Episode description

It is this question that guides the conversation featured on this episode of Adventures Through The Mind, another Psychedelic Café episode.

Our guests are Maria Papaspyrou, Nir Tradmor, Natasja Pelgrom, and Renee Harvey.

For links to our participants work, full show notes, and to watch this episode in video, head to https://bit.ly/PsyCafe7

***Full Topics Breakdown Below***

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Episode Breakdown

• Introducing participants
• One clear thought on the question (round 1): What is the healing potential of expanded states?
• Open discussion (round 2)
• Entering into the “we” space, relational work, the healing of connection
• Getting permission from the plant | giving permission to meet ourselves
• The shadow of the mainstream medical psychedelic narrative
• The judgments against “recreational” psychedelic use
• The importance of arriving to psychedelics with beginner’s mind
• The psychedelic other | can we trust what “the medicine” tells us?
• The spirits have ego, too | negotiating with
• The purge as a healing mechanism
• Psychedelic marketing and the cringey direction of mainstream psychedelic culture
• “Who owns psychedelics?”
• The impact of psychedelics on how we approach death
• Reciprocity with psychedelics medicine
• Why do we sabotage ourselves?
• The healing potential of expanded states to help us connect with ourselves
• The value of sharing our gratitude for each other
• Belonging, feeling alone, and grieving the loss of belonging
• Psychedelics and working with psychosis
• Closing thoughts on the question (round 3)
• Social Media details for each participant

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