PTSF 39 (with Jonas and Kristina of the Psychedelic Literacy Fund)
Psychedelics Today
Psychedelics Today, LLC
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
In today's Christmas episode of Solidarity Friday, Kyle and Joe take a break from the news and instead sit down with Jonas Di Gregorio and Kristina Soriano of the Psychedelic Literacy Fund, a donor-advised fund working to raise money and co-finance the translation and publication of the most important books on psychedelic therapy into a variety of different languages.
Their first project is both volumes of Stan Grof's The Way of the Psychonaut, which they hope to have translated into German, French, and Italian by July (for Grof's 90th birthday), and they have started a list of future projects, with Christopher Bache's LSD and the Mind of The Universe likely next. They talk about early interactions with Rick Doblin, why they went with a donor-advised fund rather than a crowdfunding model, the synchronicities they saw at early steps in their path, what Grof's work has meant to them, and a possible future goal of setting up a Grof museum in Prague. Kyle and Joe also share stories of their interactions with Grof and how his work (and how little he was being discussed) led to the beginnings of Psychedelics Today 4 years ago.
If you're feeling some holiday generosity and want to help more people gain the knowledge Grof has brought to so many, please visit Psychedelicliteracy.org and make a donation (or volunteer translation services or suggest future projects).
Lastly, if you celebrate Christmas, Merry Christmas from Psychedelics Today!
Notable Quotes
"We have an inherently global mission. We're an Italian and a Philippino living in America, trying to translate the work of a Czech psychiatrist." -Kristina
"For me, it's his capacity to really connect different fields, from quantum physics to psychiatry, [to the] history of religion- it's really remarkable. The depth of his knowledge is so wide, and I think it can speak to so many people coming from different fields. I remember as a teenager, sharing the content of the books by Grof with friends that were studying physics and friends who were studying philosophy and friends who were studying psychology, and all of them could find something they could really appreciate." -Jonas
"A book can be a harm reduction tool. ...Just having a book at the right time can really help you integrate a difficult experience and change the course of your life. Definitely, this has been the case for me. I didn't know anyone in my community at the time that could really guide me, and these books played that role." -Jonas
"Especially now, there's a lot of conversation about diversity- how to increase diversity in the psychedelic community. Maybe the way to do that is literally to speak their language." -Jonas
"I think the mental health crisis isn't language-specific. I think it happens everywhere." -Kristina
Links
The Secret Chief Revealed Paperback, by Myron J. Stolaroff
A Course in Miracles: Foundation for Inner Peace
The Six Pathways of Destiny, by Ralph Metzner
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, welcome back to Psychedaleics today. |
| 0:15.0 | This is Joe Moore coming at you from Bracken, Ranch, Colorado. |
| 0:18.0 | Today on the show, we have some folks. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm really excited to share with you. |
| 0:22.6 | This is Christina and Jonas. |
| 0:24.6 | They are heavily involved in the Groff world and have some exciting stuff to share with us. |
| 0:30.6 | So essentially they're working to translate lots of psychedelic books into a lot of languages. |
| 0:36.6 | I think that's super important for the movement and getting more inclusion going. |
| 0:43.3 | Like what better way to include more populations than get more languages available? |
| 0:49.3 | So yeah, it's a really wonderful project, really excited. |
| 0:53.3 | We were able to record this and really excited we |
| 0:56.9 | were able to release it so soon so we recorded this on the 21st the solstice and we're releasing it on |
| 1:02.9 | December 25 Christmas day so Merry Christmas hope you all enjoy this one I really really really |
| 1:10.4 | really had a great time with these two and I hope to do more with them. |
| 1:14.0 | They've got some exciting side projects coming. Join us as looking at a podcast in Italian, which will be really cool. |
| 1:21.1 | So I, yeah, I think that's it for now. So if you want to wish us a Merry Christmas, maybe join us on Patreon. |
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| 1:32.7 | And it really helps. |
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| 1:40.9 | clinicians and therapists, our eight-week training program that starts January |
| 1:44.7 | 7. It is once a week on Thursdays and it will change your relationship to the psychedelic topic. |
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