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Hard-won insights and knowledge on spiritual awakening, psychedelics, cannabis, and the future of humanity. Inspirational interviews with visionaries and thought-leaders.

StephenGray Vision Stephen Gray

    • Religion & Spirituality
    • 4.8 • 5 Ratings

Hard-won insights and knowledge on spiritual awakening, psychedelics, cannabis, and the future of humanity. Inspirational interviews with visionaries and thought-leaders.

    Psilocybin Mushroom Wizard Acacea Lewis

    Psilocybin Mushroom Wizard Acacea Lewis

    Acacea Lewis has traveled beyond deep into the spiritual and healing realms of the sacred mushroom Teonanacoatl, or psilocybin. Not only that, she has a brilliant mind and the verbal chops to communicate her knowledge and insights clearly and eloquently.


    I believe this is essential information for just about anyone looking to really learn the secrets of the amazing psilocybin mushrooms. And I do mean "secrets" in the sense that few people have learned what the mushrooms are ultimately capable of.
    As well, this isn't just information for a few brave psychonauts. This wisdom is becoming increasingly necessary for a troubled planet in transition and under duress.

    Note: This interview is also available in video format on the StephenGray YouTube channel, here: https://youtu.be/sPE7jLqG5I0

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    • 1 hr 5 min
    Ayahuasca and the Santo Daime Path: G. William Barnard Interview

    Ayahuasca and the Santo Daime Path: G. William Barnard Interview

    G. William Barnard is a brilliant expositor of the Santo Daime path of awakening with the holy ayahuasca sacrament, or as they call it, the "Daime." Professor Barnard has had many deep spiritual journeys with the Daime, encountering powerful Spirit beings in the Astral, and working through his own shadow material. Not only is he wise and insightful, he's a beautiful and clear-eyed writer. And if that wasn't enough, he exudes the warmth, kindness, and joy that one would hope for from advanced spiritual warriors.

     

    Please learn from, enjoy, and share this interview for the benefit of all beings at this unprecedented historical moment of great upheaval, great change, and great possibility for the birth of the new human and a mature planetary civilization.

     

    NB: Professor Barnard will also be one of two dozen brilliant spokespeople on behalf of psychedelics and consciousness transformation at the iconic 12th Spirit Plant Medicine Conference, Nov. 3 to 5 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Info and tickets at: https://spiritplantmedicine.com where tickets are still 20% off. You can also use my personal discount code "savetheworld" for an additional 10% off the regular price.

    NB: This interview is also available in video format on on the StephenGray Vision YouTube channel

    • 1 hr 4 min
    "Seeing Through the Smoke" - cannabis specialist Peter Grinspoon MD untangles the truth.

    "Seeing Through the Smoke" - cannabis specialist Peter Grinspoon MD untangles the truth.

    Seeing Through the Smoke by Peter Grinspoon MD is poised to be a game changer around cannabis. Dr. Grinspoon skillfully "untangles the truth about marijuana" with a balanced and thorough examination of the evidence around cannabis and psychosis, addiction, trauma, pregnancy, driving, cognition, adolescence, opioid withdrawal, cancer, sleep, autism, ADHD, PTSD, CBD, and more.

    Cannabis has been badly mistreated and misunderstood for the past 90 years. Much of the public discourse and research is unfounded in reality or reliable evidence. This book sets the record straight.

    Seeing Through the Smoke: A Cannabis Specialist Untangles the Truth About Marijuana is absolutely a must read for policy makers, researchers, health care providers (Get with the program doctors!), retailers, growers, and anyone who wants to know what this amazing plant can do - as well as those claims for which there's no reliable evidence (yet).

    And in case that all sounds daunting, it ain't. The book is written in an accessible, user-friendly style often spiced with warmth and humor.

    Note: This interview, and all the others with leading influencers on StephenGray Vision, is also available in video format on the StephenGray Vision YouTube channel. Here is the YouTube link to this interview. https://youtu.be/eTK530rnkgw

    • 1 hr 10 min
    Psychedelics for Trauma and Addiction - with Dr. Dominique Morisano

    Psychedelics for Trauma and Addiction - with Dr. Dominique Morisano

    Dr. Dominique Morisano, clinical psychologist and professor, shares important insights on how psychedelics can help with trauma, addiction, depression, and other conditions. Dr. Morisano's experience is deep and wide. She is knowledgeable about several psychedelics and has much experience using ketamine in her therapy practice.

    Other topics we covered were:

    • How ketamine leans more toward the positive than some other psychedelics and can help with addictions, including cigarette addiction

    • cannabis dependency and ketamine for that dependency

    • pros and cons of MDMA in therapeutic work

    • problems with long-term use of anti-depressant pharmaceuticals like SSRIs

    • the necessity of follow-up care after medicine sessions (integration)

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    Please also note that this and over over dozen other interviews with leading influencers in fields related to psychedelics and consciousness transformation are also available on the StephenGray Vision YouTube channel.

    • 1 hr 8 min
    Flavio Santi: Master Ecuadorian Plant Medicine Healer - interview on StephenGray Vision

    Flavio Santi: Master Ecuadorian Plant Medicine Healer - interview on StephenGray Vision

    Flavio Santi is a rare wisdom carrier with essential messages for the world. He holds an ancient lineage of Ecuadorian healers working with plant medicines. In my experience, Flavio's knowledge of how to heal with plants is deeper than anyone else I've encountered or heard about.

    Flavio works with several master plants, especially ayahuasca, wayusa, and tobacco (nothing like industrial cigarette tobacco).

    In this interview he talks about the connection between the plants, the land, and the Spirits, or as he sometimes says, the ancestors. As Flavio says in the interview, his grandfather charged him with the responsibility of telling the people of the "North" about this deep knowledge for the benefit of all humanity.

    A central aspect of Flavio's work is the reclamation of their ancestral land in Ecuador to be protected for the generations to come. They're raising money to buy back 5000 acres of forest and to build a school—the Wayusa School— for children from around the world to learn these powerful traditional ways of healing and of protecting Mother Earth.

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    ANOTHER NOTE: As always, these interviews with remarkable humans on subjects related to plant medicines and the work of individual and collective transformation are available in video format on the StephenGray Vision YouTube channel. Here is the direct link to this interview: https://youtu.be/eoiJXEX5G7c

    • 56 min
    Ayahuasca Awakenings: Interview with Rev Dr. Jessica Rochester

    Ayahuasca Awakenings: Interview with Rev Dr. Jessica Rochester

    Jessica Rochester is an incredible font of wisdom, insight, and knowledge on many aspects of healing and spiritual awakening. Her bona fides are impeccable. She is an ordained Inter-Faith Minister with a Doctorate in Divinity. She trained with the legendary Stanislav Grof and among her numerous responsibilities is the director and primary ceremony leader of Céu do Montréal, the ayahuasca-using Santo Daime church she founded in 1997. Dr. Rochester has written an all-but-exhaustive two-volume book that gathers her long decades of experience into a highly accessible and practical guidebook on just about everything anyone needs to know and consider on healing pathways. 

    The book's title is: Ayahuasca Awakening: A Guide to Self-Discovery, Self-Mastery, and Self-Care. As implied by the subtitle and my comments above, the contents of the book extend far beyond discussions around ayahuasca. "Ayahuasca Awakening" actually refers mainly to the source of much of Dr. Rochesters's inspiration and understanding. She also has a delightfully positive and warm presence in this hour-long interview.

    Note: This interview is one of over two dozen with leading influencers in fields related to psychedelics and consciousness transformation. All of the interviews can be viewed on the StephenGray Vision YouTube channel. 

    This interview with Jessica Rochester is here: https://youtu.be/Ty7CaMohvPc

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Stephen Gray is an experienced person so he knows how to focus on important ideas during an interview and skip the nervous chatter. I have also read a book about cannabis and spirituality by the host—at least I think it was the same Stephen Gray. The book was good and so is this podcast. It's worth listening to if you are interested in personal and collective spiritual growth and the psychedelic potential of entheogenic drugs.

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