On the 10th day of infant, Christmas an infant gave to me, a reburhed episode from 2018 called an Iowaasca story.

All right, this is episode 776,

Reflections, anowasca story.

And this is a conversation between myself, psychologist Rachel Harris, and brain researcher Michael Ferguson,

that we recorded way back in February 2018 about four days after I had returned from my very first

Iowa Now this is the first time that I've shared this recording publicly. I did release it last year on Patreon as the third installment in a seven-part series that I jokingly titled,

Pearls Before Swine.

But as I'm kicking off this Reflections Series in January 2022, I thought it would be fitting

to share this significant experience that has impacted my life and this podcast in ways that I expect will become

quite clear to you as you listen. So with no further ado, hang on to go and hang on to go and ask your

glasses, there's your hat's glasses.

Because this year is the wildest right in the wilderness.

All right. Welcome back to part three of the Pearls Before Swine. I still chuckle every time I think that. I don't really think your swine, but I do really think that these are pearls.

So how about this?

So at the end of the last one, I kind of teased you by saying I had this recording from February 2018 but then I couldn't find it but

guess what I did and that's what you're going to hear today so let me set the

stage for you so there's a woman

named Rachel Harris. She's a psychiatrist. Is that what she is? I don't know. I could

probably look it up. She wrote a book called Listening to Iowasca and she's participated in dozens,

if not more, not hundreds, I don't know if it's been hundreds of Iowasca ceremonies and interviewed

people and around this time February 2018 I was working with Michael Ferguson on a

podcast that we were doing together called the Luminous Brain

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