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  • #11 – Integrating Life's Transformative Moments w/ Mitch Earleywine, PhD

    #11 – Integrating Life's Transformative Moments w/ Mitch Earleywine, PhD
    Mar 2 2024
    Show Notes This is a conversation with Dr. Mitch Earleywine. Mitch Earleywine, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology trained at Columbia University, Indiana University, and the Jackson VA Medical Center. He has over 20 teaching awards, including the Teacher of the Year Award from the University of Southern California and the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching from the State University of New York. He has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including dozens focused on psychedelics and their impact, addressing everything from how clinicians can improve their practice to ironing out methodical concerns. Over ninety of his papers address issues related to minoritized individuals. He’s also authored edited books address drugs of abuse, substance use problems treatment, subjective effects of psychoactive substances, and humor. He’s made media appearances as an expert consultant for Netflix series “Rotten,” the History Channel documentary “Marijuana: A Chronic History,” as well as an NPR. OUTLINE: Here are timestamps for the episode with references mentioned (00:00) - Conversation Highlights (00:55) - Introduction (03:16) – Conversation start. Taking risks as a professional (08:37) – Introducing "Integration" and Wise Interventions - https://www.wiseinterventions.org/ (15:11) – Defining Integration - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00221678221085800?journalCode=jhpa (21:20) – Earleywine's protocol for integration (27:28) – Cultivating relationships as a healthy move - https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/psymed.2023.0020. (33:46) – Lessons from Earleywine's dad (38:08) – Supporting questions for folks who are integrating (41:49) – Oceanic Boundlessness (46:30) – Trim tabs and treating depression (57:50) – Choosing identities, importance of selecting values (1:04:49) – Earleywine's relationship to buddhism and non-duality - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Water (1:13:53) – Are mindfulness and non-duality the same thing? Thoughts Without a Thinker, an introduction to buddhism for a western audience, by Mark Epstein https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37082.Thoughts_Without_A_Thinker (1:24:00) – Advice for counsellors, therapists and clinicians (1:10:55) – Does buddhism suggest we shouldn't have desires? (1:16:46) – Should we avoid suffering? There is no good or bad (1:21:20) – Thoughts Without a Thinker, by Mark Epstein Great book if you only read the introductions to buddhism intended for a western audience. Ignore the author's outdated claims about psychology, neuroscience or anything Freud related https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37082.Thoughts_Without_A_Thinker (1:28:11) – Power of intentional reflection combined with simple steps (1:40:43) – Introduction to 5-MeO-DMT with Aga Postawska - https://pnc.st/s/rupert-radio/670e439e/lessons-from-a-world-class-psychedelic-facilitator-w-aga-postawska (1:41:01) – Treating End of Life Anxiety with Psilocybin with Thomas Hartle - https://pnc.st/s/rupert-radio/f3d91148d12243c9/treating-anxiety-with-mushrooms-side-effects-include-improved-quality-of-life-w-thomas-hartle (1:44:01) – Roland Griffiths, Psychedelic Science pioneer - https://tim.blog/2022/12/08/roland-griffiths/ (1:48:26) – Don't Wake and Bake: Morning use predicts cannabis problems - https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-35741-009 Have you served as a trip sitter (someone who's sat with and supported another person undergoing a psychdelic experience) and want to help Mitch with his research by participating a quick and easy zoom call, you can reach Mitch and his team at 420research@gmail.com Thanks for tuning in! Find out more at https://rupert-radio.pinecast.co
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  • #10 – Becoming a Psychedelic Counsellor w/ Adrian Oberg

    #10 – Becoming a Psychedelic Counsellor w/ Adrian Oberg
    Aug 6 2021
    Show Notes

    This is a conversation with Adrian Oberg. Adrian is one of the first professionals to go through a Canadian Health Approved training to become a psychedelic clinical counsellor. Adrian works as a harm reduction professional and integration specialist who has been holding space for transcendent experiences for the past 6 yrs. He is the director of Victoria Association of Psychedelic Studies as well as the Celium, a volunteer based harm reduction organization.

    OUTLINE:
    Here are timestamps for the episode with references mentioned
    (00:00) - Intro
    (01:04) - Welcoming Exercise
    (16:14) – The value of "check ins"
    (20:16) – Training to be a legal psychedelic counsellor
    https://www.therapsil.ca/
    (30:00) – How to establish connection and support others
    (34:10) – Client centered care
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person-centered_care
    (42:40) – Adrian's history with psychedelics
    (48:47) – The war on drugs and against people of color https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000004642370/jay-z-the-war-on-drugs-is-an-epic-fail.html
    (52:01) – Studying psychedelics at school
    (54:00) – Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
    https://mapscanada.org/
    (1:01:40) – The importance of honesty
    (1:04:28) – Adrian's relationship with these medicines
    (1:06:50) – Potential for healing and growth
    (1:10:55) – Does buddhism suggest we shouldn't have desires?
    (1:16:46) – Should we avoid suffering? There is no good or bad
    (1:21:20) – Thoughts Without a Thinker, by Mark Epstein Great book if you only read the introductions to buddhism intended for a western audience. Ignore the author's outdated claims about psychology, neuroscience or anything Freud related https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37082.Thoughts_Without_A_Thinker
    (1:25:13) – Surrendering to the experience in a good way, and the buddha's notion of the third path or the middle way
    (1:32:33) – Do our hangups all come from childhood trauma?
    Already Free, by Bruce Tift. Excellent book on finding contentment and fulfilment in all moments
    https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/12400671
    (1:49:00) – Adrian book recommendation Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52036.Siddhartha

    Thanks for tuning in!
    You can connect with Blake Rupert on Facebook or Twitter at @blakerupert_

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  • #9 – Nature Connection and Mentoring w/ Stephanie MacKay

    #9 – Nature Connection and Mentoring w/ Stephanie MacKay
    Jun 15 2021
    Show Notes

    Stephanie MacKay, founder of Fianna Wilderness School - https://fianna.ca/
    This conversation is an exploration of nature based mentorship! We focus on the reasons someone might want to participate in a nature school and explore take aways that can help folks learn wherever they are in life.

    OUTLINE:
    Here are timestamps for the episode with references mentioned. (00:00) Highlight
    (00:40) Intro
    (02:00) Welcoming Exercise
    (09:03) – What is Nature Connection and Wilderness School?
    Wilderness Awareness School: https://www.wildernessawareness.org/
    Forest Schools: https://forestschoolassociation.org/what-is-forest-school/
    (16:01) – A typical day at Wilderness School
    (24:56) – Mentorship
    (31:05) – Public school systems connection to factories
    Sir Ken Robinson Ted Talk on Education: https://youtu.be/zDZFcDGpL4U?t=13
    Factory model school wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_model_school
    (34:15) – Field guides, resources for learning about nature
    (36:28) – Coyote Mentoring super power for learning and teaching
    (46:10) – Wilderness Awareness School, Duvall Washington: https://www.wildernessawareness.org/
    (47:02) – 3 Tools for mentoring: Trickster, Questioning and Didactic
    (48:00) – Art of Questioning
    Jon Young: https://www.jonyoung.online/
    (50:11) Lasting lessons and the Google Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_effect
    (55:22) – Shine Edgar Quote: https://rupert-radio.pinecast.co/episode/2e64a1b6/sound-healing-music-medicine-and-more-w-shine-edgar
    (56:44) – The value of risk
    (1:05:30) – Rights of passage and Initiation
    (1:15:20) – Sit Spot, aka the shortcut to nature connection
    (1:29:55) – Liminal spaces

    Thanks for tuning in!
    You can connect with Blake Rupert on Facebook or Twitter at @blakerupert_

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  • #8 – Using Psychedelics, Tips For Patients and Facilitators w/ Deus Fortier

    #8 – Using Psychedelics, Tips For Patients and Facilitators w/ Deus Fortier
    Apr 26 2021
    Show Notes The following is a conversation with Deus Fortier. Deus is a plant medicine facilitator who leads workshops in Mexico and does other forms of transformational coaching in Vancouver, Canada. To find out more about him go to https://www.deusfortier.com/ or https://www.thesomaheart.com/ Show Notes: (1:00) Starting a meeting with presence. Grounding, gratitude, and intention (2:44) Example of establishing a container, a welcoming ritual (9:51) Introducing Deus Fortier (11:00) Long term growth. Value of preparation and integration (13:05) Are Psychedelics for growth or healing? Potential limitations of western science in evaluating psychedelic healings Rak Razam on 5-MeO-DMT: https://youtu.be/0PtZ-58xZjQ (18:40) Bufo and 5-MeO-DMT Deus's partner Aga's episode https://pnc.st/s/rupert-radio/670e439e/lessons-from-a-world-class-psychedelic-facilitator-w-aga-postawska (19:15) How to prepare for optimal psychedelic outcomes Somatic Scan. https://www.mindfulnessmuse.com/mindfulness-exercises/increase-somatic-awareness-with-a-body-scan-mindfulness-exercise Also an introduction to Somatic Work. Waking The Tiger: Healing Trauma, by Peter Levine and Ann Frederick - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/384924.Waking_the_Tiger (27:00) Tips for solo psychedelic trips (31:30) Devon Christie, of Numinus Wellness. Emphasis on somatic experiencing for psychedelic processes https://numinus.ca/team/dr-devon-christie-md-ccfp (30:09) Spotlight of attention and addressing difficult sensations https://pnc.st/s/rupert-radio/d0244d42/psychedelic-buddhism-how-to-quit-suffering-w-andras-lenart (32:15) Science vs Spirituality Observational Studies: https://www.iwh.on.ca/what-researchers-mean-by/observational-vs-experimental-studies#:~:text=Observational%20studies%20are%20ones%20where,two%20types%20of%20observational%20studies. Initiative to collect data on psychedelic therapies https://www.quantifiedcitizen.com/ (35:44) Entourage effects. How psychedelics are both therapeutically potent as well as holistically powerful across "many dimensions of our beings simultaneously" https://psychedelicreview.com/the-entourage-effect-in-magic-mushrooms/ (40:33) Psychedelics eliciting "Mystical Experiences" that participants rate as 1 of their top 3 life experiences, research by R. Griffiths of John Hopkins University https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press_releases/2006/griffithspsilocybin.pdf (43:09) What should people avoid when going into a psychedelic experience? The importance of intentions (48:20) The basic don'ts (50:10) Examples of great psychedelic practitioners. The benefit of letting go, having support, and acknowledging whatever is true in the present moment (56:05) The value of having a facilitator, and group vs solo settings (1:01:19) The size of groups, 2:1 ratio of participants to facilitators (1:03:13) Research showing group therapy and solo therapy may have equal healing outcomes https://societyforpsychotherapy.org/individual-vs-group-psychotherapy/ (1:07:57) Role of Music in psychedelics You can also check out https://pnc.st/s/rupert-radio/2e64a1b6/australian-digeridu-master-and-plant-medicine-guide-shine-edgar The range of your sensory awareness, aka the Umwelt: https://eagleman.com/science/sensory-substitution/ And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygRNoieAnzI Medicine Songs, South American Icaros https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icaro (1:16:21) Modern medicine songs for Westerners https://www.youtube.com/user/BeautifulChorus And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(Jon_Hopkins_album) (1:18:00) Deus's Mentors: Satyen Raja: https://acceleratedevolutionacademy.com/ Chris Austen Fletcher: www.9Rings.ca www.HalfmoonHaven.ca www.WholeFamilyHealing.ca Trevor Yelich: https://www.numasomatics.com/trevor-yelich Dana Lynne Andersen: danalynneandersen.com awakeningartsacademy.com Paramahansa Yogananda: https://www.yogananda-srf.org/ "Authobiography of a Yogi" Blackfoot First Nations, Blood tribe of Southern Alberta: https://blackfootconfederacy.ca/ (1:22:15) What personality traits or practices are encouraged across different self development frameworks? Somatic scans David R. Hawkins: "Power Vs. Force" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19795.Power_vs_Force "Letting Go: The Pathway To Surrender" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16098910-letting-go?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=g4b6jAJyIJ&rank=1 John Vervaeke's 52 part series free on YouTube called "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY (1:27:15) Board game recommendations Pandemic: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30549/pandemic And Gloomhaven, fantasy RPG : https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/174430/gloomhaven (1:31:28) Imagination is one of the most important qualities we can cultivate Laura Dawn of the Psychedelic Leadership Podcast, on creativity, curiosity and imagination: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/0748f66c-d090-43f8-a683-865b426d0f99 (1:38:10) Passive and active integration (1:40:30) Radical accountability, ...
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  • #7 – Sound Healing: Music, Medicine and More w/ Shine Edgar

    #7 – Sound Healing: Music, Medicine and More w/ Shine Edgar
    Apr 6 2021
    Show Notes

    The following is a conversation with Shine Edgar. Shine is a renowned didjeridu master, sound healer and plant medicine guide with 30+ years of experience. He is also worked as a nurse and trained as a permaculture designer.

    (3:22) Western Australia Indigenous Group, Noongar https://tinyurl.com/yhk3bmhz
    (3:30) The Dreaming, how the world is sung into being. How to find your personal purpose https://tinyurl.com/2cz9fwfs
    (4:45) Noongar elder and Shine's mentor, Maxine Fumagalli. Maxine was an accomplished artist, poet, healer and teacher
    (7:23) Didjeridu for sound healing
    (20:06) "Consciousness Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom, Entheogens, and Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Growth", by Francoise Bourzat and Kristina Hunter https://tinyurl.com/743n3f29
    (22:40) What to look for in a psychedelic guide
    (25:48) How music and sound forms our reality
    (26:00) Plants responding to music https://tinyurl.com/jfsh3znz
    (30:10) Music and Psychedelics, for recreation or growth?
    (33:55) Safety in ceremony, the advantages of staying on a mat or bed, at night
    (37:24) The importance of listening! Tips to improve your listening https://tinyurl.com/t5h547us
    (41:31) Songlines or Dreaming Tracks, maps that are sung https://tinyurl.com/y48w3j67
    (49:27) Self Mastery (51:56) Tips for Self Mastery, becoming masterminds
    (59:00) Instruments overview (59:25) World Music Masters: Mamady Keïta, Master Drummer from Guinea. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakastani Sufi devotional music composer
    (1:03:20) Exercises for growing musicians
    (1:09:33) Being Nothing. Self acceptance and right effort. Particles vs. Waves, how things are solid or potentiality
    (1:17:28) The power of making the other band members sound great, not just yourself

    You can find more about Shine at: www.shinelikethesun.ca or reach him on facebook under Shine Edgar

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  • #6 – Quit Suffering With Psychedelic Buddhism: Hiking vs Jetpacks

    #6 – Quit Suffering With Psychedelic Buddhism: Hiking vs Jetpacks
    Mar 7 2021
    Show Notes

    Vancouver Psychedelic Meetup is pleased to bring you a talk by Blake Rupert.

    Blake shares his insights at the intersection of psychedelics and Buddhism. He will explore how we might integrate practices, enhance our epistemic and ontological foundations, and deeply ground ourselves in the unyielding present. Blake will consider how this knowledge can allow us to alleviate suffering, discover our true freedom, and surf the uncertainty in our lives.

    Blake is an accomplished mentor who combines a Buddhist practice with psychedelic insights and nature-based wisdom. He has a BA from Dalhousie where he doubled majored in psychology and philosophy, studying topics like consciousness and the feasibility of producing thinking machines.

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  • #5 – Psychedelic Buddhism: How to Quit Suffering w/ Andras Lenart

    #5 – Psychedelic Buddhism: How to Quit Suffering w/ Andras Lenart
    Feb 15 2021
    Show Notes

    Today's guest Andras Lenart works in health policy in the BC government. He also helps support compassionate access to psychedelic medicine through his work with TheraPsil. https://www.linkedin.com/in/andras-lenart/?originalSubdomain=ca

    The Psychedelic Society Online Meetup, on Feb 27th, 2021. Registration is free https://www.meetup.com/the-psychedelic-society-meetup/events/275977939/?action=rsvp&response=yes

    Resources Mentioned:

    • 5:00 Already Free, by Bruce Tift. An absolute must read for anyone interested in the intersection between Buddhism and Western Psychology or therapy. https://tinyurl.com/Already-Free-Goodreads
    • 9:25 Stanford professor of Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman on Neural Plasticity, including a section at the beginning on how early childhood experiences have profound effects. https://tinyurl.com/Andrew-Huberman-Podcast
    • 15:55 Be Like Water, Bruce Lee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJMwBwFj5nQ
    • 20:00 Gil Fronsdal, Audio Dharma, amazing online buddhist teacher. I'd recommend starting with the following introduction serieshttps://audiodharma.org/series/1/talk/1762/
    • 20:30 Theravada Buddhism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theravada
    • 20:45 Thoughts Without A Thinker, by Mark Epstein. One of the first attempts by a modern Westerner to explain what Buddhism is (that's the first part and the part I got the most value out of) and also to explore the similarities and differences of buddhism and freudian psychology. That later half I think is a bit dated and filled with faulty assumptions or assertions about how the brain or souls work.
    • 21:56 Main Claim of Buddhism: Desire is the source of all suffering. If you wish to end suffering, practice bare (simple) attention and mindfulness. See Thoughts Without A Thinker for more
    • 40:22 Andrew Feldmar on Entheogens & Radical Psychotherapy. We're referring to his "anti-intention" approach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seLZYIpqEw0
    • 42:30 Gabor mate intention setting https://tim.blog/2018/06/04/the-tim-ferriss-show-transcripts-dr-gabor-mate/
    • 49:43 How do psychedelics help buddhist practice? "Drugs And The Meaning Of Life", by Sam Harris https://samharris.org/podcasts/drugs-and-the-meaning-of-life/
    • 49:55 Sasquatch Music Festival https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasquatch!_Music_Festival
    • 56:24 Aren't Buddhist supposed to avoid drugs?
    • 59:20 Connected wisdom teachings of buddhism, aka the eightfold path wiki article https://tinyurl.com/Wiki8FoldPath
    • 1:03:42 Right vs. Wrong, is there good and bad? See Doing What's Beautiful, by Gil Fronsdal. https://www.audiodharma.org/talks/audio_player/10681.html
    • 1:04:07 10 points to Gryffindor, on the arbitrary scoring of moral actions. Know your memes https://tinyurl.com/19mjhs95
    • 1:10:25 Somatic or Embodied Experiencing, https://www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about-therapy/types/somatic-psychotherapy
    • 1:23:40 Buddhism as the 3rd Path or Middle Way, between aversion or craving

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  • #4 – Lessons From a World Class Psychedelic Facilitator w/ Aga Postawska

    #4 – Lessons From a World Class Psychedelic Facilitator w/ Aga Postawska
    Jan 13 2021
    Show Notes Work with Aga - https://www.kamboflow.com/ https://www.thesomaheart.com/ History of the Bufo alvarius Toad and Cultural use of 5-MeO-DMT - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8895112/ What is 5-MeO-DMT? - https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidcarpenter/2020/02/02/5-meo-dmt-the-20-minute-psychoactive-toad-experience-thats-transforming-lives/?sh=2c80fd0538a1 Who is doing the healing work? How to Guide for Psychedelic Therapists: Chapter on the Internal Healing Wisdom, by Mark Haden Executive Director of the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Canada - https://www.amazon.ca/Manual-Psychedelic-Guides-Mark-Haden-ebook/dp/B08MB98F26 Already Free, by Bruce Tift Registered Buddhist Counsellor - https://www.amazon.ca/Already-Free-Buddhism-Psychotherapy-Liberation/dp/1622034112/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= How we inherit our ancestor's experiences. Epigenetics - https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/grandmas-experiences-leave-a-mark-on-your-genes The Science of How Our Minds and Our Bodies Converge in the Healing of Trauma. PTSD and how traumatic experiences can linger in the body - https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/06/20/the-body-keeps-the-score-van-der-kolk/ The Importance of Supervision in Psychedelic Therapies - https://maps.org/news/bulletin/articles/429-maps-bulletin-spring-2018-vol-28-no-1/7260-clinical-supervision-in-mdma-therapy-training-spring-2018 "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself, by Michael Alan Singer - https://untetheredsoul.com/ Thoughts Without A Thinker, by Mark Epstein. A great introduction for westerners to buddhism, by a Harvard educated psychiatrist and one of the first westerners to learn practice modern buddhism. Note, in Blake's opinion the first half of this book is the most important as a historical account of buddhism. Epstein's notions of neuroscience is dated and he tends to overestimate the importance of Freudian theory. I appreciated his history lessons, not his analysis of the why things are - https://www.amazon.ca/Thoughts-Without-Thinker-Psychotherapy-Perspective/dp/0465050948 Somatic Scan. https://www.mindfulnessmuse.com/mindfulness-exercises/increase-somatic-awareness-with-a-body-scan-mindfulness-exercise Also an introduction to Somatic Work. Waking The Tiger: Healing Trauma, by Peter Levine and Ann Frederick - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/384924.Waking_the_Tiger Integrating Transformational Experiences, Rick Doblin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwEmZW7H05g Neuroplasticity and changing your patterns, https://medium.com/swlh/to-break-bad-habits-you-really-have-to-change-your-brain-the-neuroscience-of-change-da735de9afdf Aga recommends "Consciousness Medicine", by Francois Bouzat https://www.abebooks.com/9781623173494/Consciousness-Medicine-Indigenous-Wisdom-Entheogens-1623173493/plp Find out more at https://rupert-radio.pinecast.co
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