#4 - Fashion, Spirituality and Integration

#4 - Fashion, Spirituality and Integration

In this episode, James meets with Evacheska deAngelis a Psycho-Spiritual Guide, and founder of founder of Temple Sotto Luce. They delve into a conversation about the impact the psychedelic movement has had on music, culture and fashion as well as her experience with psychedelic healing including her experience training at the Ayahuasca Foundation. She highlights the current lack of ethnic diversity at ayahuasca retreats and the importance of increasing accessibility to these healing experiences.    Evancheska's work [https://www.templesottoluce.com/testimonials] Changa Institute [https://www.changainstitute.com/] Psychedelic fashion  ` [https://www.lovetoknow.com/life/style/psychedelic-fashion] Ayahuasca [https://www.drugscience.org.uk/drug-information/ayahuasca/] Mdma [https://www.drugscience.org.uk/drug-information/mdma/] Lsd [https://www.drugscience.org.uk/drug-information/lsd/] Psilocybin [https://www.drugscience.org.uk/drug-information/psilocybin/] Shamanic [https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/shamanism#:~:text=Shamanism%20is%20a%20tradition%20of,states%20of%20consciousness%20(ASC).] Ayahuasca Foundation [https://www.ayahuascafoundation.org/] Big pharma [https://www.drugwatch.com/manufacturers/] Temple Sotto Luce [https://www.templesottoluce.com/]

#3 - Lessons from 50 Years of Prohibition

Richard Miller shares how the foundation of his journey in clinical psychology, led to his interest in psilocybin and eventually led him to become an advisor at Changa. Richard highlights the unique privilege of individuals who are now fully certified facilitators – being some of the first and only in the USA. However, whilst he praises developments in Oregon which have led to Psilocybin Facilitation being possible, Richard emphasizes the need for caution as the field advances, stressing the importance of a rigorous vetting process for facilitators to ensure they possess adequate training and specialization to allow the field to further expand. Finally, Richard discusses his experiences with existentialism and the profound impact of the psychedelic journey, he highlights the importance of mindfulness and its importance in his own work such as in his recovery program, Coke-Enders.   Richard Miller books [https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Dr.-Richard-Louis-Miller/author/B073RX3NLX?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true]  T-Groups [http://choicesmhc.com/trenton/t-groups.htm#:~:text=What%20is%20a%20t%2Dgroup,face%2Dto%2Dface%20situations.]  LSD [https://www.drugscience.org.uk/drug-information/lsd/] Cocaine [https://www.drugscience.org.uk/drug-information/cocaine/] Heroin [https://www.drugscience.org.uk/drug-information/heroin/] Alcohol [https://www.drugscience.org.uk/drug-information/alcohol/] Existential philosophy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism#:~:text=Existentialism%20is%20a%20form%20of,and%20value%20of%20human%20existence.] Coke Enders [https://www.cokendersalcoholdrugprogram.com/] Changa Institute [https://www.changainstitute.com/]

#2 - Growing Psilocybin Mushrooms with Willy T

In this episode, we meet with Willy T, one of the first people to complete the Psilocybin Facilitator training at the Changa Institute; now founder at TripzOregon [https://tripzoregon.com/] and head of the Psilocybin Facilitators Association. He discusses his own personal experiences with psilocybin including the importance of having a facilitator within psilocybin trips as well as delving into his current project of cultivating mushrooms. Willy explains how through acknowledging the various effects of different psychedelic mushrooms, they can be bred to maximise their effectiveness within psychotherapy.      TripzOregon [http://www.tripsoregon.com/] Changa Institute [https://www.changainstitute.com/] Psilocybin Facilitators Association [https://psilocybinfacilitatorassociation.com/f/who-we-are] Types of Psilocybin mushroom [https://www.growbarato.net/blog/en/how-many-types-of-magic-mushrooms-exist/] Amanita Mushroom [https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/amanita-muscaria.php] Lions Mane [https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/lions-mane-mushroom] Neurotropic [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/neurotropic] MAPS [https://maps.org/about-maps/] Shroomers Reddit [https://www.reddit.com/r/shroomers/]

#1 - First licensed facilitators in Oregon with Jeanette Small

In this episode, we meet with Jeanette Small, a psychiatrist with a breadth of clinical experience providing crisis response, counselling and psychotherapy to a variety of populations and founder of the Psilocybin Services, Lucid Cradle.  Being one of the first people to become a licensed facilitator via the Changa Training Program, Jeanette talks about becoming one of the first Psilocybin Facilitators in Oregon as well as creating an effective set and setting within her work and the importance of managing expectations within the experience.   Changa [https://www.changainstitute.com/] Changa training [https://changainstitute.thinkific.com/]  Lucid Cradle [https://www.lucidcradle.com/]  Dr David Luke [https://www.gre.ac.uk/people/rep/faculty-of-education-and-health/dr-david-luke]  Parasympathetic nervous system [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK553141/#:~:text=The%20parasympathetic%20nervous%20system%20predominates,digestion%20and%20urination.%5B1%5D] Cortasol [https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/the-role-of-cortisol-in-the-body#:~:text=Cortisol%20is%20a%20steroid%20hormone,cortisol%20can%20cause%20health%20problems.] PTSD [https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/ptsd/what-is-ptsd] Treatment Resistant Depression [https://www.appi.org/Products/Mood-Disorders/Treatment-Resistant-Depression] Treatment Resistant Anxiety [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7653736/] Psilocybin Facilitator [https://www.changainstitute.com/program] Psilocybin [https://www.drugscience.org.uk/drug-information/psilocybin/] Psychospiritual [http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en/development/11829090] psychedelics explorers guide book [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Psychedelic-Explorers-Guide-Therapeutic-Journeys/dp/1594774021]  Michael Pollan – How to Change your Mind Book [https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=568184447&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB909GB909&sxsrf=AM9HkKl8tLH1suIsc8JkBJHkKOnaS3UW3w:1695648186093&q=How+to+Change+Your+Mind:+What+the+New+Science+of+Psychedelics+Teaches+Us+About+Consciousness,+Dying,+Addiction,+Depression,+and+Transcendence&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAB2MsYoCQRBEERE0MLnQqDAUYVwDwc1EAxPlQI_jwtmZdmdQu2V7VtmPuJ_wK_y8Wy97VY-qfvdjYK5mtpg3TsdDU5osO2XLmV_e_WR0drkpRM7G1ilIlb9ZIXxpnr3fzlYeSIJ1sFwSfqSusIvsc3wHm5ACYU8PHFwkdgQ54VMbF8jTJTrFkWwbFF-KVSF1wlpYXZRamVSn2DSRyylW3keXonDb0K1q1T9b9jhWtl0Q-_f_q9f5A5RFHZDMAAAA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiC3q7e7cWBAxU187sIHanOBB0QgOQBegQIMRAG] David Nutt – Psychedelics Book [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Psychedelics-revolutionary-drugs-change-expert/dp/1529360536] Aldous Huxley Books [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Aldous-Huxley/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AAldous+Huxley] Stan Tatkin [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Stan-Tatkin/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AStan+Tatkin]