One-Degree Shifts
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<p>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.</p>
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June 23, 2026
42: Beyond Love and Light: Systemic Healing, Social Justice, and Sacred Rage w/Daniel Miceli
<p>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.</p><p>This conversation moves through some hard territory. <br /><br />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.<br /></p><p>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.<br /></p><p> 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.</p>
May 28, 2026
41: Ayurveda and the Art of Preparing w/Dr. Sujatha Kekada
<p>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. <br /><br />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.<br /></p><p>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.</p>
April 12, 2026
40: Whose Meaning Is It Anyway? w/Guy Simon
<p>What does it actually mean to make sense of something that broke you open?<br /></p><p>In this episode, Pascal sits down with Guy Simon, a psychotherapist, trauma researcher, and PhD candidate at Bar-Ilan University, to explore what actually happens when people try to make meaning after a challenging psychedelic experience.<br /></p><p>Drawing on 48 in-depth interviews with people who had difficult experiences outside clinical settings, Guy shares a map of five distinct patterns of meaning-making, and the specific conditions under which those patterns help, and when they don't.<br /></p><p>This is one of the most honest and grounded conversations we've had on the show about what integration actually looks like, and what can go wrong when the story you come out with isn't really yours.<br /></p><hr /><p>TIMESTAMPS <br /><br />00:00 Introduction <br />02:49 About the research <br />11:16 Having your own internal framework for meaning making <br />16:21 Patterns 1-2: "The Mind Goes Looking" - Somatic Discovery and Embodied Re-Experiencing <br />29:37 Pattern 3: "The Experience as Instruction" <br />40:32 Pattern 4: "The Recursive Healing Project" <br />49:55 Pattern 5: "When the Framework Fails" <br />01:03:23 When a facilitator is going beyond holding space and imposing a framework on you <br />01:07:55 Pattern 6: "The Pressure to Have a Good Story" 01:14:57 Fetishizing the psychedelic insight, undervaluing the mundane <br />01:23:16 Advice for someone carrying a story that isn't yours into integration <br />01:27:05 Advice for someone preparing for a journey<br /></p><hr /><p>WHAT WE COVER<br /></p><ul><li>The five patterns of meaning-making after a challenging psychedelic experience</li><li>The difference between finding a framework and being handed one</li><li>Somatic discovery and embodied re-experiencing: when the body becomes the text</li><li>What happens when something comes up in a session that you can't verify</li><li>The only way out is through: when it helps and when it causes harm</li><li>The recursive healing project and when more medicine isn't the answer</li><li>The social pressure of integration circles and the cost of sharing too soon</li><li>Why the best facilitators act like carpets</li><li>Why not knowing is itself a form of knowing</li><li>After the ecstasy, the laundry: finding meaning in ordinary life</li></ul><hr /><p>NOTABLE QUOTES <br /></p><ul><li>"Not knowing is knowing."</li><li>"You are not a Gabor Maté book. You are very unique and very fragmented and not clear to yourself, and that's okay."</li><li>"The only way out is through is a framework that can do much more damage than it can support."</li><li>"The best facilitator should be the best carpet they can be. It's not about you."</li><li>"Psychedelics are not silver bullets. They act as a compass. You still need the car." "You don't need to fight the dragon. There is no dragon."</li></ul><hr /><p>ABOUT GUY SIMON</p><p><br />Guy Simon is a psychotherapist, trauma researcher, and PhD candidate at Bar-Ilan University, based in Amsterdam. His work focuses on how people make meaning after difficult psychedelic experiences outside clinical settings. He is clinical director of Impulse, an integrative mental health center, and a collaborator with the Challenging Psychedelic Experience Project. <br />🌐 <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://guysimon.com" target="_blank">guysimon.com</a><br /></p><hr /><p>RESOURCES MENTIONED</p><ul><li>Guy Simon: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://guysimon.com" target="_blank">guysimon.com</a></li><li>Challenging Psychedelic Experience Project</li><li>Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score</li><li>Jack Kornfield, After the Ecstasy the Laundry</li><li>Adam Aronovich, Temple of the Way of Light</li><li>Gabor Maté</li></ul><hr />
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