The Whole Paradox
Welcome to The Whole Paradox podcast, where we explore timeless wisdom in the modern age to cultivate a greater sense of meaning and belonging to ourselves, our world, and one another. We will integrate the sacred, mythic, somatic, creative and poetic to expand our meaning of truth and our capacity for complexity and nuance.
The Whole Paradox
Life is a Psychedelic Experience with Pilar Brooks
A crackling fire, the drum beat, feet rhythmically lifting and pounding on the Earth, dust whirling up like smoke, singing the world awake. Consciousness shifts. We are lifted out of the temporal and transported beyond as we have been doing since the dawn. As Jungian analyst Dr. Jeffery Raff said, humans have “...the innate capacity to unite with the higher world, and to unite the higher and the lower worlds as one” (p.1).
In this episode, Molly Mitchell-Hardt interviews friend and colleague, trained Depth Psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Psychedelic Facilitator and Integration Therapist, Pilar Brooks. They discuss:
- How Pilar became a Psychedelic Facilitator and Integration Therapist
- Bridging and holding the tension between different cultural forces
- Centering into the body, understanding the embodied “yes” and “no” and sense of boundaries in working with psychedelic medicines
- How healing contains both pleasure and pain
- The importance of exploring individual healing and our interconnectedness
- The need for support in integrating expanded states of consciousness
- How life is a psychedelic journey
- How to practice reciprocity with nature in any environment
- Grief as an ecstatic experience
- The archetype of the dragon
Find Pilar Brooks:
Follow Pilar @somasenses
Check out her offerings on her website.
Use Coupon Code: welcomemagic for 50% off your first month of Pilar’s membership program Inner Altar.
Follow us @mollymitchellhardt
This podcast was produced in association with Channel the Sun by Kevin Joseph Grossmann. Musical stylings by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.
References:
The Wedding of Sophia by Dr. Jeffery Raff