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12-09-2021: A Regenerative Future for the Psychedelic Industry
Interview with Microdose.buzz
We’ll live in a regenerative economy where humans develop deeper and more meaningful connections with each other. This industry will be the poster child for how to do that well and ripple out. To achieve that, these plant medicines need to be accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime for help and healing. It should be available without friction, with safety and security of an experienced guide/sitter/therapist in a guided setting that’s not clinical only – this is what we are focused on. Integration therapy will become the norm. It will be like getting preventive care and be covered by insurance. It’ll be built into our daily lives. All non-addictive substances will be off Schedule 1 here in the US. They should never have been there in the first place since there was no medical or safety reason. These will be normalized as “medicines”. We’ll be able to cure drug addictions with these medicines and save tons of money that goes to criminal justice rather than harm reduction. It is said that the Oregon law alone, will require 100K guides/therapists/facilitators to be trained. If CA SB519 passes, it will be 5 to 10x that. Combine that with Washington State and Colorado, the demand is going to explode. That’s why Mindlumen exists — to remove friction in this process for people seeking help and those providing the services and spaces. I see organizations like Dancesafe, Zendo, and Fireside at every major music festival and event ensuring safety of these medicines even in recreational settings. Guided setting is still the best way to experience these compounds. We’ll use technology as tools to build a distributed and co-operative world. This industry is best suited to that. Creative contributors will be valued more than pure tech. Incentive structures for compensation will change based on giving rather than extracting. Company structures will be less authoritarian and more co-operative. Radical transparency will be the norm. How we organize for valuing contributions will change drastically. All contributions including volunteerism, will be valued, and compensated. Why shouldn’t people who contribute earn a living and have a middle-class life? Everyone has something of value to offer. “Minimum wage” will disappear from our lexicon. “Living wage” (for middle-class life) will be the new benchmark of an equitable society. Tools to decentralize the power structures are now available, where before they weren’t. My hope is that if people experience these medicines, we’ll live in a much more peaceful and co-operative world. For that to happen, the ego must get out of the way, and these are the best substances to help with that.
01-14-2022: Interview with Plant Media Project
After an astounding experience at a music festival near his home in the Bay Area just a few years ago, his life was impacted in an astounding way, and he knew he wanted to support the emerging psychedelic industry. How could he use his knowledge and expertise to help grow and protect the psychedelic movement?
We discuss how we can build a regenerative economy that's community-driven with new tools available to us, leveraging crypto, blockchain, and DAOs. We also talk about the policy work we are doing to advance the decriminalization of entheogen/psychedelic substances with CA SB519 and AB1400
01-15-2022: Brave to the Bone
Tawnya Gilbert is a nurse. She has an amazing podcast series called Brave to the Bone.
From Psychedelic Wellness and Research to Psychic healing, this is your source for Human potential. We can not heal, grow, or change, if we are not given the opportunity to be tapped into the mystical. Brave to the Bone is a podcast about human transformation, lifting the veil of "self".