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So generally speaking, probably the best way to say what's happening is we have cellular memory in our bodies,

and I know we'll go more into that,

but our cells kind of remember what's happened to us over the course of our lifetimes.

And this can even be from generations before, right?

We know this.

This is science.

This isn't like a woo-woo thing.

And what psychedelics can do is basically allow for us to have rewiring of our whole system, both on a neurological level and on a physical level, on a physiologic level, so that we can create new patterns, whether physiologic or mental or behavioral.

Dr. Amaya, can you give me an example?

What I pick up anecdotally is that people who engage with either macro dosing experiences, like an ayahuasca retreat and microdosing experiences, which I'll have you explain in a moment,

they are unlocking trauma, which you said,

we can't talk our way out of trauma. I imagine that the verb we're searching for is actually

to release it in some way. And you're saying that cellular memory is holding on to past

experiences, to generational trauma, to our own experiences, and that that has to be released if we

truly want to move past it, I don't know if I'm doing a good job here. You tell me in your words.

Yeah, we don't realize that ourselves, they speak a lot of languages. They understand a lot of

languages. They understand physical insults, right? But they also understand mental,

emotional, and spiritual instigators. We think, oh, we should only be having a physical

problem if there's a physical insult. No, it turns out ourselves understand lots of languages,

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