Adventures Through The Mind: How to Address Corporate Influence and 'Bad Actors' in Psychedelic Culture

How to Address Corporate Influence and 'Bad Actors' in Psychedelic Culture | Psychedelic Café 4

Nov 20, 2020

What is the best way to address both the acute and systemic problems present in psychedelic culture?

It's a big question, so we have invited a number of people to have a psychedelic café about it.

Our guests, (in alphabetical order according to their last name, excluding host James W. Jesso)

Marta Ketchmarchek, co-founder and coordinator of The Psychedelic Society of The Netherlands and Facilitator at Synthesis, a psilocybin retreat centre in Amsterdam
Trevor Millar, owner of Liberty Root therapy, Chair for MAPS Canada, and on the founding board of the Canadian Psychedelic Association
Jeronimo MM, member of ICEERS, which is the International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research, and Service
Anya Oleksiuk, psychedelic documentary filmmaker co-owner and co-director of The Psychedelic Society UK
Brian Pace, the politics and ecology editor for Psymposia and lecturer of psychedelic studies at Ohio state university
Mareesa Stertz of Film maker and co-founder of Lucid News
Bett Williams, author of The Wild Kindness: A Psilocybin Odyssey

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***Full Topics Breakdown Below***

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Episode Breakdown

How psychedelic exceptionalism informs how we think about bad actor's in the scene
The importance of community to resource people addressing conflicts and harm in psychedelic culture
Introducing Psymposia and their perspectives and approach to addressing problems in the culture
Introducing The Canadian Psychedelic Association and the value of community
Creating events to help discuss serious issues psychedelic culture is otherwise bypassing
Wondering about whether or not psychedelics should be held as part of a public politic
Why anti-rival maturity is vital for actual progress in culture, psychedelic and otherwise
Introducing the Netherlands’ Guild of Guides and how they are dealing with bad actors
The psychedelic industry is being led by huge players of corporate Influence
Can the psychedelic experience help us change the business of psychedelics?
What comes after the end of prohibition and how do we get there?
Positive peer pressure and becoming a community that forwards culture towards the future we want to see
The psychedelic community is not "one" community, so how do we work together?
How the forces at work with colonialism are the same forces shaping the modern psychedelic industry through corporate influence
The value of working where you can work rather than trying to work everywhere
Optimism VS naiveté
How distorted exceptions causes those “doing their best to do better” to get torn down for not already being perfect
Medicalization is NOT access
Capitalism and climate change
Not letting ourselves get manipulated into tearing down the lowest hanging fruit
Will the psychedelic industry actually be profitable?

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