PT407 – Deborah Parrish Snyder – The Planet, Psychedelics, and Psyche: Optimism in Ecology
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4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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In this episode, Joe interviews Deborah Parrish Snyder: ecologist, Director and VP of the Institute of Ecotechnics, and Co-owner and CEO of Synergetic Press, which has published over 40 books on ethnobotany, psychedelics, biospherics, and social and ecological justice.
Straddling the line between ecology, psychedelics, and psyche, she discusses the many projects of the Institute: Biosphere 2, the large-scale closed ecological system she helped design in 1986; London's "October Gallery," a man-made city biome project that could be a model for other cities; their "Eden in Iraq" wastewater project; and the Heraclitus, an 82-foot ship which has sailed 270k miles around the earth, studying different cultures, mapping coral reefs, and more, and will soon be setting sail again after being rebuilt for the last decade.
She talks about where we're at as a society in regards to the environment: how we're in a period of consequences and it's easy to feel hopeless, but much of the youth are "solutionists" who don't want to hear apologies, and instead, want to do something about it. She believes that while schools don't teach ecology, it's never too late to learn, and non-ordinary states of consciousness could help people remember our connection to nature, care about our planet, and find the others who feel the same way. Consider pairing your self-exploration with improving the world around you: what can you do to turn your perfect, overly fertilized lawn into a regenerative landscape instead?
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| 1:35.7 | This is Joe Moore. |
| 1:37.0 | Today on the show, we have Deborah Parrish-Snyder from Synergetic Press and the Institute of Eco Technics. Today on the show, |
| 1:45.9 | we go pretty deep on the Earth Day and ecology topic. We do a little bit of discussion on how |
| 1:51.5 | psychedelics and community can really help play a part here in helping rescue our biosphere. |
| 1:59.7 | That's quite critical to our survival. We also talk about a bunch |
| 2:03.8 | of the side projects that Synergic Press has going on along with the Institute. So yeah, |
| 2:11.8 | the Institute has this really amazing Chinese junk that they sail a lot all over the world. It's in the middle of being |
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