Episodes
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EP25: (Session 2) Revelation and Return: Religious Professionals Share Their Stories From the Hopkins Trial
The NYU–Johns Hopkins Religious Professionals Study explored the effects of psilocybin on clergy from diverse faith backgrounds, including rabbis, ministers, and imams. Participants reported profound spiritual experiences, with many saying the sessions deepened their sense of vocation and...
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EP24: (Session 1) Revelation and Return — Religious Professionals Share Their Stories From the Hopkins Trial The NYU–Johns Hopkins Religious Professionals Study
Podcast Episode: Revelation and Return — Religious Professionals Share Their Stories From the Hopkins Trial The NYU–Johns Hopkins Religious Professionals Study explored the effects of psilocybin on clergy from diverse faith backgrounds, including rabbis, ministers, and imams. Participants…
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EP23: A Nation of Integration: Making Sense of Our Journeys with Dr. Marc Aixalà
Rabbi Zac speaks with Dr. Marc Aixalà, author of “Psychedelic Integration: Psychotherapy for Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness” a telecommunications engineer, psychologist, psychotherapist and certified Holotropic Breathwork facilitator specializing in supporting people who face challenging...
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EP22: Creating Jewish Psychedelic Community with Natalie Lyla Ginsberg
Natalie Lyla Ginsberg, Global Impact Officer of MAPS and co-founder of the Jewish Psychedelic Summit, speaks with Rabbi Zac about the potential and challenges of creating Jewish psychedelic community in this moment. Along with other collaborators, Natalie hosted the Aravah Festival this past...
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EP21: Jewish Psychedelic Science with Dr. Roman Palitsky
Rabbi Zac speaks to Dr. Roman Palitsky, Director of Research Projects for Emory Spiritual Health and a Research Psychologist for Emory University School of Medicine. Zac and Roman discuss the launch of a joint research project between Emory and Shefa, Jewish Journeys, the first population study…
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EP20: Shefa’s High Holiday Beit Midrash - Awakening Consciousness with Dr. Melila Hellner-Eshed
This episode is apart of Awakening Consciousness: Shefa’s High Holiday Beit Midrash Session Four with Dr. Melila Hellner-Eshed Hitorerut: The Call to Awakening Source sheet here. More from Dr. Hellner-Eshed here. This podcast is offered as a free community resource by Shefa: Jewish Psychedelic...
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EP19: Shefa’s High Holiday Beit Midrash - Awakening Consciousness with Victoria Hanna
This episode is apart of Awakening Consciousness: Shefa’s High Holiday Beit Midrash Session Three with Victoria Hanna Seal Us in the Book of Life: An Embodied Prayer Practice More from Victoria Hanna on Instagram here. This podcast is offered as a free community resource by Shefa: Jewish...
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EP18: Shefa’s High Holiday Beit Midrash - Awakening Consciousness with Rabbi Ami Silver
This episode is a part of Awakening Consciousness: Shefa’s High Holiday Beit Midrash. Session Two with Rabbi Ami Silver Life Breathing Through Us: A New Paradigm for Teshuva Source material here. More of Ami's teachings here. Listen to Ami's podcast "Awakenings" here. This podcast is offered as a...
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EP17: Shefa’s High Holiday Beit Midrash - Awakening Consciousness with Rabbi Dr. Art Green
This episode is apart of Awakening Consciousness: Shefa’s High Holiday Beit Midrash Session One with Rabbi Dr. Art Green Awesome Rebirth: Approaching Rosh Hashanah Source sheet here. Art Green’s website here. Hosted by Ami Silver
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EP16: Psychedelic Torah for Tragic Times
In the memory of Hersh Goldberg-Polin and all those innocent lives who have been lost, Rabbi Zac shares some of his psychedelic torah to end this year and look out to the next. This podcast is offered as a free community resource by Shefa: Jewish Psychedelic Support. If you feel moved to donate…
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EP15: Awakening to Ourselves with Robert Ansin
Rabbi Zac speaks to Robert Ansin, CEO of Healing Hearts Changing Minds, about his experience of awakening to love and unity after high-dose psilocybin experiences, and his commitment to support marginal communities in the psychedelic field. Robert Ansin Biography: Massachusetts-born entrepreneur...
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EP14: God in Your Body with Dr.Hillary McBride
Rabbi Zac speaks with psychologist, author, researcher and podcaster Dr. Hillary McBride. Zac and Hillary speak about the notion and practice of embodiment, connecting with Divinity, and working with psychedelics as means of coming into relationships with one’s body. You can read more about...
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EP13: Refa Na La: Healing with Psychedelic Medicine with Dr. Leor Roseman
Rabbi Zac speaks with Dr. Leor Roseman, a leading interdisciplinary psychedelic researcher. Zac and Leor speak about the potential for healing through psychedelic use from many perspectives--the role of visualization, the experience of “breakthroughs,” and the importance of groups and communities...
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EP12: From Enslavement to Freedom: MDMA, Jewish Trauma and Resilience with Dr. Rachel Yehuda
Dr. Rachel Yehuda, one of the world’s foremost experts on epigenetic trauma and psychedelic-assisted therapies, joins Rabbi Zac for a conversation about the significance of the Jewish story as a foundation for processing ancestral traumas. They speak about Rachel’s upbringing, the history of…
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EP11: How to Lose Your Mind: Psychedelic Consciousness and Purim with Mitchell Gomez
Lineage! Archaeology! Secret psychedelic histories! Drug policy and tikkun olam! Rabbi Zac receives the Purim wisdom of altered states by Mitchell Gomez, executive director of DanceSafe, a nonprofit health education and harm reduction organization based in Denver, CO. This podcast is offered as a...
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EP10: The United States of Consciousness with Dr. Alan Brill
Once a year, Jews are invited to expand their consciousness with the aid of a sacred psychoactive substance to dissolve the binary boundaries between human existence. What other special states of consciousness exist within the Jewish mystical tradition? How are they integrated into daily life?…
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EP09: Bringing the Soul of Judaism to Ketamine-Assisted Therapy with Dr. Steven Radowitz
In this month’s episode of the Jewish Psychedelic Podcast, Rabbi Zac is joined by Dr. Steven Radowitz, chief medical officer of Nushama Wellness in New York. Rabbi Zac and Dr. Radowitz talk about the Jewish mystical tradition and healing, how ketamine therapy is utilized at Nushama, and the role…
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EP08: When Life is a Bad Trip with Tamara Pearl
Content Warning: This conversation will touch on topics of kidnapping, terrorism and violence including murder. In 2002, Tamara Pearl learned that her brother, Daniel, had been abducted and murdered by Al-Qaeda in Pakistan. For over twenty years, she has worked with this personal “waking…
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EP07: Psychedelic on my Parents' Side with Madison Margolin
On this episode of the Jewish Psychedelic Podcast, Rabbi Zac speaks with riter, journalist, editor, consultant, educator, and guide to all things Jewish-Psychedelic. Madison speaks about her family and growing up with Ram Dass, her psychedelic journey to Jewish spiritual practice, and what she...
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EP06: Seeing the Sounds: Music and Torah with Rabbi Yosef Goldman
On this episode of the Jewish Psychedelic Podcast, Rabbi Zac is joined by Rabbi Yosef Goldman, composer, prayer leader, educator, and singer. Yosef’s new album of Jewish music, “Abitah,” will be released on Rising Song Records on September 21st. The conversation delves into the profound…
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EP05: Harvard Divinity Panel: Are Psychedelics Theologically Significant for Judaism?
Throughout millennia, Jews have explored individual and communal consciousness through a variety of techniques and traditions. More recently, Jews have played an outsized role in the “psychedelic renaissance” as researchers, practitioners, and advocates, including prominent leaders. A surge of...
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EP04: Community Conversation with Rabbi Aaron Cherniak
Psychedelic science, focused mostly on the medicalization of certain psychoactive substances, has also inspired new perspectives on the science of spirituality and consciousness. What aspects of psychedelic experience are worthwhile to examine from a scientific and/or spiritual perspective? How…
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EP03: Community Conversation with Lauren Taus
At a time of great diversity of backgrounds, commitments, and identities, many of Jews are still carrying the wounds of religious and cultural traumas of being “not enough” or “too much” in some significant way. How can deep self-love and acceptance heal and transform our relationships with...
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EP02: Community Conversation with Dr.Ido Cohen
What is a “psychedelic experience” or an “expanded state of consciousness”? How do we understand these phenomena, both psychologically and spiritually? How can Jewish people begin to integrate the concepts and practices of “transpersonal psychology” into their own healing work and spiritual...
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EP01: Community Conversation with Bob "Otis" Stanley
A conversation between Shefa's founder and CEO Zac Kamenetz and Bob Otis. What does it mean to regard plants as sacred, or even as a “sacrament,”, and to create community with entheogenic plants as a necessary means for helping facilitate connection to sacred Divine presence? We welcome Bob…
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About this show
Join the conversations with Rabbi Zac Kamentez and various guests who are pioneers and leaders at the intersection of Judaism and Psychedelics.
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Shefa: Jewish Psychedelic Support
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