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MIND CURIOUS
by MINDCURE
Welcome to MIND CURIOUS, a weekly podcast that explores the underlying theme of existential dilemma and where psychedelics play a role. Why have psychedelics risen again like a phoenix from the ashes of a global mental health crisis? Are they the elixir? This podcast is designed for therapists, health optimizers, curious psychonauts, and those looking to explore the potential of psychedelic compounds. We dive deep and test our understanding of what consciousness is, while talking to experts in the field who are no strangers to tapping into the curiosities of the mind.
Episodes
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"Asking For a Friend": Inside the Psychedelic Movement With Kelsey Ramsden
This episode closes out this season of MIND CURIOUS. Dr. Sherry Walling sits down with co-founder and CEO of Mind Cure Health, Kelsey Ramsden, to chat about the emerging landscape of psychedelic businesses. Kelsey describes her own journey to this market and explores what she's learning as the...
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The Overlooked Power of Ketamine Infusions for Mental Distress
Ketamine is sometimes overlooked in conversations about psychedelics and mental health. Overlooked no more, this conversation with father-son duo Dr. Steven Mandel and Sam Mandel of the Ketamine Clinics of Los Angeles focuses on the many potential uses of ketamine to alleviate mental suffering.…
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Lessons From the Land: Psychedelics & the Environment
Full, unedited conversation with Leia Friedman, also known as the Psychedologist. This conversation focuses on the relationship between psychedelics, individual healing, and holistic ecology. Leia shares her own healing journey and how psychedelic work has catalyzed and deepened her relationship...
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Customized Care & Precision Medicine in Psychedelic Treatments
Precision Medicine is a new field that uses data to tailor specific medical interventions to the needs of an individual body. MINDCURE has been pioneering a precision medicine tool, iSTRYM. I asked the experts about how they use large data sets to customize care and what that might mean for the...
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Can We Heal Desire With MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy?
Persistent, recurrent problems with sexual response, desire, orgasm, or pain — that distress you or strain your relationship with your partner — are known medically as sexual dysfunction. The most common sexual dysfunction among women is low sexual desire - a lack of sexual interest and…
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Ending Opioid Addiction With Ibogaine
In this uncut episode, we return to our conversation with Fawad Kalsi to give you his full ibogaine experience, from opioid addiction to hardships to discovering ibogaine, and finally, to recovery. Intro (0:00 – 1:31) Intro to Fawad (1:32 – 3:03) The Start of Fawad’s Addiction (3:04 – 11:20)...
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Sex, Drugs, & Therapy: Healing Sexual Trauma With Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy
Sexual trauma has the power to destroy well-being. Sexual violations are among the human experiences most likely to cause long-term psychological distress and mental illness. Sexual trauma has the power to destroy well-being. Sexual violations are among the human experiences most likely to cause...
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Sustainability, Reciprocity, & Regenerative Strategies for Psychedelic Research
The enthusiasm about psychedelic-assisted therapies has a dark side: without intention and caution, the psychedelic community risks repeating the colonial sins of the past. We are in danger of taking the resources we want and value without concern for, and often to the detriment of, the people…
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A New Paradigm of Mental Health Care: The Preventative Potential of Psychedelics
September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month in the US. In an uncharacteristically personal episode, MIND CURIOUS host Dr. Sherry Walling talks about losing her brother, Dave, to suicide in 2019. She reflects on the gaps in the mental health system that she believes contributed to his death…
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Ibogaine's Enormous Anti-Addictive Potential
Ibogaine is a naturally occurring psychoactive compound extracted from the root of the Tabernanthe iboga shrub, native to the Congo and Gabon. The compound offers therapeutic potential for neurological disorders and is claimed to be among the most powerful anti-addiction drugs. However, natural...
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Announcement: MIND CURIOUS Summer Break!
MIND CURIOUS is going on summer vacation. You'll have plenty of time to catch up on episodes you've missed or revisit your favorite moments. We'll see you back on September 15th, with all new content and big announcements! Mark your calendars — big things are coming.
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Sexual Health Beyond the Body: Intersecting Sexuality, Spirituality, & Psychedelics
Therapy isn’t just tackling singular aspects of a person’s humanity anymore; the whole person is worth both seeing and healing. Integration will always be a core part of this process, which is where our guest comes in. Today, Dr. Walling talks with integration therapist Dee Dee Goldpaugh about...
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What Integration Actually Means to Psychedelic Medicine
Integration is partly a buzzword thrown around by corporate boards and clinicians everywhere, but it also has a simple and predictable meaning: putting things together to create something bigger. Here, we use the word to mean pairing psychedelic-assisted therapy sessions with smaller-scale,...
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The Interplay Between Psychedelic Experiences & Spiritual Tradition
How do we make meaning of psychedelic experiences? Dr. Sam S. B. Shonkoff, Jewish scholar at GTU, helps redefine healing through the lenses of psychedelic experiences and spiritual traditions. We talk about mysticism, divinity, Neo-Hasidism, religious interpretations, guides, and preparation in...
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Abandoning Expectations in Healing: Uncut With Bruce Sanguin
Bruce Sanguin, BA, M.Div., RMFT, is the author of seven books, his latest being Dismantled: How Love and Psychedelics Broke a Clergyman Apart and Put Him Back Together. This amazing book describes his healing journey with psychedelic medicine. Today, we’ve re-released our conversation with him...
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Meeting God: The Bond of Psychedelics & Religion
As psychedelics are entering the discourse of the Western medical world, we are starting to comprehend (or at least scientifically investigate) the connection between psychedelics and spirituality. However, the nature of this connection can be pretty different between different religions. Our…
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Similar Interests, Different Parties, & the Scientific Process of New Medicines
The psychedelics industry is booming. Everyone wants a piece of it — between the startup companies, the regulatory bodies, the university medical schools, and ultimately, the people in need of these products and services. As Chief Medical Officer at MINDCURE, Dr. Joel Raskin provides deep insight...
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Queering Psychedelic Research: A Pride Special
Dr. Alex Belser, the Chief Clinical Officer at Cybin, has been a leader in psychedelic research for 20 years. His resume includes serving as an investigator in clinical trials of psilocybin and MDMA as well as being a Co-Investigator at Yale University, one of his five alma matters. He also…
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Breathwork & Non-Ordinary States With Niraj Naik
From ancient yoga practices like breathwork and shaking to just getting lost in the music, there are many ways to achieve altered states of consciousness. Today, we’re joined by Breathwork expert Niraj Naik, CEO of SOMA Breath and The Renegade Pharmacist Ltd as we dive into non-ordinary states…
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Trauma Lives in the Body, Too: Opening Up With Psychedelics
Modern medicine has constructed an arbitrary barrier between the mind and the body. We are not segmented beings; our bodies carry us through all the experiences in our lives — the pleasures and the traumas. We’ll be taking a deep dive into the latter and how psychedelics integrate into somatic...
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Healing With Music & Psychedelics
We’ve got a very special episode today! As we’ll discover in more detail, music and psychedelics have a very long and interconnected history where some ancient traditions are alive even today. Along with our four guests (yes, four!), we journey into their relationship scaling from a single…
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Hacking Into Your Inner State With Digital Therapeutics & Psychedelic Therapy
We, humans, are pretty terrible at recognizing our internal states of being or what our own bodily cues have to tell us. Technology can bridge that gap with insights such as heart rate variability, sleep monitoring, and other datasets that give clues about our inner states. This can have massive...
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Welcome to the Conversation About Psychedelics!
So you're curious, huh? Welcome to MIND CURIOUS. In this podcast, we explore big themes of human well-being such as existential dilemmas, how to heal, and how psychedelics can play a role in all of it. We dive deep and test our understanding of these important topics while talking to experts in…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to MIND CURIOUS, a weekly podcast that explores the underlying theme of existential dilemma and where psychedelics play a role. Why have psychedelics risen again like a phoenix from the ashes of a global mental health crisis? Are they the elixir? This podcast is designed for therapists, health optimizers, curious psychonauts, and those looking to explore the potential of psychedelic compounds. We dive deep and test our understanding of what consciousness is, while talking to experts in the field who are no strangers to tapping into the curiosities of the mind.
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Welcome to MIND CURIOUS, a weekly podcast that explores the underlying theme of existential dilemma and where psychedelics play a role. Why have psychedelics risen again like a phoenix from the ashes of a global mental health crisis? Are they the elixir? This podcast is designed for therapists,...
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