Episode 3
“Love is our blueprint, choice is our power, life is our school.” Listen in to a moving conversation with integrative psychiatrist, Dr. Dan Engle, who shares deeply about how psychedelics have helped him heal himself and inspired him to support others to safely use these medicines to explore all aspects of themselves - shadow and light - and discover their true dharma.
Dr. Dan Engle is a psychiatrist with a clinical practice that combines aspects of regenerative medicine, psychedelic research, integrative spirituality, and peak performance.
His medical degree is from the University of Texas in San Antonio. His psychiatry residency degree is from the University of Colorado in Denver, and his child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship degree is from Oregon Health & Science University.
Dr. Engle is an international consultant to several global healing centers facilitating the use of long-standing indigenous plant medicines for healing and awakening. He is the founder of Full Spectrum Medicine, a psychedelic integration and educational platform; and Thank You Life, a non-profit funding stream supporting access to psychedelic therapies.
Dr. Engle is the author of The Concussion Repair Manual: A Practical Guide to Recovering from Traumatic Brain Injuries, as well as his new book, A Dose of Hope: A Story of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy.
Topics discussed in this episode …
Our duty to heal on behalf of the generations to come
How our adolescent culture doesn't appreciate that crisis precedes transformation
Dr. Dan’s experience immersing with ayahuasca for a year with his teacher in the Amazon
The “medicine space” as a technology in and of itself
How we have evolved through psychedelic states and it is evolutionarily advantageous that we experience transcendent states
Living at the pace of nature
How stabilizing our psychology and neurology allows us to more deeply surrender
How life is happening for us rather than to us
The different energetics of masculine and feminine integration styles
Dr. Dan’s “dark night” after returning from the jungle
How meaning and embodiment complement each other
How a trauma encodes in our body even when we have no conscious memories of it
Expressing our dharma: the medicines are not here to fix us but to show us what we are here to do
Kuya as an institute for transformational medicine where science meets the soul
Our culture as chronically stuck in sympathetic overdrive
The importance of investigating belief systems
Living from a place of interbeing as an expression of our true essence
Pain without meaning as suffering; pain with meaning as transformation
The loneliness of the liminal space where you are not who you were but not yet who you will become
Healing from our own our projections and judgements
Life as a ceremony and an expression of beauty
How the transformation of a parent changes the trajectory of the child’s life
Dr. Dan’s Links
Resources Mentioned in This Episode
Kuya: www.kuya.life
Book: Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl
Book: The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk
Book: The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling, Stephen Cope
Book: The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit, Joseph Chilton Pearce
Book: Dark Night of the Soul, John of the Cross
Film: Neurons to Nirvana
Disclaimer: The information provided in this podcast is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute the practice of medicine or other professional health care services, including the giving of medical advice. The content of this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical recommendation, diagnosis, or treatment. The use of information in this podcast is at one’s own discretion, and is not an endorsement of use given the complexity inherent in these medicines, and the current variable widespread illegality of their usage.
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