159 - Martin Polanco & Maria Teresa Chavez (Crossroads Treatment Center)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2016
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Martin is the founder and director of the center, and Maria is a counselor helping patients integrate the experiences they have at Crossroads into more healthy lives. They use ibogaine, a very potent African hallucinogen, to help people with addictive behavior patterns break those patterns and "reset" their lives.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm an evil man |
| 0:05.0 | Don't you bother with me |
| 0:13.0 | Radio Mano, Papa Tchango |
| 0:30.0 | Radio Mano, Papa Tchango |
| 0:41.0 | Hello everybody, I'm coming to you from Topanga Canyon California this week |
| 0:47.0 | Home with the Mansons and I don't know, Crosby Stills Nash and Young |
| 0:52.0 | I think live back here for a while |
| 0:54.0 | It's this funky hippie bubble around Malibu |
| 1:00.0 | You drive up the PCH, Pacific Coast Highway for those of you who don't know Los Angeles |
| 1:06.0 | You drive up that beautiful road with the ocean on your left until you get to Topanga Canyon Boulevard |
| 1:14.0 | Take a ride and wind back into the canyon and start to see the tie-dye |
| 1:21.0 | and the VW camper vans and all the various forms of hippie to tritus, debris, interesting things |
| 1:32.0 | sculptures, yurt, I encounter to yurt the other day just walking around looking for somebody |
| 1:41.0 | Anyway, if you have been following my progress, many of you will say why the fuck isn't he in Thailand? |
| 1:50.0 | I thought he was going to Thailand, what's going on? |
| 1:53.0 | Good question ladies and gentlemen, very good question |
| 1:58.0 | In a nutshell, what happened is the Cassilda and I drove down from Portland, Oregon |
| 2:05.0 | and stopped in Mill Valley for a couple of nights, had some amazing, wonderful times in Mill Valley |
| 2:13.0 | One night with Dan Parade, sleep researcher, you'll hear a podcast episode that I recorded with him coming up soon |
| 2:21.0 | and another night with a woman, I think I mentioned in the intro last week who hung out with Terrence McKenna |
| 2:27.0 | and Terrence McKenna's bed week, you know, sort of hung out with a lot of these very smart, scientist, artist, hippie types in Mill Valley |
| 2:40.0 | and you know, those are our people, I don't know, I probably sound like I'm making fun of them, but those are definitely our people |
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