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SHOW NOTES Blake speaks with Sam van Ginkel about experiential therapy, memory reconsolidation, and why insight alone often fails to change our deepest patterns. The heart of the episode is memory reconsolidation: how old emotional learnings update when activated and met with a new, disconfirming experience. OUTLINE (0:08) – Completing the Emotional Arc: Why suffering changes us differently when it is witnessed, held, and supported. (0:11) – Beyond Talk Therapy: Why being in the experience can reach places explanation cannot. (0:15) – The machinery under evidence backed counselling modalities of IFS, AEDP, Somatic Experiencing, and Coherence Therapy: The mechanism linking several experiential approaches. [IFS — https://ifs-institute.com/] [AEDP — https://aedpinstitute.org/] [SE — https://traumahealing.org/] [Coherence Therapy — https://coherencetherapy.org/] (0:17) – Updating the Rules Your Nervous System Still Lives By: Experiential therapy as a way of changing implicit emotional learnings. (0:21) – The Inner Game of Therapy: Why change often happens better through direct experience than instruction. [The Inner Game of Tennis — https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/905.The_Inner_Game_of_Tennis] (0:25) – The Rider, the Elephant, and the Limits of Insight: Why the logical mind can understand while the emotional system still refuses to believe. [The Happiness Hypothesis — https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96884.The_Happiness_Hypothesis] (0:31) – Learning to Speak Elephant: The shift from managing symptoms to addressing the emotional learning underneath them. (0:32) – Memory Reconsolidation, Without the Jargon: How the brain can unlearn an old emotional pattern. [Unlocking the Emotional Brain — https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17054323-unlocking-the-emotional-brain] (0:37) – A Live Demo Begins: Blake offers a real trigger around authority, frustration, and feeling controlled. (0:41) – Turning a Trigger Into a Target: Sam clarifies the desired change before going deeper. (0:49) – Symptom Deprivation: Using the possibility of removing a reaction to reveal what it protects. (0:52) – Under the Anger: The conversation moves from heat and confrontation toward grief, tenderness, and the need to be seen. (0:55) – The Younger Part Behind the Adult Reaction: Blake connects the authority trigger to earlier emotional learning around agency and self-worth. (1:03) – The Change Engine: Activation, Mismatch, New Learning: A practical breakdown of memory reconsolidation. [Unlocking the Emotional Brain — https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17054323-unlocking-the-emotional-brain] (1:08) – Where to Start With Experiential Therapy: Resources for therapists and clients interested in experiential work.

Show Notes (0:04) Internal Discernment: Intuition vs. outdated coping. (0:06) Expansive vs. Contractive: Testing internal signals. (0:13) Pulling Away Feels Like Freedom: Avoidant impulses and protection patterns. (0:20) Reading the Body: Tension, aliveness, constriction, and capacity. (0:24) Pattern Recognition: Using hindsight to see recurring relationship moves. (0:31) Work, Mental Health, and Growth: Vocational mental health, mentorship, and skill-building. (0:33) Goal, Plan, Do, Review: Clarify, test, act, update. (0:37) Why Vague Goals Fail: The cost of underspecified targets. (0:40) Updating the Bullseye: Why partner lists can miss the deeper feeling. (0:47) AI-Augmented Psychotherapy: Supporting therapists without replacing relationship. (0:49) Burnout and Better Tools: Where clinical AI may safely help. (0:51) BCACC and AI: Guidelines for safe AI use in counselling. [BCACC AI Guidelines by Candice Alder: https://bcacc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/BCACC_AI_Guidelines_March_2025.pdf] (0:52) EHR Documentation Tax: Why records may be AI's lowest-hanging fruit. (0:57) Reflective Dialogue Companions: LLMs as clinical brainstorming partners. (1:03) Syllabus to Calendar: Turning course dates into an importable file. (1:05) Custom Writing Workspace: Blake's ChatGPT project for correspondence. Prompt: Act as my Communications Strategist and Writing Partner. Draft, refine, and tighten professional correspondence. Prioritize scannability, clear structure, short sentences, and skimmed points. Keep the tone friendly, sincere, professional, collaborative, and open-ended. Add subtle quirks only when they improve clarity. Avoid overpromising or committing on my behalf. Do not use dashes in place of other punctuation. (1:07) Claude, ChatGPT, and the Yes-Man Problem: Tone, speed, UI, pushback, and sycophancy. (1:11) AI Workbook Designer: Personalized learning materials that help. (1:13) Socratic Learning With LLMs: AI as an active learning partner. (1:15) NotebookLM and Study Tools: Turning source material into quizzes, podcasts, flashcards, and active study. (1:16) Personalized Mentor Model: AI tutors and The Diamond Age. [The Diamond Age: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827.The_Diamond_Age] (1:18) Tesla and RoboTaxi: Why self-driving may matter most. (1:24) Why Robotic Hands Are Hard: Dexterity, feedback, force, and messiness. [da Vinci Robot Peels a Grape: https://www.froedtert.com/videos/da-vinci-robot-peels-grape] (1:30) Chinese EVs: Batteries, costs, and production quality. (1:36) Supply Chains, Drones, and Geopolitics: Hardware capacity as power. (1:37) Depressed Assets and Cockpunch: Tim Ferriss's NFT project after the hype cycle. (1:43) Winston's How to Speak: Communication, attention, and presentation design. [MIT OCW: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-tll-005-how-to-speak-january-iap-2018/] (1:47) Nicorette as a Focus Tool: Low-dose nicotine, focus, ADHD, and route of administration. (1:52) Guardrails Against Habituation: Rules and spacing to reduce dependency risk.

Show Notes This is a conversation with Dr. Mitch Earleywine. Mitch Earleywine, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology trained at Columbia University, Indiana University, and the Jackson VA Medical Center. He has over 20 teaching awards, including the Teacher of the Year Award from the University of Southern California and the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching from the State University of New York. He has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including dozens focused on psychedelics and their impact, addressing everything from how clinicians can improve their practice to ironing out methodical concerns. Over ninety of his papers address issues related to minoritized individuals. He’s also authored edited books address drugs of abuse, substance use problems treatment, subjective effects of psychoactive substances, and humor. He’s made media appearances as an expert consultant for Netflix series “Rotten,” the History Channel documentary “Marijuana: A Chronic History,” as well as an NPR. OUTLINE: Here are timestamps for the episode with references mentioned (00:00) - Conversation Highlights (00:55) - Introduction (03:16) – Conversation start. Taking risks as a professional (08:37) – Introducing "Integration" and Wise Interventions - https://www.wiseinterventions.org/ (15:11) – Defining Integration - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00221678221085800?journalCode=jhpa (21:20) – Earleywine's protocol for integration (27:28) – Cultivating relationships as a healthy move - https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/psymed.2023.0020. (33:46) – Lessons from Earleywine's dad (38:08) – Supporting questions for folks who are integrating (41:49) – Oceanic Boundlessness (46:30) – Trim tabs and treating depression (57:50) – Choosing identities, importance of selecting values (1:04:49) – Earleywine's relationship to buddhism and non-duality - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Water (1:13:53) – Are mindfulness and non-duality the same thing? Thoughts Without a Thinker, an introduction to buddhism for a western audience, by Mark Epstein https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37082.Thoughts_Without_A_Thinker (1:24:00) – Advice for counsellors, therapists and clinicians (1:10:55) – Does buddhism suggest we shouldn't have desires? (1:16:46) – Should we avoid suffering? There is no good or bad (1:21:20) – Thoughts Without a Thinker, by Mark Epstein Great book if you only read the introductions to buddhism intended for a western audience. Ignore the author's outdated claims about psychology, neuroscience or anything Freud related https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37082.Thoughts_Without_A_Thinker (1:28:11) – Power of intentional reflection combined with simple steps (1:40:43) – Introduction to 5-MeO-DMT with Aga Postawska - https://pnc.st/s/rupert-radio/670e439e/lessons-from-a-world-class-psychedelic-facilitator-w-aga-postawska (1:41:01) – Treating End of Life Anxiety with Psilocybin with Thomas Hartle - https://pnc.st/s/rupert-radio/f3d91148d12243c9/treating-anxiety-with-mushrooms-side-effects-include-improved-quality-of-life-w-thomas-hartle (1:44:01) – Roland Griffiths, Psychedelic Science pioneer - https://tim.blog/2022/12/08/roland-griffiths/ (1:48:26) – Don't Wake and Bake: Morning use predicts cannabis problems - https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-35741-009 Have you served as a trip sitter (someone who's sat with and supported another person undergoing a psychdelic experience) and want to help Mitch with his research by participating a quick and easy zoom call, you can reach Mitch and his team at [email protected] Thanks for tuning in! Find out more at https://rupert-radio.pinecast.co

Show Notes This is a conversation with Adrian Oberg. Adrian is one of the first professionals to go through a Canadian Health Approved training to become a psychedelic clinical counsellor. Adrian works as a harm reduction professional and integration specialist who has been holding space for transcendent experiences for the past 6 yrs. He is the director of Victoria Association of Psychedelic Studies as well as the Celium, a volunteer based harm reduction organization. OUTLINE: Here are timestamps for the episode with references mentioned (00:00) - Intro (01:04) - Welcoming Exercise (16:14) – The value of "check ins" (20:16) – Training to be a legal psychedelic counsellor https://www.therapsil.ca/ (30:00) – How to establish connection and support others (34:10) – Client centered care https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person-centered_care (42:40) – Adrian's history with psychedelics (48:47) – The war on drugs and against people of color https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000004642370/jay-z-the-war-on-drugs-is-an-epic-fail.html (52:01) – Studying psychedelics at school (54:00) – Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) https://mapscanada.org/ (1:01:40) – The importance of honesty (1:04:28) – Adrian's relationship with these medicines (1:06:50) – Potential for healing and growth (1:10:55) – Does buddhism suggest we shouldn't have desires? (1:16:46) – Should we avoid suffering? There is no good or bad (1:21:20) – Thoughts Without a Thinker, by Mark Epstein Great book if you only read the introductions to buddhism intended for a western audience. Ignore the author's outdated claims about psychology, neuroscience or anything Freud related https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37082.Thoughts_Without_A_Thinker (1:25:13) – Surrendering to the experience in a good way, and the buddha's notion of the third path or the middle way (1:32:33) – Do our hangups all come from childhood trauma? Already Free, by Bruce Tift. Excellent book on finding contentment and fulfilment in all moments https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/12400671 (1:49:00) – Adrian book recommendation Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52036.Siddhartha Thanks for tuning in! You can connect with Blake Rupert on Facebook or Twitter at @blakerupert_ Find out more at https://rupert-radio.pinecast.co

Show Notes Stephanie MacKay, founder of Fianna Wilderness School - https://fianna.ca/ This conversation is an exploration of nature based mentorship! We focus on the reasons someone might want to participate in a nature school and explore take aways that can help folks learn wherever they are in life. OUTLINE: Here are timestamps for the episode with references mentioned. (00:00) Highlight (00:40) Intro (02:00) Welcoming Exercise (09:03) – What is Nature Connection and Wilderness School? Wilderness Awareness School: https://www.wildernessawareness.org/ Forest Schools: https://forestschoolassociation.org/what-is-forest-school/ (16:01) – A typical day at Wilderness School (24:56) – Mentorship (31:05) – Public school systems connection to factories Sir Ken Robinson Ted Talk on Education: https://youtu.be/zDZFcDGpL4U?t=13 Factory model school wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_model_school (34:15) – Field guides, resources for learning about nature (36:28) – Coyote Mentoring super power for learning and teaching (46:10) – Wilderness Awareness School, Duvall Washington: https://www.wildernessawareness.org/ (47:02) – 3 Tools for mentoring: Trickster, Questioning and Didactic (48:00) – Art of Questioning Jon Young: https://www.jonyoung.online/ (50:11) Lasting lessons and the Google Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_effect (55:22) – Shine Edgar Quote: https://rupert-radio.pinecast.co/episode/2e64a1b6/sound-healing-music-medicine-and-more-w-shine-edgar (56:44) – The value of risk (1:05:30) – Rights of passage and Initiation (1:15:20) – Sit Spot, aka the shortcut to nature connection (1:29:55) – Liminal spaces Thanks for tuning in! You can connect with Blake Rupert on Facebook or Twitter at @blakerupert_ Find out more at https://rupert-radio.pinecast.co

Show Notes The following is a conversation with Deus Fortier. Deus is a plant medicine facilitator who leads workshops in Mexico and does other forms of transformational coaching in Vancouver, Canada. To find out more about him go to https://www.deusfortier.com/ or https://www.thesomaheart.com/ Show Notes: (1:00) Starting a meeting with presence. Grounding, gratitude, and intention (2:44) Example of establishing a container, a welcoming ritual (9:51) Introducing Deus Fortier (11:00) Long term growth. Value of preparation and integration (13:05) Are Psychedelics for growth or healing? Potential limitations of western science in evaluating psychedelic healings Rak Razam on 5-MeO-DMT: https://youtu.be/0PtZ-58xZjQ (18:40) Bufo and 5-MeO-DMT Deus's partner Aga's episode https://pnc.st/s/rupert-radio/670e439e/lessons-from-a-world-class-psychedelic-facilitator-w-aga-postawska (19:15) How to prepare for optimal psychedelic outcomes Somatic Scan. https://www.mindfulnessmuse.com/mindfulness-exercises/increase-somatic-awareness-with-a-body-scan-mindfulness-exercise Also an introduction to Somatic Work. Waking The Tiger: Healing Trauma, by Peter Levine and Ann Frederick - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/384924.Waking_the_Tiger (27:00) Tips for solo psychedelic trips (31:30) Devon Christie, of Numinus Wellness. Emphasis on somatic experiencing for psychedelic processes https://numinus.ca/team/dr-devon-christie-md-ccfp (30:09) Spotlight of attention and addressing difficult sensations https://pnc.st/s/rupert-radio/d0244d42/psychedelic-buddhism-how-to-quit-suffering-w-andras-lenart (32:15) Science vs Spirituality Observational Studies: https://www.iwh.on.ca/what-researchers-mean-by/observational-vs-experimental-studies#:~:text=Observational%20studies%20are%20ones%20where,two%20types%20of%20observational%20studies. Initiative to collect data on psychedelic therapies https://www.quantifiedcitizen.com/ (35:44) Entourage effects. How psychedelics are both therapeutically potent as well as holistically powerful across "many dimensions of our beings simultaneously" https://psychedelicreview.com/the-entourage-effect-in-magic-mushrooms/ (40:33) Psychedelics eliciting "Mystical Experiences" that participants rate as 1 of their top 3 life experiences, research by R. Griffiths of John Hopkins University https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press_releases/2006/griffithspsilocybin.pdf (43:09) What should people avoid when going into a psychedelic experience? The importance of intentions (48:20) The basic don'ts (50:10) Examples of great psychedelic practitioners. The benefit of letting go, having support, and acknowledging whatever is true in the present moment (56:05) The value of having a facilitator, and group vs solo settings (1:01:19) The size of groups, 2:1 ratio of participants to facilitators (1:03:13) Research showing group therapy and solo therapy may have equal healing outcomes https://societyforpsychotherapy.org/individual-vs-group-psychotherapy/ (1:07:57) Role of Music in psychedelics You can also check out https://pnc.st/s/rupert-radio/2e64a1b6/australian-digeridu-master-and-plant-medicine-guide-shine-edgar The range of your sensory awareness, aka the Umwelt: https://eagleman.com/science/sensory-substitution/ And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygRNoieAnzI Medicine Songs, South American Icaros https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icaro (1:16:21) Modern medicine songs for Westerners https://www.youtube.com/user/BeautifulChorus And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(Jon_Hopkins_album) (1:18:00) Deus's Mentors: Satyen Raja: https://acceleratedevolutionacademy.com/ Chris Austen Fletcher: www.9Rings.ca www.HalfmoonHaven.ca www.WholeFamilyHealing.ca Trevor Yelich: https://www.numasomatics.com/trevor-yelich Dana Lynne Andersen: danalynneandersen.com awakeningartsacademy.com Paramahansa Yogananda: https://www.yogananda-srf.org/ "Authobiography of a Yogi" Blackfoot First Nations, Blood tribe of Southern Alberta: https://blackfootconfederacy.ca/ (1:22:15) What personality traits or practices are encouraged across different self development frameworks? Somatic scans David R. Hawkins: "Power Vs. Force" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19795.Power_vs_Force "Letting Go: The Pathway To Surrender" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16098910-letting-go?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=g4b6jAJyIJ&rank=1 John Vervaeke's 52 part series free on YouTube called "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY (1:27:15) Board game recommendations Pandemic: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30549/pandemic And Gloomhaven, fantasy RPG : https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/174430/gloomhaven (1:31:28) Imagination is one of the most important qualities we can cultivate Laura Dawn of the Psychedelic Leadership Podcast, on creativity, curiosity and imagination: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/0748f66c-d090-43f8-a683-865b426d0f99 (1:38:10) Passive and active integration (1:40:30) Radical accountability, honesty of practitioners (1:45:20) Psychedelics as Jetpacks or Hiking https://pnc.st/s/rupert-radio/4075495e/quit-suffering-with-psychedelic-buddhism-hiking-vs-jetpacks Find out more at https://rupert-radio.pinecast.co

Show Notes The following is a conversation with Shine Edgar. Shine is a renowned didjeridu master, sound healer and plant medicine guide with 30+ years of experience. He is also worked as a nurse and trained as a permaculture designer. (3:22) Western Australia Indigenous Group, Noongar https://tinyurl.com/yhk3bmhz (3:30) The Dreaming, how the world is sung into being. How to find your personal purpose https://tinyurl.com/2cz9fwfs (4:45) Noongar elder and Shine's mentor, Maxine Fumagalli. Maxine was an accomplished artist, poet, healer and teacher (7:23) Didjeridu for sound healing (20:06) "Consciousness Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom, Entheogens, and Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Growth", by Francoise Bourzat and Kristina Hunter https://tinyurl.com/743n3f29 (22:40) What to look for in a psychedelic guide (25:48) How music and sound forms our reality (26:00) Plants responding to music https://tinyurl.com/jfsh3znz (30:10) Music and Psychedelics, for recreation or growth? (33:55) Safety in ceremony, the advantages of staying on a mat or bed, at night (37:24) The importance of listening! Tips to improve your listening https://tinyurl.com/t5h547us (41:31) Songlines or Dreaming Tracks, maps that are sung https://tinyurl.com/y48w3j67 (49:27) Self Mastery (51:56) Tips for Self Mastery, becoming masterminds (59:00) Instruments overview (59:25) World Music Masters: Mamady Keïta, Master Drummer from Guinea. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakastani Sufi devotional music composer (1:03:20) Exercises for growing musicians (1:09:33) Being Nothing. Self acceptance and right effort. Particles vs. Waves, how things are solid or potentiality (1:17:28) The power of making the other band members sound great, not just yourself You can find more about Shine at: www.shinelikethesun.ca or reach him on facebook under Shine Edgar Find out more at https://rupert-radio.pinecast.co

Show Notes Vancouver Psychedelic Meetup is pleased to bring you a talk by Blake Rupert. Blake shares his insights at the intersection of psychedelics and Buddhism. He will explore how we might integrate practices, enhance our epistemic and ontological foundations, and deeply ground ourselves in the unyielding present. Blake will consider how this knowledge can allow us to alleviate suffering, discover our true freedom, and surf the uncertainty in our lives. Blake is an accomplished mentor who combines a Buddhist practice with psychedelic insights and nature-based wisdom. He has a BA from Dalhousie where he doubled majored in psychology and philosophy, studying topics like consciousness and the feasibility of producing thinking machines. Find out more at https://rupert-radio.pinecast.co

Show Notes Today's guest Andras Lenart works in health policy in the BC government. He also helps support compassionate access to psychedelic medicine through his work with TheraPsil. https://www.linkedin.com/in/andras-lenart/?originalSubdomain=ca The Psychedelic Society Online Meetup, on Feb 27th, 2021. Registration is free https://www.meetup.com/the-psychedelic-society-meetup/events/275977939/?action=rsvp&response=yes Resources Mentioned: 5:00 Already Free, by Bruce Tift. An absolute must read for anyone interested in the intersection between Buddhism and Western Psychology or therapy. https://tinyurl.com/Already-Free-Goodreads 9:25 Stanford professor of Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman on Neural Plasticity, including a section at the beginning on how early childhood experiences have profound effects. https://tinyurl.com/Andrew-Huberman-Podcast 15:55 Be Like Water, Bruce Lee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJMwBwFj5nQ 20:00 Gil Fronsdal, Audio Dharma, amazing online buddhist teacher. I'd recommend starting with the following introduction serieshttps://audiodharma.org/series/1/talk/1762/ 20:30 Theravada Buddhism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theravada 20:45 Thoughts Without A Thinker, by Mark Epstein. One of the first attempts by a modern Westerner to explain what Buddhism is (that's the first part and the part I got the most value out of) and also to explore the similarities and differences of buddhism and freudian psychology. That later half I think is a bit dated and filled with faulty assumptions or assertions about how the brain or souls work. 21:56 Main Claim of Buddhism: Desire is the source of all suffering. If you wish to end suffering, practice bare (simple) attention and mindfulness. See Thoughts Without A Thinker for more 40:22 Andrew Feldmar on Entheogens & Radical Psychotherapy. We're referring to his "anti-intention" approach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seLZYIpqEw0 42:30 Gabor mate intention setting https://tim.blog/2018/06/04/the-tim-ferriss-show-transcripts-dr-gabor-mate/ 49:43 How do psychedelics help buddhist practice? "Drugs And The Meaning Of Life", by Sam Harris https://samharris.org/podcasts/drugs-and-the-meaning-of-life/ 49:55 Sasquatch Music Festival https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasquatch!_Music_Festival 56:24 Aren't Buddhist supposed to avoid drugs? 59:20 Connected wisdom teachings of buddhism, aka the eightfold path wiki article https://tinyurl.com/Wiki8FoldPath 1:03:42 Right vs. Wrong, is there good and bad? See Doing What's Beautiful, by Gil Fronsdal. https://www.audiodharma.org/talks/audio_player/10681.html 1:04:07 10 points to Gryffindor, on the arbitrary scoring of moral actions. Know your memes https://tinyurl.com/19mjhs95 1:10:25 Somatic or Embodied Experiencing, https://www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about-therapy/types/somatic-psychotherapy 1:23:40 Buddhism as the 3rd Path or Middle Way, between aversion or craving Find out more at https://rupert-radio.pinecast.co

Show Notes Work with Aga - https://www.kamboflow.com/ https://www.thesomaheart.com/ History of the Bufo alvarius Toad and Cultural use of 5-MeO-DMT - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8895112/ What is 5-MeO-DMT? - https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidcarpenter/2020/02/02/5-meo-dmt-the-20-minute-psychoactive-toad-experience-thats-transforming-lives/?sh=2c80fd0538a1 Who is doing the healing work? How to Guide for Psychedelic Therapists: Chapter on the Internal Healing Wisdom, by Mark Haden Executive Director of the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Canada - https://www.amazon.ca/Manual-Psychedelic-Guides-Mark-Haden-ebook/dp/B08MB98F26 Already Free, by Bruce Tift Registered Buddhist Counsellor - https://www.amazon.ca/Already-Free-Buddhism-Psychotherapy-Liberation/dp/1622034112/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= How we inherit our ancestor's experiences. Epigenetics - https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/grandmas-experiences-leave-a-mark-on-your-genes The Science of How Our Minds and Our Bodies Converge in the Healing of Trauma. PTSD and how traumatic experiences can linger in the body - https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/06/20/the-body-keeps-the-score-van-der-kolk/ The Importance of Supervision in Psychedelic Therapies - https://maps.org/news/bulletin/articles/429-maps-bulletin-spring-2018-vol-28-no-1/7260-clinical-supervision-in-mdma-therapy-training-spring-2018 "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself, by Michael Alan Singer - https://untetheredsoul.com/ Thoughts Without A Thinker, by Mark Epstein. A great introduction for westerners to buddhism, by a Harvard educated psychiatrist and one of the first westerners to learn practice modern buddhism. Note, in Blake's opinion the first half of this book is the most important as a historical account of buddhism. Epstein's notions of neuroscience is dated and he tends to overestimate the importance of Freudian theory. I appreciated his history lessons, not his analysis of the why things are - https://www.amazon.ca/Thoughts-Without-Thinker-Psychotherapy-Perspective/dp/0465050948 Somatic Scan. https://www.mindfulnessmuse.com/mindfulness-exercises/increase-somatic-awareness-with-a-body-scan-mindfulness-exercise Also an introduction to Somatic Work. Waking The Tiger: Healing Trauma, by Peter Levine and Ann Frederick - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/384924.Waking_the_Tiger Integrating Transformational Experiences, Rick Doblin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwEmZW7H05g Neuroplasticity and changing your patterns, https://medium.com/swlh/to-break-bad-habits-you-really-have-to-change-your-brain-the-neuroscience-of-change-da735de9afdf Aga recommends "Consciousness Medicine", by Francois Bouzat https://www.abebooks.com/9781623173494/Consciousness-Medicine-Indigenous-Wisdom-Entheogens-1623173493/plp Find out more at https://rupert-radio.pinecast.co

Show Notes This episode I speak with Manesh Girn, a PhD student in Neuroscience at McGill University and has been lead or co-author on over a dozen scientific publications and book chapters on topics including psychedelics, meditation, daydreaming, and the default-mode network. We discuss what it's like to be a PhD student in Psychedelics, the role of buddhism in introducing him to "esoteric" or mystical experiences, the value of mentorship, and how to start a blog and learn in public about the topics you're passionate about! Manesh is currently conducting research on the brain mechanisms underlying LSD, psilocybin, and DMT, in collaboration with Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris and others from the Imperial College London Center for Psychedelic Research. In his free time, he also runs the YouTube channel The Psychedelic Scientist, where he discusses the latest findings in psychedelic science in an easy to understand, but non-superficial, form. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCccafaIN6dwBwyl1cwNH90w Find out more at https://rupert-radio.pinecast.co

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Rupert Radio: Psychedelic Buddhism, a podcast by Canadian therapist Blake Rupert. This episode features an interview with Michael Oliver who is the Volunteer Coordinator for the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Canada. If you've seen the movie Spirited Away Michael's like the boilerman who keeps the whole operation running with his 8 efficient arms. Michael is also the founder of a the psychedelic streetwear brand The Flying Sage. He has a degree in Cognitive Systems from the University of British Columbia. He was also a Research Assistant with the Cognitive Neuroscience of Thought Laboratory and ran the UBC Psychedelic Society for three years. And as you'll see in our interview, he's found a way of combining his passions, creativity and research into a fulfilling career so far. Show Notes Modern Psychedelic Fashion for a good cause https://theflyingsage.ca/ MultiDisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Canada: https://mapscanada.org/ Find Gil Fronsdal's buddhist teachings at AudioDharma: https://audiodharma.org/ Or https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/audio-dharma/id75519213 Turtle's the whole way down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down The emerging history of mind enhancing substances: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/02/cannabis-residue-found-in-ancient-jewish-temple-links-hallucinogens-with-religion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_(drink) Setting up an easy e-commerce store: https://www.shopify.ca/ https://www.shopify.ca/free-trial?&term=shopify&Network=Search&SiteTarget=&mt=e&adid=328290903104&adpos=&CampaignId=1690202562&branded_enterprise=1&BOID=brand&gclsrc=ds&gclsrc=ds Jonathan Toews, Gold medalist hockey player and captain of the Chicago Blackhawks, on his healing and growth journey with Psychedelics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRpodq-y0M4&feature=emb_title Saucony Peregrine, my favourite trail running shoes: https://www.saucony.com/CA/en_CA/peregrine-10/43084M.htmlre Enjoy! If you have any feedback feel free to send your comments to [email protected] Find out more at https://rupert-radio.pinecast.co