I was delighted to hear Jere speak so articulately to a fundamental missing piece in human health and development, related to learning to recognize that we are emotional beings as a species - and emotions carry as much information and value to our ability to function and thrive as the mind and “hard skills”, if not more.
Yet with no real education and support in learning to navigate and work with emotions, particularly in male populations, we’re seeing a rise of trauma and repressed sense of “self” that causes damage and a lack of psychological safety in the world.
Where talk therapy has proven effective to a limited level (as we are more than our minds), the re-introduction of alternative medicines such as MDMA and psilocybin *in the correct, controlled context* have proven consistently effective in deep trauma healing in study after study.
Podcasts like this, especially from reputable people on all sides of the equation speaking not to influence, but to *inform* - are an excellent example of the intelligence behind these studies, as a safe, legitimate and critical tool to human healing and thriving, on the same level penicillin saved lives.
Emotions are physical, as much as our body.
And they work in tandem with the mind, which needs trained in harmony with the whole system.
I’d love to see better databases to track the efficacy, methodology, safety and process of these tools.
A huge applause for this conversation- so happy to see more like this out there!
To better ways of How We Human. 🧠❤️
