Episode 251: My Scarlet Letter: Living with the Aftermath of Psymposia's Unethical Journalistic Abuse
Aug 21, 2023
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Podcast discusses the unethical journalistic abuse by Psymposia towards the speaker, challenges their report, and explores the impact on the speaker's personal and professional life. It also delves into the speaker's experiences of abuse and unethical journalism, their decision to retire as a non-dual energetic practitioner, rebuilding their life, living with a chronic medical disorder, and the need for genuine conversation in the psychedelic community.
The podcast explores a unique approach to psychedelic-assisted therapy using non-dual energetic therapy and the use of 5-MeO-DMT.
The speaker discusses being targeted by Symposia, a group known for its aggressive journalism tactics, resulting in damaging personal and professional repercussions.
The episode emphasizes the importance of critical evaluation, rational dialogue, and being treated as an authentic human being rather than a caricature created by Symposia.
Deep dives
The Practice of Non-Dual Energetic Therapy
The podcast episode explores the speaker's practice of non-dual energetic therapy, a unique and distinct approach to psychedelic-assisted therapy. They explain how their practice involves helping clients encounter, release, and transform limiting energetic structures and habits of expression through the use of 5-MeO-DMT. The speaker discusses the profound presence they bring to each session and the intimate, one-on-one nature of their work.
Symposia's Campaign and Character Assassination
The podcast episode delves into the speaker's experience of being targeted by Symposia, a group known for its aggressive journalism tactics. Symposia distorted and manipulated comments made by the speaker in a video recorded five years ago, portraying them as an abuser and unethical practitioner. The speaker highlights how Symposia's tactics involved emotional manipulation, sensationalism, and deliberate misrepresentation, resulting in a widespread backlash and damaging their personal and professional life.
Living with the Aftermath and Seeking Understanding
The podcast episode reflects on the repercussions of Symposia's campaign and the intense negative reactions received by the speaker. They express their desire for rational dialogue and understanding, inviting those interested to explore their extensive body of work beyond the distorted narrative presented by Symposia. The speaker emphasizes the need for the psychedelic community to critically evaluate opinions based on direct knowledge and evidence and discusses the importance of being treated as an authentic human being rather than a caricature created by Symposia.
Symposia's unethical actions
Symposia's actions of editing and misrepresenting a video, accusing the speaker without any supporting evidence, and violating ethical journalism standards
Negative impact and consequences
The podcast episode highlights the reputational damage caused by Symposia, the exile and abandonment experienced by the speaker in the psychedelic community, and the need for fair and unbiased judgment
Approximately 2.5 years ago, completely out of the blue, Psymposia came along and weaponized a then-five-year-old video of one of my public talks and through blatant distortion and radical decontextualization, launched an abusive campaign against me. Despite engaging in clearly unethical journalism, Psymposia's labeling of me as an "abuser" has been widely accepted, promoted, and complacently repeated throughout much of the psychedelic world. Their smear campaign has been very successful in getting me "cancelled," with a few notable exceptions. Because I'm continually coming up against the wall of exclusion that Psymposia created, I'm revisiting the issue here on the only real platform I have - my podcast. In this episode, I discuss what things were like before Psymposia, what Psymposia did and why it's unarguably unethical journalistic abuse, how I've been personally and professionally harmed and blacklisted, and issue a re-exploration of the context that Psymposia purposefully neglected. Ultimately, this is my request to have my case reconsidered by the public, hold Psymposia accountable for their abuses, and to encourage supporters to push back against the narrative they've created about me, my work, and who I am as a human being. Thank you for listening.
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