Eamon Armstrong - Iboga, Ethics and Rites of Passage
Psychedelics Today
Psychedelics Today, LLC
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2020
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Kyle and Joe interview Eamon Armstrong, host of the Podcast, Life is a Festival. In the show, they talk about Eamon's Iboga experience, the festival culture, rites of passage, ethics and more.
3 Key Points:
- Eamon Armstrong is the host of Life is a Festival, a podcast promoting a lifestyle of adventure and personal development through the lens of festival culture.
- Maya is an intelligence platform for psychedelic therapists to manage their clients and their protocols.
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Rites of Passage can look different for everybody, they can look like going to Africa to be initiated in an Ibogaine ceremony, to attending Burning Man.
Show Notes
About Eamon
- Eamon is the host of the Podcast, Life is a Festival
- It's not about festivals, it's about how to make life like a festival
- Eamon is very passionate about mental wellness
- After graduating college, he felt very lost
- He was throwing mushroom tea parties, making electronic music with his friends
- The key to throwing a mushroom tea party is to have people drink less mushrooms than they think that they're drinking, everyone just thinks they are tripping harder than they were
- He went to Burning Man in 2010
- He started working in social media for Burning Man's off playa events
- Psychedelics and harm reduction became core to their editorial voice
- He worked closely with Psychedelic Peer Support, Zendo, Kosmicare, etc
Ibogaine Experience
- Eamon attended an Iboga retreat in Gabon, Africa, and he says it was more about the retreat than the Iboga
- He was in the chamber for 5 days, and he was alone in it
- This retreat was in the Bwiti religion
- He really went there for a full sledgehammer experience
- He felt he had some addicted aspects that were hindering his sexual experiences
- Iboga goes to the root of the trauma and shows you where the addictive pattern of behavior is
- Iboga has a long integration period
- Iboga is a root, and he consumed it in a form of a tangled nest
- He felt very blasted open from the experience
- Iboga took him directly to his anger
- "We have in our modern Western Culture, a lot of lost, young people" - Eamon
- "The value of a rite of passage, is that you are confronted with certain things that you can't get to on your own" - Eamon
- The fact that you can die in an Iboga experience, is part of the initiation
Rites of Passage
- Burning Man isn't a rite of passage, but it can be used as a rite of passage
- Burning Man is a temporary experience in civic living, it is not orchestrated by elders
- There is a growing topic on psychedelic parenting, and taking psychedelics with children
Maya
- Maya is designed in partnership with psychedelic practitioners & ceremony leaders
- Maya is an intelligence platform for psychedelic therapists to manage their clients and their protocols
- Ethics in psychedelics are so important right now
- This does not replace the therapist, it's everything the therapist needs to support their clients in healing
- "The ecosystem itself will thrive when we are all working in service to each other" - Eamon
- "If you want to be a part of the cool kids, and the cool kids are doing it ethically, then you have to do it ethically" - Eamon
Final Thoughts
- The soul is the most beautiful thing
- "Psychedelics as medicine, treat society, beyond individuals" - Eamon
Links
Life is a Festival Facebook Group
Psychedelic Therapy Podcast by Maya Facebook Group
About Eamon Armstrong
Eamon Armstrong is the creator and host of Life is a Festival, promoting a lifestyle of adventure and personal development through the lens of festival culture. He is the former Creative Director and public face of Chip Conley's industry-leading online festival guide and community Fest300, where he was a global community builder. Eamon's belief in the transformational power of psychedelics led him to take part in a traditional Bwiti initiation in Gabon, and to become a trained Sitter with MAP's Zendo Project. Eamon is a passionate advocate for mature masculinity and offers public talks and workshops from mythopoetic men's work to stand-up comedy on integrating masculinity.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody. Welcome back to Psychedelics today. This is your host, Joe Moore, coming at you from Breck and Ridge, Colorado. |
| 0:16.0 | Today on the show, we have Amen Armstrong from Life is a festival podcast to talk about his path, personal development, and current interesting projects. |
| 0:25.3 | There's some really interesting stuff he's up to, and I'm excited about it. |
| 0:28.9 | So this is the first time I talk to Aman. |
| 0:31.3 | I really like him. |
| 0:32.6 | It was a really fun interview. |
| 0:34.0 | And does he have some stories? |
| 0:36.7 | It's cool. I will just tease you here and not really |
| 0:40.6 | let you know what they're about yet until you dig in. I think you're going to like it, though, |
| 0:44.5 | some stuff we haven't really ever covered before on the show. So this episode is we're not going |
| 0:52.2 | to do Audible today, but we're going to talk about navigating psychedelics for clinicians and therapists. |
| 0:57.6 | We have an eight-week program coming up on July 9, giving you solid foundations in transpersonal psychology, understanding ayahuasca, ketamine, psychedelic integration, harm reduction, and more. |
| 1:10.3 | This program is specifically designed for clinicians |
| 1:12.8 | and therapists who are going to be working with people who report psychedelic use. They went to Peru, |
| 1:21.1 | had an accident at a rave or something. These clients might need support and you can be the one to |
| 1:27.2 | support them in their process. |
| 1:30.0 | And this isn't anything that's illegal. |
| 1:32.3 | This is very legal to help clients that had these experiences. |
| 1:36.8 | And there is going to be a coming wave of people with psychedelic experiences. |
| 1:41.7 | This is not going anywhere. |
| 1:43.9 | It's very interesting and the clinical |
| 1:46.0 | trials are very promising. So we can expect a lot more people doing this and this is our effort to |
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