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Episode 163 – Medicinal Mycology, Neurogenesis, Psychedelics, Kundalini Awakening w/ Clint Ginn
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Clinton Ginn is a founder, an entrepreneur, mushroom farmer, and mycology lab tech. He is the director of PLEDGE, a commercial spawn and research laboratory. He also founded HIVE, a defense fund which serves…
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He is the director of PLEDGE, a commercial spawn and research laboratory. He also founded HIVE, a defense fund which serves those who serve others.
Clint achieved his degree in psychology from Arizona state university, he worked as a counselor with at-risk youth, which after 6 years convinced him of the futility of the current paradigm of mental health care. He became a medicinal mycologist in 2009 and has spent 10+ years using what he learned to remedy the pain he witnessed in the mental health field.
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“How do we begin to understand the grip of trauma? What is the mushroom doing that traditional psychology or Western medicine is failing to do? The precise mechanism is beyond me, but the human mind and psyche have a powerful ability to bury trauma. The psychedelic experience can bring a person into direct contact with what has been buried.”
From the conversation“Mushrooms have been part of the human diet for an extraordinarily long time, and they can be approached at different levels—from microdosing to deeper psychedelic experiences. The medical model of psychedelic therapy is beautiful and warranted. It is helping create a path through which ordinary people may eventually gain access to these treatments.”
From the conversation“Peak experiences do not necessarily serve you without integration. The same is true of psilocybin-assisted therapy. You still need to be a good person, take out the garbage on time, pay your bills, show up for work, and treat people well. That ordinary, day-to-day life is the spiritual life.”
From the conversation“Under the right set, setting, and context, these substances are not the cause of social problems; they can work against those problems and help people improve their lives. That is central to the mission of the Hive Defense Fund. The work is still in its early stages, but it is deeply needed.”
From the conversation“In these sessions, I directly encountered the reasons behind my addictions to alcohol and nicotine and other personal problems. I do not claim sainthood. Awakening Kundalini was part of becoming someone who found freedom and then turned that freedom into service. Service without freedom is slavery; first reach freedom, then serve.”
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Medicinal Mycology, Neurogenesis, Psychedelics, Kundalini Awakening w/ Clint Ginn
Clint achieved his degree in psychology from Arizona state university, he worked as a counselor with at-risk youth, which after 6 years convinced him of the futility of the current paradigm of mental health care. He became a medicinal mycologist in 2009 and has spent 10+ years using what he learned to remedy the pain he witnessed in the mental health field.
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