In this week’s episode, Joe discusses how he and his co-founder, Kyle Buller started Psychedelics Today, and how their podcast led to them developing a number of online courses. Their upcoming course is Navigating Psychedelics for Clinicians and Therapists. This 8-week course is good for both those wanting to learn how to better understand a client’s needs as a physician or a therapist and for those looking to get a taste of what the psychedelic therapy world is like before embarking on a more traditional and expensive training program.
Joe also talks about how mystical and spiritual experiences can play a role in psychology. While often overlooked in the current psychiatric system, Joe believes these spiritual and mystical experiences may help to heal patients in certain situations.
In this episode:
- How Psychedelics Today started, and what led to offering courses.
- What information Joe found lacking in the psychedelic community.
- What to expect in the Navigating Psychedelics course and who it is for.
- How psychological theories incorporate into the work of facilitation
- Spiritual Emergence and its potential benefit to the current psychiatric system
Quotes:
“We just thought the psychedelic world is really interesting, but it is really lacking regular discussion of Dr. Stan Groff and Holotropic Breathwork. So really it [The Psychedelics Today podcast] was a way that we could contribute and bring voices that we thought were important back to the foreground” [5:13]
“I don’t want to be the Tony Robbins telling you how, you know, this is exactly how you should be charging at your problems. It’s like no – you need to take an individualized approach.” [13:03]
“If more people had a lot more support like we could see people self resolve things [trauma and psychological issues] instead of going into the psychiatric system for decades.” [26:13]
“You don’t get educated and then you’re done. This is a lifelong process.” [36:53]
Listen here – https://www.plantmedicine.org/podcast/navigating-psychedelics-joe-moore