Day 1

Psychedelic Insights

The current state of psychedelic research and the hopeful future


Alexander Beiner

Alexander Beiner

Start Here: A Psychedelics Landscape Overview

  • From fungi to the lab-made, what are psychedelics?
  • What you should understand before exploring psychedelics
  • Harm reduction, risks, best practices and integration
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Professor Robin Carhart-Harris

Professor Robin Carhart-Harris

How Psychedelics Can Change Your Brain

  • What happens in our brains on psychedelics
  • How psychedelics can lead to neuroplasticity
  • How insights from brain scans inform exciting new psychedelic treatments
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Dr Rick Doblin

Dr Rick Doblin

MDMA and the Future of Mental Health Treatment

  • MAPS 40 year journey to reschedule MDMA for the treatment of PTSD
  • How psychedelic medicine integrates with healthcare
  • For profit vs not-for-profit psychedelic health care
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Dr Darron Smith

Dr Darron Smith

Psychedelic Medicine Through a BIPOC Lens

  • What is the health impact of racism on BIPOC people
  • How to ensure psychedelic initiatives do not perpetuate trauma
  • What barriers exist to psychedelic therapy
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Dr Erik Davis

Dr Erik Davis

From Counterculture to Psychedelic Renaissance

  • How indigenous practices inform modern psychedelic science
  • How history paved the way for psychedelic science today
  • Applying a religious studies lens to psychedelics
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Dr Anthony Bossis

Dr Anthony Bossis

Psychedelics and End-of-Life Existential Distress

  • How mystical experiences and connectedness improve clinical outcomes
  • Why preparation, expectation and integration are important
  • The future of psychedelic therapy
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Dr Ronald Siegel

Dr Ronald Siegel

Meditation, Mindfulness and Psychedelics

  • Why people have turned to psychedelics throughout history
  • Commonalities between mindfulness practices and psychedelic-assisted therapy
  • The future of psychedelic exploration
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Dr Chris Timmermann

Dr Chris Timmermann

Unraveling the Mysteries of DMT

  • What scientists learned from the world's first extended-state DMT trial
  • How DMT works in the brain
  • How DMT can permanently change the way we see reality
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Anthony Abbagnano

Anthony Abbagnano

Creating Breath Awareness

  • Beginners demonstration of breathwork
  • How to create space and capacity in the lungs
  • The benefits of breathwork for clearing toxins
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Laura Inserra

Laura Inserra

5 Elements Journey

  • Experience using music as a pathway into grounding, connecting, envisioning, harmonizing, and integrating
  • Set an intention, an inquiry, a resolution, or any other precious reason for this time to be meaningful
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Alex Howard

Alex Howard

Accepting the present moment

  • Running time 10 minutes
  • Best listened to in a quiet environment
  • Includes images, music and voice
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Day 2

Ancient Wisdom, Modern Healing

Understanding the history of psychedelic plant medicines and their integration into modern medicine


Dr Beatriz Caiuby Labate

Dr Beatriz Caiuby Labate

Indigenous Reciprocity: Equity in Psychedelics

  • Exploring the history of indigenous use of psychedelics
  • Why indigenous reciprocity matters
  • Initiatives happening to integrate indigenous practices with western medicine
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Maria Islas

Maria Islas

Indigenous Shamanism in Mexico

  • How indigenous groups in Mexico use psilocybin mushrooms
  • Transpersonal psychology and psychedelics
  • Why breathing, drumming and dancing are foundational across cultures
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Mapu Huni Kuin

Mapu Huni Kuin

The Amazon: Reciprocity, Regeneration, Sovereignty

  • The history of indigenous plant medicine in the Amazon
  • The persecution and perseverance of those consecrating Ayahuasca
  • How to support the sovereignty of the Huni Kuin
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Dr Maya Shetreat

Dr Maya Shetreat

Psychedelics: Neuroscience and Historical Use

  • How psychedelics work in neuroscience and ancient practice
  • What shifted medical acceptance of the use of psychedelic drugs
  • What is a master plant versus a psychedelic
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Jamie Wheal

Jamie Wheal

Psychedelics: Mainstream to Underground

  • The untold history of the psychedelic boom this decade
  • The role altered states play in society throughout history
  • Controversial insights for the future of psychedelics
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Natasja Pelgrom

Natasja Pelgrom

The Secrets of Space Holding

  • How psychedelic journeys reveal the secrets for creating safe containers
  • How psychedelics help us connect to self-leadership and community action
  • Why ceremony is vital
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Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

Philosophy on Psychedelics

  • Why clinical research needs to incorporate metaphysics
  • How psychedelics change our conception of reality
  • How philosophers influenced our understanding of the mind
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Felipe Simas, Pablo Friedlander, James Aronson

Felipe Simas, Pablo Friedlander, James Aronson

Regeneration, Restoration and Reciprocity

  • How environmental protection relates to psychedelic research
  • How sustainability supports psychedelic-using indigenous groups
  • Why equal treatment is a priority
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Anthony Abbagnano

Anthony Abbagnano

Nervous System Regulation with Breathwork

  • How to create a breathwork habit
  • The benefits of the breath on Heart Rate Variability
  • Why attention to the breath is regulating
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Alex Howard

Alex Howard

A simple grounding exercise

  • Running time 4 minutes
  • Best listened to in a quiet environment 
  • Includes images, music and voice
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Day 3

Mental Health

Research into the efficacy of psychedelic medicine in treating anxiety, alleviating pain and healing addiction


Professor Rachel Yehuda

Professor Rachel Yehuda

How Psychedelics Can Heal Trauma

  • The science behind the psychedelic treatment of trauma
  • How MDMA is used to help people move toward post-traumatic growth
  • How psychedelics are used to treat veterans
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Professor Celia Morgan

Professor Celia Morgan

What We're Learning From Ketamine Research

  • Exploring Ketamine as a treatment and a recreational drug
  • Insights from a new Ketamine study treating alcoholism
  • The fascinating mode of action in Ketamine-assisted therapy
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Dr Simon Ruffell

Dr Simon Ruffell

Ayahuasca Healing for Veterans

  • Fascinating research into traditional ayahuasca ceremonies
  • How western medicine and Peruvian shamanism overlap
  • The profound effects of ayahuasca on healing trauma
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Jules Evans

Jules Evans

The Dark Side of Psychedelics

  • The potential dangers of psychedelic experiences
  • Why adverse experiences are underreported in clinical trials
  • The importance of a balanced view
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Shannon Myers

Shannon Myers

Preparing and Integrating Psychedelic Experience

  • What is the psychedelic state
  • Why preparation for psychedelic experiences is important
  • How shadow work helps integration and healing
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Andrew Penn

Andrew Penn

From Clinical Trial to Public Use

  • What we know from psychedelic-assisted therapies research
  • When will psychedelic-assisted therapies be available for clinical use
  • Decriminalization of psychedelic therapies
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Benjamin Mudge

Benjamin Mudge

Bipolar Disorder and Psychedelic Research

  • Why bipolar disorder is avoided in psychedelic research
  • How can people with bipolar disorder receive psychedelic healing
  • Benjamin's personal story with bipolar disorder
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Anthony Abbagnano

Anthony Abbagnano

Transforming Anxiety with Breath

  • How to use the breath to validate feelings and transform energy
  • How the choice of breath serves to restore our healing from anxiety and trauma
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Alex Howard

Alex Howard

Meditation to calm your nervous system

  • Best listened to in a quiet environment
  • Includes images, music and voice
  • Running time 13 minutes
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Day 4

Connectedness and Creativity

How do psychedelics cultivate our sense of connection to ourselves, each other and the world while unlocking our most expansive lens on problem solving and creation?


Dr Leor Roseman and Sami Awad

Dr Leor Roseman and Sami Awad

Ayahuasca for Conflict Resolution

  • Ayahuasca as a tool for conflict resolution for Israelis and Palestinians
  • How this unique process was created
  • Touching stories of reconciliation and honesty
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Dr Bruce Damer

Dr Bruce Damer

How Ayahuasca Led to a Scientific Breakthrough

  • Psychedelic uses for problem solving and creativity
  • How Ayahuasca led Bruce to the origins of life
  • How MINDS helps people solve real-world problems with psychedelics
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Dr Rosalind Watts

Dr Rosalind Watts

The Power of Connectedness in Healing

  • How and why psychedelic experiences facilitate a feeling of connectedness
  • How integration extends connections and reduces risks of dependency
  • How to improve connectedness without psychedelics
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Laura Dawn

Laura Dawn

How Psychedelics Can Unlock Your Creativity

  • How psychedelics for depression can unlock creativity
  • The deeper values and perspectives that come with psychedelics
  • Nature connectedness through psychedelic experiences
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Dr Fleet Maull

Dr Fleet Maull

Expanded Consciousness Conversation

  • How psychedelics and spiritual development relate
  • How Fleet's history with psychedelics informs his work
  • What concerns and hopes we hold for the future of psychedelics
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Lin Chun Marina Lin

Lin Chun Marina Lin

Shamanism in Taiwan

  • Discover the unique kinds of shamanism practiced in Asia
  • Learn about the rare psychedelic Formosahuasca and how it is used
  • The journey people take to become shamans
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Anthony Abbagnano

Anthony Abbagnano

The Best Breath for Sex

  • How to use conscious breath in the contraction before climax
  • How to transform the experience of climax through the whole body using breath
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Alex Howard

Alex Howard

Meditation To Find Presence

  • Running time 10 minutes
  • Best listened to in a quiet environment
  • Includes images, music and voice
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Day 5

Safety, Integration and Harm Reduction

The importance of preparation, expectations and integration of psychedelic experiences


Liana Gillooly

Liana Gillooly

Psychedelics Ethics

  • The ethical and equitable future in psychedelics
  • How North Star is developing frameworks for safe psychedelic use
  • How capitalism and psychedelics can live in harmony
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Dr Ashleigh Murphy-Beiner

Dr Ashleigh Murphy-Beiner

Psychedelics and Childhood Trauma

  • How psychedelics could help adult survivors of childhood trauma
  • Learn about the different types of psychedelic therapy
  • Psilocybin use for anorexia and pain management
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Jennifer Chesak

Jennifer Chesak

Guide to Psychedelics For Women

  • What women should consider before exploring psychedelics
  • How female experiences of psychedelics can differ from men
  • Safety and consent considerations when finding providers
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Katja Cahoon

Katja Cahoon

Consent and Safety in Ketamine Assisted Therapy

  • The benefits of ketamine for depression, addiction, chronic pain and anxiety
  • The role of preparation, intention and integration
  • Establishing safety with your facilitator
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Andy Mitchell

Andy Mitchell

Fear, Addiction and the Future of Psychedelics

  • How psychedelics treat addiction without furthering it
  • Why meaning making and connectedness matter for happiness
  • What science knows about "bad trips"
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Sara Reed

Sara Reed

Ethics, Equality, and Healing

  • How to ensure a psychedelic renaissance welcomes everyone
  • Why we need to consider race, gender and inequality in psychedelic therapy
  • Research on OCD and gambling addiction
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Anthony Abbagnano

Anthony Abbagnano

Cold Exposure Breathwork

  • How to use the breath to build heat and energy before cold exposure like cold plunge
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Alex Howard

Alex Howard

Simple Guided Meditation

  • Running time 15 minutes
  • Best listened to in a quiet environment
  • Includes images, music and voice
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Day 6

Microdosing and Lifestyle

What is microdosing and what are the benefits?


Dr Pamela Kryskow

Dr Pamela Kryskow

Behind the Scenes in a Psychedelic Clinic

  • Insights from behind the scenes at a legal clinic in Canada
  • Why a multi-disciplinary approach is vital for psychedelic healing
  • How to demystify microdosing
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Paul F. Austin

Paul F. Austin

The Third Wave of Psychedelics

  • What is microdosing and what are the benefits people report from it
  • What is the Third Wave of psychedelics
  • Psychedelics as a skill rather than just an experience
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Dave Asprey

Dave Asprey

Biohacking, Longevity, Psychedelics, Neurofeedback

  • How biohacking helps us reclaim energy
  • Practices available to anyone, anywhere, right now
  • How to incorporate principles of protection from ceremony into biohacking
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Mark Waldman

Mark Waldman

How Network Neuroscience Explains Psychedelics

  • How psychedelics can instantly change core connections in the brain
  • How psychedelics impact neurological, emotional and psychological well being
  • What is Network Neuroscience
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Paul Stamets

Paul Stamets

Can Mushrooms Save The World?

  • How mycologists understand psilocybin
  • Why a mushrooms experience differs to synthetic psilocybin
  • Why microdosing the 'Stamets Stack' could reverse cognitive decline
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Alex Howard

Alex Howard

Meditation to Cultivate Self-Love

  • Running time 11 minutes
  • Best listened to in a quiet environment
  • Includes images, music and voice
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Day 7

Non-Ordinary States

The benefits and accessibility of altered perception and consciousness through breathwork, mindfulness and music journeys


Trish Blain

Trish Blain

Navigating Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness

  • Non-ordinary states of consciousness without psychedelics
  • The many different kinds of mystical experience
  • How the clinical trial model can limit our full experiences
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Dr Rick Strassman

Dr Rick Strassman

Lessons From the Spirit Molecule

  • The fascinating chemistry of the most powerful psychedelic, DMT
  • The role endogenous DMT might play in our bodies and brains
  • Why psychedelics might be "Super Placebos"
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Anthony Abbagnano

Anthony Abbagnano

Accessing States of Consciousness with Breathwork

  • How breathwork changes our state of being
  • Why breathwork can help anxiety, depression, insomnia, PTSD
  • To connect with our innate wisdom and bring awareness to ourself
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Tom Galea

Tom Galea

Psychedelics Experiences Without The Drugs

  • Discover the technique of sensory entrainment and why it can lead to powerful altered states
  • Learn how the flashlight of your phone can be used to elicit a deep meditative state
  • Explore the intersection between psychedelics and technology
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Michael Stone

Michael Stone

Breathwork & Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness

  • How breathwork can be an alternative pathway to expanded states of consciousness
  • Using breathwork as a tool for integration
  • Holding space for people in non-ordinary states
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Laura Inserra

Laura Inserra

Music as Medicine

  • How all life is vibration with music as the language of emotion
  • Why holding space and a container of trust are vital
  • The alchemy of music, energy, and ritual
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Dr David Luke

Dr David Luke

The Weird Side of Psychedelics

  • The research on unexplained phenomena related to psychedelics
  • How telepathy and precognition relate to psychedelics
  • The link to UFO encounters and non-ordinary experiences
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Alex Howard

Alex Howard

Guided Deep Relaxation

  • Running time 15 minutes
  • Best listened to in a quiet environment
  • Includes images, music and voice
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Meet Your Hosts


Alexander Beiner

Alexander Beiner

Alexander Beiner is an author, journalist and facilitator whose work focuses on bringing new ways of seeing and being from the margins of culture into the mainstream.


He's the author of The Bigger Picture: How psychedelics can help us make sense of the world and writes a popular Substack on philosophy, popular culture and psychology.


He's an executive director of Breaking Convention, Europe's longest-running conference on psychedelic medicine and culture.


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Meagen Gibson

Meagen Gibson

Meagen Gibson is the Chief Content Officer of Conscious Life. Her career includes award-winning journalist, educator and entrepreneur. Meagen’s enthusiasm and energy for personal development led her to take the leadership role at Conscious Life. Meagen is passionate about taking complex concepts and distilling them down to simple, accessible applications we can use to take action in our everyday lives.


Meagen is an experienced teacher, facilitator, and speaker on the subjects of journalism, entrepreneurship, film and video as well as improv. Her previous television work in the U.S. includes The Voice and Who Do You Think You Are.


Most recently, Meagen co-created and directed the series, How I Created A Cult, for Conscious Life. The series is currently available on Amazon Prime and Apple TV in North America.


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