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PT337 – Lauren Katalinich & Anya Oleksiuk – The Psychedelic Society: The Power of Community and The Color of Teal

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Life Sciences, Science, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.6598 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, David interviews Lauren Katalinich & Anya Oleksiuk of the Psychedelic Society, a website/community that runs events and works to build the community so many people need after having a psychedelic experience.

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0:00.0

On Monday, July 18th at 1230 Eastern, psychedelics today will be offering you all another vital webinar.

0:08.4

This time it is called Israeli psychedelic harm reduction, a real world trip from raves to Parliament.

0:14.9

And the presenter is our friend over there, Pini Balmower, awesome social worker.

0:19.8

The webinar is a conversation covering the Israeli

0:22.5

rave and ceremonial psychedelic scene, harm reduction efforts, drug policy and advocacy

0:28.2

for psychedelic assisted therapy. We will visit these themes through macro social work perspectives,

0:34.4

PINI's personal story from growing up in an American Orthodox Jewish family in the West Bank

0:38.6

to a psychedelic advocate, community organizer and researcher. To find out more, please go to

0:44.5

psychedelics today.com and forward slash events.

1:01.9

Hello there, welcome to the Psychedelic Today podcast with your host, David Drapkin,

1:08.7

in conversation with Lauren Katalernich and Anya Alekschik from Psychedelic Society.

1:13.3

In my old homeland of Great Britain, I do miss the place and chatting with them. Really, really made me think, oh, sounds lovely. The energy that they've built through

1:19.6

psychedelic society, in London particularly, but throughout the whole of the land, it really sounds

1:24.5

phenomenal. I don't know of anywhere else in the world really doing that.

1:33.0

I know there's little pods around the America, like in Brooklyn and in Denver and the Bay Area.

1:38.9

But, wow, listen to this and really learn a lot about what they're doing as a teal organization.

1:40.3

I had never heard of that.

1:43.0

And I was okay admitting that live on air.

1:44.3

So they explained to me what is a teal organization. And another piece that is makes the academic society very special. The way

1:50.8

they understand community and their role within it. And to me, I had the impression they're

1:56.0

seeing communities, this container for the problems and the soon to be found, hopefully, solutions to our

2:06.6

environmental, social, economic injustice. The community is the container through which we, as the people,

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