Leia Friedman - The Boston Entheogenic Network and Tips on Creating a Psychedelic Group

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🗓️ 15 June 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Download In this episode, Kyle talks with Leia Friedman, co-founder of the Boston Entheogenic Network (BEN) and also known as "The Psychedologist." Kyle recently was invited to facilitate an "Introduction to Transpersonal Breathwork" workshop for BEN. Joe also was in town for the weekend and presented a talk about "Breathwork, Psychedelics, and Ecological Collapse." It was a great psychedelic weekend in Massachusetts. After the workshop, Kyle had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Leia about her interests in the psychedelic field, feminism and eco-feminism, and how she got involved with starting a psychedelic group in Boston. She provides some helpful tips and advice for creating/starting your own local group.

Tips for starting your own psychedelic group:

First, what is the point of the group?
What is the purpose or mission?
Learn about your local laws and the legal risks
Do not condone or facilitate illegal activity
Go slow
Find the others to help you out
Check in with yourself and the other members of the group
Protect your members
Start online to gain awareness and then start an in-person meet up

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[caption id="attachment_1202" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Leia Friedman

Kyle and Leia holding space for the breathwork circle[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1204" align="aligncenter" width="300"]

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Joe and Kyle presenting, "Breathwork, Psychedelics, and Ecological Collapse" in Lowell, MA, USA[/caption]

Show Notes/Links

The Boston Entheogenic Network Facebook Group
Leia Friedman's Articles on Psymposia
Creating your own psychedelic group
Transpersonal Breathwork
Entheogen - Coined by Carl A. P. Ruck, Jeremy Bigwood, Danny Staples, Richard Evans Schultes, Jonathan Ott and R. Gordon Wasson
What Monkeys Can Teach Us About Human Behavior: From Facts to Fiction
The Fifth Sacred Thing: By Starhawk

About Leia Friedman

Leia Friedman is a professor, clinician, writer and the cofounder of Boston Entheogenic Network. Her present focus is an amalgamation of psychology, ecology, and experiences of altered consciousness as tools for deeper self-understanding. She is also involved in local social and climate justice activism, alphabet soup, and body positivity.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Psychedelics today. This is your host, Kyle, on the road interview that I did with
0:19.6	Leah Friedman from the Boston and Theogenic Network.
0:22.9	Joe and I were both in northern Massachusetts around the Lull area over the weekend,
0:28.0	and the Boston and Theogenic Network, also known as Ben, invited me up to host an introduction
0:35.6	to Transpersonal Breath Work Workshop. So I got to do that on Sunday,
0:39.3	which was really awesome. And then Joe and I met up on Sunday afternoon, and Joe presented
0:45.0	a talk on breathwork, psychedelics, and the ecological collapse. It's a pretty cool turnout.
0:50.5	We had about, I guess, around 10 people there, which was really cool. It was also
0:56.4	really great to connect with the people up in the Massachusetts, the Boston area. And we also
1:02.2	got to connect with some of the listeners and fans of the podcast. So that was really awesome to
1:07.7	actually start seeing people in person and having some relationships building.
1:13.4	We really enjoy that. So after the breathwork session, I got to sit down with Leah on Sunday morning.
1:22.4	And so Leah is the co-founder of the Boston and Theogenic Network. And she was hosting me to do the breath work.
1:30.3	And we sat down Sunday morning and just decided to have a little chat. Here's a little bit about
1:36.5	Leah. Leah is a clinician, a professor, and a writer living in Lowell, Massachusetts. Her present
1:42.9	focus in psychology involves teaching of meditation,
1:47.1	yoga, ecology, and the use of psychedelics to assist psychotherapy for clinical disorders.
1:52.8	She's also involved in local and social climate justice activism, LGBTIQIA concerns concerns and body positivity.
2:02.6	She also has some great articles on symposia.com, so make sure you go check those out there
2:07.9	on the show notes.
2:09.8	Some of the titles for her articles include how social and climate justice activism is
2:15.8	psychedelic, where eco-feminism and psychedelics meet,
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