Meet the Psychiatrist Training To Be An Amazonian Ayahuasca Shaman [qbx1bG8fdC2]
Want to truly understand your own conscious inner experience? I built a tool and its free - Dr Simon Ruffell is a clinical psychiatrist and the CEO of Onaya Science, the research organisation that studies Amazonian ayahuasca healing alongside Shipibo curanderos in the Peruvian rainforest. His team ran the first-ever study on a psychedelic and human epigenetics — finding that ayahuasca methylates the trauma-memory gene SIGMAR1, mapping precisely onto what the Shipibo have called "cleaning ancestral lines" for thousands of years. Expect to learn why a Maudsley-trained psychiatrist walked away from the NHS to apprentice as a Shipibo shaman, what happens when a curandero performs an exorcism on you mid-ceremony, how 80% of veterans no longer met PTSD criteria six months after a two-week retreat, why the curandero traditionally drinks the ayahuasca and the patient doesn't, what happened when Simon gave a Shipibo curandero a hit of pure crystal DMT, why DMT entities might be real and where Robin Carhart-Harris and Andrew Gallimore disagree about it, and much more… Timestamps: 00:00 Trailer 03:20 What is Shipibo Curanderismo? 04:52 From disillusioned NHS psychiatrist to the Peruvian Amazon 10:14 First ayahuasca: shown two versions of myself 15:41 The demon attack and the three suckers 26:13 Bridging Western psychiatry and Amazonian shamanism 36:04 Are DMT entities real? Carhart-Harris vs Gallimore 49:50 Inside the multimodal veteran PTSD study 52:41 DMT vs ayahuasca — what's actually different 57:11 Should you try this? Preparation and "gringo wasca" 1:04:52 The first-ever psychedelic epigenetics study (SIGMAR1) 1:12:17 "Cleaning ancestral lines" — when Indigenous science met Western 1:16:51 80% no longer meet PTSD criteria — the real numbers 1:20:37 The shaman drinks, not the patient — traditional protocol 1:30:41 The spiritual mechanism of action 1:34:54 The dream experiment — plant personalities Email for sponsorship enquiries: [email protected] FOLLOW SIMON: Website: Instagram: @sgdruffell Onaya Science: Heroic Hearts UK: PAST EPISODES MENTIONED: Robin Carhart-Harris — Entropic Brain, How Psychedelics Really Work and Consciousness: Andrew Gallimore — DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: Grace Blest-Hopley — Psychedelics Expert: Who is Blocking Psychedelic Research?: