Welcome to the first episode of Inside Eyes. In this episode Laura lays out the purpose behind this season with thoughts on the political and spiritual significance of sexual trauma, followed by an interview with Spring Washam, renowned meditation teacher, Ayahuasca advocate, and author of A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage and Wisdom in Any Moment. Spring is considered a pioneer in bringing mindfulness-based healing practices to diverse communities. She is the founder of Lotus Vine Journeys, an organization that blends indigenous healing practices with Buddhist wisdom in Peru.

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People all over the United States are talking about access to entheogens and psychedelics, such as Ayahuasca, LSD, Psilocybin, & MDMA, as forms of medicinal healing. How people gain access to these (mostly) illegal medicines is the big question. Who currently has access to this type of healing and who will likely have it in the future? What is the difference between medicalization, legalization, and decriminalization? In episode 2 of the season, Laura interviews Ismail Ali of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies and Jag Davies of the Drug Policy Alliance to find out the answers to these questions and more.

For more on drug policy activism, check out Students for Sensible Drug Policy.

You can find Jag Davies on Twitter @jagdavies.

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Special thanks to Joey Seward of Left Field Studios for additional audio engineering!

In episode 3 of the season Laura interviews Shan, a tattoo artist and survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Shan talks about her experience healing with Ayahuasca and the unexpected effect that the medicine had on her Rheumatoid Arthritis.

You can see Shan's tattoo work on Instagram @needlesiren

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In episode 4 of the season Laura interviews Gloria, an astrology-loving, queer black femme. Gloria talks about a sexual assault she experienced in her 20s and the healing she found using Ketamine and Mushrooms. She shares about her experience being mixed race and queer and finding other people of color to connect with in the psychedelic world.

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In episode 5 of the season Laura interviews Jaime, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Jaime shares about how using MDMA & Mushrooms helped to heal around many symptoms, including suicidality. Jaime also talks about how MDMA supported them to build a more loving relationship to their body, as a non-binary transgender person.

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Special thanks to Joey Seward of Left Field Studios for additional audio engineering!

In episode 6, Laura interviews Jennifer Patterson, a breathwork facilitator and trauma-informed herbalist. She is a grief worker who uses plants, breath, & words to explore survivorhood, body(ies), and healing. In this interview, Jennifer talks about her healing processs with Iboga and LSD, as well as queerness, surviving child abuse, trichotillomania, and cultural appropriation of Indigenous people's entheogenic practices. She is the editor of the incredible collection of essays: Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti- Violence Movement (2016). You can find her on Instagram @corpusritual or at her website: http://ofthebody.net/

Here is a link to the article discussed in the episode, about Shipibo healers organizing in resistance to spiritual extractivism: https://amazonwatch.org/news/2018/0906-in-the-declaration-of-yarinacocha-shipibo-healers-organize-to-resist-spiritual-extractivism

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In episode 7 of the season Laura interviews Melissa about her DIY healing with MDMA & LSD. Unlike other episodes in this season, Melissa doesn't identify as having a specific sexual trauma, but rather describes a more elusive general wound around self-worth, love, and sexuality.

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Special thanks to Joey Seward of Left Field Studios for additional audio engineering!

In episode 8 of the season Laura interviews Rosa about using MDMA to heal from child sexual abuse. Rosa says she now thinks of her life as "before MDMA & after MDMA." Her MDMA experiences provided unexpected healing around migraines and body image

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Special thanks to Joey Seward of Left Field Studios for additional audio engineering!