In this talk, we will explore pleasure, desire, and love from an embodied perspective. Our concepts around pleasure may be limited by a cultural context in which body, mind, and spirit have been torn apart by centuries of privileging the rational mind over the felt sense. As our world embraces the reintegration of these aspects of ourselves into a unified whole, the way we think about and experience pleasure, desire, and love are rapidly transforming.
In this talk, we’ll cover the promise, practice, and pitfalls of conducting psychotherapy with psychedelic medicines such as psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine. (1) We’ll cover the key findings in scientific research in psychedelic science in the last fifteen years. We’ll discuss the broad implicat...
There is no template for the current COVID-19 induced world health and financial crisis. All of us are trying to maintain balance in an environment of unpredictability and threat. As part of our commitment to apply ancient wisdom and current science, mental health professionals within the Contemp...
The stage is set for a paradigm shift, do you feel it? Western culture has been dominated by the ideologies of materialism, reductionism, and objectivism rooted in the dangerous world-view of nihilism for three centuries and while we have seen great technological breakthroughs we are also now on ...
