In this episode Lara speaks to Michael Hebb, founder and co founder of DeathOverDinner.org, DrugsOverDinner.org and GenerationsOverDinner.com, all three projects have the common theme of gathering people around the dinner table in order to open the space to explore some difficult topics which are - perhaps not so anymore - taboo. Many thousands of dinners around the globe later and just a few weeks ago, Michael relaunched Drugs over Dinner alongside brilliant partners, advisors and friends which is now focused on gathering groups across the globe to have a compassionate conversation about the benefits and challenges of psychedelics. Michael and Lara crossed paths many years ago via their common friend Dr. Gabor Mate, Michael has an incredible track record in social activism blended with originality and fierce dedication.

After almost 700 episodes, Lara is picking up where Joanna left off with new and old voices, documenting the shift in consciousness, the psychedelic renaissance and the global rise in awareness about our interconnections with all things and Gaia.

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In this episode Lara talks with Dr Rosalind Watts talks with Lara about the challenges and the gifts in her journey as a clinical psychologist within the clinical trials in psychedelic therapy at Imperial College, the true qualities of a good therapist whether licensed or not and the 12 month community integration program she has created as a result of these experiences, which is based on 12 trees, one for each month and is informed by evidence-based psychological theories and older ways of knowing: the nature codes - the patterns of nature

Dr Rosalind Watts is a clinical psychologist and the founder of ACER Integration. Her contributions to the field of psychedelic therapy are numerous and include the development of the the ACE model ‘Accept, Connect, Embody’, which has been used in clinical trials of both psilocybin and DMT, as well as the Watts Connectedness Scale, which is a psychometric tool for measuring outcomes of psychedelic therapy. Dr Watts is the former clinical lead on the Psilocybin for Depression trial at Imperial College London, and sits on the clinical advisory board of the Usona Institute.
She is the founder of the 12 month group integration program ACER. https://acerintegration.com

After almost 700 episodes, Lara is picking up where Joanna left off with new and old voices, documenting the shift in consciousness, the psychedelic renaissance and the global rise in awareness about our interconnections with all things and Gaia.

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In this episode, Lara Tambacopoulou interviews Kylea Taylor about her concept of InnerEthics® and Right Relationship.

Kylea Taylor is a Marriage and Family Therapist, licensed in California (MFC #34901), a consultant, and author of The Ethics of Caring. Kylea does consulting and teaching related to InnerEthics® based on her successful title The Ethics of Caring. The book won a 2018 Nautilus Book Award (the year following publication) in the category, “Relationships & Communication.”

Kylea feels a personal mission to decrease client harm and increase client benefit by inspiring and educating therapists, teachers, and other care providers to take a compassionate, self-reflective approach to ethics. She shares her method InnerEthics® through consulting, training, and peer and formal supervision.

Kylea envisions a paradigm shift in therapeutic, academic, and medical cultures in which ethical self-reflection will become the norm.

After almost 700 episodes, Lara is picking up where Joanna left off with new and old voices, documenting the shift in consciousness, the psychedelic renaissance and the global rise in awareness about our interconnections with all things and Gaia.

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In this first episode after almost two years, Lara Tambacopoulou interviews Christopher Bache about the gift of becoming aware of the porous veil of consciousness.

Christopher M. Bache, Ph.D. is professor emeritus in the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University where he taught for 33 years. He is also adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and on the Advisory Council of Grof Legacy Training. Chris’ passion has been the study of the philosophical implications of nonordinary states of consciousness, particularly psychedelic states. An award winning teacher and international speaker, Chris has written four books: Lifecycles - a study of reincarnation in light of contemporary consciousness research; Dark Night, Early Dawn - a pioneering work in psychedelic philosophy and collective consciousness; The Living Classroom, an exploration of collective fields of consciousness in teaching; and LSD and the Mind of the Universe, the story of his 20 year journey with LSD.

After almost 700 episodes, Lara is picking up where Joanna left off with new and old voices, documenting the shift in consciousness, the psychedelic renaissance and the global rise in awareness about our interconnections with all things and Gaia.

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Joanna Harcourt-Smith is invited to speak at an IndigenousWays virtual event, an indigenous women-led nonprofit based in Northern New Mexico, co-founded by Tash Terry and Elena Higgins.

“IndigenousWays promotes living in balance for diverse communities through music, arts, outreach and events. Our vision is to reach Indigenous & LGBTQIA2+ communities through outreach with music, the arts, and indigenous wisdom that creates and enhances survival and sustainability. Our values are expressed in the Diné (Navajo) concept, “Hozho”, which means the Beauty Way of life.”

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Glenn Aparicio Parry speaks with Joanna about: American ideals were founded upon Native American values; a medicine tale about chaos; a quick shift of collective consciousness; the revealing of the American shadow; unity and the choice before us; addressing the wound in the American psyche; we need a form of politics that includes Nature; tuning to the Spirit of the land; these times, a reappraisal of the sixties in a higher level.

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Doug Tallamy speaks with Joanna about : A new approach to ecological conservation; “Homegrown National Park”; the demonization of Nature; insects, the little things that run the world; the vital role of wildlife for our health; Aldo Leopold and the land ethic; the impossibility of perpetual economic growth in a finite planet; “Native Plant Finder”, finding the plants that support your local ecosystem; any war against Nature is a war against ourselves; the monarch butterfly; things you can do to stop the insect decline; creating landscapes that sequester carbon and manage our watersheds; collaborating with the resilience of Nature; you are Nature’s best hope.

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Richard Grossinger speaks with Joanna about: there are ranges of knowledge that cannot be included in science; the politicization and ideologization of science, experience and spiritual freedom; physical reality and conscious reality simultaneously create each other; the fluidity of reality; “the ecological problem is a problem of consciousness”; deeper than trauma; doing the work to match the Mystery; the magnifying glass of this crisis; the archetypal element of the DNA; the spiraling of all the dimensions together; alchemy is coming back into the language of climate change.

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In this week’s episode psychiatrist and integrative physician David Kopacz speaks with Joanna about: Encouraging children to plant green living things; dancing with the trees; the dormant seed inside oneself; walking the medicine wheel; becoming a true human being; we are medicine bags; being and vibration; the cycle of rejuvenation; separation is illness, healing is coming back together; the archetypal template of spiritual democracy; the Refounding Mothers of Democracy; coming home to peace.

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Errol Morris and Hamilton Morris speak with Joanna about: Quarantined in the family house and loving each other; fascinated by the Iboga plant; the different paradigms of the history of psychedelic thinking and the evolution of Timothy Leary; a story of the psychedelic era; living and working in these strange days; being a mystery to oneself; an important insight while playing the cello on ayahuasca; the tendency of psychedelic medicines to precipitate the better parts of ourselves; the mystery and science of colors in psychedelics ; the intriguing liberation of Timothy Leary.

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