Today’s podcast is quite different.
It marks the end of the Mind Manifest podcast and is an episode where I turn the microphone back on myself.
The inner healer is a clever and amazing thing. Some years ago, whilst I was becoming somewhat disillusioned with the limitations of conventional talk therapy for my more complex clients, I came across the burgeoning therapeutic and scientific use of psychedelics and became intrigued. My initial curiosity was - I thought - purely professional. A resurgent modality was showing promise in the clincial trials, and I was professionally (but dispassionately) intrigued. That was the extent of it.
But research is, of course, me-search, and after my first few personal experiences with psychedelics, I realized that the true reason I was so interested was much more personal. I had some deep and unhealed wounds that had not been accessible to me by conventional means, and my inner healing intelligence knew as much. It knew it would have to leverage the intellectual curiosity of my mind, and therefore the only way to expose my being to the healing potential of psychedelics was by presenting them to me as something ‘legitimate’ in the eyes of the mainstream. Like I said, the inner healing intelligence is a clever and amazing thing.
I do not think I am alone in this regard -I would posit that a lot of other health practitioners and researchers in the field (if they are truly honest with themselves) know that the prepotent reason for their interest in psychedelics is not the professional or intellectual curiosity of their ‘adult’ selves, but a similarly wise desire to finally listen to the unacknowledged yearnings of their own inner child.
please listen and enjoy, and hopefully, this helps you or someone you know
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Today’s podcast is quite different.
It marks the end of the Mind Manifest podcast and is an episode where I turn the microphone back on myself.
The inner healer is a clever and amazing thing. Some years ago, whilst I was becoming somewhat disillusioned with the limitations of conventional talk therapy for my more complex clients, I came across the burgeoning therapeutic and scientific use of psychedelics and became intrigued. My initial curiosity was - I thought - purely professional. A resurgent modality was showing promise in the clincial trials, and I was professionally (but dispassionately) intrigued. That was the extent of it.
But research is, of course, me-search, and after my first few personal experiences with psychedelics, I realized that the true reason I was so interested was much more personal. I had some deep and unhealed wounds that had not been accessible to me by conventional means, and my inner healing intelligence knew as much. It knew it would have to leverage the intellectual curiosity of my mind, and therefore the only way to expose my being to the healing potential of psychedelics was by presenting them to me as something ‘legitimate’ in the eyes of the mainstream. Like I said, the inner healing intelligence is a clever and amazing thing.
I do not think I am alone in this regard -I would posit that a lot of other health practitioners and researchers in the field (if they are truly honest with themselves) know that the prepotent reason for their interest in psychedelics is not the professional or intellectual curiosity of their ‘adult’ selves, but a similarly wise desire to finally listen to the unacknowledged yearnings of their own inner child.
please listen and enjoy, and hopefully, this helps you or someone you know
I recently spoke to Greg Donaldson in the Library of the Psychosynthesis Trust, located in the heart of London. Greg is a personable, balanced and thoughtful psychotherapist, and I really enjoyed talking to him. Greg is part of the team of therapists who will be working with participants in the Double-Blind, Randomised Control Trial comparing the efficacy of psilocybin with conventional SSRI treatment for depression.
The therapeutic modality of Psychosynthesis
Roberto Assagioli
Greg’s practice and philosophy of emerging purpose
‘Autonomous sub-personalities’ and how their problematic manifestation in client’s day to day life is often the reason they intially seek therapy
The inner tyrant as the ‘king of the ghetto’
How the autonomous sub-personality of ‘achiever’ can monopolise people’s behaviour
The technique of ‘Chair Work’
Greg’s belief that therapists should set up therapeutic ‘base camps’ at the foot of the client’s discomfort
How Greg deals with clients’ ‘inner Mark Corrigan’
Greg’s role-play with Bill Richards and how he got involved with the Imperial College psychedelic research team.
Our concerns around the culture of psychedelics as cure-alls
Greg’s terrible grasp of the phrase ‘shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted’
The Double-blind, Randomised Control Trial - Psilocybin for Major Depression…
…and the therapeutic protocol for the study
The implicit ‘hug’ of a therapy session
Our preference for ‘free’ over ‘safe’ spaces
The pervasive issue of publication bias in psychology, and how the ongoing direction of optimal integration of psychedelics should not be wholly directed by current paradigms of ‘best practice’
Psilocybin nasal sprays
Peter Attia, Debra Kimless and Steve Goldner discussing THC and CBD
This ‘Pollanic’ (a.k.a. - polemic written by Michael Pollan)
Charles Raison’s work into the relative importance of ‘access’ vs ‘phenomenal’ consciousness in the psychedelic experience
Greg’s clinical practice
Psychosynthesis
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Today’s podcast is quite different.
It marks the end of the Mind Manifest podcast and is an episode where I turn the microphone back on myself.
The inner healer is a clever and amazing thing. Some years ago, whilst I was becoming somewhat disillusioned with the limitations of conventional talk therapy for my more complex clients, I came across the burgeoning therapeutic and scientific use of psychedelics and became intrigued. My initial curiosity was - I thought - purely professional. A resurgent modality was showing promise in the clincial trials, and I was professionally (but dispassionately) intrigued. That was the extent of it.
But research is, of course, me-search, and after my first few personal experiences with psychedelics, I realized that the true reason I was so interested was much more personal. I had some deep and unhealed wounds that had not been accessible to me by conventional means, and my inner healing intelligence knew as much. It knew it would have to leverage the intellectual curiosity of my mind, and therefore the only way to expose my being to the healing potential of psychedelics was by presenting them to me as something ‘legitimate’ in the eyes of the mainstream. Like I said, the inner healing intelligence is a clever and amazing thing.
I do not think I am alone in this regard -I would posit that a lot of other health practitioners and researchers in the field (if they are truly honest with themselves) know that the prepotent reason for their interest in psychedelics is not the professional or intellectual curiosity of their ‘adult’ selves, but a similarly wise desire to finally listen to the unacknowledged yearnings of their own inner child.
please listen and enjoy, and hopefully, this helps you or someone you know
