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Unlock the Power of Psychedelics for Healing & Transformation: Cassandra Vieten at the 2024 Summit

2 Oct 2024 · 2 min

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Cassandra Vieten discusses hopes for psychedelic therapy pathways that respect and include indigenous cultures as facilitators, combine indigenous wisdom with scientific evidence, and remain affordable and community-based rather than only high-cost medicalized options. She cautions against psychedelics following the same exclusive pharmaceutical model and emphasizes that studying psychedelics can inform understanding of the brain and consciousness.

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I really hope that there will always be the opportunity for indigenous cultures, who really introduced all of us to this, to be able to have a very.
Strong role in facilitating psychedelic sessions for people and then for people who are.
Respectful of both the indigenous wisdom and.
The science, so that we can have community based psychedelic use that is evidence based, that's informed by indigenous wisdom, that's affordable so that it's not, you know.
In medicine it's probably going to be a lot like surgery. It's going to be thousands of dollars for you to get it and it's going to be a question about whether it's going to be covered by insurance and all that stuff. Stuff, right. I think it should be there. I want it to be there.
I think it's going to be the.
Right way to go for certain people. But I never want to see it.
Follow the same kind of train tracks as the pharmaceutical companies have done with drugs today. Because I, while they have saved millions.
Of lives, while there have been incredible even in my own life, you know.
Wonderful results from certain things, it's a.
System that doesn't work for everyone. So I'm hoping that there's always kind of a democratized method of being able to access psychedelics that doesn't forget indigenous wisdom and actually serves the indigenous people.
And their descendants and also is firmly.
Rooted in science and that we can.
Really continue to try to crack the code. Because learning about psychedelics and how they impact the brain is not only relevant.
To the use, future use of psychedelics, it's relevant to us understanding the nature of consciousness and the nature of how.
Consciousness is involved with the brain and the body.