I have the absolute pleasure of sharing this conversation with Neil Gehani, a community advocate for breaking down mental health stigma in Asian communities, as well as a founder of mindlumen.health, a platform designed to ethically match seekers and facilitators for psychedelic therapy.

I have to thank Neil for showing up and having the courage to openly share how a series of Mdma and psilocybin-assisted journeys led him to break down a lifetime of barriers and walls he’d built up in himself that started when he was dropped outside military boarding school at the age of 4 back in India and took him to making it big in Silicon valley.

I learned a lot from Neil, and saw a lot of parallels in my journey, that I hope resonate with you to.

Enjoy this free-flowing, beautiful and heart-centred conversation.

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In this episode, I have to thank my friend Elijah Whaley for being brave enough to join me in helping me explore and make sense of a recent experience I had at a festival.

It started in the savannah of the Australian outback, where encountered a pride of lions and a pack of wolves that got me to question my nature, which led me to talk with a variety of spirit animals about their role, the nature of evolution and the circle of life. It very much felt like the Lion King had taken acid.

Just to be clear, this was all happening in my imagination, and no animals were hurt in the making of this experience.

I wanted to speak with Elijah about this as he had initially introduced me to the notion of meeting spirit animals and felt he could help provide a new perspective, which he didn’t disappoint with.

It’s a wild story, and at times have trouble fully expressing the experience fully, so ask for your forgiveness in advance.

I now have greater clarity on what this experience was trying to show me, and how to integrate it into my being moving forward. Thank you, Elijah.

Now, let’s get to the savannah…

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Today I talked with Dr Prash Puspanathan about a recent clinical trial he participated in with DMT.

Prash is a practising psychiatrist and has been a long-time advocate for the responsible use of psychedelics in the medical field in Australia since way before it was cool. He is also the co-founder of Enosis Therapeutics, a VR company working to make psychedelic integration therapy more accessible.

In this episode, he talks about his motivation to become a psychotherapist, the ordeal he went through during the trial to heal some grief he had experienced since the loss of his father, the important work of integration post a session like this and how this experience as a participant has given him new insight as a therapist himself.

I learned a lot from Prash and believe he sets an incredible example of how we can all approach these substances, as a therapist or as a patient, with the degree of respect and reverence they deserve.

Put on your lab coats and get out your clipboards as this is a great story to study.

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