• Coming Down
    Jan 22 2023

    This is it- the final, short and sweet episode in the homeopathy and psychedelics series. A few more reflections and what's coming for Season 7. 

     

    Links for this episode: 

    www.chacruna.net 

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    12 mins
  • Are Psychedelics, Homeopathic? A Review of the 4 Principles.
    Jan 15 2023

    The penultimate episode in the series asks the question- are psychedelics homeopathic in anyway? 

    I review psychedelics considering the four pillars:
    similars

    minimum dose

    totality

    individuality

    Links/Sources for this episode: 

    How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan, Penguin Books, 2018. P149, p151-153, p177

    Organon of the Medical Art, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, edited by Wenda Brewster O'Reilly, 1996

    aph. , 6, 7, 23, 57, 58, 60, 63, 69, 100, 103 

    The 'Hyoscine Cure' 

    A Brief History of Microdosing 

    University of Chicago study 

    Gallium proving

     

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    49 mins
  • Let's Be Clear: Psychedelics are Drugs. A Conversation with Homeopath Vanessa Black.
    Jan 8 2023

    My guest today is Vanessa Black, homeopath and Phd. student.  Vanessa has had a front row seat to what happens when people self-prescribe psychedelics to an extreme degree, and how homeopathy can help right the imbalance.  *please not there are swear words in this episode* 

    We discuss the shadow side of the hype of psychedelics. 

    Links for this episode: 

    Vanessa's website:  https://www.functionalalchemy.org/

    Articles exploring risk, reality, bias, and research: 

    Can magic mushrooms unlock depression? What I’ve learned in the five years since my TEDx talk

    The Psychedelic Utopia is a Lie 

    Inside the Dispute over a High Profile Psychedelic Study 

    Confessing Grandiosities 

     

     

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    1 hr
  • Ayurveda, Psychology, and Ketamine with Dr. Jenna Labbe-Watson
    Dec 18 2022

    Dr. Jenna Labbe-Watson started in the vitalist tradition of Ayurveda and made the transition to psychology. Serendipity brought her to ketamine, and she shares her personal and professional experience with me in this 6th episode in the homeopathy and psychedelics series. 

     

    Links for this episode: 
    Dr. Jenna Labbe-Watson 

    The Ketamine Papers

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    51 mins
  • Ketamine: A Conversation with Nancy Herrick
    Dec 11 2022

    Nancy Herrick, Hahnemann Clinic, is a senior practitioner and international teacher of homeopathy. A few years ago, a client with intractable insomnia led her to try low dose ketamine. She has not looked back. Nancy shares how she now prescribes ketamine to many of her clients, either alone, before or alongside homeopathy treatment. 

    Links for this episode:
    European Journal of Anesthesiology

    The New Yorker

     

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Ayahuasca with David Malcolm Shein
    Dec 4 2022

    David Malcolm Shein, homeopath at Blackbird Homeopathy

    shares with me his experience at a 28 day ayahuasca retreat in Peru. Concepts of regimen and potentization in homeopathy are reviewed and discussed. 

    Links for this episode: 

    Ayahuasca Foundation 

    Plant dietas 

    Ayahuasca Churches 

    Tim Ferris, Business Insider 

    Chacruna.net 

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    55 mins
  • They all started with a Proving: Homeopathy, LSD, Psilocybin....
    Nov 27 2022

    Psychedelics and homeopathy have an interesting resonant history: from the first 'trip' of LSD as an accidental proving, its origins in chemical components that are found in Ergot- or the homeopathic remedy, Secale- to Dr. Humphrey Osmond, a London psychiatrist who later mentored a homeopathic doctor of 42 years, it's a strange coincidence. 

    Links to sources used in this episode: 
    Ayahuasca 

    Mescaline 

    MDMA

    How to Change Your Mind  Michael Pollan,

    Penguin Books, 2018; p. 141, 108, 109, 106, 110, 114, 23, 24, 26,145, 146, 155, 156, 

    Ketamine

    Psilocybin

    Child eats mushrooms 

    Life Magazine 

    Doors of Perception Magazine 

    Estrada, Alvaro. Maria Sabina: Her Life and Chants. Santa Barbara, Calif. Ross-Erikson, 1981

    New York Times 1970 archives 

    Albert Hofmann

    "The Accidental Discovery of LSD" 

    The Organon of the Medical Art , Sameul Hahnemann, edited by Wenda Brewster O'Reilly, Birdcage Books, Palo Alto, CA 1996, original 1842 by Samuel Hahnemann ; p146-147, p151

    Sue Young Histories 

    Dr. Philip Bonnet obituary 

    The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Vol. 2, NO. 1 1987-

    researchgate.net

    The Nation 

     

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Kristina and Mike, "The Medicine Makers"
    Nov 20 2022

    Kristina and Mike share their experience with microdosing psilocybin mushrooms, growing and sharing them in their community, and the need for additional therapeutic support. 

    This is Episode 2 in Season 6- the Homeopathy & Psychedelics. 

    Links in this episode: 

    Marijuana Moment 

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    1 hr and 2 mins