Unlocking the Power of Psychedelics: Exploring the Scientific & Spiritual Benefits of Plant Medicine with Matt Zemon
Take Back Your Mind
Michael B. Beckwith
5 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Matt Zemon is an educator, author, and leader in Psychedelic Wellness who specializes in the impact of psychedelics on mental health. He is the author of the best-selling book, “Psychedelics for Everyone.” In their insightful conversation, Matt and Michael shed light on:
–The therapeutic benefits of psychedelics in shifting anxiety and depression, particularly in treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder among veterans, first responders, and victims of sexual assault
–The history of psychedelic use over centuries and across cultures in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe, and all the research data that existed in the U.S. before the Control Substances Act of 1970 which halted research until recently
–What happens to our brain chemistry when using psychedelics and how it expands our awareness of our spiritual nature
–The future promises for psychedelics, pending laws for decriminalization, Matt’s work with veterans through his Heroic Hearts Project—and so much more!
Michael then concludes with a guided meditation.
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| 0:00.0 | at a high level, the first thing that happens is your default mode network is turned off or turned |
| 0:06.0 | down. So this is, imagine that inner narrator, the voice that tells you're not enough, you're not |
| 0:10.7 | doing enough, you need to do more, you're not good enough. Turns that off. And for many people, |
| 0:15.8 | they feel like the anxiety lifts off their shoulders. They feel the weight of the world has shifted. |
| 0:22.4 | What then happens is these neurons that haven't fired together in many, many years start to fire together. So Michael |
| 0:28.2 | Paulin gives the analogy of it. You're skiing down a mountain. And as we get older, we ski in the |
| 0:33.8 | same track over and over and over to where we forget that there's a rest of a run |
| 0:37.7 | to ski on. |
| 0:38.5 | Well, the psychedelic puts a fresh coat of powder, allows these neurons to fire together and |
| 0:42.6 | connect. |
| 0:43.2 | And all of a sudden, we remember that we can ski anywhere we want and that we don't have |
| 0:47.7 | to look at this or that or our relationship or our career, the way we've been looking |
| 0:53.8 | at it. And we been looking at it, |
| 0:54.3 | and we can look at it in a whole different way. |
| 0:56.7 | And that is incredibly enlightening. |
| 0:59.2 | Peace and Rich's blessings. |
| 1:00.6 | I am Michael B. Beck with the host of Take Back Your Mind. |
| 1:03.4 | Listen, listen, listen, listen. |
| 1:08.4 | As we're lifted up into the spirit of all me |
| 1:14.6 | Easy, easy, easy, |
| 1:16.6 | EASED. |
| 1:17.6 | Ah! Peace and blessings, everybody, and welcome to take back your mind. |
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