Welcome to One-Degree Shifts. A psychedelic podcast where we explore the big questions of meaning at the intersection of psychedelic therapy, integration, wellness, and the heartfelt stories of transformation that connect us all.
43: Humor as a Lifeline: Staying Sane Through AI Slop, Conspiracism & the Metacrisis -Adam Aronovich
Adam Aranovich is a medical anthropologist and the curator of Healing From Healing, the crowdsourced Instagram account that catalogs healing culture as it performs itself online. He spent years working at the Temple of the Way of Light in the Peruvian Amazon.
We talk about why humor lands where critique bounces off, and how a joke can keep a powerful experience from hardening into certainty. We meet Janice, the account's mascot, who is both the person fake crying on camera and the person laughing from the other side of the screen. We follow the pipeline from wellness into conspiracism, and land on what Adam's research actually found: it was never really the ayahuasca. It was the circle.
We close on hope as a daily practice and what Adam wants to build next.
23 Jun 2026
42: Beyond Love and Light: Systemic Healing, Social Justice, and Sacred Rage w/Daniel Miceli
Daniel Miceli grew up watching addiction and systemic harm move differently through different parts of his own family, depending on how dark someone's skin was. That early awareness followed him into the Amazon at twenty one, into years of ayahuasca and bufo ceremonies, and eventually into the work he does now, helping people feel the difference between healing themselves and healing the systems they live inside of.
This conversation moves through some hard territory.
Daniel talks about watching Western facilitators drift toward far right politics while insisting their spaces are apolitical. He talks about anger as something the psychedelic world tends to push aside, and why he thinks that instinct causes harm, especially for people whose grief has real political roots. He talks about extraction, not just of plants and medicines, but of attention, labor, and land, and what it might look like to build psychedelic spaces that don't quietly repeat the same patterns they're meant to help people heal from.
What stays with you isn't the critique though. It's the hope underneath it. Daniel believes the discomfort so many people feel right now is part of something waking up, not something falling apart. He talks about his son, about bearing witness without bypassing, and about why he still believes, after fourteen years in this work, that a better world is possible even if he doesn't live to see all of it.
This episode asks a little more of you than some of our other episodes do. It moves through addiction, grief, violence, and some of the harder history underneath this work. If you feel comfortable, I invite you to lean into it. There's something at the other end of it worth reaching.
28 May 2026
41: Ayurveda and the Art of Preparing w/Dr. Sujatha Kekada
What if the most important part of a journey is everything you do before it begins? Pascal sits down with Dr. Sujatha Kekada, an Ayurvedic physician and co-founder of AmrtaSiddhi Ayurvedic Center in Bali, who has spent more than twenty years helping people prepare their bodies and minds for powerful experiences. Most of us get handed a list of things to cut out before a journey. No alcohol, no red meat, no caffeine.
Dr. Sujatha spends this conversation on what to tend to instead. We move through the doshas, through agni, the fire that digests food and experience alike, through ojas, the reserve we either build or burn, and through ama, the residue that collects when we don't digest what we take in. She keeps returning to one image. You can't dye a dirty cloth and expect a clean color. The medicine fills whatever vessel you bring it.
Whether you're preparing for a ceremony, sitting with the residue of one, or just curious how an older tradition thinks about all this, this conversation offers a slower, more embodied way in.
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