Re-capturing the Awe

KMO welcomes psychotherapist, Neal M. Goldsmith, to the C-Realm to talk about the themes of his new book, Psychedelic Healing: The Promise of Entheogens for Psychotherapy and Spiritual Development. The quantitative, cut-and-control mentality gives humans great power to manipulate the natural world. Neal does not suggest for an instant that we abandon this very useful mental mode, but he does think that pyschedelics and indigenous peoples can offer us an expanded psychological repertoire that does not require that we renounce the control that the scientific paradigm affords us.

Music by Hobotech.

Links for further exploration of the topics discussed in this episode:

• The Future of the Body by Michael Murphy.
• Ken Wilber and Integral Theory
• Sam Harris on atheistic spirituality.
• Thomas Szasz on All in the Mind.
• Horizons NYC Conference.
• MAPS website and KMO's  conversation with Rick Doblin
• C-Realm interview with Jacob Sullum on psychedelics and religious freedom.