Nature’s Medicine: Unlocking the Secrets to Wellness with Chris Kilham

Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan

Dr. Steven Hassan

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 684 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In recent years, modern science has confirmed what ancient tribal medicine has known all along—medicinal plants and practicing meditation can offer fantastic health benefits. Plants like ayahuasca and psilocybin are now being recognized for their remarkable ability to treat mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Yoga and meditation can facilitate a deeper mind-body connection, allowing us greater awareness and control over our emotions and stress. Indigenous cultures have used these practices for centuries, but even as science continues to confirm their efficacy, the mental health field has been resistant to advocating these practices. Driven by profit and regulatory hurdles, Big Pharma’s reluctance to embrace psychedelics indicates the continuous struggle between modern commercialization and our human ties with nature. On this episode of The Influence Continuum, I sit down with my dear friend and colleague, Chris Kilham, known as The Medicine Hunter. Chris has authored over a dozen books, the most recent of which is The Lotus and the Bud: Cannabis, Consciousness, and Yoga Practice. In these stressful, uncertain times, it is essential we all come back to a healthy mind-body lifestyle with good values. Learn more about Steven Hassan and Freedom of Mind Resource Center. Visit freedomofmind.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Stephen Hassan with another episode of the influence continuum.
0:09.5	I have a very dear old friend and colleague with me today.
0:14.0	I've been wanting to interview him for a really long time.
0:18.4	Chris Killam and I go back to the 1980s. We have friendship and he's an author of 14
0:28.1	books. We'll mention a few of them, but his latest is called The Lotus and the Bud,
0:35.0	cannabis consciousness and yoga practice.
0:38.5	And Chris is a yogi.
0:40.4	And I've done it with him and I've witnessed his videos, the Five Tibetans and all
0:47.3	kinds of other things.
0:48.9	Plus, you're a humorous.
0:50.9	I remember in search of the new age, that was hysterical. I definitely think you should
0:56.2	re-release that and update it to 2024. But your career is just so unusual. I know I have an unusual
1:06.0	career, but when people hear about your career, they're like, holy mackerel.
1:12.9	So let me just say you are, you're a medicine hunter, author, educator, yogi, founder of
1:20.8	Medicine Hunter, Inc. You are an ethno-biologist. You are a shaman, you are, have been interviewed by every major media,
1:31.3	every venue, and you're a world traveler going into remote areas to find indigenous
1:39.7	wisdom and indigenous medicinal herbs to try to figure out if there's a way that we can
1:46.7	harvest them in an ethical way, taking care of the native people. And just amongst the many
1:54.4	things you've developed and brought to humanity, Ashwaganda.
2:02.6	Kava, Makka, did I mispronounce it?
2:05.1	Tell me.
2:05.5	No, you're right on.
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