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The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

Your Guide to Psychedelic Psychotherapy – Dr. Phil Wolfson with Dave Asprey : 770

The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

Dave Asprey

Nutrition, Education, Fasting, Biohacking, Brain, Self-improvement, Diet, Meditation, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Lifestyle, Hacking, Fat, Science, Wellness

4.67.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, my guest is Dr. Phil Wolfson, the creator of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy. He shares his vast knowledge about the benefits of ketamine, and other healing chemicals like mushrooms or MDMA, as a treatment for depression, PTSD, addiction and other conditions. Dr. Wolfson leads patients through psychedelic psychotherapy sessions, guiding them through their past and present in an open, altered state of mind.

Dr. Wolfson is a specialist in psychedelic psychotherapy, a practicing Buddhist, and a “psychonaut.” His invaluable work is the result of an intense, many-decades-long clinical psychiatry/psychotherapy practice that focuses on new pathways for healing.

“There's really no right or wrong with psychedelics,” Dr. Wolfson says. “They have special properties. People go through either a low dose or moderate to high dose experience. That experience is separated from your life here. And then the real work is the integration as people come back, [asking] How am I different? What have I learned from this?”

For example, in the first hour of mushrooms or psilocybin, you're going to go through a psychological scrape, he says. “All the misdeeds, and things you owe to people, and how you've been hurt or hurt others.”

“It's about how do we integrate our lives and relationship in this very difficult time with people and in our beings, and what practices we bring to this whole thing. So, it's not just about substances.”

“We use our medicines in a sacred way,” Dr. Wolfson says. “We're not doing traditional medicine; we're not doing intravenous anesthesiology practices. We bring people in, we do invocation. We help people move into a state of contemplation before we do substances.”

He’s also the CEO of the non-profit Ketamine Research Foundation, the director of the Center for Transformational Psychotherapy and a founding member of the Heffter Research Institute (HRI), a non-profit scientific organization. HRI has been helping design, review and fund the leading studies on psilocybin (the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms) at research institutions in the U.S. and Europe. 

Dr. Wolfson leads the newly founded Indra’s Net Coalition, which brings people around the world together in the midst of crisis for healing, self-expression and connection.

Indrasnetcoalition.org is a worldwide universal concept about connection,” he says. “It's about forming a network that is exists because we're all connected.” 

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Your listening to bullet proof radio with Dave asprey today is going to be a really really good interview because we're going to get into psychedelics today and our guest is Dr Phil Wolson the creator of a new approach to psychotherapy based on ketamine called ketamine assisted psychotherapy.

1:22.5

And if you're a long time listener about a hundred episodes ago I went and I did ketamine assisted psychotherapy down in San Diego and talked about it.

1:30.5

And Phil though is the guy who made it happen he's the CEO of the nonprofit ketamine research foundation.

1:37.5

He spent many decades doing clinical psychiatry and psychotherapy.

1:42.5

We're going to talk about what he's done how he got there and he's also a journalist and author of a lot of articles on transformation politics psychedelics consciousness in spirit.

1:52.5

So we'll get a little bit out there today but remember ketamine is a legal widely available substance not subject to the same regulatory problems as some of the other things like LSD or mushrooms or even MDMA all of which are making progress as chemicals that can be used for healing even though they could also be used for other things.

2:11.5

Dr Wolson or Phil as I'll call you welcome to the show my pleasure indeed thanks for having me.

2:21.5

Why ketamine.

2:24.5

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3:27.5

Ketamine is originally an anesthetic and an analgesic put together off of PCP anilob research in the late 1960s and when it first was being used at word domino was the inventor of it.

3:45.5

So that people coming out of high dosages of ketamine were having what he called emerging defects and they were having a psychedelic experiences and unfortunately because he didn't know what to do with that and people weren't being supported in it there were people who really had trouble with the substance.

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