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This chapter explores the complex role of plant medicines as potential tools for healing while cautioning against their commodification. It discusses the importance of intention and respect in their use, raising profound questions about trauma and transformation in modern society.

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If you’ve watched the news lately, the pharmaceutical world is beginning to embrace the use of psychedelic medicines as a safer and more effective means to treat deep emotional challenges. That’s the good news…

However, are people using these ancestral medicines like allopathic medicines to bypass the deeper work they truly need that can create real pathways to personal growth and lasting healing?

Payam, a renowned international master of psychedelic medicines, describes the real and false promises of these medicines and how they can be used wisely to heal the wounded child within all of us this week on Spirit Gym.

Learn more about Payam and his practice at his website.

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Timestamps

3:37 Payam offers an invocation to begin his conversation with Paul.

6:52 A life of suffering and trauma from a very young age was the emotional baseline for Payam.

10:09 The start to becoming a medical doctor is turning off the human heart machine.

13:06 Treating psychedelics like allopathic medicines.

23:47 Healing the thorn in our soul.

32:52 Insight (synthetic) medicines (ketamine, MDMA) versus organic (spirit) medicines (Huachuma).

42:48 The importance of relational safety.

48:10 “All it takes is a kiss to get there.”

51:30 The false promises of plant medicines.

1:02:09 Payam’s recent lesson from the spirits: Cloud people and earth people.

1:19:16 The mark of a great man and his butterfly effect on the world.