PT525 – Women and Psychedelics: History's Untold Stories, with Erika Dyck
Psychedelics Today
Psychedelics Today, LLC
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Vital Psychedelic Conversations, Johanna interviews Erika Dyck: author, professor, historian, Vital instructor, and research chair in the History of Health & Social Justice at the University of Saskatchewan.
Dyck talks about the book she co-edited: Women and Psychedelics: Uncovering Invisible Voices, which was released in March as a Chacruna anthology, and collects pieces from several different authors highlighting the untold or lesser known stories from women throughout psychedelic history. Albert Hofmann was the first person to intentionally ingest LSD, but who was the first woman to do so? Who were the women assisting in research or sitting with experiencers in the early days who never got the credit for their contributions? Who were the women supporting some of the biggest psychedelic names in history?
She talks about:
- The contrast in societal attitudes towards psychedelic exploration based on stereotypical gender roles
- Some of her favorite stories from the book, including a woman diagnosed with manic depression becoming one of the first guides in LSD trials
- The use of psychedelics in pregnancy and birthing practices across other cultures
- Traditional gender attributes: Are women more wired to care for others? Is there something about the psychedelic experience that's inherently feminine?
- The importance of moving past the gender binary and implementing more diversity in research – with the challenge of needing to universalize medicine at the same time
and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Johanna Hilla, and in this episode of vital psychedelic conversations, |
| 0:16.3 | I interviewed historian Erica Dick about her new book, Women and Psychedelics, Uncovering |
| 0:22.9 | Invisible Voices, that she co-edited and recently published, both in English and in Spanish, |
| 0:29.8 | with the Chakruna Institute. This is one of the first of our vital psychedelic conversations |
| 0:37.1 | for this year. The applications |
| 0:39.1 | for our 12-month education and training program are now open. We are kicking things off in |
| 0:45.7 | mid-September and we would love to hear from you. Make sure to check out the program at |
| 0:50.8 | Vital Psychedeliceducation.com and send us an email if you have any further |
| 0:55.8 | questions. Erica is one of our teachers. She teaches about the history of the bicycle day and |
| 1:03.4 | about psychedelic history in general. So in this episode, we go into a lot of different themes around women and psychedelics, about feminism, about female bodies, talking about what it is like to work in the field of psychedelics as a woman and much more. |
| 1:25.1 | So if you are interested in learning with her and with our other amazing instructors, |
| 1:31.7 | make sure to go to our website and learn more about the program. I hope you enjoy the episode. |
| 1:40.2 | Vital, our 12-month certificate in integrative psychedelic studies is back for its fourth cohort, |
| 1:46.3 | starting September the 17th, 2024. Vital is a process-oriented course with a deeply |
| 1:52.9 | multi-disciplinary curriculum that incorporates clinical, scientific and relational domains, |
| 1:58.6 | alongside indigenous, shamanic and transpersonal wisdom traditions. |
| 2:02.8 | Vital is a vibrant community of students and alumni from around the world committed to merging |
| 2:08.0 | powerful inner work with expanded professional scope of practice. Through lectures, study groups, |
| 2:14.0 | webinars, elective modules, process papers, and online affinity groups, |
| 2:18.7 | you'll have all the support you need to develop your own vision and model for lifelong |
| 2:22.8 | growth in this exciting field. And new, for this fourth round of vital, we've introduced the |
| 2:28.0 | option of choosing one of five specialisation graduation pathways, which are regenerative business and leadership, depth and |
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