#122 - Meet the Psychiatrist Training To Be An Ayahuasca Shaman

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Dr Simon Ruffell is a clinical psychiatrist and the CEO of Onaya
Science, the research organisation that studies Amazonian
ayahuasca healing alongside Shipibo curanderos in the Peruvian
rainforest. His team ran the first-ever study on a psychedelic
and human epigenetics — finding that ayahuasca methylates the
trauma-memory gene SIGMAR1, mapping precisely onto what the
Shipibo have called "cleaning ancestral lines" for thousands of
years.


Expect to learn why a Maudsley-trained psychiatrist walked away
from the NHS to apprentice as a Shipibo shaman, what happens when
a curandero performs an exorcism on you mid-ceremony, how 80% of
veterans no longer met PTSD criteria six months after a two-week
retreat, why the curandero traditionally drinks the ayahuasca and
the patient doesn't, what happened when Simon gave a Shipibo
curandero a hit of pure crystal DMT, why DMT entities might be
real and where Robin Carhart-Harris and Andrew Gallimore disagree
about it, and much more…


Timestamps:


00:00 Trailer


03:20 What is Shipibo Curanderismo?


04:52 From disillusioned NHS psychiatrist to the Peruvian Amazon


10:14 First ayahuasca: shown two versions of myself


15:41 The demon attack and the three suckers


26:13 Bridging Western psychiatry and Amazonian shamanism


36:04 Are DMT entities real? Carhart-Harris vs Gallimore


49:50 Inside the multimodal veteran PTSD study


52:41 DMT vs ayahuasca — what's actually different


57:11 Should you try this? Preparation and "gringo wasca"


1:04:52 The first-ever psychedelic epigenetics study (SIGMAR1)


1:12:17 "Cleaning ancestral lines" — when Indigenous science met
Western


1:16:51 80% no longer meet PTSD criteria — the real numbers


1:20:37 The shaman drinks, not the patient — traditional protocol


1:30:41 The spiritual mechanism of action


1:34:54 The dream experiment — plant personalities





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Website: https://www.drsimonruffell.comInstagram: @sgdruffell


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PAST EPISODES MENTIONED:


Robin Carhart-Harris — Entropic Brain, How Psychedelics Really
Work and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/t-GkE4YtLRk


Andrew Gallimore — DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, Entity
Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USgWrxEFWDA


Grace Blest-Hopley — Psychedelics Expert: Who is Blocking
Psychedelic Research?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBcLxMfUzxw