What’s a bad trip? When were psychedelics first used? What is the meaning behind "psychedlics" and "entheogens"? How can certain psychedelics help with emotional trauma, PTSD and couples's therapy? Why should someone have a "guide" if considering using psychedelics? Shrooms!

In today’s podcast, we discuss the history, stigmas, and legalities around psychedelics and their uses as medicine, therapy and altering states of consciousness. I have the esteemed pleasure of speaking with Funlayo E. Wood Menzies, PhD, facilitator and guide. Iya Funlayo will be breaking down how psychedelics are used to treat depression, post traumatic stress disorder and for creating new cerebral pathways to opening up the creative mind.

3:00 Intro

3:20 Iya Funlayo’s first interests and fascination with psychedelics

8:55 The title “guide”

10:40 The switch in terminology: "Psychedelics" to "Entheogens"

20.00 MDMA, aka “ecstasy”

22:56 Mescaline

25:00 Can we derive similar effects with meditation or music?

29:30 Isolation tanks

32.00 Nurses, Midwives and Witches

39:00 Plant consciousness

40:00 Women's sensitivity to plant

43:45 Legalities and Propaganda --- Timothy Leary, Art Linkletter, Nixon and hippies

48:00 Experimentation on African Americans and Medical Apartheid

52:00 Pop culture: The Beatles, Altered States, Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz and The Matrix

61:20 Etheogens and terminal illness

66.00 What do you feel? The noetic state, gratitude and getting closer to your god(s)

69:00 Releasing the ego

69: 00 The amygdala - Our “fear factor” zone

80: 00 Who should not use entheogens?

84.00 Preparation

87:45 Treating creative people

91:40 Science vs medicine

102 Iya Funlayo’s contact information

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