#768: What Happens When Israelis and Palestinians Drink Ayahuasca Together?

Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show. For this
episode, I’m doing something different. I’m featuring a very
special episode from a brand-new podcast called Altered
States.


Here’s the teaser for the episode you’re about to hear:
“For the last couple of years, producer Shaina Shealy has
been following Israeli and Palestinian peace activists who have
been coming together to drink the psychedelic brew ayahuasca in
an effort to heal their collective intergenerational trauma. It
seemed to be helping them when suddenly the region erupts into
chaos and violence.” 


Shaina Shealy was a fellow from the Ferriss-UC Berkeley
Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship, which offers ten
$10,000 reporting grants per year to journalists reporting
in-depth print and audio stories on the science, policy, business
and culture of this new era of psychedelics. The fellowship is
supported by my foundation, the Saisei Foundation, and made
possible in collaboration with Michael Pollan, Malia Wollan, and
others at UC Berkeley. 


Altered States looks at how people are taking psychedelics, who
has access to them, how they're regulated, who stands to profit,
and what these substances might offer us as individuals and as a
society.


[00:00] An intro to the Altered States podcast and its mission.


[00:02:24] Shaina Shealy explains what ayahuasca is and how it
affects the human brain.


[00:03:47] Palestinian Sami Awad’s peace activism and ayahuasca
journey.


[00:17:18] Dr. Rachel Yehuda and the science of intergenerational
trauma.


[00:19:27] How the Israeli-Palestinian ayahuasca experiment came
about.


[00:25:47] Participants share their experiences.


[00:38:35] How the violent events of October 7th affected the
participants and the project.


[00:45:52] Reflections on the experiment’s effectiveness and
participants’ continued commitment to peace.


[00:50:29] Closing credits.


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