Media
The Mind, Explained:
S1 Ep 5 - Psychedelics
This short, 20-minute Netflix documentary dives into the effects of psychedelics on the mind and their usefulness for treating depression, anxiety, and addiction. This episode offers an excellent jumping-off point for anyone interested in psychedelics and their therapeutic applications. The entire series spans 2 seasons and 10 episodes total, each covering equally interesting and important topics such as memory, learning, creativity, mindfulness, and dreaming.
How to Change Your Mind
Adapted from Michael Pollan's number one best-selling book, this tv-series gives a history of psychedelics and their current applications for modern society. It showcases what psychedelics teach people about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression and transcendence from the oppressive patterns and pits of this world.
Ram Dass: Going Home
Going Home highlights the teachings of Baba Ram Dass - one of the lead researchers in the Harvard Psilocybin Experiment and an advocate for the use of psychedelics. His teachings around life, death, and spiritual awakening have arguably been some of the most influential thoughts during Eastern philosophy's merge with the Western world throughout the 70s and 80s.
Fantastic Fungi
Fantastic Fungi explores the innate ‘intelligence’ of the fungal kingdom and its usefulness for healing both the planet and ourselves. This documentary is both uniquely informative and visually stunning. It features exclusive clips with leading mycologists, including Paul Stamets.
Waking Life
Waking Life is a thought-provoking animated film that explores a wide range of philosophical issues, including the nature of reality, dreams and lucid dreams, consciousness, the meaning of life, free will, and existentialism. It centers around a young man who wanders through a succession of dreamlike realities wherein he encounters various people who engage in insightful philosophical discussion.
Dosed: The Trip of a Lifetime
This film chronicles the journey of a woman seeking treatment for severe depression, anxiety and opiate addiction. She discovers healing in the form of psychedelic therapy and experiences the usefulness (and the discomfort) of using psychedelics for mental health. Warning: this film depicts drug abuse and the pain of addiction honestly.
Neurons to Nirvana: The Great Medicines
This film examines the role of psychedelics as a therapeutic agent for humanity and consciousness itself. It features interviews with Gabor Maté, Rick Doblin, Dennis McKenna, Dr. Julie Holland, and other prominent figures in the psychedelic sphere. Warning: this film contains political views and opinions.
The Wisdom of Trauma
In The Wisdom of Trauma, we travel alongside physician, bestselling author and Order of Canada recipient Dr. Gabor Maté to explore why Western society is facing epidemics of anxiety, chronic illness and substance abuse. Dr. Maté seeks to understand the sources from which troubling behaviors and diseases spring in the wounded human soul. He opens our eyes to the connection between illness, addiction, trauma and society, and points us to the path of individual and collective healing.
Magic Medicine
This documentary follows the first-ever medical trial of psilocybin being used to treat clinical depression. Over the course of two years, three of the participants, and their families, are interviewed and filmed as they undergo treatment with this new-found substance. We see clearly how their individual suffering is not magically washed away through a pleasant euphoria. Rather, their experiences bring them face-to-face with the repressed emotions and pain from trauma, allowing healing to grow from their acknowledgment and acceptance.