil:
website: gilbarsela.com
Instagram: @gilbarsela

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