Psychedelics for Chronic Pain | Dr. Alex Bekker - ATTMind 196
Release Date: 04/25/2025
What Psychedelics Actually Do to Your Mind (And Why Nothing Else Compares), James W. Jesso - MICRO:14
Adventures Through The Mind
Psychedelics don't just "alter" your state — they can dissolve the self, surface the unconscious, and open the door to mystical experience. Your host, James, shares what's actually happening. ... This is a clip from 'Psychedelics in Research & Practice | James W. Jesso ~ ATTMind Podcast 200" FULL INTERVIEW SUPPORT THE PODCAST 🥰 Other options Support Once on PayPal: Toss Me a Tip on Ko-Fi: Buy Some Merchandise: More Options: Connect with Me Bluesky: LinkedIn: X: Newsletter: Substack: Telegram...
info_outline
Spiritual Healing, IFS, and Emanuel Swedenborg | Falconer, Odhner, and Jonathan Rose ~ ATTMind 207
Adventures Through The Mind
This episode of the podcast is going to explore an intersection of psychotherapy and spirituality. Specifically, we are going to be exploring the intersection between Internal Family Systems, spiritual healing, and the work of 16c Christian philosopher and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg. Our guests are Bob Falconer, Chelsea Odhner, and Jonathan Rose. What You'll Learn About: 📚 Introduction to Internal Family Systems (IFS) and the teachings of Emmanuel Swedenborg 🔗 The intersection and synthesis between these two systems of thinking 🧠 Fundamental metaphysical concepts: the nature of the...
info_outline
All About DMTx (extended-state DMT) | Hayley and Kevin of Dream Mind Labs - ATTMind Podcast 206
Adventures Through The Mind
This episode is going to be a deep dive into extended-state dimethyltryptamine, otherwise known as DMTx. Our guests for this episode are Hayley Mann and Kevin Thorbahn, who run one of only a handful of places in the world where DMTx is available outside of clinical trials. They are on the show to talk about: 🧬 What DMTx is and how it works 🌀 What people experience during a DMTx session 🙋 Why people choose to undergo the experience ⏱️ How long people stay in for 💡 What people get out of the experience 🏥 Where DMTx may fit in the growing psychedelic medical and personal use...
info_outline
MICRO:13 - Integrating Spontaneous Spiritual Awakening Experiences, with Jessica Corneille
Adventures Through The Mind
Research Psychologist Jessica Corneille discusses the complex integration process that follows spontaneous spiritual experiences—particularly the disorientation, vocational tension, and identity shifts that can arise when a transformed worldview no longer aligns with one’s work or social context. The conversation explores the emergence of spiritual crisis during integration, the importance of non-hierarchical support spaces, and how connection, community, and spiritual literature (including reflections on Alan Watts) can help individuals rebuild a coherent sense of self and purpose after...
info_outline
How Identity Politics Poisons The Psychedelic Renaissance | Tom Hatsis ~ ATTMind Podcast 205
Adventures Through The Mind
Thomas Hatsis joins us for episode 205 to discuss his new book Psychedelic Injustice: How Identity Politics Poisons the Psychedelic Renaissance. Together we discuss some pretty divisive topics: the distinction between social justice and critical social justice, how certain narratives are being imposed on the psychedelic movement, implicit bias research, decolonization rhetoric, the drug war's actual causes, and contested claims about psychedelic history. This one might get spicy for you. Enjoy responsibly. This episode was nearly taken down RELEVANT LINKS 🌀 📚 GET THE BOOK: 🤓...
info_outline
Linking Individual Stress To Societal Dysfunction | Dr. David Katz ~ ATTMind 204
Adventures Through The Mind
Dr. David Katz is a board-certified specialist in Preventive Medicine/Public Health. He is on the show to talk about the paper is was author on, titled, “A multiscale inflammatory map: linking individual stress to societal dysfunction”. We talk about what stress and inflammation are, and the dynamics between them; how and why inflammation becomes chronic; how inflammation compromises perception and behaviour; how it can spread through a population like a contagion; how these spreading patterns of inflammation degrade our social systems, institutions, and leadership; how social media...
info_outline
MICRO:12 - Mushroom Santa Confusion, Tom Hatsis
Adventures Through The Mind
Psychedelic historian Tom Hatsis outlines why the "mushroom Santa hypothesis" is not based in any historical fact and why. Happy Holidays! ... This is a clip from 'Debunking The Mushroom Santa Hypothesis | Tom Hatsis ~ ATTMind Podcast 89" FULL INTERVIEW SUPPORT THE PODCAST 🥰 Other options Support Once on PayPal: Toss Me a Tip on Ko-Fi: Buy Some Merchandise: More Options: Connect with Me Bluesky: LinkedIn: X: Newsletter: Substack: Telegram Channel:
info_outline
How To Host An MDMA Group Roll | Charley Wininger - ATTMind Podcast 203
Adventures Through The Mind
Charley Wininger returns to Adventures Through The Mind to discuss How To Host An MDMA Group Roll Our discussions starts with a quick general overview of MDMA before shifting into a thorough exploration of group rolls—what they are, what they can offer us individually and collectively, who to invite, who not to invite, where to do it, what to include, what to exclude, safety protocols, and just a whole number of things. Enjoy! 🌀 ✉️ 📚 BUY CHARLEY'S BOOK: FULL TOPICS BREAKDOWN BELOW ... SUPPORT THE PODCAST 🥰 🎧 🎧 👁 ...
info_outline
MICRO:11 - Microdosed Psilocybin, Synaptic Plasticity, and Compulsion with Dr. Mikael Palner
Adventures Through The Mind
Dr. Mikael Palner discusses how psilocybin microdosing alters synaptic plasticity in rats and how these brain changes align with shifts in stress resiliancy and compulsive behaviors. He then discusses how these data line up with emerging reports on low-dose psilocybin as helpful in cases of OCD, and hypothesizes a plausible biological basis. ... This is a clip from 'Microdosing Psilocybin; Effects on Stress Resiliency and Compulsive Behaviours | Dr. Mikael Palner ~ ATTMind Podcast 194" FULL INTERVIEW SUPPORT THE PODCAST 🥰 Other options Toss me a tip on PayPal: Buy some...
info_outline
An In-Depth Exploration Of Psychedelic Integration | Marc Aixalà ~ ATTMind 202
Adventures Through The Mind
Author and psychotherapist Marc Aixalà is on the show to talk to us about psychedelic integration. What You'll Learn About: 💡 -- What psychedelic integration actually is, what it offers, and why it matters ⏰ -- When and how to apply different integration practices over time 🤔 -- Common mistakes made in both practice and understanding of integration 🧩 -- Approaches to working with derealization, depersonalization, and difficult or traumatic psychedelic experiences 🌌 -- How to integrate experiences of the transcendental and transpersonal 👥 -- Key insights for...
info_outline🥰 Support ATTMind and join the community on Patreon
💌 Stay In Contact Through Signing Up For James' Newsletter
We deep dive into psychedelics as treatment for chronic pain with Dr. Alex Bekker, Professor and Chairman of Anaesthesiology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
We explore what chronic pain is, how it differs from acute pain, and its connection to maladaptive neuroplasticity. Dr. Bekker unpacks why current treatments often fail and how psychedelics—the classical psychedelics as well as ketamine—may effectively treat otherwise treatment-resistant conditions, as well as some practical advice for chronic pain sufferers.
Enjoy!
🌀 Website and Episode Show Notes
FULL TOPICS BREAKDOWN BELOW
...
SUPPORT THE PODCAST
🥰 Support ATTMind and join the community on Patreon
🎧 Sub and Review on Apple Podcasts
👁 Watch and Subscribe on Youtube
*** Huge thanks to my patrons on Patreon!
In particular, my $23+ patrons; Andreas D, Alex F, & Eliz C
Special thanks also go to Julie D. for the generous one-time donation
Other options
- Toss me a tip on PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=383635S3BKJVS
- Buy some merchandise: https://www.jameswjesso.com/shop/
- More Options: https://www.jameswjesso.com/support
Connect with Me
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jameswjesso.bsky.social
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/attmindpodcast/
- Newsletter: https://www.jameswjesso.com/newsletter
- SubStack: https://substack.com/@jameswjesso
- Telegram Channel: https://t.me/jameswjesso
- Integration Coaching: https://www.jameswjesso.com/jesso-private-skype-sessions/
...
Episode Breakdown
- (0:00) Opening
- (4:22) Interview begins
- (5:00) The difference between acute pain (nociceptive) and chronic pain
- (8:24) Chronic pain as neuropathic sensitization (peripheral and central sensitization)
- (11:25) Chronic pain involved disrupted nociceptive neural-inhibitory pathways
- (12:36) Chronic pain and neural-inflammatory signals
- (14:44) Chronic pain as maladaptive neuroplasticity
- (16:56) DMN and chronic pain (maladaptive neuroplasticity)
- (19:57) Chronic pain is multifactorial (pain is biopsychosocial, not just biological)
- (23:02) Treatments of chronic pain (and why they don't work)
- (34:45) Biological treatments are not enough
- (37:45) Social factors that reinforce chronic pain
- (40:09) Patreon Thanks
- (43:12) The mechanisms by which psychedelics may help with chronic pain
- (54:29) The role of psychotherapy in psychedelic for chronic pain
- (57:44) Psychedelics help us re-learn (and reopen critical learning periods)
- (1:06:31) Ketamine for the treatment of chronic pain
- (1:14:33) Psychedelic helping to correct our "addition" to pain through increasing our sense of connection
- (1:20:51) CLIP potential for psychedelic in chronic pain
- (1:23:44) Psychedelics for fibromyalgia
- (1:26:05) Psychedelic for cancer-related chronic pain
- (1:27:27) Psychedelics for Cluster headaches
- (1:27:32) CARD clusters
- (1:30:23) Psychedelic for phantom limb pain
- (1:31:16) What make James excited and hopeful with psychedelic medicine
- (1:34:00) Advice to those suffering for chronic pain (psychedelics and otherwise)
- (1:37:58) Follow-up info and socials for Dr. Bekker
- (1:39:39) Closing