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Your Guide to Psychedelic Psychotherapy – Dr. Phil Wolfson with Dave Asprey : 770

Dec 10, 2020

Dr. Phil Wolfson, a pioneer in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy and a practicing Buddhist, shares his insights on the transformative power of psychedelics. He discusses how substances like ketamine, MDMA, and mushrooms can effectively treat PTSD and depression, emphasizing the importance of guided therapy sessions. Wolfson highlights the integration process post-experience, encouraging self-reflection and emotional healing. He also touches on the interconnectedness of people and community support, illustrated by the unique culture of events like Burning Man.

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Ketamine's Journey to Psychotherapy

Phil Wolfson, initially focused on MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, is now known for his work with ketamine.
He recounts the history of ketamine, from its invention as an anesthetic to its use in psychedelic therapy.

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Ketamine as a Timeout

Ketamine's strength in psychotherapy is its ability to create a "timeout" from ordinary life.
This timeout allows patients to separate from their usual thought patterns and gain new perspectives.

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Effortless Forgiveness with Ketamine

Dave Asprey shares his personal experience with ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, noting effortless forgiveness.
He easily forgave past grievances, feeling lighter afterward.

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In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, my guest is Dr. Phil Wolfson, the creator of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy. He shares his vast knowledge about the benefits of ketamine, and other healing chemicals like mushrooms or MDMA, as a treatment for depression, PTSD, addiction and other conditions. Dr. Wolfson leads patients through psychedelic psychotherapy sessions, guiding them through their past and present in an open, altered state of mind.

Dr. Wolfson is a specialist in psychedelic psychotherapy, a practicing Buddhist, and a “psychonaut.” His invaluable work is the result of an intense, many-decades-long clinical psychiatry/psychotherapy practice that focuses on new pathways for healing.

“There's really no right or wrong with psychedelics,” Dr. Wolfson says. “They have special properties. People go through either a low dose or moderate to high dose experience. That experience is separated from your life here. And then the real work is the integration as people come back, [asking] How am I different? What have I learned from this?”

For example, in the first hour of mushrooms or psilocybin, you're going to go through a psychological scrape, he says. “All the misdeeds, and things you owe to people, and how you've been hurt or hurt others.”

“It's about how do we integrate our lives and relationship in this very difficult time with people and in our beings, and what practices we bring to this whole thing. So, it's not just about substances.”

“We use our medicines in a sacred way,” Dr. Wolfson says. “We're not doing traditional medicine; we're not doing intravenous anesthesiology practices. We bring people in, we do invocation. We help people move into a state of contemplation before we do substances.”

He’s also the CEO of the non-profit Ketamine Research Foundation, the director of the Center for Transformational Psychotherapy and a founding member of the Heffter Research Institute (HRI), a non-profit scientific organization. HRI has been helping design, review and fund the leading studies on psilocybin (the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms) at research institutions in the U.S. and Europe.

Dr. Wolfson leads the newly founded Indra’s Net Coalition, which brings people around the world together in the midst of crisis for healing, self-expression and connection.

“Indrasnetcoalition.org is a worldwide universal concept about connection,” he says. “It's about forming a network that is exists because we're all connected.”

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