Dr. Adele Lafrance is a clinical psychologist, research scientist, author, and co-developer of emotion-focused treatment modalities, including Emotion-Focused Family Therapy. https://dradelelafrance.com/ Dr. Adele LaFrance https://psychedeliclove.org/ Also check out www.Gatheringgroups.ca to access our plant medicine retreats in Canada. thanks Peg Peters...
Rev Dr Jessica Rochester is an ordained Interfaith Minister with a Doctorate in Divinity. She is the Madrinha and President of Céu do Montréal, a Santo Daime Church she founded in 1997 in Montréal, Canada. From 2001 to 2017 she worked with Health Canada to achieve the recognition of the Santo Daime as a legitimate religion and the right to import the Santo Daime Sacrament for ritual use. https://www.revdrjessicarochester.com/ Also check out www.GatheringGroups.ca to learn about our sacred mushro...
The Psilocybin Connection: Psychedelics, the Transformation of Consciousness, and Evolution on the Planet-- An Integral Approach by author Dr. Jahan Khamsehzadeh. https://psychedelicevolution.org/ also check out www.GatheringGroups.ca to access our in-person medicine retreats in Canada. Peg Peters
Tom Riedlinger is an author, occasional artist, researcher, and licensed mental health counselor. He has written and lectured extensively on psychedelic plants and the psychology of religion, with an emphasis on mystical experience. A Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and former Associate in Ethnomycology at Harvard Botanical Museum, Tom holds a degree in psychology from Northwestern University and in theological studies with a major in world religions from Harvard Divinity School. His pub...
Rueben George the səlilwətaɬ leader and grandson of Chief Dan George reflects on the unfolding impacts of colonization and what it means to embrace spirit. Rueben's book is called It Stops Here. Check out his website https://twnsacredtrust.ca/ Peg Peters is the host and runs GatheringGroups.ca
Stephen Gray is a teacher and writer on spiritual subjects and sacramental medicines. He has worked extensively with Tibetan Buddhism, the Native American Church, and with entheogenic medicines. His latest book, How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World is an amazing collection of authors and thinkers who are brought together in this amazing collection. • With contributions from Christopher Bache, Zoe Helene, Dennis McKenna, Martina Hoffmann, The Dank Duchess, Jamie Wheal, Grandmother Maria Alice...
The use of entheogens, or psychedelics, is out of the closet today. LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, and other medicines once associated only with the counterculture are now being legally studied for their healing properties. But as Rachel Harris shows, the underground use and study of psychedelics by women dates back to the Eleusinian Mysteries of ancient Greece. Harris interviews the modern women elders carrying on this tradition to gather their hard-won wisdom of experience. We explore the Any reader i...
Don Lattin has been writing about altered states of consciousness since the 1970's. We explore is his latest book book, God on Psychedelics: Tripping across the rubble of Old-Time Religion. http://www.donlattin.com/ Peg Peters is an ordained minister and runs a group psychedelic model called www.GatheringGroups.ca
Dave Phillips is a therapist and trainer for TheraPsil and Peg Peters is an ordained minister and together they are exploring psychedelics and spirituality.
Dr. Richards was a Lead Psychologist on an innovative, simultaneous group administration high-dose psilocybin trial with cancer patients at the Bill Richards Center for Healing in Rockville, Maryland. This cutting-edge, purpose-built psychedelic medicine clinic—located in a busy outpatient oncology center, is the first of its kind in the world, and may serve as a prototype for future Sunstone Therapies clinics nationwide. He currently works with Sunstone Therapies. Rev Peg Peters of www.Gatherin...
Valeria McCarroll, PhD, MFT, is a teacher and a cosmic aesthete. Formally trained as a psychedelic guide, she is faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies in the Integral and Transpersonal Department, where she teaches on psychedelics. Valeria stewards a contemporary body of offerings, Somadelics ℠, a visionary path for the transformation of trauma. Offering embodiment practices that weave together insights from tantra, psychedelic medicine, social justice, and visionary cosmology,...
Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D., is professor emeritus at Northern Illinois University and a former visiting scientist at Johns Hopkins. The coeditor of Psychedelic Medicine and the author of Psychedelic Horizons, he has spoken at international conferences on psychedelics, consciousness, and psychedelic science. He lives in Sycamore, Illinois. Books by Thomas - https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/thomas-b-roberts/862752/ Peg Peters is an ordained minister and founder of www.GatheringGroups.ca a group model f...
Hunt Priest is an Episcopalian minister who was a participant in a psilocybin study involving religious professionals at John Hopkins University. His life was change and as a result he started Ligare which is an open network of people who desire legal and safe access and believe that Christianity and other existing religious traditions offer paths for preparing, experiencing, and integrating mystical experiences, including those occasioned by sacred plants and compounds. Also check out www.Gathe...
Dr. Houman Farzin has recently started the first legal treatments of physician-supervised home-based psilocybin-assisted therapy in Montreal, Canada. He is a lecturer at McGill University medical school, where he earned his medical degree and trained as a family physician. Check out Dr. Houman's music here - https://open.spotify.com/artist/2fXgrHYdakpvTIGHpNSz30?si=32GB_FtVRtC-Ui8fZQNGRQ also check out www.Gatheringgroups.ca for online group work to prepare you for plant medicine journeys. hoste...
Leor Roseman is a postdoc at the Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College London, where he also received his PhD and MRes; under the supervision of Dr Robin Carhart-Harris and Prof David Nutt. His research interests are diverse and cover neuroscientific, phenomenological, therapeutic, and psychosocial aspects of psychedelic use. Currently, Leor is investigating relational processes and group dynamics in psychedelic rituals. His main line of research is examining the potential of psyched...
Dr. Sandra Parker is a Registered Psychologist living in Vancouver who, for over 30 years, has helped people turn toward their inner experience with compassion. Her new book, Embracing Unrest: Harness Vulnerability to Tame Anxiety and Spark Growth, which invites people to tune in to “unrest”: a spike of nervous system activation that heralds vulnerability. We talk about how psychedelics and especially group work can help us regulate our nervous system prior to any active medicine session. hosted...
Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa) aka Dr. Don Trent Jacobs is faculty in the School of Leadership Studies at Fielding Graduate University. We talk about the kinship or indigenous worldview in contrast to the dominant worldview and how trance-based learning or altered-state knowing (psychedelic) is essential to restore in our modern world if we are to heal as a species and restore our connections to ourselves, others and the biosphere.
Dr. Erika Dyck, Professor, Canada Research Chair in the History of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan explores the cutting edge research in the 1950's and 1960's that was happening in Canada using psychedelic therapy. Her latest book, The Acid Room: Psychedelic Trials and Tribulations of Hollywood Hospital explores the story of more than 6000 supervised acid trips, as part of the burgeoning (and controversial) field of psychedelic psychiatry in Vancouver Canada. https://www.amazon.ca/Acid-Room...
Dr. Darcia Narvaez, professor of Psychology at Notre Dame, talks about her new book, Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth. We explore the insights that this worldview framework has to offer those interested in using plant-medicines to help bring balance healing to our world. https://darcianarvaez.com/ https://www.kindredmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/Worldview-Chart-Starry-Sky-12-2021-FINAL.pdf For more information on psyched...
Dr. Mark Haden, was the Executive Director of MAPS Canada (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) for 10 years and now is the Vice President of Business Development for Clearmind Medicine. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia School of Population and Public Health. He is one of the top drug reform policy experts in Canada and is an outspoken advocate for creating accessible programs for psychedelic therapy. https://markhaden.com/?page_id=7 https://th...
Dr. William Richards is one of the God-Fathers of the psychedelic movement having conducted thousands of sessions with patients throughout his 60 years of research. Bill is a psychologist in the Psychiatry Department of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Bayview Medical Center. He has agreed to be an expert witness in the Canadian Charter Challenge case on behalf of Therapcil and the cancer patients who are seeking legal access to this medicine. This conversation is absolutely amaz...
Dr. Ingrid Pacey is a psychiatrist who was trained in the therapeutic use of LSD in the 1960's. She shares her personal story of her first psychedelic experience and how that changed her life. She talks about LSD, MDMA, mushrooms and Holotropic breathwork, her training with Stan Grof and why these substances are so key at this moment in history.
Dr. Bruce Tobin, is a retired psychologist and president and founder of Therapcil. He shares his own personal story of how he used psilocybin to treat his depression and cancer diagnosis and why he believes these substances are such important tools for therapists. check out www.therapcil.ca
Thomas Hartle has terminal cancer and was the first Canadian to legally use psilocybin (magic mushrooms) to treat his end of life anxiety with a therapist. He was granted a Section 56 exemption from Health Canada two years ago. He says the one time treatment changed his life and gave him a contentment and a joy that he has never had before. He is joined by his hospice worker John Simpson who has journeyed with Thomas for the past few years. They tell the story of transformation and how this trea...
Jim Doswell is a former federal treaty negotiator with First Nations in B.C, Canada. who applied for a ministerial exemption to use psilocybin to aid in his therapy for PTSD. This is his story. Jim Doswell is now on the Board of Therapsil helping give leadership. Check out www.Therapsil.ca to donate to help with the Charter Challenge
'Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you' DW Winnicott. Charlotte Jackson is a registered clinical counsellor working in Vancouver and is advocating for the rights of Canadian patients to gain legal access to Psilocybin for therapeutic use. Charlotte Jackson can be found at http://www.charlottejackson.ca/about To donate and support this Charter Challenge please check out. https://therapsil.ca/...
Laurie Brooks, a mother of four, was diagnosed with terminal cancer and heard about a cutting edge new treatment for end of life anxiety. Laurie and her therapist, Dave Phillips, join us on the podcast to talk about the changes she experienced from this amazing therapy model that they want made available to all Canadians. Check out Laurie's Blog - https://www.lauriesplace.ca/ Also go to https://therapsil.ca/ for more information on the Charter Challenge....
Canadians in medical need do not have safe, legal, equitable or timely access to medical psilocybin and psilocybin therapy. This urgently needs to change. To solve this, patients are taking the federal government to court. Today on the podcast we have Paul Lewin, https://lewinsagara.ca/lawyers/ a lawyer who is helping head up a Charter Challenge case on behalf of end of life cancer patients in Canada who are seeking legal access to Psilocybin for end of life anxiety through a doctor. If patients...
Another little twist of focus as Peg and I begin to talk about what a Christian faith could look like AFTER we've walked away from Christianity. How can we have a Christian spirituality without capitulating our core values? And, can magic mushrooms actually be seen as a ritual in this sort of church community? These are just some of the questions and topics Peg and I explore. Also, check out Peg's new webpage, www.psychedelicjesus.ca
We were so excited about our first "guest" interview. Jodi is a long time friend of us both and my teaching partner training therapists in safely using psilocybin in therapy. She is a gifted therapist with specialties in eating disorders and working with women toward experiencing their inner power and connection to the divine feminine. She is a wife, mom and grandmother. She has sooo much wisdom to share and we hope you enjoy this conversation a much as we did.
