Samantha Sweetwater has spent over three decades facilitating embodied transformation on five continents. She supports her clients and communities as a soul mentor, strategic partner and deeply loved ceremonial guide. She is the founder and director of One Life Circle, a plant medicine ministry dedicated to truth, love and the continuity of Life She is a founding advisor to Holos.Global, Kuya, aNUma and A New Earth Project. Her first book, Remember the Miracle: Reimagining Humanness at the End of Our World, will be out Fall 2023. She is featured in the upcoming documentary, Ordinary Trip.

In this episode, Samantha Sweetwater and Beth Weinstein discuss …

▶ Samantha’s early group work facilitating dance and “states-based” explorations with other children
▶ Her first encounter with psychedelics at age 35 and how they helped her work with her own trauma 
▶ The healing power of community in helping us feel what it is to deeply belong
▶ Samantha’s view that we have a mental health crisis because we’ve taken the sacred out of the world
▶ The cost of relating transactionally rather than intimately
▶ The negative impact of unconsciously living the program we were handed by society
▶ What it means to approach psychedelic work in a pro-social, sacred way
▶ The need for group therapeutic models 
▶ The true meaning of the word “renaissance” and how it can help us think about the current resurgence of psychedelics 
▶ The need to examine how we are liberating community sovereignty 
▶ How a lack of cultural maturity is affecting the regulation of psychedelics
▶ Choosing collaboration with each other and our planet as the most adaptive response to today’s planetary crises
▶ Our bodies and souls as one
▶ Humanity as a superorganism with each individual having a unique contribution to make in response to Collapse

Samantha Sweetwater’s Links & Resources

▶ Website: https://www.samanthasweetwater.com/
▶ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samanthasweetwater/
▶ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SamanthasHome
▶ Article mentioned: Psychedelic Communitas: Intersubjective Experience During Psychedelic Group Sessions Predicts Enduring Changes in Psychological Wellbeing and Social Connectedness - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33995022/

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