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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 477 – “What is this medium called consciousness?”
Description: Guest speaker: Hamilton Souther
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: All quotations are by Hamilton Souther.]
“In the jungle, the ayahuasca is used traditionally to heal what are known as mystical, non-ordinary, problems.”
“I came to look at it and realize that what we [North Americans] were looking for wasn't specifically an experience that would produce healing, but we were looking for a shift in consciousness that would produce healing.”
“We are self-regulating, universal beings.”
“There can be negative effects, and that's very real. The psychedelic plants are crap shoots in their own right, which makes having the presence of someone very trained very important...