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Daniel McQueen - DMTx and Future Psychedelic Technologies
Psychedelics Today
Psychedelics Today, LLC
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2018
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Download During this episode of Psychedelics Today, your host Joe Moore interviews Daniel McQueen of Medicinal Mindfulness in Boulder, CO about his DMTx project and some of the reasons he is so interested in the DMTx project. 
Daniel discovered meditation and spiritual practices at twelve and has been interested in exploring inner states ever since. He apprenticed under a number of shamanic teachers and has been a practicing intentional journeyer for over 16 years. For Daniel, working in the professional field of Cannabis and Psychedelics isn't a career interest, but represents a core identity and life calling. Finding a place to honor such a life calling within a world that has until recently prohibited it has been an interesting challenge. After graduating from the University of Arkansas with a degree in Communication, Daniel traveled down a many forked and unmarked road through the wild terrain of political activism, corporate accountability research and campaign finance reform for many years in Washington, DC. Disillusioned by the city, he moved to Florida and opened a small meditation center to explore grassroots community organizing before moving to Boulder, CO and returning to school at Naropa University. Daniel earned a Masters Degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa and received advanced training in MDMA-assisted psychotherapy through a year internship with the MAPS Boulder MDMA for PTSD Study. It was his experience with MAPS that inspired Daniel to explore alternative visions in cannabis and psychedelic activism and entrepreneurship. Daniel bridges transpersonal paradigms with the grounded clinical and organizational skills necessary to begin addressing the significant ecological and mental health crises facing our society today. Although Daniel no longer practices as a clinical psychotherapist, he supports his clients as a teacher, coach, ally and event facilitator, providing individual and group transformational experiences and deeply held intentional conversations. In his practice, Daniel quickly realized that the most important intervention he could provide to his clients, who were isolated and longed for meaningful contact with others, was a sense of community. Medicinal Mindfulness is, in a very real way, a cultural intervention that provides a safe and transformational community container for healing and awakening... a program based on skill development and not dogma. Since 2012, Daniel has been teaching a psychedelic harm prevention and intentional psychedelic use course called Psychedelic Sitters School. Since the legalization of recreational cannabis in Colorado, he has been facilitating group journey experiences called Conscious Cannabis Events and guiding individual cannabis journeys. In addition to his work with Medicinal Mindfulness, Daniel has a successful spirituality and life coaching practice with his wife, Alison, through their company, Aspenroots Counseling LLC. Highly skilled in identifying and cultivating giftedness in young people and supporting significant life transitions, Daniel is inspired to support passionate and talented individuals striving to live into their calling. A primary focus of his practice involves assessing and addressing the benefits and difficulties related to psychedelic and cannabis use and misuse. Daniel co-founded the Naropa Alliance for Psychedelic Studies and helped organize the first annual Psychedelic Symposium at Naropa University in 2012.
Show Notes
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- What is DMTx
- Who originated the concept.
- Dr Rick Strassman and Dr Andrew Gallimore.
- Daniel's story of a very intense and meaningful DMT experience
- Much more!
Resources Mentioned
Daniel McQueen, MA
Daniel discovered meditation and spiritual practices at twelve and has been interested in exploring inner states ever since. He apprenticed under a number of shamanic teachers and has been a practicing intentional journeyer for over 16 years. For Daniel, working in the professional field of Cannabis and Psychedelics isn't a career interest, but represents a core identity and life calling. Finding a place to honor such a life calling within a world that has until recently prohibited it has been an interesting challenge. After graduating from the University of Arkansas with a degree in Communication, Daniel traveled down a many forked and unmarked road through the wild terrain of political activism, corporate accountability research and campaign finance reform for many years in Washington, DC. Disillusioned by the city, he moved to Florida and opened a small meditation center to explore grassroots community organizing before moving to Boulder, CO and returning to school at Naropa University. Daniel earned a Masters Degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa and received advanced training in MDMA-assisted psychotherapy through a year internship with the MAPS Boulder MDMA for PTSD Study. It was his experience with MAPS that inspired Daniel to explore alternative visions in cannabis and psychedelic activism and entrepreneurship. Daniel bridges transpersonal paradigms with the grounded clinical and organizational skills necessary to begin addressing the significant ecological and mental health crises facing our society today. Although Daniel no longer practices as a clinical psychotherapist, he supports his clients as a teacher, coach, ally and event facilitator, providing individual and group transformational experiences and deeply held intentional conversations. In his practice, Daniel quickly realized that the most important intervention he could provide to his clients, who were isolated and longed for meaningful contact with others, was a sense of community. Medicinal Mindfulness is, in a very real way, a cultural intervention that provides a safe and transformational community container for healing and awakening... a program based on skill development and not dogma. Since 2012, Daniel has been teaching a psychedelic harm prevention and intentional psychedelic use course called Psychedelic Sitters School. Since the legalization of recreational cannabis in Colorado, he has been facilitating group journey experiences called Conscious Cannabis Events and guiding individual cannabis journeys. In addition to his work with Medicinal Mindfulness, Daniel has a successful spirituality and life coaching practice with his wife, Alison, through their company, Aspenroots Counseling LLC. Highly skilled in identifying and cultivating giftedness in young people and supporting significant life transitions, Daniel is inspired to support passionate and talented individuals striving to live into their calling. A primary focus of his practice involves assessing and addressing the benefits and difficulties related to psychedelic and cannabis use and misuse. Daniel co-founded the Naropa Alliance for Psychedelic Studies and helped organize the first annual Psychedelic Symposium at Naropa University in 2012. About Medicinal Mindfulness
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to psychedelics today. This is Joe Moore here with Kyle Buller. |
| 0:15.0 | Kyle. Hi. Hey Joe. So we have a little bit of an intro to do together regarding this episode |
| 0:23.4 | with Daniel McQueen, co-founder of medicinal mindfulness, the DMT research, project called |
| 0:29.1 | DMTX, and a few other things. He shares a really interesting story that gets into quite some |
| 0:36.1 | depth. And we want to like talk a little bit about transpersonal psychology |
| 0:40.6 | and how we approach these kinds of stories. |
| 0:44.9 | Kyle, you did an undergrad in transpersonal psychology. |
| 0:48.2 | Is that right? |
| 0:48.9 | Yep. |
| 0:49.3 | Yeah, my, well, yes. |
| 0:52.5 | It's weird because we started off with a transperson psychology program. We had a new advisor come in and bring more Wilbur. Ken Wilbur's theories in. And she switched over to an integral psychology program. So my degree says integral psychology, but I'm strong transpersonal psychology. I stuck with the roots. I kept bringing Groff back into |
| 1:12.5 | the picture. I'm like, no, we need more of this stuff. Yeah, Wilbur's cool. He's never willing to |
| 1:20.1 | publicly debate anybody, which is one of his big problems. So let's start with depth psychology. Can you |
| 1:25.9 | give us like a kind of brief definition of depth psychology? |
| 1:30.8 | Yeah, I mean, I guess like the, well, think of Freud and Young. Those are like the main depth psychologists. |
| 1:38.1 | So thinking of things that are in the subconscious or unconscious and trying to bring that to the surface. Yeah, it's kind of before, |
| 1:47.3 | well, it's a little bit outside the scope of traditional experimental psychology, which is |
| 1:51.9 | like dominated by folks like Pavlov and other behaviorists, Skinner. And it takes this, like, there's deep messages hidden in there in your |
| 2:05.1 | body, your unconscious or your psyche. And you can make meaningful therapeutic decisions around |
| 2:13.4 | that or take meaningful insights that will help the individual. So then Maslow comes along, |
| 2:21.0 | what, 30, 60 years later at post-Froyd Jung and develops this theory around humanistic psychology |
| 2:29.2 | meaning, like let's focus our psychology around what it means to be human and the human experience you know |
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