Episode 2
Join The Psychedelic Mom, Michaela Carlin, for a deeply personal conversation with Charles Eisenstein about the role psychedelics can play in our personal, interpersonal and collective healing, and the mystery of their astonishing intelligence to bring our internal contradictions to the surface for transformation.
Charles Eisenstein is a writer, speaker, and the author of several books including The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible
Topics discussed in this episode …
Whether psychedelics have the capacity to heal us, awaken us, and bring us to our truth
Knowing our “YES” and “NO” as core to our embodiment and presence
Questioning the mentality that distinguishes between the recreational and sacramental use of psychedelics
Profound experiences both Michaela and Charles have had with the psychedelic, iboga
How psychedelics have informed Charles’ parenting
Family patterning and how it comes up in coded forms that we unconsciously pass on to our children
How psychedelics can help us see and transform our inherited programming
The impatience with superficiality Charles feels based on the awareness of other dimensions psychedelics have given him
How the personal dramas of both children and adults are part of the becoming of the soul
How we have been living a story of separation that inhabits each person in a unique way
The earth as conscious and alive
The split in the psychedelic community around the dominant narratives in relation to the coronavirus
If our prayers for peace are to be powerful, they have to be consistent with our actions
If we really want peace, we need to become a champion of peace and hold each other sacred
Being inoculated from the despair triggered by the news by living in closer connection with nature
What it means to take “refuge in incompetence”
How psychedelics are just beginning to make inroads into our culture and are an intervention we need
The love and camaraderie we can feel with fellow explorers on this path
Charles Eisenstein’s Links
Website: charleseisenstein.org
Short Film: And the Music Played the Band
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Special thanks to Jeremy Colbert (Taragápe) for the original podcast theme music.
You can find out more about Jeremey’s work here:
taragape.com and @taragape