This is it- the final, short and sweet episode in the homeopathy and psychedelics series. A few more reflections and what's coming for Season 7.

Links for this episode:

www.chacruna.net

The penultimate episode in the series asks the question- are psychedelics homeopathic in anyway?

I review psychedelics considering the four pillars:
similars

minimum dose

totality

individuality

Links/Sources for this episode:

How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan, Penguin Books, 2018. P149, p151-153, p177

Organon of the Medical Art, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, edited by Wenda Brewster O'Reilly, 1996

aph. , 6, 7, 23, 57, 58, 60, 63, 69, 100, 103

The 'Hyoscine Cure'

A Brief History of Microdosing

University of Chicago study

Gallium proving

My guest today is Vanessa Black, homeopath and Phd. student. Vanessa has had a front row seat to what happens when people self-prescribe psychedelics to an extreme degree, and how homeopathy can help right the imbalance. *please not there are swear words in this episode*

We discuss the shadow side of the hype of psychedelics.

Links for this episode:

Vanessa's website: https://www.functionalalchemy.org/

Articles exploring risk, reality, bias, and research:

The Psychedelic Utopia is a Lie

Inside the Dispute over a High Profile Psychedelic Study

Confessing Grandiosities

Dr. Jenna Labbe-Watson started in the vitalist tradition of Ayurveda and made the transition to psychology. Serendipity brought her to ketamine, and she shares her personal and professional experience with me in this 6th episode in the homeopathy and psychedelics series.

Links for this episode:
Dr. Jenna Labbe-Watson

The Ketamine Papers

Nancy Herrick, Hahnemann Clinic, is a senior practitioner and international teacher of homeopathy. A few years ago, a client with intractable insomnia led her to try low dose ketamine. She has not looked back. Nancy shares how she now prescribes ketamine to many of her clients, either alone, before or alongside homeopathy treatment.

Links for this episode:
European Journal of Anesthesiology

The New Yorker

David Malcolm Shein, homeopath at Blackbird Homeopathy

shares with me his experience at a 28 day ayahuasca retreat in Peru. Concepts of regimen and potentization in homeopathy are reviewed and discussed.

Links for this episode:

Ayahuasca Foundation

Plant dietas

Ayahuasca Churches

Tim Ferris, Business Insider

Chacruna.net

Psychedelics and homeopathy have an interesting resonant history: from the first 'trip' of LSD as an accidental proving, its origins in chemical components that are found in Ergot- or the homeopathic remedy, Secale- to Dr. Humphrey Osmond, a London psychiatrist who later mentored a homeopathic doctor of 42 years, it's a strange coincidence.

Links to sources used in this episode:
Ayahuasca

Mescaline

MDMA

How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan,

Penguin Books, 2018; p. 141, 108, 109, 106, 110, 114, 23, 24, 26,145, 146, 155, 156,

Ketamine

Psilocybin

Child eats mushrooms

Life Magazine

Doors of Perception Magazine

Estrada, Alvaro. Maria Sabina: Her Life and Chants. Santa Barbara, Calif. Ross-Erikson, 1981

New York Times 1970 archives

Albert Hofmann

"The Accidental Discovery of LSD"

The Organon of the Medical Art , Sameul Hahnemann, edited by Wenda Brewster O'Reilly, Birdcage Books, Palo Alto, CA 1996, original 1842 by Samuel Hahnemann ; p146-147, p151

Sue Young Histories

Dr. Philip Bonnet obituary

The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Vol. 2, NO. 1 1987-

researchgate.net

The Nation

Kristina and Mike share their experience with microdosing psilocybin mushrooms, growing and sharing them in their community, and the need for additional therapeutic support.

This is Episode 2 in Season 6- the Homeopathy & Psychedelics.

Links in this episode:

Marijuana Moment