Today, on the You Can Heal Your Life Podcast, you'll hear a chapter from Exile and Ecstasy,

the brand new audiobook by Jewish Life, Cannabis, and Psychedelics journalist Madison Margolin.

In this excerpt, Madison explores the intersection of Judaism and Psychedelics, drawing from

decades of personal experiences, interviews, and research, highlighting the increasing

interest in psychedelic experiences in both secular and traditional Jewish communities.

You can listen to the full audiobook, Free, with a trial of the Empower You Unlimited

Audio App.

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In introduction, we tell ourselves stories in order to live, Joan Didian.

This book is a lifetime in the making.

It is collected from a few decades of handwritten journals, lived experience and interviews

with an uncountable number of artists, scientists, mystics, therapists, healers, activists,

and fringe thought leaders engaging with paradigm-shifting encounters, mainly at the intersection

of Judaism and psychedelia, in short, my heart, in all its fire and mess, and in my humble

attempt to make sense of it all, spills out over the following chapters.

Almost a decade ago, when I set out to write about the intersection of Jewish and psychedelic

experience, the topic was niche.

It was rare to put the two explicitly in conversation with one another, despite how natural

appearing, more on that throughout this book.

But in naming the Jewish psychedelic phenomena and giving it identity through media, the movement

began to grow.

We're seeing the birth of what feels like in essence a renewed Judaism, rooted in ancient

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