In today’s Solidarity Fridays episode, Kyle and Joe are joined by author, Michelle Janikian. They discuss covid, ketamine, DMT for stroke patients, a psilocybin lab in Jamaica, and question if drug laws violate human rights. www.psychedelicstoday.com
In this episode, Kyle interviews Thoracic surgeon and author of The Art of Human Care, Dr. Hassan Tetteh, about his near-death experience, transcendental meditation, Death Over Dinner, finding purpose, and the power of listening. www.psychedelicstoday.com
In today’s Solidarity Fridays episode, Kyle and Joe discuss the drug war, psychedelic exceptionalism, and patent law in relation to Compass Pathways trying to patent commonalities in psilocybin-assisted therapy like holding hands. www.psychedelicstoday.com
In this episode, Joe interviews Vancouver-based serial entrepreneur and founder and CEO of NeonMind Biosciences, Penny White. She talks about taking NeonMind public and their current project: using psilocybin to combat obesity. www.psychedelicstoday.com
In today’s Solidarity Fridays episode, Kyle and Joe cover recent news, talk about several upcoming PT classes and events, and discuss the ethics of ayahuasca centers continuing to hold large group sessions during the pandemic. www.psychedelicstoday.com
In this episode, Kyle and Joe interview researcher and professor at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Matthew Johnson. They talk about the definition of consciousness and the use of religious/spiritual frameworks in psychedelic sessions. www.psychedelicstoday.com
In today’s Solidarity Fridays episode, Joe interviews Vermont-based filmmaker Colin Thompson about his newest "'Superbad' on mushrooms" movie, “Light Years:” a tribute to a fallen friend in which he played nearly every part. www.psychedelicstoday.com
In this episode, Joe interviews Director of ecological think tank The Institute of Ecotechnics, and publisher and CEO of Synergetic Press, Deborah Snyder. They discuss agriculture, Richard Evans Schultes, and Ralph Metzner. www.psychedelicstoday.com
In today’s Solidarity Fridays episode, Kyle and Joe discuss Eternal September, what happens when cannabis gets legalized, the term “plant medicine,” and what could happen to you if you inject psilocybin tea into your blood. www.psychedelicstoday.com
In this episode, Joe interviews Dr. Anne Wagner: Toronto-based clinical psychologist, founder of Remedy, and lead investigator on MAPS' trial of cognitive processing therapy + MDMA for PTSD. www.psychedelicstoday.com
In today’s Solidarity Fridays episode, Kyle and Joe discuss the protest at The US Capitol, how psychedelics can lead to an openness to conspiracy theories, and where we’re headed in the realms of technology, knowledge, and truth. www.psychedelicstoday.com
In this episode, Kyle interviews Veronika Gold and Harvey Schwartz, co-therapists, trainers, and founders of Polaris Insight Center. They also work as investigators in MAPS’ Phase 3 MDMA-assisted psychotherapy clinical trials. www.psychedelicstoday.com
In today’s Solidarity Fridays episode, Joe interviews founder and CEO of Wavepaths, Mendel Kaelen, about the psychedelic power of musical experiences, and what Wavepaths is creating with sensory-immersive psychedelic environments. www.psychedelicstoday.com
In today’s Solidarity Fridays episode, Joe interviews founder and CEO of Wavepaths, Mendel Kaelen, about the psychedelic power of musical experiences, and what Wavepaths is creating with sensory-immersive psychedelic environments. www.psychedelicstoday.com
In today’s Solidarity Fridays episode, Kyle and Joe talk about spirituality and spiritual development, intention-setting, religion, hypnosis and false memories, therapists imposing their own frameworks on clients, and shamanism. www.psychedelicstoday.com
In this episode, Joe interviews author of The Concussion Repair Manual, Dr. Dan Engle. They talk about concussions and TBIs, the safety and efficacy of psilocybin and CBD, and the brain’s ability to heal through various methods. www.psychedelicstoday.com
In today’s Christmas episode of Solidarity Friday, Kyle and Joe take a break from the news and instead sit down with Jonas Di Gregorio and Kristina Soriano of the Psychedelic Literacy Fund, a donor-advised fund working to raise money and co-finance the translation and publication of the most important books on psychedelic therapy into a variety of different languages. Their first project is both volumes of Stan Grof's The Way of the Psychonaut , which they hope to have translated into German, Fr...
In this episode, Joe interviews "Car Bomb"- the 9-year NHL veteran, 2-time Stanley Cup winner (as a member of the Chicago Blackhawks), founder of The Chapter Five Foundation (an organization helping athletes transition into post-sports life), and advocate for the healing power of psilocybin, Daniel Carcillo. Carcillo tells the story of his struggles and depression brought on from post-hockey life transition, 7 diagnosed concussions, and the death of his good friend and fellow player, Steve Monta...
In today’s Solidarity Fridays episode, Kyle and Joe talk about what they've been up to in the last few weeks: doing drugs! Kyle first tells us about his recent experiments with revisiting salvia (which is legal in his state) and how different the experiences were from his young-and-dumb experiments as a teenager- how smaller doses in more ceremonial settings with years of experience in breathwork-inspired non-ordinary states of consciousness helped him see salvia differently. He talks about feel...
In this episode, Joe interviews Dr. Thomas of Clarity Psychiatry in Boulder, Colorado. Thomas first discusses what he initially looks for in patients (low-lying fruit like a vitamin D deficiency or poor diet) and what he recommends for boosting immunity and improving overall health, then this becomes a bit of an "everything you ever wanted to know about ketamine and ketamine-assisted therapy" podcast. He talks about the range in treatment methods across conventional models and what you could exp...
In today’s Solidarity Fridays episode, Kyle and Joe sit down and discuss several topics in the news. First, they congratulate co-founder of Psymposia, President of Adelia, and friend of Psychedelics Today (and first podcast guest) Brett Greene, on Adelia being acquired by CYBIN, for the equivalent of about $15.75 million USD (!!). And they talk about Silo Pharma announcing an upcoming Phase 2B trial testing low-dose psilocybin and LSD on the effects of neurogenesis on patients with Parkinson's d...
In this episode, Joe interviews Ph.D., Professor at the University of Maryland focusing on economics and global business studies, Advisory Board Member of the Usona Institute and Synthesis Institute, and co-founder of the Transformative Capital Institute, Bennet Zelner. Zelner discusses the problems with our current economic, healthcare, therapeutic, and community paradigms- that our prevailing model is one of hyper-individualistic, drug-first action, compounded by a crisis of connection (the ep...
In today’s Solidarity Fridays episode, after a short and much-needed break, Kyle and Joe return, but don't really touch on any news. This time, they have a very open conversation largely focused on philosophy and capitalism. They dive into a lot of philosophical questions: are we reducing the mystical to the medical? Do we understand enough about spirit and somatic energies to measure them? How much are therapists and sitters interpreting mystical experience and assigning meaning to it for other...
In this episode, Joe interviews writer, director, and producer of the recent documentary, "The Way of the Psychonaut: Stanislav Grof's Journey of Consciousness," Susan Hess Logeais. The film, which we streamed and presented a panel for back in October, was co-produced by Stan Grof himself, and tells of his journey from his youth in Nazi-occupied Prague to Esalen to today, with much of Logeais and her theory-affirming life story mixed in. It features interviews with many big names, including Frit...
In today’s Solidarity Fridays episode, the typical Solidarity Fridays format is switched up yet again, this time with Joe interviewing author of best-selling book, The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name , and recent Joe Rogan Experience guest, Brian Muraresku. Because where do you go after Joe Rogan? Psychedelics Today, of course. Muraresku discusses how his fascination with Latin and Greek and the 1978 book, The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysterie...
In today’s Solidarity Fridays episode, the typical Solidarity Fridays format is switched up again, this time with Joe interviewing podcast host and psychiatrist specializing in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, Craig Heacock. Will Hall's 2 recent SF episodes spurred a lot of conversation, and led to Heacock reaching out to Psychedelics Today to counter some of Hall's points, and stand up a bit on behalf of psychiatry. He feels that while psychiatry isn't perfect, saying to replace it isn't helpfu...
In this episode, Joe interviews Psychedelics Today's first 3-time guest, Dena Justice of the Ecstatic Collective. They discuss the ins and outs of something we're all too familiar with: anxiety. They talk about how Western society's lack of community and focus on doing things yourself (and not asking for help) mixed with a weird pride in being overworked and stressed has created a world where we all deal with daily anxiety, and deal with it differently. She first became addicted to exercise, but...
In today’s Solidarity Fridays episode, Joe and Kyle review all of the big wins from the U.S. election, from Oregon decriminalizing drug possession and legalizing psilocybin therapy, to 4 states legalizing cannabis use for adults, to the most surprising (in terms of how far this movement has come), Washington D.C. decriminalizing plant medicines with an overwhelming 76% of voters in favor. And they talk about the other side of this good- how Oregon memes show just how little the majority of peopl...
In this episode, Joe interviews Ph.D., Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, and author specializing in the history of psychedelics and their relation to the medical industry, Erika Dyck. Dyck talks about her interest in Canadian history and specifically Saskatchewan, which was the first jurisdiction in North America to elect a socialist government. She talks about how it was clear in the early days of governmental support that they were reaching out to people with bold ideas, leading to ...
In today’s Solidarity Fridays episode, Joe and Kyle continue their conversation from last week with Will Hall: therapist, host of the Madness Radio podcast, author of Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness , and previous psychiatric patient diagnosed with schizophrenia. This week, Hall compares how the medical industry treats those seeking therapy and growth vs. how they treat the homeless and victims of sexual abuse, how the framework for mental disorders disrespects the individua...
