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S7 #2

Animism, Healing, and Psychedelic Tourism | Adam Aronovich (Healing From Healing)

On this episode, my guest is Adam Aronovich. Adam has a PhD in Anthropology and Communications and is an active member of the Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC-URV). A long-term student and researcher of various magico-medical systems around the world, he has facilitated workshops and retreats in the Amazon rainforest and the Mexican coast for almost a decade. He is the co-founder of Hidden Hand Media, a creative agency at the intersection of psychedelia, technology, and society, and the creator of Healing from Healing, a social media platform that casts a critical, skeptical, and humorous gaze at Healing and Transformation Culture.

 You could say that in circumstances of high culture or highly-functioning culture, one of the principle attributes of that culture, the fundament of its understanding, is that only with the advent of the stranger in their midst does the best of them come forward.
Themes:
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Show Notes

  • Adam’s doctoral thesis and time in the Amazon
  • Iatrogenesis and Healing Culture
  • Epistemic Humility
  • Our Traumadelic Stories
  • Clash in Understandings of Causation
  • Disneyfication of Plant Medicine
  • Individual vs Relational Healing
  • Psychedelic Tourism’s Local Consequences
  • Spirit Realm Fallout
  • Animistic Perspective
  • Narrative, Cults, and Conspirituality

Homework

Adam Aronovich - Substack - Instagram: Healing From Healing

Martin Buber - I and Thou

Thomas Berry

Traumadelic Culture

Transcript

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