Adam Andros Aronovich - Meaning-Making, Psychedelics, and Masculinity

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Connor Beaton

Relationships, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This was an incredible conversation. Adam and I spoke over Zoom, and covered a ton of ground, but focused mainly on three major topics: why psychedelics are making such big waves right now, the impact of things like psilocybin and ayahuasca on men and their sense of masculinity, and our growing societal need for new therapies and new modes of thinking. Born in the urban jungles of Mexico City, raised mostly in Israel, and having lived in 7 different countries, Adam naturally embodies interculturalism. A psychologist, cognitive scientist, and medical anthropologist, he has also studied traditional systems of medicine in Mexico, India, and Peru, adopting a dialectical approach that integrates evidence-based science and traditional worldviews. He’s worked extensively in western psychiatric institutions and has spent time learning from a variety of indigenous and traditional healers around the world, trying to understand the diverse manifestations, conceptualizations of, and approaches to mental illness and mental health. Balancing between research and practice, he is an active member of the “Medical Anthropology Research Center” (MARC), and the “Interdisciplinary Psychedelic Studies” (IPS) group, both in Catalunya, while sharing his extensive experience facilitating transformational processes in a variety of psychedelic support and harm-reduction projects around the world, such as the Kosmicare Project in Portugal or the Zendo Project in the United States. Adam is an advocate for cognitive liberty, neurodiversity, and the integration of non-ordinary states of being into our culturally constructed definitions of normalcy and sanity, with a growing interest in the ecological and environmental dimensions of mental health and the importance of reciprocity, mutuality, and interdependence to our well-being. Connect with Adam -Presentation, Ayahuasca as Relational Medicine -Blog -Twitter -Instagram Are you looking to find purpose, navigate transition, or fix your relationships, all with a powerful group of men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today. Check out our Facebook Page or the Men's community. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Did you enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Podchaser. It helps our podcast get into the ears of new listeners, which expands the ManTalks Community Editing & Mixing by: Aaron The Tech See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Man Talk Show. I'm Connor Beaton. And joining me today is Adam Andros
0:15.7	Aronovich. This was such a great podcast. I just want to say before I even tell you about who Adam is, I just want to say that this
0:26.7	was one of my favorite interviews of the year.
0:30.3	Certainly, I mean, we covered a good breadth of topics, you know, from why psychedelics, things like ayahuasca and Silas Iban are making
0:43.1	such a huge cultural push right now. Why now? We talk about and sort of reflect on the effects
0:50.9	and impacts of ayahuasca on men and masculinity and why so many men are being drawn
0:55.9	towards things like ayahuasca and silas ibn and we sort of talk about the the cultural need for
1:07.2	different or sort of alternative psychological therapeutic modalities. And so we sort of look a look a little bit at
1:17.8	the current mental health system. We talked a little bit about, you know, where psychology and
1:24.4	therapy has taken us culturally and then why there's sort of this resurgence of
1:29.9	alchemy shamanism and some of these alternative healing modalities so let me tell you a little bit
1:36.8	about adam so born in the urban jungles of mexico city raised mostly in Israel and having lived in seven different countries.
1:46.6	He is very much about interculturalism.
1:49.9	He's a psychologist, cognitive scientist, and medical anthropologist, which we talk about.
1:54.6	I get him to define that.
1:56.3	He has also studied traditional systems of medicine in Mexico, India, and Peru, adopting a dialectical
2:02.2	approach that integrates and unites evidence-based science and traditional worldviews.
2:08.3	He has worked extensively in Western psychiatric institutions and has spent time learning from a variety
2:14.3	of indigenous and traditional healers around the world, trying to understand the
2:19.6	diverse manifestations, conceptualizations, and approaches to mental illness and mental health.
2:27.2	So balancing between research and practice, he is an active member of the Medical Anthropology
2:33.0	Research Center, which I didn't know as a thing,
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