Paul Stamets Psilocybin Mushrooms and The Mycology of Consciousness
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Our time with a curendera in the small town of Huautla de Jimenez, Oaxaca, Mexico. Mushroom healer from the Mazatec tradition. We also visit the home and family of Maria Sabina.
Kerry Pappas was diagnosed with stage III lung cancer in 2013. After participating in a psilocybin study, she lost her crippling anxiety about death. "60 Minutes" reports on the therapeutic use of psychedelics.
In the second half of an extended talk at SAND 18, Paul Stamets, author, mycologist, medical researcher and entrepreneur, tells stories of the early years of research into psychoactive mushrooms, and describes a number of species and their characteristics, in particular psilocybes.
Can plants help people access the intelligence in nature—the “mind of nature”—that we must learn to understand in order to supersede our ecologically destructive habits? This panel features Jeffrey Bronfman, founding member of the União do Vegetal church of the United States; Paul Stamets,...
Psilocybin mushrooms have been used for millennia by several cultures from Europe to Mesoamerica. More than 116 species have been identified thus far in the genus Psilocybe alone.
In this unique cross-cultural conversation, we compare and discuss the connections between Mazatec healing traditions and Western psychotherapy.
Françoise Bourzat speaks about her journey with psilocybin.
Robert Jesse will offer a view, spanning the decade from the birth of Horizons to the present day, of the significant developments that have occurred in several areas of our field. Surely they amount to a re-emergence of psychedelics. People speak of a renaissance.
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“Psilocybin for Depression: Introducing the ACE Model (Accept, Connect, Embody)” This presentation introduces the new therapeutic approach used in the ongoing Psilocybin for Depression study (Psilodep 2) at Imperial College.
A clinical psychologist from Imperial College describes how Magic Mushrooms (Psilocybin), when used in a therapeutic setting, have been found to be a very effective treatment for depression.