BONUS | Traumadelic Culture & The Colonization of Indigenous Plant Medicine | Adam Aronovich

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Apr 18, 2023

Adam Aronovich discusses traumadelic culture and the colonization of indigenous plant medicine on the podcast. Topics include critique of trauma-focused therapies, impacts of digital landscape, Mexican-Jewish heritage, Ayahuasca retreat experiences, community-focused ceremonies, cultural complexity, spiritual narcissism, and healing as wholeness.

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Intro

00:00 • 5min

Exploring the Impact of Digital Landscape and Parasocial Relationships

05:05 • 2min

Exploring Mexican-Jewish Heritage and Cultural Identity

06:57 • 2min

Exploring Ayahuasca Retreat Experiences and Their Societal Impact

09:08 • 27min

Community-Focused Ayahuasca Ceremonies: Shared Togetherness and Cultural Perspectives

36:28 • 11min

Navigating Cultural Complexity with Ayahuasca: A Personal Journey

47:29 • 21min

Reconnecting Personal and Community Well-being

01:08:07 • 10min

Impact of Postmodernist Deconstruction and Indigenous Roots

01:18:37 • 4min

Exploring Spiritual Narcissism and Healing Culture

01:23:04 • 13min

Reflections on Nature Deficit Disorder, Indigenous Medicine, and Cultural Conflict

01:36:12 • 21min

Exploring Healing as Wholeness and Community Connection

01:57:28 • 2min

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Description:

On this episode I speak with Adam Aronovich, who I met six years ago when I arrived at an ayahuasca retreat centre in the Peruvian Amazon to teach yoga for a few months. Adam lived and worked there for four years, facilitating retreats and performing research on healing outcomes among the Western participants.

Since that time, we’ve been keeping an eye on each others work and have found ourselves arriving at similar viewpoints about the problems and limitations of what he calls healing culture.

The catalyst for this conversation are the two recent articles I’ve published outlining my critique of what I’ve termed Traumadelic Culture, which is in my view, the result of the assimilation and capture of psychedelic culture by therapies that are obsessively focused on childhood trauma and perpetuate a victim narrative that disempowers and depoliticizes individuals. In my critique, I draw the work of post-Jungian psychologist James Hillman, as well as my study of yoga and other indigenous healing systems.

As a doctoral candidate in Anthropology and Communications focusing on Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry, as well as years of on-the-ground experience, Adam brings an acute awareness of the cultural and political impacts that spiritual tourism and the exportation of Western ideals and prejudices have on indigenous healing systems and local cultures.

And through his popular Instagram account @HealingFromHealing which is full of darkly funny and acerbic critiques of healing culture, he lends a bit of much-needed catharsis and levity to the conversation.

➤ LINKS

Adam's website: http://healingfromhealing.com

The Rise of Traumadelic Culture & The Capture of Psychedelics: https://medicinepath.me/journal/traumadelic-culture

Beyond Trauma: Re-Visioning Trauma Therapy: https://medicinepath.me/journal/beyondtrauma

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