#4 – Lessons From a World Class Psychedelic Facilitator w/ Aga Postawska

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Show Notes

Work with Aga - https://www.kamboflow.com/ https://www.thesomaheart.com/

History of the Bufo alvarius Toad and Cultural use of 5-MeO-DMT - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8895112/

What is 5-MeO-DMT? - https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidcarpenter/2020/02/02/5-meo-dmt-the-20-minute-psychoactive-toad-experience-thats-transforming-lives/?sh=2c80fd0538a1

Who is doing the healing work? How to Guide for Psychedelic Therapists: Chapter on the Internal Healing Wisdom, by Mark Haden Executive Director of the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Canada - https://www.amazon.ca/Manual-Psychedelic-Guides-Mark-Haden-ebook/dp/B08MB98F26

Already Free, by Bruce Tift Registered Buddhist Counsellor - https://www.amazon.ca/Already-Free-Buddhism-Psychotherapy-Liberation/dp/1622034112/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

How we inherit our ancestor's experiences. Epigenetics - https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/grandmas-experiences-leave-a-mark-on-your-genes

The Science of How Our Minds and Our Bodies Converge in the Healing of Trauma. PTSD and how traumatic experiences can linger in the body - https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/06/20/the-body-keeps-the-score-van-der-kolk/

The Importance of Supervision in Psychedelic Therapies - https://maps.org/news/bulletin/articles/429-maps-bulletin-spring-2018-vol-28-no-1/7260-clinical-supervision-in-mdma-therapy-training-spring-2018

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself, by Michael Alan Singer - https://untetheredsoul.com/

Thoughts Without A Thinker, by Mark Epstein. A great introduction for westerners to buddhism, by a Harvard educated psychiatrist and one of the first westerners to learn practice modern buddhism. Note, in Blake's opinion the first half of this book is the most important as a historical account of buddhism. Epstein's notions of neuroscience is dated and he tends to overestimate the importance of Freudian theory. I appreciated his history lessons, not his analysis of the why things are - https://www.amazon.ca/Thoughts-Without-Thinker-Psychotherapy-Perspective/dp/0465050948

Somatic Scan. https://www.mindfulnessmuse.com/mindfulness-exercises/increase-somatic-awareness-with-a-body-scan-mindfulness-exercise

Also an introduction to Somatic Work. Waking The Tiger: Healing Trauma, by Peter Levine and Ann Frederick - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/384924.Waking_the_Tiger

Integrating Transformational Experiences, Rick Doblin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwEmZW7H05g

Neuroplasticity and changing your patterns, https://medium.com/swlh/to-break-bad-habits-you-really-have-to-change-your-brain-the-neuroscience-of-change-da735de9afdf

Aga recommends "Consciousness Medicine", by Francois Bouzat https://www.abebooks.com/9781623173494/Consciousness-Medicine-Indigenous-Wisdom-Entheogens-1623173493/plp

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