What if plant medicine isn't an escape, but a return? What if our modern fear of altered states says more about our trauma than it does about the medicine itself? I sat down with Sitaramaya Sita, someone who has spent decades walking the path between science and spirit. She’s deeply trained, trauma-informed, and rooted in multiple healing lineages. We explored the misuse of language around plant medicine, how ancestral traditions relate to altered states, and why the Western lens so often fla...
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What if plant medicine isn't an escape, but a return? What if our modern fear of altered states says more about our trauma than it does about the medicine itself? I sat down with Sitaramaya Sita, someone who has spent decades walking the path between science and spirit. She’s deeply trained, trauma-informed, and rooted in multiple healing lineages. We explored the misuse of language around plant medicine, how ancestral traditions relate to altered states, and why the Western lens so often fla...
Canada, the 51st State? B. Lorraine Smith on National Identity, Tariffs, and the Illusion of Borders
Everyday Ancestral with James Barry
56 minutes
3 months ago
Canada, the 51st State? B. Lorraine Smith on National Identity, Tariffs, and the Illusion of Borders
Is Canadian pride a distraction from deeper truths? What if borders are just an illusion, and immigration debates miss the point entirely? In this thought-provoking conversation, I sit down with B. Lorraine Smith to explore the unseen layers of national identity, economic interdependence, and the ancestral wisdom of bioregional living. Lorraine isn’t just forward-thinking, she’s upstream-thinking. From indigenous sovereignty and Quebec’s autonomy to the fabricated drama around tariffs and tra...
Everyday Ancestral with James Barry
What if plant medicine isn't an escape, but a return? What if our modern fear of altered states says more about our trauma than it does about the medicine itself? I sat down with Sitaramaya Sita, someone who has spent decades walking the path between science and spirit. She’s deeply trained, trauma-informed, and rooted in multiple healing lineages. We explored the misuse of language around plant medicine, how ancestral traditions relate to altered states, and why the Western lens so often fla...
