SC 15 - Ayahuasca & Relationships - Geoff Hanzlik and Richard Furr

The Jayson Gaddis Podcast

Jayson Gaddis

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.7 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2015

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Can plant medicine such as Ayahuasca help our marriages? In this episode I interview two very experienced guests who have both done over 500 ceremonies with this sacred medicine. We dive deep into this question, highlighting Ayahuasca’s strengths as a healing modality and where this medicine may fall short when it comes to interpersonal relationships.

SHOWNOTES:

Jayson’s early Ayahuasca experiences [2:30]
Intro to Geoff Hanzlik [4:50]
Intro to Richard Furr [5:45]
Beginning of interview [6:50]
Geoff shares how early depression lead him to Ayahuasca [8:40]
Richard shares how he entered the Ayahuasca path [11:35]
What exactly is Ayahuasca? [14:20]
Potential dangers and downsides of Ayahuasca [17:35]
Can this medicine “make you more sensitive”? [22:45]
Is group processing needed before and after ceremonies? [25:00]
Bringing therapy into the conversation [26:00]
The greatest thing the medicine taught Jayson [28:50]
Does Ayahuasca help with our intimate relationships? [30:55]
How would one use Ayahuasca to help their relationship life? [39:30]
Richard helps those struggling to integrate their Ayahuasca experience [44:15]
Inner depth healing vs. developing relational skills – [48:00]
Ayahuasca is not a ‘quick fix’ [51:10]
“This isn’t a ‘dabblers’ path” [54:50]
Richard shares the dangers of pushing Ayahuasca on others [1:00:00]
How are relational dynamics addressed in spiritual communities? [1:05:00]

Transcript

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0:00.0	What's up?
0:05.7	up relationship geeks and freaks.
0:08.2	Welcome back to the smart couple, where we do our best to use any means possible from a heart centered place to get the relationships we want.
0:26.0	And a lot of people that are into personal development and into personal growth and spiritual growth are going
0:38.4	to appreciate this episode because this episode is using really unconventional methods to get at our relationship issues and to see if it can help us.
0:52.0	So when you get into relationship challenges, what do you do? Most of you go to therapy,
0:58.0	counseling, read a book, or listen to a podcast or a blog,
1:03.0	blog, right?
1:04.0	Not as many people will stay up all night drinking a sacred plant medicine from the Amazon and then purging and being somewhat miserable half the
1:19.2	night or on the other side experiencing the utter magnificence of who you are and connected to everything that is.
1:27.0	Most people won't take that route, right, when you're in relationship pain, and that's understandable.
1:36.0	So I really years and years ago now,
1:50.1	because I am a seeker, a truth seeker, a seeker of meaning, and I really care about what's actually going on in this world and what the hell this is all for.
1:57.0	I've been really on a quest much of my life to find answers and I will use hallucinogenics and other substances, holotropic breath
2:10.4	work. I'll use whatever it takes to find answers really about myself and how I relate and
2:17.4	interact with the world out there and how I feel separate sometimes and how yet when I tap into these mystical experiences I feel less separate and more connected.
2:29.0	So when I found Iowasca finally, I thought it was the Holy Grail and I was really, I just dove in at first for probably two years straight and then a little longer than that as I started to
2:46.0	taper off and get a little more mature in myself and more serious in other parts of my
2:52.1	life but for me it was a real open in other parts of my life.
2:53.0	But for me, it was a real opening,
2:55.0	and it tapped me into my brilliance.
2:57.0	It also tapped me into the biggest, darkest, ugliest parts of myself
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