Welcome to Spirit Jim. There's an ancient shamanic saying, the plant doesn't heal you. The plant reveals you.

For over 10,000 years, humans have used cannabis as a sacred medicine, not to escape reality, but to penetrate deeper into it.

To see beyond the veil of conditioning, programming and ego identification that

keeps us trapped in patterns we don't even know we're running. Carl Jung said it perfectly.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Cannabis, when used with intention and reverence, is one of the oldest and

most powerful tools we have for making the unconscious conscious. And yet researchers today show

brain scans claiming cannabis destroys your brain. But what they conveniently emit are some

critical variables from their methodology.

What compounds were used? What dosage? What was the purity? What was the delivery mechanism?

Were participants using pharmaceutical-grade medicine or pesticide-laden street cannabis? In science,

this is called incomplete data. In the real world, we just

call it misleading. Paul's guest today, Ryan Sprague, probably knows more about cannabis than just

about anyone on the planet. Paul and Ryan are going to talk about the legitimate healing benefits

of this ancient medicine, expose what's really in most cannabis products,

and dive into the concept of the highly optimized human, someone who uses cannabis not to check out,

but to tune in deeper. Before we get started, we'd like to say thank you for listening,

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