#34 | Greg Lawrence | Psychedelic Integration

Psychedelic integration coach Greg Lawrence on Southern California's psychedelic community, integration circles, and life as a coach and educator. As a Psychedelic Integration and Transformational Coach, he has been a long time active member of the Southern California psychedelic community. Greg is also an accomplished Public Speaker, Educator, Integration Circle Facilitator, and just an all-around awesome person to have a conversation with. For more on Greg: www.psychedelicintegrationspecialist.com Chapters 0:00 Welcome Greg Lawrence 2:35 Choosing a practitioner you trust 5:12 We can't see our own blind spots 7:42 A spiral in his twenties 10:14 A chaotic childhood 12:48 Getting clean on his own 15:22 Seth Rogen and cannabis 17:59 Ryan finds dispensaries in California 20:33 Medicalisation, decriminalisation, legalisation 23:07 Living in the past and the future 25:41 Ellen Langer on mindfulness 28:16 Twelve days in a tent 30:48 Becoming an integration coach 33:19 Looking inside 35:53 The Untethered Soul 38:24 NLP and high performers 40:54 Being your own cheerleader 43:30 Holding someone's troubles 46:06 Change yourself first 48:38 Giving back 51:08 Ryan stuck in Ethiopia in March 2020 53:40 Trauma or getting out of your own way? 56:14 The body is half a second ahead 58:45 Undoing 40 years of habit 1:01:16 MDMA research for PTSD 1:03:47 The mainstream path versus his own 1:06:24 Setting an intention 1:08:56 Suppressed emotions 1:11:28 Seeing himself through his son's eyes 1:14:07 Preparing for a first experience 1:16:44 Fear disguised as indifference 1:19:14 Michael Pollan's book 1:21:47 Decide quickly and commit 1:24:20 Overthinking 1:26:55 You are not your brain 1:29:33 The conscious and unconscious mind 1:32:11 The split-brain studies 1:34:43 Skepticism about therapy and pharma 1:37:15 His wife the therapist 1:39:52 Why Ryan records face to face 1:42:24 Seeing himself as separate 1:44:55 Psychedelics as amplifiers 1:47:31 Ketamine 1:50:07 Sleeping with the rhythm of the earth 1:52:42 Alone or in a group? 1:55:14 Annoying or annoyed? 1:57:46 Too much information 2:00:19 Where to start 2:02:54 A trance in the desert 2:05:25 Tantra workshops with his wife The Ryan Pyle Podcast is ad-free by choice. If you enjoy these conversations, you can buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/ryanpyle Ryan's TV series are streaming around the world. Follow the Podcast X: https://x.com/RyanPylePodcast Facebook: https://facebook.com/ryanpylepodcast Follow Ryan Pyle YouTube: https://youtube.com/@ryanjpyle Instagram: https://instagram.com/ryanpyle X: https://x.com/RyanPyle Facebook: https://facebook.com/ryanpyle https://www.ryanpyle.com