Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.

On today's episode we have back on Joshua Con Russell to do our second installment of

our ongoing sub-series that we have titled Dialectics and Psychedelics.

This episode is going to be focused on mental health issues, both individually, organizationally,

collectively socially, one of the things that Joshua Con Russell's organization, the Wildfire

Project, does is sort of goes into organizations, left organizations, and helps them work through

some of their contradictions, help them to be trauma informed, and to build a healthier culture

within the organization so that it can be more effective in its specific pursuits.

And we get into that a little bit in this episode, but we'll have a full episode on that

down the line in this sub-series because I think it's really important and can help a lot of

organizations and I know a lot of organizers listen through this show so that's definitely coming.

But in this episode, like I say, we talk about anxiety, depression, trauma, grief,

we talk about specifically the climate crisis, and the mental health sort of fall out from

looking in the eyes of it every single day. But we also offer reasons for optimism, reasons for

hope, not naive, reasons for optimism, but, you know, real, true reasons why we should not give up

hope and why there is still plenty of fight left in us. And while the time seems like it is working

against us in many ways it is, there are still reasons to be optimistic and to engage in this fight

with a genuine belief that we can make change and that we can stop this 500 year plus death machine

known as capitalism, imperialism, and colonialism. So we cover a lot of fascinating stuff.

Joshua is incredibly insightful, organizationally, personally, and it really comes through in

this episode. So if you have struggled with climate despair, eco-greep, if you've struggled with

anxiety and depression, any of that stuff, if you've been in organizations that have been torn

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