Podcasts by UNVEILED: exploring psychedelics and spirituality

It Stops Here: Rueben George on intergenerational trauma healing, fighting big oil and sacred plant medicine from 2023-11-01T05:06:52

Rueben George the səlilwətaɬ leader and grandson of Chief Dan George reflects on the unfolding impacts of colonization and what it means to embrace spirit. Rueben's book is called It Stops Here....

How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World: Stephen Gray explores spirituality and Entheogen’s from 2023-08-21T19:51:05

Stephen Gray is a teacher and writer on spiritual subjects and sacramental medicines. He has worked extensively with Tibetan Buddhism, the Native American Church, an...

Swimming in the Sacred: Rachel Harris shares wisdom from the Psychedelic Underground from 2023-08-04T01:01:12

The use of entheogens, or psychedelics, is out of the closet today. LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, and other medicines once associated only with the counterculture are now being legally studied for thei...

God on Psychedelics: Don Lattin on renewing faith through sacred plant medicines from 2023-05-11T21:48:26

Don Lattin has been writing about altered states of consciousness since the 1970's.  We explore is his latest book book,  God on Psychedelics: Tripping across the rubble of Old-Time Religion.  <...

Re-encountering Jesus through Psychedelics: Dave Phillips and Peg Peters from 2023-05-09T13:07:45

Dave Phillips is a therapist and trainer for TheraPsil and Peg Peters is an ordained minister and together they are exploring psychedelics and spirituality. 

Experiential Medicine: Dr. Brian Richards explores group work and psychedelics from 2023-05-09T12:59:52

Dr. Richards was a Lead Psychologist on an innovative, simultaneous group administration high-dose psilocybin trial with cancer patients at the Bill Richards Center for Healing in Rockville, Mar...

THE POETICS OF THE NONDUAl: Dr. Valeria McCarroll talks about training for psychedelic guides. from 2023-05-02T21:03:54

Valeria McCarroll, PhD, MFT, is a teacher and a cosmic aesthete. Formally trained as a psychedelic guide, she is faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies in the Integral and Transper...

Entheogen Reformation: Dr.Thomas Roberts on Spirituality and Altered States from 2023-03-13T19:27:10

Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D., is professor emeritus at Northern Illinois University and a former visiting scientist at Johns Hopkins. The coeditor of Psychedelic Medicine and the author of Psychedel...

Christianity and Psychedelics: Hunt Priest and the renewal of faith from 2023-03-08T01:20:51

Hunt Priest is an Episcopalian minister who was a participant in a psilocybin study involving religious professionals at John Hopkins University. His life was change and as a result he started Liga...

Physician, artist, and psychedelic guide: Dr. Houman Farzin explores the healing power of mushrooms. from 2023-01-13T16:39:33

Dr. Houman Farzin has recently started the first legal treatments of physician-supervised home-based psilocybin-assisted therapy in Montreal, Canada. He is a lecturer at Listen

Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Dr. Darcia Narvaez on Indigenous wisdom for the Psychedelic Renaissance from 2022-08-18T16:48:52

Dr. Darcia Narvaez, professor of Psychology at Notre Dame, talks about her new book, Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth...

The Self Healing Mind: Dr. Mark Haden on the radical new paradigm for therapeutic psychedelics from 2022-07-16T18:18:26

Dr. Mark Haden, was the Executive Director of MAPS Canada (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) for 10 years and now is the Vice President of Business Development for Clearmind...

Sacred Knowledge: Dr. Bill Richards on death, psychedelics and the sacred. from 2022-07-11T16:56:13

Dr. William Richards is one of the God-Fathers of the psychedelic movement having conducted thousands of sessions with patients throughout his 60 years of research. Bill is a psychologist in the...

Healing Trauma: Dr. Ingrid Pacey on her 50 year journey with psychedelics. from 2022-07-09T14:22:14

Dr. Ingrid Pacey is a psychiatrist who was trained in the therapeutic use of LSD in the 1960's. She shares her personal story of her first psychedelic experience and how that changed her life. S...

Let love in: Dr. Bruce Tobin on psychedelics, death and dying. from 2022-07-09T14:02:37

Dr. Bruce Tobin, is a retired psychologist and president and founder of Therapcil. He shares his own personal story of how he used psilocybin to treat his depression and cancer diagnosis and why...

Actively dying to actively living: Thomas Hartle on how mushrooms helped him find vitality while dying from 2022-07-01T14:47:16

Thomas Hartle has terminal cancer and was the first Canadian to legally use psilocybin (magic mushrooms) to treat his end of life anxiety with a therapist. He was granted a Section 56 exemption ...

Forgiving yourself: Jim Doswell on how mushrooms healed his panic attacks from 2022-06-29T18:47:18

Jim Doswell is a former federal treaty negotiator with First Nations in B.C, Canada. who applied for a ministerial exemption to use psilocybin to aid in his therapy for PTSD.  This is his story....

Overcoming fear: Charlotte Jackson on the healing power of Psychedelics. from 2022-06-28T20:26:06

'Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you'  DW Winnicott. 

Charlotte Jackson is a registered clinical counsellor working in Vancouver and is advocating ...

Six months to live: Laurie Brooks and Dave Phillips discuss the transformative power of Psilocybin from 2022-06-28T20:10:28

Laurie Brooks, a mother of four, was diagnosed with terminal cancer and heard about a cutting edge new treatment for end of life anxiety. Laurie and her therapist, Dave Phillips, join us on the ...

Charter Challenge with Paul Lewin from 2022-06-27T19:59:38

Canadians in medical need do not have safe, legal, equitable or timely access to medical psilocybin and psilocybin therapy. This urgently needs to change.

To solve this, patients are taki...

Psychedelic Jesus from 2022-03-17T22:32:51

Another little twist of focus as Peg and I begin to talk about what a Christian faith could look like AFTER we've walked away from Christianity.  How can we have a Christian spirituality without...

Dave and Peg with Jodi Krahn from 2022-01-22T21:50:41

We were so excited about our first "guest" interview.  Jodi is a long time friend of us both and my teaching partner training therapists in safely using psilocybin in therapy. She is a gifted th...

Season 2 Episode 2 - Dave‘s Story from 2021-12-19T17:02:19

In our second podcast of season 2, we unveil Dave's journey from traditional to psychedelic therapist.

Unveiled Season 2 - Restarting the Podcast from 2021-12-09T23:58:22

Peg and I have been on hiatus since February.  I think we now have a much clearer vision for Unveiled.  We will invite different guests who interest us to talk about whatever is engaging them at...

neXus 2.0 from 2021-02-02T21:28:37

On this podcast Dave and Peg discuss the growing number of people who identify as “Spiritual but not Religious”.  These folks are looking for a place to connect and share their lives.  Could Nex...

Introduction to Psychedelics - Part 2 from 2020-10-15T20:40:20

In this second episode of our series on psychedelics we feature part of an interview with Francoise Bourzat. She is the author of Consciousness Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom, Entheogens, and Expan...

Introduction to Psychedelics - Part3 from 2020-10-14T23:01:16

In our third episode in the series on psychedelics we feature an interview with Dr. Bill Richards who is one of the lead researchers at Johns Hopkins university leading the team doing Psychedeli...

Introduction to Psychedelics from 2020-09-17T18:31:32

After a few months break, we're back to talk about a fairly significant shift in our lives that has taken place over the past few years.  About 4 years ago, we began to read about the use of psy...

The Songs of neXus: Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas from 2020-05-14T22:12:48

In 2004, a number of us formed a faith community called neXus.  We were trying to reformulate, deconstruct and critically examine our Christian/Evangelical spirituality.  We had a good run, even...

Understanding IFS - Part 2 from 2020-04-21T19:44:12

Hi, Peg and I continue our conversation about why we consider Internal Family Systems (IFS) as one of the best models out there for working "inside".  Recorded ala social distancing from Peg's g...

Internal Family Systems - A model for life and the Kingdom of God from 2020-04-17T21:54:43

In our podcast today Peg and I explore a model of therapy that I learned back in the 90s - I still see it as the most useful model for living a congruent and happy life.  As well, Peg gives us a...

A Re-Embracing of Christian Symbols from 2020-04-06T17:55:54

Peg and I have been on our own personal spiritual journey since neXus stopped meeting a few years ago.  One of the emerging new developments have been a re-examination and a re-embracing of our ...

Intro to the Dave and Peg podcast from 2020-03-30T22:35:35

Hi,

Dave and Peg are back with a new podcast.  Our first episode features the movie A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, a powerful story of trauma and healing.

It's good ...

The Dave and Peg podcast: Comedy, Sex, God from 2020-03-28T18:27:45

Here is Episode #2 where Dave and I discuss Pete Holmes' book Comedy Sex God and his HBO Series "Crashing". It is his personal story of leaving Evangelicalism and finding a new way to be human. ...