UNVEILED: exploring psychedelics and spirituality
by peg peters
Dave and Peg are back and have a lot more to talk about. Our target audience is the greater neXus church community in Abbotsford BC. We are interested in conversations around faith, spirituality, culture and health and relationships of all kinds. While we personally hold to the Christian symbols we grew up with as they are familiar to us, ours is an inclusive and open spirituality - and we love to hear about the individual meaning people have in their own spiritual experience. We are also fascinated by the concept and phenomenology of "consciousness"...are we contained completely within our our body and brain or is there a trans-personal existence to understand and experience? Lastly, we have always been drawn to video art, notably movies and TV and exploring the ideas emerging from those media.
Episodes
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Sacred Mirrors: Encountering Ourselves Though Plant Teachers with Daniel Brown
Daniel Brown is a Jamaican trauma-informed psychotherapist, lecturer, author, and sacred medicines facilitator whose work centers healing identity, and the reclamation of self. Drawing on clinical practice, trauma-informed psychology, neuroscience, and African and Caribbean traditions. Daniel's...
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Trip the Light Within: Catherine Warnock and the power of plant medicines to open self love
Catherine Warnock is the author of the book Trip the Light Within: A Psilocybin Therapy Guide. She is a film-maker of the documentary UnStuck and is a licensed professional counselor working in New Mexico. Peg Peters is the host of Unveiled and the Executive Director of GatheringGroups.ca a...
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Encounter with Thunderbird: the story of how plant medicine transformed Shawn Shabaquay
Shawn Shabaquay is from the Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation, an Indigenous (First Nations) community in northwestern Ontario, Canada. He tells his story of how plant medicines have helped him heal from early childhood trauma and addiction. Check out his youtube channel below. Peg Peters is the host…
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Psychedelics and healing potential of Love with Dr. Adele LaFrance.
Dr. Adele Lafrance is a clinical psychologist, research scientist, author, and co-developer of emotion-focused treatment modalities, including Emotion-Focused Family Therapy. https://dradelelafrance.com/ Dr. Adele LaFrance https://psychedeliclove.org/ Also check out www.Gatheringgroups.ca to…
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Entheogens as a path to self-discovery, spiritual growth and connection with Rev. Dr. Jessica Rochester
Rev Dr Jessica Rochester is an ordained Interfaith Minister with a Doctorate in Divinity. She is the Madrinha and President of Céu do Montréal, a Santo Daime Church she founded in 1997 in Montréal, Canada. From 2001 to 2017 she worked with Health Canada to achieve the recognition of the Santo…
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Psychedelics, the Transformation of Consciousness, and Evolution on the Planet with Dr. Jahan Khamsehzadeh
The Psilocybin Connection: Psychedelics, the Transformation of Consciousness, and Evolution on the Planet-- An Integral Approach by author Dr. Jahan Khamsehzadeh. https://psychedelicevolution.org/ also check out www.GatheringGroups.ca to access our in-person medicine retreats in Canada. Peg Peters
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The Sacred Mushroom Seeker: Tom Riedlinger on Maria Sabina’s encounter with Gordon Wasson
Tom Riedlinger is an author, occasional artist, researcher, and licensed mental health counselor. He has written and lectured extensively on psychedelic plants and the psychology of religion, with an emphasis on mystical experience. A Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and former Associate…
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It Stops Here: Rueben George on intergenerational trauma healing, fighting big oil and sacred plant medicine
Rueben George the səlilwətaɬ leader and grandson of Chief Dan George reflects on the unfolding impacts of colonization and what it means to embrace spirit. Rueben's book is called It Stops Here. Check out his website https://twnsacredtrust.ca/ Peg Peters is the host and runs GatheringGroups.ca
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How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World: Stephen Gray explores spirituality and Entheogen’s
Stephen Gray is a teacher and writer on spiritual subjects and sacramental medicines. He has worked extensively with Tibetan Buddhism, the Native American Church, and with entheogenic medicines. His latest book, How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World is an amazing collection of authors and...
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Swimming in the Sacred: Rachel Harris shares wisdom from the Psychedelic Underground
The use of entheogens, or psychedelics, is out of the closet today. LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, and other medicines once associated only with the counterculture are now being legally studied for their healing properties. But as Rachel Harris shows, the underground use and study of psychedelics by…
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God on Psychedelics: Don Lattin on renewing faith through sacred plant medicines
Don Lattin has been writing about altered states of consciousness since the 1970's. We explore is his latest book book, God on Psychedelics: Tripping across the rubble of Old-Time Religion. http://www.donlattin.com/ Peg Peters is an ordained minister and runs a group psychedelic model called...
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Re-encountering Jesus through Psychedelics: Dave Phillips and Peg Peters
Dave Phillips is a therapist and trainer for TheraPsil and Peg Peters is an ordained minister and together they are exploring psychedelics and spirituality.
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Experiential Medicine: Dr. Brian Richards explores group work and psychedelics
Dr. Richards was a Lead Psychologist on an innovative, simultaneous group administration high-dose psilocybin trial with cancer patients at the Bill Richards Center for Healing in Rockville, Maryland. This cutting-edge, purpose-built psychedelic medicine clinic—located in a busy outpatient…
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THE POETICS OF THE NONDUAl: Dr. Valeria McCarroll talks about training for psychedelic guides.
Valeria McCarroll, PhD, MFT, is a teacher and a cosmic aesthete. Formally trained as a psychedelic guide, she is faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies in the Integral and Transpersonal Department, where she teaches on psychedelics. Valeria stewards a contemporary body of...
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Entheogen Reformation: Dr.Thomas Roberts on Spirituality and Altered States
Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D., is professor emeritus at Northern Illinois University and a former visiting scientist at Johns Hopkins. The coeditor of Psychedelic Medicine and the author of Psychedelic Horizons, he has spoken at international conferences on psychedelics, consciousness, and psychedelic...
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Christianity and Psychedelics: Hunt Priest and the renewal of faith
Hunt Priest is an Episcopalian minister who was a participant in a psilocybin study involving religious professionals at John Hopkins University. His life was change and as a result he started Ligare which is an open network of people who desire legal and safe access and believe that Christianity...
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Physician, artist, and psychedelic guide: Dr. Houman Farzin explores the healing power of mushrooms.
Dr. Houman Farzin has recently started the first legal treatments of physician-supervised home-based psilocybin-assisted therapy in Montreal, Canada. He is a lecturer at McGill University medical school, where he earned his medical degree and trained as a family physician. Check out Dr. Houman's...
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Psychedelic Communitas - Dr. Leor Roseman on the power of group psychedelic experiences
Leor Roseman is a postdoc at the Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College London, where he also received his PhD and MRes; under the supervision of Dr Robin Carhart-Harris and Prof David Nutt. His research interests are diverse and cover neuroscientific, phenomenological, therapeutic…
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Embracing Unrest: Dr. Sandra Parker on how to harness vulnerability.
Dr. Sandra Parker is a Registered Psychologist living in Vancouver who, for over 30 years, has helped people turn toward their inner experience with compassion. Her new book, Embracing Unrest: Harness Vulnerability to Tame Anxiety and Spark Growth, which invites people to tune in to “unrest”: a...
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Four Arrows on the Indigenous WorldView, trance-based learning and psychedelics.
Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa) aka Dr. Don Trent Jacobs is faculty in the School of Leadership Studies at Fielding Graduate University. We talk about the kinship or indigenous worldview in contrast to the dominant worldview and how trance-based learning or altered-state knowing (psychedelic) is...
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The Acid Room: Dr. Erica Dyck talks about the unique history of psychedelics in Canada
Dr. Erika Dyck, Professor, Canada Research Chair in the History of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan explores the cutting edge research in the 1950's and 1960's that was happening in Canada using psychedelic therapy. Her latest book, The Acid Room: Psychedelic Trials and Tribulations of...
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Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Dr. Darcia Narvaez on Indigenous wisdom for the Psychedelic Renaissance
Dr. Darcia Narvaez, professor of Psychology at Notre Dame, talks about her new book, Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth. We explore the insights that this worldview framework has to offer those interested in using...
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The Self Healing Mind: Dr. Mark Haden on the radical new paradigm for therapeutic psychedelics
Dr. Mark Haden, was the Executive Director of MAPS Canada (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) for 10 years and now is the Vice President of Business Development for Clearmind Medicine. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia School of Population and...
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Sacred Knowledge: Dr. Bill Richards on death, psychedelics and the sacred.
Dr. William Richards is one of the God-Fathers of the psychedelic movement having conducted thousands of sessions with patients throughout his 60 years of research. Bill is a psychologist in the Psychiatry Department of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Bayview Medical Center. He…
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Healing Trauma: Dr. Ingrid Pacey on her 50 year journey with psychedelics.
Dr. Ingrid Pacey is a psychiatrist who was trained in the therapeutic use of LSD in the 1960's. She shares her personal story of her first psychedelic experience and how that changed her life. She talks about LSD, MDMA, mushrooms and Holotropic breathwork, her training with Stan Grof and why…
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Let love in: Dr. Bruce Tobin on psychedelics, death and dying.
Dr. Bruce Tobin, is a retired psychologist and president and founder of Therapcil. He shares his own personal story of how he used psilocybin to treat his depression and cancer diagnosis and why he believes these substances are such important tools for therapists. check out www.therapcil.ca
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Actively dying to actively living: Thomas Hartle on how mushrooms helped him find vitality while dying
Thomas Hartle has terminal cancer and was the first Canadian to legally use psilocybin (magic mushrooms) to treat his end of life anxiety with a therapist. He was granted a Section 56 exemption from Health Canada two years ago. He says the one time treatment changed his life and gave him a...
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Forgiving yourself: Jim Doswell on how mushrooms healed his panic attacks
Jim Doswell is a former federal treaty negotiator with First Nations in B.C, Canada. who applied for a ministerial exemption to use psilocybin to aid in his therapy for PTSD. This is his story. Jim Doswell is now on the Board of Therapsil helping give leadership. Check out www.Therapsil.ca to...
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Overcoming fear: Charlotte Jackson on the healing power of Psychedelics.
'Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you' DW Winnicott. Charlotte Jackson is a registered clinical counsellor working in Vancouver and is advocating for the rights of Canadian patients to gain legal access to Psilocybin for therapeutic use. Charlotte Jackson can be…
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Six months to live: Laurie Brooks and Dave Phillips discuss the transformative power of Psilocybin
Laurie Brooks, a mother of four, was diagnosed with terminal cancer and heard about a cutting edge new treatment for end of life anxiety. Laurie and her therapist, Dave Phillips, join us on the podcast to talk about the changes she experienced from this amazing therapy model that they want made...
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Charter Challenge with Paul Lewin
Canadians in medical need do not have safe, legal, equitable or timely access to medical psilocybin and psilocybin therapy. This urgently needs to change. To solve this, patients are taking the federal government to court. Today on the podcast we have Paul Lewin, https://lewinsagara.ca/lawyers/ a...
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Psychedelic Jesus
Another little twist of focus as Peg and I begin to talk about what a Christian faith could look like AFTER we've walked away from Christianity. How can we have a Christian spirituality without capitulating our core values? And, can magic mushrooms actually be seen as a ritual in this sort of...
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Dave and Peg with Jodi Krahn
We were so excited about our first "guest" interview. Jodi is a long time friend of us both and my teaching partner training therapists in safely using psilocybin in therapy. She is a gifted therapist with specialties in eating disorders and working with women toward experiencing their inner…
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Season 2 Episode 2 - Dave‘s Story
In our second podcast of season 2, we unveil Dave's journey from traditional to psychedelic therapist.
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Unveiled Season 2 - Restarting the Podcast
Peg and I have been on hiatus since February. I think we now have a much clearer vision for Unveiled. We will invite different guests who interest us to talk about whatever is engaging them at this time and then "Unveil" the energies, the creative motivation and the events that have brought them…
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neXus 2.0
On this podcast Dave and Peg discuss the growing number of people who identify as “Spiritual but not Religious”. These folks are looking for a place to connect and share their lives. Could Nexus 2.0 fill that gap and help people integrate the deep healing that is happening with plant medicines?
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Introduction to Psychedelics - Part 2
In this second episode of our series on psychedelics we feature part of an interview with Francoise Bourzat. She is the author of Consciousness Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom, Entheogens, and Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Growth. Trained both as a Shaman in Mexico and as a…
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Introduction to Psychedelics - Part3
In our third episode in the series on psychedelics we feature an interview with Dr. Bill Richards who is one of the lead researchers at Johns Hopkins university leading the team doing Psychedelic clinical trials for the past 20 years. He also developed the official playlist used for these trips.…
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Introduction to Psychedelics
After a few months break, we're back to talk about a fairly significant shift in our lives that has taken place over the past few years. About 4 years ago, we began to read about the use of psychedelics to treat some serious mental health issues like PTSD and the anxiety associated with having to...
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The Songs of neXus: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas
In 2004, a number of us formed a faith community called neXus. We were trying to reformulate, deconstruct and critically examine our Christian/Evangelical spirituality. We had a good run, eventually ceasing formal services in 2017. During that time, a number of songs came to be very important to…
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Understanding IFS - Part 2
Hi, Peg and I continue our conversation about why we consider Internal Family Systems (IFS) as one of the best models out there for working "inside". Recorded ala social distancing from Peg's garage (read: NOT a recording studio), we had a very personal talk about how the IFS framework has helped...
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Internal Family Systems - A model for life and the Kingdom of God
In our podcast today Peg and I explore a model of therapy that I learned back in the 90s - I still see it as the most useful model for living a congruent and happy life. As well, Peg gives us an update on Run4Water's efforts to help with the Covid crisis in Ethiopia.
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A Re-Embracing of Christian Symbols
Peg and I have been on our own personal spiritual journey since neXus stopped meeting a few years ago. One of the emerging new developments have been a re-examination and a re-embracing of our Christianity. While I have happily shed some of the more hurtful elements of my own Christianity, I am...
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Intro to the Dave and Peg podcast
Hi, Dave and Peg are back with a new podcast. Our first episode features the movie A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, a powerful story of trauma and healing. It's good to be back.
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The Dave and Peg podcast: Comedy, Sex, God
Here is Episode #2 where Dave and I discuss Pete Holmes' book Comedy Sex God and his HBO Series "Crashing". It is his personal story of leaving Evangelicalism and finding a new way to be human. We start by riffing on the current Covid-19 pandemic.
About this show
Dave and Peg are back and have a lot more to talk about. Our target audience is the greater neXus church community in Abbotsford BC. We are interested in conversations around faith, spirituality, culture and health and relationships of all kinds. While we personally hold to the Christian symbols we grew up with as they are familiar to us, ours is an inclusive and open spirituality - and we love to hear about the individual meaning people have in their own spiritual experience. We are also fascinated by the concept and phenomenology of "consciousness"...are we contained completely within our our body and brain or is there a trans-personal existence to understand and experience? Lastly, we have always been drawn to video art, notably movies and TV and exploring the ideas emerging from those media.
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