41 episodes
UNVEILED: exploring psychedelics and spirituality peg peters
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- Religion & Spirituality
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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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 Daime as a legitimate religion and the right to import the Santo Daime Sacrament for ritual use.
https://www.revdrjessicarochester.com/
Also check out www.GatheringGroups.ca to learn about our sacred mushroom retreats in Canada.
Peg Peters
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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 in Ethnomycology at Harvard Botanical Museum, Tom holds a degree in psychology from Northwestern University and in theological studies with a major in world religions from Harvard Divinity School. His published works include The Sacred Mushroom Seeker: Essays for R. Gordon Wasson, and chapters in Hallucinogens: A Reader (edited by Charles S. Grob), Entheogens and the Future of Religion and Timothy Leary: Outside Looking In (both edited by Robert Forte), Psychedelics and Spirituality (edited by Thomas B. Roberts), Sacred Mushroom of Visions (edited by Ralph Metzner), Fly Agaric: A Compendium (edited by Kevin Feeney), and Psyche Unbound, a Festschrift for Stanislav Grof compiled and edited by Rick Tarnas and Sean Kelly. Tom also has published articles in The Entheogen Review, Gnosis, The Journal of Humanistic Psychology, The Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, the MAPS Bulletin (with Timothy Leary), Medical Hypotheses, Psychedelic Monographs & Essays, Shaman’s Drum, and other periodicals. His current writing projects include an autobiographical account of his own psychedelic faith journey, Finding God in a Godless Universe, and Sacred Mushroom Stems & Pieces, a companion volume to The Sacred Mushroom Seeker. Tom and his wife Beverly Jean Jenden-Riedlinger, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and fellow graduate of HDS, share an interest in the psychology of religion, including entheogenic spirituality, mystical experience, and a branch of religious studies called theodicy. They live with their cats Sazarac and Theo in Olympia, Washington.
Peg Peters is the host and can be found at www.gatheringgroups.ca
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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 thinkers who are brought together in this amazing collection.
• With contributions from Christopher Bache, Zoe Helene, Dennis McKenna, Martina Hoffmann, The Dank Duchess, Jamie Wheal, Grandmother Maria Alice, and others.
Check out Stephan here - https://www.stephengrayvision.com/
I'm your host Peg Peters- check me out at www.Gatheringgroups.ca
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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 women dates back to the Eleusinian Mysteries of ancient Greece.Harris interviews the modern women elders carrying on this tradition to gather their hard-won wisdom of experience. We explore the Any reader interested in inspiration, healing, and enlightenment will find here a wonder-filled narrative packed with provocative and perhaps life-changing insight.
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Peg Peters