PT474 – Joe Moore & Kyle Buller – The Origin of Psychedelics Today and the Growth of Vital
Psychedelics Today
Psychedelics Today, LLC
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we toast to the beginning of an exciting and hopefully groundbreaking 2024 by switching things up a bit. Christopher Koddermann, Co-Founder and Chair of Board of the International Therapeutic Psilocybin Rescheduling Initiative (ITPRI) will be conducting some interviews for PT, and in this episode, he does his first – with our Co-Founders, Joe Moore and Kyle Buller.
Kyle tells the story of his fateful New Years Eve snowboarding trip that resulted in a near death experience and a complete change in his life's trajectory, and Joe discusses his more academic roots and how he and Kyle were united through their shared passion for the work of Stan Grof, holotropic breathwork, and transpersonal psychology. Psychedelics Today was created largely with no aims other than to promote transpersonal psychology and archive the best insights from their mentors, but has obviously turned into so much more, mostly from the simple goal of trying to spread the word through interesting conversations.
They talk about the growth of PT; how they got involved in education; the harms of the drug war; why decriminalization isn't enough; where they see 'the psychedelic renaissance' going; what has surprised them the most in the last few years; and what we're most proud of: Vital – how it came to be created, what's involved, the benefits of the retreats, the self-discovery they've witnessed, and what they've learned through two successful cohorts.
The next edition of Vital begins on January 23, and we've extended applications until January 14, so if you've been curious if Vital is the answer you've been looking for, now is the time to act!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, welcome back to Segadalex today. This is Joe Moore coming at you from |
| 0:16.7 | Breckermanch, Colorado. Today on the show, we do something a bit different. We found a really |
| 0:22.9 | fun person in Switzerland, of all places, who is actually going to interview Kyle and I about the |
| 0:29.7 | origins of psychedelics today, where we're coming from, why we're doing all this. And yeah, |
| 0:36.0 | hopefully pulling out some insights that you all haven't been exposed to |
| 0:39.4 | before. And this is Chris Cotterman. Chris does a lot of work with Hopkins, a number of other |
| 0:45.1 | parties in the space in Europe and elsewhere and has a different view on psychedelics, |
| 0:52.4 | which I think is really helpful. And I think a Swiss |
| 0:55.3 | perspective is really good. Chris has been living there for quite a bit of time and has, |
| 1:00.7 | I think, great insight into the space and definitely some great curiosity as well. So Chris, |
| 1:07.3 | thank you so much for joining us and doing this interview. And I hope we can do more. |
| 1:12.2 | So, all right, I think that's it for now. Thank you all for tuning into this episode with Chris |
| 1:17.0 | Cotterman, Joe Moore, me, and Kyle Buller. I hope you enjoy it. And please share with a friend if you do. |
| 1:24.0 | All right. We'll see you on the other side. Enjoy this one. Take care. Bye. |
| 1:43.0 | Hello and welcome to psychedelics today. My name is Chris Cotterman, and I have the pleasure today of hosting a special episode with PT founders Joe Moore and Kyle Buller. |
| 1:45.4 | Joe, Kyle, great to be with you both today. |
| 1:46.7 | Excited to be here. |
| 1:47.9 | Thanks for having us. |
| 1:53.5 | Yeah, we come together on a bit of a sad day for the world of psychedelics and the psychedelics community with the passing of Roland Griffiths off after a long illness. |
| 2:00.2 | You know, obviously we'll be hearing a lot about Roland |
| 2:02.4 | over the next few days and I expect, you know, we'll be hearing a lot of words like visionary |
| 2:06.1 | and pioneer leader and trailblazer. Just your thoughts on, media thoughts on Roland and his |
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