Psychedelic Healing: From Microdosing to Transcendence - James Fadiman
Medicine Stories
Amber Magnolia Hill
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2018
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Safe, therapeutic, and sacred psychedelic journeys have the potential to enact profound transformation and healing on both a personal and a societal level. Many mistake these substances for party drugs, but their true medicine lies in the properly prepared and undertaken journey inward.
Scientists were just starting to understand the therapeutic benefits of LSD, psilocybin, and more in the 1960's when the many studies being done were suddenly shut down. Research is thriving again today, and we are beginning to understand their role in healing addiction, PTSD, anxiety and depression, and so much more.
James Fadiman has been at the forefront of this research for over 50 years. He is a writer and researcher with a PhD in Psychology and is the author of many books, including The Psychedelic Explorers Guide, which details how both journeyers and guides can create optimal conditions to have the best possible experience. Jim has also popularized the phenomenon of microdosing (taking tiny, sub-perceptual microdoses of psychedelic substances to enhance performance and treat ailments).
In the Intro:
- How Jim and I met
- The amazing free resource Jim is making available to listeners
In the Interview:
- That feeling when the future Ram Dass gives you LSD in Paris and changes your life forever
- Ken Kesey, Albert Hoffman, Huston Smith and other heroes of mine who Jim knew
- Why psychedelic research got shut down in the 60's and what was being researched then
- How psychedelics work
- How to have safe, therapeutic, and sacred journeys
- Microdosing for: depression, colds, menstrual problems, asthma, allergies, stroke, and SO MUCH MORE
- Dying is absolutely safe
Links:
- Jim's Website
- Free Journey Guide PDF at the Medicine Stories Patreon page
- Microdosing Psychedelics website
- Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
- MythicMedicine.love (my website)
- Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?
- The Medicine Stories Facebook group
- Music by Mariee Siou (from the song Wild Eyes)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends. Welcome to the Medicine Stories |
| 0:08.3 | podcast. This is episode 13 and I am your host Amber Magnolia Hill. Today I am talking to Jim |
| 0:17.2 | Fateman. Jim is a dear friend of mine and just one of the coolest people ever. He's a giant in the world of |
| 0:27.9 | psychedelic research. He's one of the elders. He's one of the original people |
| 0:31.8 | there in the 60s doing scientific experiments and using these |
| 0:37.5 | medicines himself and learning how to guide people on psychedelic journeys. He is a writer, a researcher, as a PhD in |
| 0:47.3 | psychology, and his main work that he is known for is the book the psychedelic explorers guide safe |
| 0:55.4 | therapeutic and sacred journeys which really forms the basis for this interview |
| 1:00.3 | he's also I don't know if he's the inventor of, I should have asked, but certainly the popularizer of micro dosing. |
| 1:09.0 | So it's very likely that you've heard of micro dosing or maybe that you have micro dosed yourself. |
| 1:15.2 | That's all gym. Like you know about that because of gym's efforts. |
| 1:19.2 | So, sorry I have a little cold that I am just trying to get over right now. |
| 1:28.0 | I first, okay, so as I've talked about before on this show, I had a really big psychedelic |
| 1:36.3 | silicibe and mushroom experience when I was 16 and I had no idea, no idea that it was |
| 1:42.1 | going to be what it was I just thought like hey cool we're |
| 1:46.3 | gonna shroom you know I smoke weed I drink alcohol like now I'm shrimmed and it's |
| 1:51.7 | cool and that ended up being this totally |
| 1:53.7 | Transcendent beautiful experience so I was always interested in |
| 1:58.6 | Psychodellics a really like deeply interested wanted to understand how they work like why that happened how these |
| 2:07.4 | substances could make something so incredible happen in my body and in my mind. |
| 2:15.0 | And around 2012 or 13 I was listening to some podcast and they mentioned that |
| 2:22.0 | Psychodelics were being studied, |
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