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Summer Communitas
As the summer rolls along and I spend time gathering with others I have reflected on how good it feels. It conjures up thoughts from a book by anthropologist Victor Turner discussing the value of communitas. Here’s a definition: Communitas is a Latin noun that means "community" and can refer to a feeling of shared humanity, intimacy, and solidarity that develops among people who experience liminality [...]
Addiction and Spirituality
What is addiction? My philosophy is that addiction is a behavioral response to feel better, to avoid pain or discomfort. Our society has driven us to become less tolerant of discomfort so one part of an addiction treatment model would be distress tolerance education. There is often a deeper wound that Carl Jung and William James explored, they viewed addiction as spiritual thirst for wholeness– a [...]
Paradigm Shift. Addiction, Mental health and Transformational Healing
Addiction is not the core problem, it is an invitation to look deeper. The abstinence only model keeps us bound to a model where relapse and shame become barriers to getting help. Psychedelic therapies invites a broader scope of contemplation around the driving forces behind our behaviors and allow us to see ourselves with a greater sense of compassion and curiosity. Therapeutic use of psychedelics [...]
Paradigm Shift. Mental Health and Transformational Healing Opportunities.
We are in the midst of a psychedelic renaissance exploring transformational healing with different tools. Western psychopharmacology has developed to reduce symptomatology— as we minimize and mask symptoms we become less connected from the messages the symptoms are trying to share with us. Our progress driven society encourages striving for peak performance-but at what cost? It seems we have lost our sense of [...]
Therapeutic Use of Ketamine, Psilocybin, and MDMA Lecture
Dr. Altobelli presents her lecture on the therapeutic use of psychedelics for the Frontiers in Addiction Lecture Series– a free lecture series held by the Thelma McMillen Recovery Center
History of Psychedelic Evolution Antioch Lecture
Dr. Altobelli gives her lecture highlighting the transformative healing of psychedelics from the past, present, and future as an adjunct professor at Antioch University