Brad Burge: Healing & Human Optimization Through Psychedelics
Wellness + Wisdom Podcast
Josh Trent
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
MAPS isn't just developing treatments for mental illnesses. We're not just working within the system; we're also challenging the system. There's this idea that there's something broken in our brains such that we need to medicate it with these laboratory designed pharmaceuticals and that we as human beings are essentially damaged; that we're not perfect and we need to reach outside of ourselves to be healthy and happy. That's why we have our culture's fascination with drugs. - Brad Burge
What is possible when a suitable candidate for psychedelics begins using them to heal from anxiety and mental illness? How can plant medicines help us in human optimization through unlocking the release of suppressed thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations?
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In Wellness Force Radio episode 210, editor of Manifesting Minds, Director of Strategic Communications for Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), Brad Burge, explains how psychedelics can help people get back in touch with ancient ways of being, connect with the world, and help aid them in their journeys towards extreme habit change including ending addiction.
Discover how the assisted therapeutic use of psychedelics and plant drugs is helping people liberate their consciousness, heal from PTSD, and integrate new lifestyle changes.
"Using psychedelics for therapy doesn't look like what we've been taught to think psychedelics look like. It's not a party in a room. People are not just getting off their heads and having a great time; that doesn't happen." - @BradBurge_ http://bit.ly/wfpodcast
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Featuring essays and interviews with Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley, Ram Dass, Albert Hofmann, Alexander (Sasha) Shulgin, Daniel Pinchbeck, Tim Robbins, Arne Naess, and electronic musician Simon Posford, as well as groundbreaking research and personal accounts, this one-of-a-kind anthology is a "best of" collection of articles and essays published by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Topics include the healing use of marijuana and psychedelics--including MDMA, ibogaine, LSD, and ayahuasca--for PTSD, anxiety, depression, and drug addiction, as well as positive effects of these substances in the realm of the arts, fami
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| 0:00.0 | What Maps is doing is taking these drugs that have historically been excluded from science, excluded from science funding, and just generally kind of laughed at and |
| 0:14.3 | sidelined because of all the decades of propaganda and making them real at least as |
| 0:20.0 | far as our culture is concerned. Running through the FDA trials, |
| 0:24.8 | doing double blind placebo controlled trials, |
| 0:27.0 | speaking the language that our biomedical industry |
| 0:30.5 | needs to hear in order to approve and regulate medicines. That's Brad Burge and |
| 0:37.0 | this is episode 210 of Wellness Force Radio. What's up my friend? It's your |
| 0:42.4 | host Josh Trent and welcome back to another |
| 0:44.5 | episode for your weekly access to global experts in all things wellness as we |
| 0:49.0 | discover the physical and emotional intelligence we need to live life well. |
| 0:53.0 | What's up everyone? Today on the podcast, we're talking with Brad Burge. |
| 0:57.0 | From a multidisciplinary association for psychedelic studies, otherwise known as Maps, an organization that is partnered with so many C |
| 1:07.0 | in the as well as Maps, an organization that has partnered with so many leaders and top influencers in our wellness world |
| 1:16.4 | to help optimize the human experience through the healing power of psychedelics as well as alternative medicines that allow for some of the deepest healing possible. Now this is going to be a controversial show. I'm not going to sugarcoat this one if you have no interest in psychedelics whatsoever this show is going to light a spark in your mind for the |
| 1:25.2 | Renaissance we're experiencing as a nation and a world around the power of these plants and |
| 1:29.4 | substances. Now what's most fascinating about today's podcast is not only are we diving |
| 1:34.4 | into human optimization through psychedelics but we also find ourselves at a very |
| 1:39.3 | pivotal time in the rise of human consciousness with marijuana now being legalized at the state level, soon to be federal. |
| 1:46.0 | And CBD sales at a record high, we're exploring how to use these powerful tools in our |
| 1:50.4 | arsenal to help transcend mental illness and anxiety. |
| 1:53.6 | Now a quick caveat about the show today, |
| 1:56.0 | in no way is designed as medical advice, |
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