PT411 – Priyanka Wali, MD – The Humanity of Healthcare Professionals, Ancient Psychedelic Use, and Breaking the Cycle of Colonialism
Psychedelics Today
Psychedelics Today, LLC
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Joe interviews Priyanka Wali, MD: board-certified practicing physician in Internal Medicine, MAPS-trained psychedelic facilitator, comedian, and co-host (with Sean Hayes of "Will & Grace" fame) of the HypochondriActor podcast, where they discuss interesting medical issues in a funny (and hopefully uplifting) way.
She talks about recognizing and protecting the humanity of healthcare professionals, and how medical school is creating a cycle of hurt people trying to help other hurt people. She believes we need to become more holistic, especially in embracing Indigenous ways of thinking, as their frameworks may be the only way to explain phenomena with which Western science can't come to terms.
They talk a lot about ancient psychedelic use: the use of a soma described in the Rigveda; Egyptian culture and mushrooms observed in statues; Plato; the work of Brian Muraresku and Graham Hancock; and Vedic chants, Kashmiri Bhajans, and how singing (especially in a group) can be especially healing to the nervous system. And as Wali experienced first-hand the Kashmiri Pandit genocide of 1990, she discusses how much colonialism has changed cultures, and how much our cycles of oppression relate to our collective inability to experience pain and fear.
They discuss the psychological impact of living through major catastrophes; the special and hard-to-describe feeling of returning to your home (especially in a world changed by colonization and constant conflict); the sad case of Ignaz Semmelweis and hand washing; ghosts of Japan's 2011 tsunami, the concept of 'future primitive,' and more.
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| 1:09.3 | Breckermidge, Colorado. Today on the show, |
| 1:12.5 | we have Dr. Priyanka Wally. She's the host of a really fun podcast. I think it's called a |
| 1:18.8 | hypocondriactor with co-hosted with Sean Hayes, gentleman who's from Will & Grace. Pretty |
| 1:26.3 | fun podcast, doing a lot of science ed. |
| 1:28.7 | And now, thankfully, talking a little bit about psychedelics, which is great. |
| 1:32.9 | And Dr. Priyanka Wally has been trained by a Pilaras Institute in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, |
| 1:38.4 | has completed the maps training. |
| 1:40.1 | It's doing some interesting work with the Temple of the Way of Light in Peru, doing ayahuasca stuff there. |
| 1:47.3 | I don't know to what extent we can talk about that. |
| 1:49.9 | I think there's some cool research stuff happening and possibly also some stuff going on with, let's see, I think healthcare professionals, which could be pretty cool too. |
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