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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

97 - Amber Lyon (Journalist/Psychonaut)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2014

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Amber Lyon is a three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist, filmmaker, photographer, and explorer known for her use of submersion journalism, or becoming part of the story, to find the truth. Lyon is the founder of the news site, www.reset.me and the web show and podcast Reset with Amber Lyon. Lyon has traveled the world investigating natural cures, focusing on the ancient use of entheogens to treat and purge trauma. She ventured deep into the Amazon to study the Shipibo use of the psychoactive brew Ayahuasca, and studied medicinal mushroom use by native curanderas in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, Thailand and Indonesia.



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I started to realize after going down the rabbit hole for quite some time that's focusing

0:08.7

on all of this fighting and the destruction and everything, it's a never-ending battle.

0:13.4

So the way to solve this problem is to focus on healing at the individual level, because

0:18.5

collectively if we can all heal and radiate love and be able to be functional citizens

0:25.1

where we can make good decisions and actively be active in our governments and what's going

0:30.6

on in society, then collectively we're going to see dramatic change.

0:55.1

Hey y'all, welcome to another edition of tangentially speaking.

1:06.6

I'm Chris, your host, just back from Spain, pardon my jet lag.

1:11.7

Still have this chest cold, I don't know what's going on, it's been a month so sorry for

1:15.6

the voice.

1:16.9

And also sorry to those of you who are waiting for the next episode of talking out my

1:22.0

ass, the sub podcast that I do for subscribers only who have coughed up 20 bucks or three bucks

1:31.8

depending on what your subscription level is.

1:37.0

Mainly that's just a sort of show that you actually do when you hear these stories

1:42.1

from my traveling days because I hate to impose that sort of thing on anybody who hasn't

1:46.7

expressed, you know, shown in interest, I don't want to be that guy at the bar who

1:52.0

won't stop talking about himself.

1:54.4

Anyway, so back from Spain and getting back in the swing of things, had an interesting

2:01.1

time in Spain.

2:02.1

I was mainly there dealing with bureaucracy, stuff involving an apartment we own there and

2:09.2

banks and you know, residency and you know, all sorts of paperwork crap that I was dealing

2:15.0

with.

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