
Psychedelics and the inner healing intelligence
About this episode
Dr. Reid Robison and Dr. Steve Thayer are joined by Derick Moody, PA-C, to discuss the role that the inner healing intelligence plays in psychedelic medicine. They explore the following topics:
- What is the inner healing intelligence?
- The role of the clinician is to foster an ideal environment for the healing process to commence and to remove the obstacles that frustrate that process
- The "monkey mind" as an obstacle to psychological healing
- Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, by Robert Zapolsky
- Peter Levine and somatic experiencing therapy for trauma
- The adaptability and resilience of the human organism
- The evolutionary mismatch between human psychology and modern society
- Example of using psychedelics to access the inner healer, collective unconscious, and ancestral wisdom in the movie Black Panther
- The psychedelic renaissance as response by the inner-healer on a global scale to social unrest
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) and "parts work" in therapy
- The various qualities of the inner healing intelligence
- The obstacle is the path, the only way out is through
- Story about deferring to the inner healer during a difficult ayahuasca experience
- How the presence of a supportive other facilitates healing
- Your Symphony of Selves, by James Fadiman
- How do we cultivate the inner healing intelligence as a therapist/clinician
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