Kwasi Adusei - Psychedelic Month of Service

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🗓️ 2 November 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Download Kwasi Adusei of the Psychedelic Society of Western New York joins us to talk about the Global Psychedelic Month of Service campaign. This is a wonderful campaign to help encourage members of the psychedelic community to become more involved in their communities.

About The Global Psychedelic Month of Service

kwasi adusei - psychedelic month of service

Still hiding in the psychedelic closet? Looking for an opportunity to join the movement? This November, find a need in your community, gather your friends, and participate in the Global Psychedelic Month of Service.

In the month of November, the global psychedelic community invites you to take on a need in your community in the name of psychedelics. Psychedelic groups all over the world are joining the cause by giving back.

At the core of the psychedelic movement is a mission of social activism. So take part in seeing this mission through by volunteering at your local soup kitchen, food pantry, or doing a community clean up.

The integration of a psychedelic experience is as important as the experience itself. Transform the feelings of connectedness induced by the psychedelic experience, into actions of connectedness.

How to get involved

1. Find a local service organization

2. Reach out to find volunteer opportunities in the month of November

3. Find psychedelic friends to volunteer with

4. Volunteer and send in pictures and number of hours completed

What to join the cause? Email buffalopsychedelic@yahoo.com with your name and location so we can add you to the list of participating individuals.

Kwasi Adusei Show Topics

Building community
Breaking down stigma
Doing psychedelic things
- Spending time helping
- Doing compassionate things
Psychedelic values and morals
Access to expensive MDMA therapies
How to bring more diversity into the psychedelic movement
Nick Power's talk at Horizons NYC

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About Kwasi Adusei

Kwasi dedicates his work in the psychedelic movement to altering the stigma in mainstream channels by promoting the science, the healing potential of psychedelics, and civic engagement.

Kwasi is a nurse and a doctoral student at the University at Buffalo, studying to be a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner. He is the founder of the Psychedelic Society of Western New York and project manager for Psychonauts of the World, an initiative to share meaningful psychedelic stories, with the ultimate goal of publishing them in a book as an avenue to raise money for psychedelic research. He is also one of the administrators for the Global Psychedelic Network, a conglomerate of psychedelic groups and individuals from around the world.

He hopes to use his training and education to become a psychedelic therapist. Born in Ghana and raised in the Bronx, New York, Kwasi hopes to bring psychedelic therapy to communities of color.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to psychedelics today. This is Joe Moore. Today on the show,
0:13.0	we have Quasi adduce joining us. We get to talk about the psychedelic month of service,
0:17.8	which is a cool concept that Quasi helped develop and is promoting
0:22.0	through the Psychedelic Society of Western New York. And we get into some really cool
0:27.9	conversation about that, why it's good to do service as a psychedelic club or organization. And
0:34.4	it really helps bring down stigma and bring your local psychedelic community
0:40.6	closer together. When you do service together, there is a bond that gets formed and it really does
0:46.7	help. We then get into some interesting conversation about race and psychedelics and actually
0:52.8	some clinical stuff because Kwase is a registered nurse and is
0:57.4	going for a doctorate of nursing program. We get into the specifics of that education program in the show.
1:02.8	It's pretty awesome. We had a great time chatting with him and really can't wait to have him on the
1:07.6	show again. So hope you enjoy it. If you want to hit us up, Psych psychedelics today email at gmail.com. You can find us on Facebook, Instagram,
1:14.5	Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn. It's a funny one. And now for some business.
1:22.6	Kyle and I decided to run another book giveaway contest. We're giving away a ton of stuff here.
1:28.6	And all you have to do is give us your email. You can sign up over at psychedelics today.com.
1:34.0	It's called the ultimate psychedelic book giveaway, probably close to $350 worth of stuff.
1:40.7	Let me read off the list of stuff you can get here.
1:43.6	Brotherhood of the screaming abyss, Dennis McKenna, LSD, My Problem Child,
1:47.7	Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism and Science by Albert Hoffman,
1:52.0	The Second of Look Explorers Guide by Fatiman,
1:54.5	P-Call, a chemical love story by the Shulgin's dirty pictures about Sasha Shulgin,
1:59.9	LSD doorway to the Numinous by Groff,
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