Deep Breaths

Quick breathers on Holotropic Breathwork, New Ageism and psychedelic therapy. deeepbreaths.substack.com

Deep Breaths is a religion podcast hosted by Kayla Greenstien, with 12 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Kayla Greenstien hosts Deep Breaths, a religion show with 12 episodes published.

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  Quick Breather #12 - My call with Phil Wolfson

  Jan 26, 202632 minS0

  <p>This recording contains discussion of abuses that took place in a clinical trial of MDMA-assisted therapy. The trial was run by MAPS, an organisation founded by Rick Doblin. Stan Grof is Rick Doblin’s spiritual father, and his theories are the core inspiration for the MAPS therapeutic manual.</p><p>More information about this case is available here:</p><p>Psychedelic therapy has a sexual abuse problem</p><p>As psychedelic therapy goes mainstream, former patient warns of danger of sexual abuse</p><p>MDMA trials under review in Canada over alleged abuse of study participants</p><p>My ca...

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  Quick Breather #11 (pt.2) - Rose, 2024 in Simon et al., 2025

  Dec 9, 202524 minS0

  <p>In part 2 of Quick Breather #11, I get back to my ivory tower and talk about Rose 2024: doi.org/10.1556/2054.2024.00363 </p><p>as cited in Simon et al., 2025 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-26198-4</p><p>I also mention Kangaslampi et al., 2025 (which I’ll discuss properly another time): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40337-025-01484-8.</p><p>And go into older references in Rose 2024: </p><p>Watts et al., 2019: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022167817709585</p><p>Nutt et al., 2017: </p><p>https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0092867420302828</p><p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a...

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  Quick Breather #11 (pt.1) - Hamilton Morris' group chat

  Dec 9, 202528 minS0

  <p>This was supposed to be just a brief intro to the recording I made yesterday, but I ended up going on for a while…</p><p>Dao Anh Kahn’s penis valley: https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p07b3fds/the-controversial-art-festival-deep-in-the-jungle</p><p>An article from Rolling Stone on empathy x wealth research: </p><p>https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/billionaires-psychology-tech-politics-1235358129/</p><p>“Wealth makes you less generous (lower-income individuals have been shown to give a greater proportion of their income than wealthier ones), less compassionate (people with more money and status report less distress when confronted with a...

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  Quick Breather #10 - Hamilton Morris, seeming "seriously mentally ill", Psymposia, Jess Taylor, Joe Rogan, MK Ultra

  Nov 28, 202532 minS0

  <p>In order of mentions:</p><p>* I didn’t actually mention Moira Donegan’s tweet, but coincidentally, just before I recorded this, she summed up one of the patterns of responses guys like Hamilton use:</p><p>* My “nutty” post about the very obviously not-organic Reddit promo of his interview. Keep in mind, Hamilton is also trying to normalise Matt Baggott’s Reddit-LLM-bot trained on Hamilton. These guys…seriously.</p><p></p><p>* The sound event I went to that I had to leave was actually tied to psychedelic things in a way I didn’t realise — my partner bought the ticke...

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  Quick Breather #9 - Staying sane in insanity, suicide, kundalini awakening, Doblin on Williams, anger and crying

  Oct 30, 202523 minS0

  <p>[Content warning: discussion of suicide, death, Nolan Williams, a psychedelics researcher who died by suicide in Australia a few years ago, kundalini awakening and psychosis]</p><p>I started recording these audio notes on Sunday evenings, which has been a really nice routine for me. I’ve kept up with that, but the last three weeks, I haven’t posted my recordings publicly.</p><p>I can’t explain all of the reasons for that, or everything in those (now private) recordings. Instead, here’s me drinking coffee and crying about suicide on a Thursday afternoon.</p><p>Please know tha...

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