Henry Kandel, my former professor who is currently working on integrating yoga practices into hallucinogenic states used for healing, joins the Rainy Night Radio to discuss altered states of reality. This podcast discusses the similarities between lucid dreaming and drug induced mindstates, and their link to mental health and spiritual practice. We cover a broad range of topics ranging from drug prohibition, lucid dreaming as a form of practice, and the benefits and lucid dreaming and drug induced mind states, to what altered states of reality say about the concept of reality itself.

Article with statistics referenced in podcast on people surveyed after experiences with “bad trips” on psilocybin: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5551678/pdf/nihms884924.pdf

“The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”

https://selfdefinition.org/tibetan/Tenzin-Wangyal-Rinpoche-The-Tibetan-Yogas-Of-Dream-And-Sleep.pdf

Other articles on psilocybin in clinical trials:

“Efficacy and safety of psilocybin-assisted treatment for major depressive disorder: Prospective 12 month follow-up”

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/02698811211073759

“Psilocybin-assisted group therapy for demoralized older long-term AIDS survivor men: An open-label safety and feasibility pilot study”

https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2589-5370%2820%2930282-0

“Long-term follow-up of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for psychiatric and existential distress in patients with life-threatening cancer” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/0269881119897615