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Samantha Retrosi is on the show to talk to us about healing with ayahuasca -- what that means, how it happens -- and the importance of understanding that healing and illness go well beyond the individual and extend into relationships, society, and politics.  We start out exploring her journey from the Olympics into severe bulimia and eventually into working with ayahuasca before we dive into the sociological factors informing the multiple of civilizational crisis we are facing in the modern world and the role ayahuasca might play in a positive healing process. COME SEE ME IN ALBERTA JUNE 2019 details here: https://www.jameswjesso.com/events/ ... Head to http://bit.ly/ATTMind97 for video, full blog entry, complete show notes, and relevant links.   Head to the ATTMindPodcast subreddit to discuss this episode: https://www.reddit.com/r/ATTMindPodcast   Featured Image is "Sacrament For The Sacred Dreamers", courtesy and copyright of Cameron Gray. Check out more of his art here https://parablevisions.com/full topic breakdown below    ------------------------------------- Support The Show 🙏🍄😍   ▵ Support On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jameswjesso ▵ Donate via PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/JWJesso ▵ Donate via Crypto: https://www.jameswjesso.com/bitcoin ▵ Buy Some Merch: https://www.jameswjesso.com/shop/    -------------------------------------   Episode Breakdown  From the Olympics to the Jungle  The psychological damage of the elite athlete training of children The connection between mental health crisis and concussions (TBI) How her elite training turned into bulimia after the Olympics How ayahuasca saved Samantha from bulimia   Psychedelics as a path of empowerment — increasing personal agency The internalization of society and its connection to personal illness The big profit markets of medical treatment and illness Do psychedelic agents have agency? The self-destructive arrogance of deep criticism Samantha’s research at The Temple Of The Way Of Light  The 5 main registers of social illness and the 5 main desires people have for healing   Is Western society fundamentally traumatic? Developmental trauma comes from beyond the family Re: ayahuasca — What is healing and what exactly are we healing from? The skill of suffering and the consequence of having lost it as a culture The ayahuasca fetish and the risk of an unhealthy fixation on ayahuasca The limitations of personal growth The political influence and potential impact of psychedelics on political identity Is it politically responsible to drink ayahuasca given the historical context of genocide, ethnocide, and resource extraction in the Amazon? What makes the difference between the people who get lost in their own bullshit and those who genuinely heal and become better people The importance of guidance and integration when working with psychedelics It’s not just about our own, individual healing    featured image courtesy of SalviaDroid: http://zensages.com   ------------------------------------------------------ Follow James W. Jesso on Social Media!   Twitter: https://twitter.com/jameswjesso Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jameswjesso Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jameswjesso/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AdventuresThroughTheMind?sub_confirmation=1   ------------------------------------------------------ Support The Podcast On Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/jameswjesso Leave A One-Time PayPal Donation: https://www.paypal.me/JWJesso BTC/LTC: https://www.jameswjesso.com/bitcoin

Samantha Retrosi is on the show to talk to us about healing with ayahuasca -- what that means, how it happens -- and the importance of understanding that healing and illness go well beyond the individual and extend into relationships, society, and politics. We start out exploring her journey from the Olympics into severe bulimia and eventually into working with ayahuasca before we dive into the sociological factors informing the multiple of civilizational crisis we are facing in the modern world and the role ayahuasca might play in a positive healing process. COME SEE ME IN ALBERTA JUNE 2019 details here: <a href="https://www.jameswjesso.com/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.jameswjesso.com/events/</a> ... Head to <a href="http://bit.ly/ATTMind97" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/ATTMind97</a> for video, full blog entry, complete show notes, and relevant links.   Head to the ATTMindPodcast subreddit to discuss this episode: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ATTMindPodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/ATTMindPodcast</a>   Featured Image is "Sacrament For The Sacred Dreamers", courtesy and copyright of Cameron Gray. Check out more of his art here <a href="https://parablevisions.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://parablevisions.com/</a>full topic breakdown below   ------------------------------------- Support The Show 🙏🍄😍   ▵ Support On Patreon: <a href="https://www.jameswjesso.com/shop/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/jameswjesso</a> ▵ Donate via PayPal: <a href="https://www.jameswjesso.com/shop/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.me/JWJesso</a> ▵ Donate via Crypto: <a href="https://www.jameswjesso.com/bitcoin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.jameswjesso.com/bitcoin</a> ▵ Buy Some Merch: <a href="https://www.jameswjesso.com/shop/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.jameswjesso.com/shop/</a>   ------------------------------------- Episode Breakdown <ul> <li>From the Olympics to the Jungle <ul> <li>The psychological damage of the elite athlete training of children</li> <li>The connection between mental health crisis and concussions (TBI)</li> <li>How her elite training turned into bulimia after the Olympics</li> <li>How ayahuasca saved Samantha from bulimia</li> </ul> </li> <li>Psychedelics as a path of empowerment — increasing personal agency</li> <li>The internalization of society and its connection to personal illness</li> <li>The big profit markets of medical treatment and illness</li> <li>Do psychedelic agents have agency?</li> <li>The self-destructive arrogance of deep criticism</li> <li>Samantha’s research at The Temple Of The Way Of Light <ul> <li>The 5 main registers of social illness and the 5 main desires people have for healing</li> </ul> </li> <li>Is Western society fundamentally traumatic?</li> <li>Developmental trauma comes from beyond the family</li> <li>Re: ayahuasca — What is healing and what exactly are we healing from?</li> <li>The skill of suffering and the consequence of having lost it as a culture</li> <li>The ayahuasca fetish and the risk of an unhealthy fixation on ayahuasca</li> <li>The limitations of personal growth</li> <li>The political influence and potential impact of psychedelics on political identity</li> <li>Is it politically responsible to drink ayahuasca given the historical context of genocide, ethnocide, and resource extraction in the Amazon?</li> <li>What makes the difference between the people who get lost in their own bullshit and those who genuinely heal and become better people</li> <li>The importance of guidance and integration when working with psychedelics</li> <li>It’s not just about our own, individual healing</li> </ul> featured image courtesy of SalviaDroid: <a href="http://zensages.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://zensages.com</a>   ------------------------------------------------------ Follow James W. Jesso on Social Media!   Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/jameswjesso" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/jameswjesso</a> Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jameswjesso" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/jameswjesso</a> Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jameswjesso/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/jameswjesso/</a> YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/AdventuresThroughTheMind?sub_confirmation=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/AdventuresThroughTheMind?sub_confirmation=1</a>   ------------------------------------------------------ Support The Podcast On Patreon! <a href="https://www.patreon.com/jameswjesso" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/jameswjesso</a> Leave A One-Time PayPal Donation: <a href="https://www.paypal.me/JWJesso" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.paypal.me/JWJesso</a> BTC/LTC: <a href="https://www.jameswjesso.com/bitcoin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.jameswjesso.com/bitcoin</a>

The Sociology of Ayahuasca Healing | Samantha Retrosi ~ ATTMind 97

In Vancouver, BC Tune in every Wednesday 6 – 7 PM to CFRO – 100.5 FMAnywhere in the world by Stream, Satellite, TelusTv - How to Listen Only last 10 shows are available to listen to for free - REGISTER NOW.Supporting Members have unlimited access to this and hundreds of other life changing programs - Click Here to sign-upJoin us this evening as we speak with Samantha Retrosi, one of the fabulous presenters at the recent Spirit Plant Medicine Conference. Samantha’s topic was about “Waking Up the Sacred Warrior: Viral Culture, Social Illness, and Disrupting the Structure that Lives Inside.” About Samantha Retrosi Samantha Retrosi, a PhD student investigating the sociology of culture, structural inequality, gender politics, and political economy at George Mason University Department of Sociology, is writing her dissertation based on qualitative social research conducted over a five-month period at the plant medicine retreat center Temple of the Way of Light in Peru, where she is a yoga teacher. Retrosi competed in the luge in the 2006 Olympics in Torino, Italy, and her work about the politics of global sport has been featured in major media including The Nation, ESPN, and Deep Dish TV. During a 2010 “Democracy Now,” interview, Retrosi compared the “dehumanization and corporation domination” behind the Olympics to the Hunger Games. She currently teaches yoga at Temple of the Way of Light, a traditional shamanic healing center that offers intensive ayahuasca retreats in the Amazonian rainforest with indigenous Shipibo healers. Retrosi began her relationship with ayahuasca in the summer of 2016 and hopes to continue both research and a lifelong process of growth and transformation with the help of the sacred plants in the Peruvian Amazon. In addition to traditional qualitative methods of ethnography and interview style investigation, Samantha’s personal work with the plants is simultaneously a mode of research. “As one method, I am conducting research through the medium of myself as the observed party, which is called participant observation, but for me, it is also a form of ethnography,” Retrosi says. “I am conducting research in a field of activity that is an altered state of consciousness – this is one of the methodological innovations of my project.” At Temple, where Retrosi continues to spend time, she teaches pre-ceremony yoga, “a medium of both centering and grounding while also facilitating openness to receive” and “through which we can connect with ourselves in a deeper way.” She says the goals of yoga and medicine work are symbiotic, centering around “unification of the fragmented self (transcendence of the illusion of separation), connection with the world and with others through the medium of connection with self, and the trip back to recognition of the fact that we are already whole and perfect.” Retrosi has been awarded a Cosmic Sister Women of the Psychedelic Renaissance Grant for her presentation “Waking Up the Sacred Warrior: Viral Culture, Social Illness, and Disrupting the Structure that Lives Inside” at the Spirit Plant Medicine Conference, in Vancouver, BC., November 2 – 4, about the social and cultural experience and contemporary life conditions that have given rise to the Psychedelic Renaissance and how ayahuasca addresses psycho-spiritual disturbances emerging from the radically different context of the Western world. Based on five months of research and personal experience with ayahuasca as a therapeutic technique at Temple of the Way of Light, Retrosi’s presentation seeks to present “social illness” as a widespread collective experience, “a response to the cultural environment of lived conditions in ‘advanced’ Western society.” More about Samantha – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Retrosi   The post Waking Up the Sacred Warrior – with Samantha Retrosi appeared first on Conscious Living Radio.

In Vancouver, BC Tune in every Wednesday 6 – 7 PM to CFRO – 100.5 FMAnywhere in the world by Stream, Satellite, TelusTv -<a href="http://www.coopradio.org/content/listen" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank"> How to Listen</a> Only last 10 shows are available to listen to for free - <a href="https://consciouslivingradio.org/free-membership-registration/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">REGISTER NOW</a>. Supporting Members have unlimited access to this and hundreds of other life changing programs - <a href="https://consciouslivingradio.org/support/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click Here to sign-up</a> Join us this evening as we speak with Samantha Retrosi, one of the fabulous presenters at the recent Spirit Plant Medicine Conference. Samantha’s topic was about “Waking Up the Sacred Warrior: Viral Culture, Social Illness, and Disrupting the Structure that Lives Inside.” <h2>About Samantha Retrosi</h2> Samantha Retrosi, a PhD student investigating the sociology of culture, structural inequality, gender politics, and political economy at George Mason University Department of Sociology, is writing her dissertation based on qualitative social research conducted over a five-month period at the plant medicine retreat center Temple of the Way of Light in Peru, where she is a yoga teacher. Retrosi competed in the luge in the 2006 Olympics in Torino, Italy, and her work about the politics of global sport has been featured in major media including The Nation, ESPN, and Deep Dish TV. During a 2010 “Democracy Now,” interview, Retrosi compared the “dehumanization and corporation domination” behind the Olympics to the Hunger Games. She currently teaches yoga at Temple of the Way of Light, a traditional shamanic healing center that offers intensive ayahuasca retreats in the Amazonian rainforest with indigenous Shipibo healers. Retrosi began her relationship with ayahuasca in the summer of 2016 and hopes to continue both research and a lifelong process of growth and transformation with the help of the sacred plants in the Peruvian Amazon. In addition to traditional qualitative methods of ethnography and interview style investigation, Samantha’s personal work with the plants is simultaneously a mode of research. “As one method, I am conducting research through the medium of myself as the observed party, which is called participant observation, but for me, it is also a form of ethnography,” Retrosi says. “I am conducting research in a field of activity that is an altered state of consciousness – this is one of the methodological innovations of my project.” At Temple, where Retrosi continues to spend time, she teaches pre-ceremony yoga, “a medium of both centering and grounding while also facilitating openness to receive” and “through which we can connect with ourselves in a deeper way.” She says the goals of yoga and medicine work are symbiotic, centering around “unification of the fragmented self (transcendence of the illusion of separation), connection with the world and with others through the medium of connection with self, and the trip back to recognition of the fact that we are already whole and perfect.” Retrosi has been awarded a Cosmic Sister Women of the Psychedelic Renaissance Grant for her presentation “Waking Up the Sacred Warrior: Viral Culture, Social Illness, and Disrupting the Structure that Lives Inside” at the Spirit Plant Medicine Conference, in Vancouver, BC., November 2 – 4, about the social and cultural experience and contemporary life conditions that have given rise to the Psychedelic Renaissance and how ayahuasca addresses psycho-spiritual disturbances emerging from the radically different context of the Western world. Based on five months of research and personal experience with ayahuasca as a therapeutic technique at Temple of the Way of Light, Retrosi’s presentation seeks to present “social illness” as a widespread collective experience, “a response to the cultural environment of lived conditions in ‘advanced’ Western society.” More about Samantha – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Retrosi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Retrosi</a> The post <a href="https://consciouslivingradio.org/waking-up-the-sacred-warrior/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Waking Up the Sacred Warrior – with Samantha Retrosi</a> appeared first on <a href="https://consciouslivingradio.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conscious Living Radio</a>.

Waking Up the Sacred Warrior – with Samantha Retrosi