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Kyle and Joe - Contexts of Psychedelic Use

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Life Sciences, Science, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.6598 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2017

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Download In this episode, Joe and Kyle discuss the difference contexts of psychedelic use:
  • Therapeutic
  • Recreational
  • Psychospiritual & Self-Discovery
  • Ceremonial & Shamanic
While these categories can be flexible and sometimes merge into one another, we thought that it would be important to give context to the variety of experiences. As MAPS has just received "Breakthrough Therapy" status on the MDMA-assisted psychotherapy research, this is an exciting time for research and therapeutic use of a powerful medicine. However, there may be some confusion about how the therapeutic approach is different from some of these other contexts and ways of using psychedelics. While we believe that all contexts are valid or legitimate and each carry their own risk/benefit, we thought that it would be helpful and fun to talk about our views about this subject. Become a Patron!https://c6.patreon.com/becomePatronButton.bundle.js
If you want to learn more about navigating the psychedelic experience or learn more about safety guidelines for these different contexts, check out our new online course, "Navigating Psychedelics: Lessons on Self-Care & Integration." Navigating Psychedelics

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Psychedelics today.

0:14.6

This is Joe, your host, here with Kyle.

0:16.8

So today we are going to chat about a couple things.

0:21.0

We wanted to kind of dig into, call it four or five different use cases for psychedelics.

0:29.7

And we want to kind of discuss them at length because we feel like people who are into one form of use aren't necessarily supportive

0:40.1

or maybe even be totally negative towards people interested in the other ones.

0:44.3

So it's kind of just giving each other each subset of people kind of context around each

0:50.9

use case so that, you know, we can understand each other a little better.

0:55.4

You know, this is a pretty small subculture and we got to get along and we got to respect

1:01.1

each other's opinions and experiences. Kyle, do you have anything to preface this with

1:07.0

this whole digging in discussion? Yeah, I i mean it's definitely a topic that comes up

1:14.4

and i think we kind of address it in the course on different types of experiences and different

1:19.3

types of uses um and yeah i think there's like uh it it is weird because there's a lot of

1:29.0

a lot of push for therapeutic use

1:31.6

but also I've known people that have

1:33.3

very therapeutic recreational uses as well

1:36.6

and a lot of people come into this with recreational use

1:39.4

and to go back and forth

1:41.5

yeah I don't know it just seems like a good conversation to have to talk about the different

1:46.6

types of use and experiences.

1:50.0

So.

1:51.3

So, and yeah, it's kind of like archetypes where there's like a positive and a negative

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