PT498 – Maria Mangini, Ph.D., FNP – Traversing the Psychedelic Landscape: From Esalen and Millbrook to the Future of Shulgin Farm
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4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Joe interviews Maria Mangini, Ph.D., FNP: researcher, educator, and midwife who has worked closely with many psychedelic innovators and was part of the original social network at Shulgin Farm – where this episode was recorded. She traces her journey from the influence of pioneers like the Wassons, Shulgins, and Grofs, and historic places like Esalen and Millbrook.
She discusses:
- Her early experiences with the Grofs at Esalen and how she met the Shulgins
- Gregory Bateson guiding her to become a midwife
- The similarities between midwifery and psychedelic facilitation
- The unsung work of Denis Berry in saving the Timothy Leary archives
- How the working relationship of the Shulgins is a perfect example of the coequality society should strive for
and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody and welcome back to Segad Alex today. This is Joe Moore coming at you from |
| 0:19.8 | Brigham Ridge, Colorado. Today on the show, |
| 0:22.6 | we have Maria Mangini, who is a fascinating person and I'm so glad. I finally got to meet her in |
| 0:29.6 | person. Maria is a prominent figure in both the psychedelics field, the holistic health field, |
| 0:36.4 | a nurse, a nurse midwife, educator, researcher, |
| 0:39.8 | and so much more. We get together for this episode to talk again about the Shulgin Farm, |
| 0:48.0 | the Shulgin kind of legacy project foundation and Maria's interactions with Anne and Sasha over the years and much more. Yeah, |
| 1:00.1 | it was a really fun one, really heartful one. I love that Maria did a bunch of work with |
| 1:06.7 | the Groffs in the early days at Esselin. So really a fun scenario there for us to dig into because if you don't know, |
| 1:16.2 | Kyle and I have a real thing for a holotropic breathwork, transpersonal psychology, |
| 1:20.3 | and that's import of Stan in part is much more. |
| 1:25.0 | But yeah, so love that. |
| 1:27.4 | Love Maria's approach here. So much valuable stuff in |
| 1:31.7 | this episode. So I might actually suggest you listen to this one two or three times. But I |
| 1:38.2 | appreciate you all tuning in to psychedelics today. Learn more about what's going on at the shulgin farm by looking up the |
| 1:45.4 | shulgun foundation and if you're interested in getting involved the future of this thing please |
| 1:51.3 | do try you know reach out contact them see if you can go for a cleanup or what is it that the |
| 1:57.5 | shulgun farm project needs yeah or what would the psychedelic community need that the Shilligan Farm project needs? Yeah. Or what would the psychedelic community need |
| 2:03.3 | that the foundation could help support? So I love that. So I think that's it for now. Thank you all |
| 2:09.3 | for tuning into psychedelics today. We will see you on the other side of this podcast. Enjoy this |
| 2:13.4 | episode of Maria Mangini. |
| 2:18.7 | A quick update on classes and events. |
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