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Truth in Love

TIL 488: Psychedelic Micro-dosing (feat. Mark Shaw)

Truth in Love

Association of Certified Biblical Counselors

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Christianity

4.8627 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

1. What is Micro-Dosing?

2. What are the claimed "rewards" with Micro-Dosing?

3. How should we as biblical counselors be thinking about this?

4. Why is this something so tempting to us particularly in the western world?

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psychedelic microdosing on this edition of Truth and Love.

0:10.8

I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

0:16.2

where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face.

0:23.6

Today on the podcast I have with me, Dr. Mark Shaw.

0:28.4

He's a pastor of counseling at the Nocatty campus of First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida.

0:34.0

He's the founder of the Addiction Connection, a nonprofit equipping ministry for addiction biblical counselors.

0:38.0

He's the author of 28 publications, including The Heart of Addiction,

0:44.4

and the latest one is called De-Stigmatizing Addiction, Hope Through the Gospel. His passion is to see the local church offer compassionate biblical counseling to hurting souls. Mark, welcome to the

0:50.1

podcast. You're no stranger here to our listeners. Thank you for being with us today.

0:54.0

Thank you, Dale. Great to be with you. Now, interesting topic that you've chosen here today,

0:59.7

and I'm looking forward to diving in here. Crazy things that I'm seeing is the history of psychiatry

1:05.3

has been a very interesting flow, broadly cyclical between what's called biological psychiatry

1:10.5

and a romantic psychiatry, which simply between what's called biological psychiatry and a romantic

1:11.0

psychiatry, which simply means the idea of biological determinism to things like social and

1:16.9

environmental determinism. And we've seen cyclical patterns historically. We're sort of in one of

1:21.4

those tumultuous, maybe cyclical changes that's happening right now in the whole psychiatric

1:26.3

world. And really what you're starting

1:28.0

to feel is a spiritualism that is very akin to some openness toward paganism. I think some of the

1:36.3

things you're describing relative to microdosing might be some of that. I'm looking forward to this

1:41.5

conversation and how we're going to dive in here. So let me just start. Some people might be saying, what in the world is microdosing? I've never

1:46.8

heard of anything like that. And you coupled this with psychedelics. Okay, so let's get into this.

1:51.6

Mark, describe what microdosing actually is. And are there specific chemicals involved in this whole idea of

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