UNVEILED: exploring psychedelics and spirituality

THE POETICS OF THE NONDUAl: Dr. Valeria McCarroll talks about training for psychedelic guides.

Valeria McCarroll, PhD, MFT, is a teacher and a cosmic aesthete. Formally trained as a psychedelic guide, she is faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies in the Integral and Transpersonal Department, where she teaches on psychedelics. Valeria stewards a contemporary body of offerings, Somadelics℠, a visionary path for the transformation of trauma. Offering embodiment practices that weave together insights from tantra, psychedelic medicine, social justice, and visionary cosmology, Valeria synthesizes her history of study and practice as trauma therapist and somatics teacher into an offering which illuminates an integrated path of awakening that cultivates a sense of resilient purpose in the face of a planet in crisis.  

Her article can be found here. - 

Rev. Peg Peters, is the host and works with www.Gatheringgroups.ca to provide transformative experiences through a group process. 

 

Entheogen Reformation: Dr.Thomas Roberts on Spirituality and Altered States

Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D., is professor emeritus at Northern Illinois University and a former visiting scientist at Johns Hopkins. The coeditor of Psychedelic Medicine and the author of Psychedelic Horizons, he has spoken at international conferences on psychedelics, consciousness, and psychedelic science. He lives in Sycamore, Illinois. Books by Thomas - https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/thomas-b-roberts/862752/

 

Peg Peters is an ordained minister and founder of www.GatheringGroups.ca a group model for psychedelic spiritual transformation. 

 

Christianity and Psychedelics: Hunt Priest and the renewal of faith

Hunt Priest is an Episcopalian minister who was a participant in a psilocybin study involving religious professionals at John Hopkins University. His life was change and as a result he started Ligare which is an open network of people who desire legal and safe access and believe that Christianity and other existing religious traditions offer paths for preparing, experiencing, and integrating mystical experiences, including those occasioned by sacred plants and compounds.

Also check out www.Gatheringgroups.ca

Peg Peters

 

 

Physician, artist, and psychedelic guide: Dr. Houman Farzin explores the healing power of mushrooms.

Dr. Houman Farzin has recently started the first legal treatments of physician-supervised home-based psilocybin-assisted therapy in Montreal, Canada. He is a lecturer at McGill University medical school, where he earned his medical degree and trained as a family physician. 

Check out Dr. Houman's music here - https://open.spotify.com/artist/2fXgrHYdakpvTIGHpNSz30?si=32GB_FtVRtC-Ui8fZQNGRQ

 

also check out www.Gatheringgroups.ca for online group work to prepare you for plant medicine journeys. 

hosted by Peg Peters

Psychedelic Communitas - Dr. Leor Roseman on the power of group psychedelic experiences

Leor Roseman is a postdoc at the Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College London, where he also received his PhD and MRes; under the supervision of Dr Robin Carhart-Harris and Prof David Nutt. His research interests are diverse and cover neuroscientific, phenomenological, therapeutic, and psychosocial aspects of psychedelic use. Currently, Leor is investigating relational processes and group dynamics in psychedelic rituals. His main line of research is examining the potential of psychedelics for peacebuilding. 

This podcast is hosted by Peg Peters, Founder of GatheringGroups.ca an online resilience course to prepare people for group journeys. 

Embracing Unrest: Dr. Sandra Parker on how to harness vulnerability.

Dr. Sandra Parker is a Registered Psychologist living in Vancouver who, for over 30 years, has helped people turn toward their inner experience with compassion. Her new book, Embracing Unrest: Harness Vulnerability to Tame Anxiety and Spark Growth, which invites people to tune in to “unrest”: a spike of nervous system activation that heralds vulnerability. We talk about how psychedelics and especially group work can help us regulate our nervous system prior to any active medicine session. 

 

hosted by Peg Peters

check out www.GatheringGroups.ca for information on group work. 

Four Arrows on the Indigenous WorldView, trance-based learning and psychedelics.

Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa) aka Dr. Don Trent Jacobs is faculty in the School of Leadership Studies at Fielding Graduate University. We  talk about the kinship or indigenous worldview in contrast to the dominant worldview and how trance-based learning or altered-state knowing (psychedelic) is essential to restore in our modern world if we are to heal as a species and restore our connections to ourselves, others and the biosphere. 

 

The Acid Room: Dr. Erica Dyck talks about the unique history of psychedelics in Canada

Dr. Erika Dyck, Professor, Canada Research Chair in the History of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan explores the cutting edge research in the 1950's and 1960's that was happening in Canada using psychedelic therapy.

Her latest book, The Acid Room: Psychedelic Trials and Tribulations of Hollywood Hospital explores the story  of more than 6000 supervised acid trips, as part of the burgeoning (and controversial) field of psychedelic psychiatry in Vancouver Canada. 

https://www.amazon.ca/Acid-Room-Psychedelic-Tribulations-Hollywood/dp/1772141860

 

for group integration work check out 

www.GatheringGroups.ca

 

Also check out www.TheraPsil.ca

 

peg peters

 

 

Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Dr. Darcia Narvaez on Indigenous wisdom for the Psychedelic Renaissance

Dr. Darcia Narvaez, professor of Psychology at Notre Dame, talks about her new book, Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth.  We explore the insights that this worldview framework has to offer those interested in using plant-medicines to help bring balance healing to our world. 

https://darcianarvaez.com/

https://www.kindredmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/Worldview-Chart-Starry-Sky-12-2021-FINAL.pdf

 

For more information on psychedelics and the Canadian court challenge to gain legal access to these healing medicines check out check out https://therapsil.ca/

 

check out my website for resources on group-work and integration - www.GatheringGroups.ca 

Peg Peters

Host UNVEILED

 

 

The Self Healing Mind: Dr. Mark Haden on the radical new paradigm for therapeutic psychedelics

Dr. Mark Haden, was the Executive Director of MAPS Canada (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) for 10 years and now is the Vice President of Business Development for Clearmind Medicine.  He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia School of Population and Public Health.   He is one of the top drug reform policy experts in Canada and is an outspoken advocate for creating accessible programs for psychedelic therapy.  

https://markhaden.com/?page_id=7

https://therapsil.ca/