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Rev Dr Jessica Rochester is an ordained Interfaith Minister with a Doctorate in Divinity. She is the Madrinha and President of Céu do Montréal, a Santo Daime Church she founded in 1997 in Montréal, Canada. From 2001 to 2017 she worked with Health Canada to achieve the recognition of the Santo Daime as a legitimate religion and the right to import the Santo Daime Sacrament for ritual use.
https://www.revdrjessicarochester.com/
Also check out www.GatheringGroups.ca to learn about our sacred mushroom retreats in Canada.
Peg Peters
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Tom Riedlinger is an author, occasional artist, researcher, and licensed mental health counselor. He has written and lectured extensively on psychedelic plants and the psychology of religion, with an emphasis on mystical experience. A Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and former Associate in Ethnomycology at Harvard Botanical Museum, Tom holds a degree in psychology from Northwestern University and in theological studies with a major in world religions from Harvard Divinity School. His published works include The Sacred Mushroom Seeker: Essays for R. Gordon Wasson, and chapters in Hallucinogens: A Reader (edited by Charles S. Grob), Entheogens and the Future of Religion and Timothy Leary: Outside Looking In (both edited by Robert Forte), Psychedelics and Spirituality (edited by Thomas B. Roberts), Sacred Mushroom of Visions (edited by Ralph Metzner), Fly Agaric: A Compendium (edited by Kevin Feeney), and Psyche Unbound, a Festschrift for Stanislav Grof compiled and edited by Rick Tarnas and Sean Kelly. Tom also has published articles in The Entheogen Review, Gnosis, The Journal of Humanistic Psychology, The Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, the MAPS Bulletin (with Timothy Leary), Medical Hypotheses, Psychedelic Monographs & Essays, Shaman’s Drum, and other periodicals. His current writing projects include an autobiographical account of his own psychedelic faith journey, Finding God in a Godless Universe, and Sacred Mushroom Stems & Pieces, a companion volume to The Sacred Mushroom Seeker. Tom and his wife Beverly Jean Jenden-Riedlinger, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and fellow graduate of HDS, share an interest in the psychology of religion, including entheogenic spirituality, mystical experience, and a branch of religious studies called theodicy. They live with their cats Sazarac and Theo in Olympia, Washington.
Peg Peters is the host and can be found at www.gatheringgroups.ca
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Stephen Gray is a teacher and writer on spiritual subjects and sacramental medicines. He has worked extensively with Tibetan Buddhism, the Native American Church, and with entheogenic medicines. His latest book, How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World is an amazing collection of authors and thinkers who are brought together in this amazing collection.
• With contributions from Christopher Bache, Zoe Helene, Dennis McKenna, Martina Hoffmann, The Dank Duchess, Jamie Wheal, Grandmother Maria Alice, and others.
Check out Stephan here - https://www.stephengrayvision.com/
I'm your host Peg Peters- check me out at www.Gatheringgroups.ca
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The use of entheogens, or psychedelics, is out of the closet today. LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, and other medicines once associated only with the counterculture are now being legally studied for their healing properties. But as Rachel Harris shows, the underground use and study of psychedelics by women dates back to the Eleusinian Mysteries of ancient Greece.Harris interviews the modern women elders carrying on this tradition to gather their hard-won wisdom of experience. We explore the Any reader interested in inspiration, healing, and enlightenment will find here a wonder-filled narrative packed with provocative and perhaps life-changing insight.
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Don Lattin has been writing about altered states of consciousness since the 1970's. We explore is his latest book book, God on Psychedelics: Tripping across the rubble of Old-Time Religion. http://www.donlattin.com/
Peg Peters is an ordained minister and runs a group psychedelic model called www.GatheringGroups.ca
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Dr. Richards was a Lead Psychologist on an innovative, simultaneous group administration high-dose psilocybin trial with cancer patients at the Bill Richards Center for Healing in Rockville, Maryland. This cutting-edge, purpose-built psychedelic medicine clinic—located in a busy outpatient oncology center, is the first of its kind in the world, and may serve as a prototype for future Sunstone Therapies clinics nationwide. He currently works with Sunstone Therapies.
Rev Peg Peters of www.Gatheringgroups.ca and www.psychedelicjesus.ca
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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.
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Rev. Peg Peters, is the host and works with www.Gatheringgroups.ca to provide transformative experiences through a group process.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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/
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Dr. William Richards is one of the God-Fathers of the psychedelic movement having conducted thousands of sessions with patients throughout his 60 years of research. Bill is a psychologist in the Psychiatry Department of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Bayview Medical Center. He has agreed to be an expert witness in the Canadian Charter Challenge case on behalf of Therapcil and the cancer patients who are seeking legal access to this medicine. This conversation is absolutely amazing.
check out the Johns Hopkins psychedelic research center here - https://hopkinspsychedelic.org/
also go to www.therapcil.ca to donate to the Charter Challenge
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