“What happens if we walk through the world and dare to care about things?”
A beautiful question from Ross Sullivan, Managing Director of the Institute for a Sustainable Future, a not-for-profit organization working to improve social and environmental ecological health in service of the collective transition towards more caring and positive futures.
On this podcast episode, we had a thought-provoking and well-rounded chat about psychedelics, and I was inspired to hear someone like Ross contemplating such important questions. Here’s a quick snapshot of what we covered:
• How psychedelics create experiences of connection
• The soul-search for rites of passage as a man in today’s world
• Psychedelics as a possible antidote to diseases of despair and loneliness
• Power imbalance in systems & individuals
• Potential of psychedelics to play a sacred role in social & environmental change
• Building psychedelic communities and the realms of social change
• Optimism around shifting stigmas, laws, and regulations
And some wonderfully thought-provoking questions to chew on, like:
• How can we go beyond biomedicalization and hold sacred medicines together as a community?
• How do we shift what we value to sacredness and reverence for life?
• How do we make human care economically valuable?
• How do we move at the speed of trust?
Please enjoy 🙏 and #shinefreely ✨
Ross is a holistic health professional turned designer and builder of systems for social change. The throughline of his interests has to do with ways of improving the health and development of individuals and society, with a virtuous relationship between the two as a goal. To this end he has involved himself in various projects within the emerging psychedelic therapeutics market over the last several years. Here, Ross is motivated by the belief that psychedelic therapies can catalyze systems change by reconnecting individuals, communities, and our environments, affording us the courage and wisdom to restructure our social institutions in a way that supports the sacredness of all life.
Visit Institute for a Sustainable Future at isfusa.org
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