Listening to Ayahuasca with Dr. Rachel Harris (Part 1)
Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins
Dr. Amy Robbins
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🗓️ 12 September 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Psychologist Rachel Harris, PhD is the author of Listening to Ayahuasca: New Hope for Depression, Addiction, PTSD and Anxiety. She was in private practice for thirty-five years working with people interested in psychospiritual development. During a decade working in research, Rachel received a National Institutes of Health New Investigator’s Award and published more than forty scientific studies in peer-reviewed journals. She has also consulted to Fortune 500 companies and the United Nations.
In 2005 Rachel traveled to a retreat center in Costa Rica and serendipitously found herself with the opportunity to drink ayahuasca with Ecuadorian shamans. The morning after her first ceremony, Rachel began asking questions about the therapeutic potential of this medicine. She conducted a three-year research project with Lee Gurel, PhD that resulted in “A Study of Ayahuasca Use in North America,” published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs (Summer, 2012)
In this two part episode we discuss:
What Ayahuasca is and what it means Who is Grandmother Ayahuasca. Who should use Ayahuasca and what are the risks associated with it. What mechanism in the brain allows it to work. In what type of setting Ayahuasca should be used The difference between real vs. helpful? The importance of “integrating spiritual insights into behavioral change” The default mode networks and how Ayahuasca works on those networks How these drugs and others similar help with existential distress?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to life, death, and the Space Between podcast. |
| 0:08.6 | I'm a licensed clinical psychologist and medium, and here we explore life, death, consciousness, |
| 0:15.9 | and what it all means. |
| 0:18.0 | Today I have psychologist Rachel Harris on the show. |
| 0:22.6 | Rachel is the author of Listening to Iowaska, New Hope for Depression, Addiction, PTSD, and |
| 0:29.7 | anxiety. |
| 0:30.9 | She was in private practice for 35 years, working with people interested in psychospiritual |
| 0:36.7 | development. |
| 0:39.9 | During a decade working in research, Rachel received a National Institutes of Health New Investigators Award and published |
| 0:47.1 | more than 40 scientific studies in peer-reviewed journals. She has also consulted to Fortune 500 companies |
| 0:53.9 | and the United Nations. In 2005, |
| 0:58.1 | Rachel traveled to a retreat center in Costa Rica and serendipitously found herself with the |
| 1:04.2 | opportunity to drink ayahuasca with Ecuadorian shamans. The morning after her first ceremony, |
| 1:13.0 | Rachel began asking questions about the therapeutic potential of this medicine. She conducted a three-year research project with Lee Guerrille, |
| 1:20.1 | Ph.D., that resulted in a study of ayahuasca use in North America, published in the Journal of |
| 1:26.4 | Psychoactive Drugs. |
| 1:29.6 | Today I welcome Rachel to the show. Welcome. |
| 1:34.0 | Thank you, Amy. I'm glad to be here. I'm so glad to have you, as you know, because we talked |
| 1:38.8 | a little before. But I wanted to start with a part of your book that was so true and really I think pertained |
| 1:46.5 | obviously to your work and also to the work that I think of this podcast as. So I wanted to start |
| 1:52.6 | there before we kind of jump into everything else. So the quote from your book is we have a |
| 1:57.9 | surprising percentage of individuals who experience unusual states of consciousness, |
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