Psychedelics and the inner healing intelligence

Dr. Reid Robison and Dr. Steve Thayer  are joined by Derick Moody, PA-C, to discuss the role that the inner healing intelligence plays in psychedelic medicine. They explore the following topics:

• What is the inner healing intelligence?
• The role of the clinician is to foster an ideal environment for the healing process to commence and to remove the obstacles that frustrate that process
• The "monkey mind" as an obstacle to psychological healing
• Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, by Robert Zapolsky
• Peter Levine and somatic experiencing therapy for trauma
• The adaptability and resilience of the human organism 
• The evolutionary mismatch between human psychology and modern society 
• Example of using psychedelics to access the inner healer, collective unconscious, and ancestral wisdom in the movie Black Panther
• The psychedelic renaissance as response by the inner-healer on a global scale to social unrest
• Internal Family Systems (IFS) and "parts work" in therapy
• The various qualities of the inner healing intelligence
• The obstacle is the path, the only way out is through 
• Story about deferring to the inner healer during a difficult ayahuasca experience
• How the presence of a supportive other facilitates healing 
• Your Symphony of Selves, by James Fadiman
• How do we cultivate the inner healing intelligence as a therapist/clinician