Sheri and Tom discuss how they discovered – and then began to advocate for – Psilocybin Therapy (2:33)

Sheri and Tom talk about their effort over the last 5 years in bringing together a ballot initiative with the Oregon Legislative Council (5:35)

Tom details the origins of the Oregon Psilocybin Society (9:30)

Tom and Ronan discuss the FDA process (11:00)

Details on Measure 109 and how it could create access to psilocybin assisted psychotherapy – and what that entails (11:55)

Sheri highlights some of the strict parameters and safety considerations built into the law – and protections of over commercialization – to maintain a community-based service (13:00)

Sheri discussed how the Psilocybin Service Initiative (PSI) aims to be inclusive, rigorous and will legitimatize practitioners with essential training programs (15:00)

How we bring about drug reform and learn as an industry from the errors of the 60s (17:00)

‘But What If We’re Wrong?' – and what does the narrative look like (20:00)

What the throws of transformation can look like – and how important the history of these plant medicines really are for us to know and pay attention to (21:20)

Consciousness as a final mystery – and the relationship between consciousness and reality. The subject/object split that physics brings into question and how these exact questions are intrinsically healing. And they seem to be related to positive therapeutic outcomes (23:10)

Sheri believes it's important for individuals to have their own genuine experience. We are all our own best guru’s. We can experience awe – and even the cosmos (26:00)

Sheri shares her personal experience with psychedelics, and how her view towards them evolved – from conservative to advocate. Psychedelics helped her see the emotions that were stuck within her – called ‘memory trauma’ (30:20)

Tom talks about his experience with psychedelics and how they helped him cope with the loss of his father (32:50)

Sheri adds how her and Tom experience the universe together when on psilocybin. “It’s a wonderful thing for a marriage” (34:38)

To heal is to become more whole – and suffering is estrangement from the whole. A psychedelic experience can bring the whole together, and to recognize that you are not separate from the cosmos itself (38:00)

Once expanded – you can never go back to your original shape. And for Sheri – that is the work of psychedelics. And for Tom, this idea of neuroplasticity is important; a flexibility away from rigid mental loops. (39:00)

Sheri talks about how she challenges the men she works with to ‘sit with their beliefs, and ask themselves: why they believe what they believe?’ (45:30)

Tom discusses the identification of meaning, and how looking forward is a blank page for all of us. You are free to be the author; can be called 'reality creation' (47:00)

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