Psychedelic Source

Join Dr. Sandra Dreisbach on Psychedelic Source, your trusted connection to the psychedelic community and the evolving landscape of psychedelic medicine. Each episode features expert discussions on ethical practice, business development, and community building in the psychedelic ecosystem. Whether you're establishing your practice, seeking professional growth, or deepening your understanding of psychedelic medicine, this show serves as a source of community perspectives and practical resources to thrive in this dynamic space.

Psychedelic Source is a health podcast hosted by Dr. Sandra Dreisbach, with 17 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Dr. Sandra Dreisbach hosts Psychedelic Source, a health show with 17 episodes published.

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  Psychedelic Source

  Ep28 Jason Burdge: A Police Officer's Path to Psilocybin, Building PATA With His Wife, and Healing First Responders

  Sep 8, 20261h 3m

  What happens when the person building the guardrails for psychedelic-assisted therapy is also the person who needed it most? In this episode, Dr. Sandra Dreisbach talks with Jason Burdge, co-founder and chief business officer of the Psilocybin Assisted Therapy Association, known as PATA, now the largest nonprofit in the country focused on psilocybin and mental health. Jason built PATA with his wife Lisa, a mental health therapist, out of their shared belief in the educated and informed use of psilocybin. But before any of that, Jason spent his early twenties as a police officer in Florence, South Carolina, a town once recognized as one of the most economically and systemically challenged in the country. He was involved in shootings and violent altercations, given as little as one day off before returning to duty, and it eventually led him toward the depression and PTSD that psilocybin, alongside years of therapy and community support, helped him work through. Jason and Dr. Sandra talk about what it actually takes for first responders to get the mental health support they need, why PATA built its First Responder Collective, and how his own healing shaped PATA's three pillars: educate, empower, and heal. They also get into the fractures inside the psychedelic community itself, the tension between Oregon's regulated adult use model and the underground and indigenous traditions it grew out of, and what it will take to build the kind of unified community that can actually move legal access forward. Jason also previews the Collaborence, PATA's conference now in its third year, built to bring facilitators, therapists, indigenous practitioners, and underground guides into the same room. If you have ever wondered what it takes to hold space for community healing while doing your own healing work at the same time, this conversation is for you. Find all the show notes and links here: https://www.innersourcepodcast.com/28

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  Episode #27

  Ep27 Dr. Sandra Dreisbach—Three Years, One Oracle Deck, and Becoming All of Me

  Aug 9, 202644 min

  What if the project that fails is actually the one preparing you to finish? Dr. Sandra Dreisbach, host of Inner Source and a philosopher trained in ethics and moral psychology, sits down with herself this week for a solo episode that doubles as a reveal. After a Kickstarter that didn't succeed, years of quiet work with artist Brandon Singletary, and a companion book, Dancing at the Edge of Darkness, that reached readers before the cards ever did, the Thyrsus Oracle Deck is finally in her hands. What does it take to bring a spiritual project into the world when the timeline refuses to cooperate? What happens when the parts of yourself you've kept separate, the ethicist and the mystic, the academic and the intuitive, finally have to share a stage? In this episode, Dr. Sandra walks through the story behind the deck: the symbolism of the thyrsus itself as a stand-in for the pineal gland and the awakening of consciousness, the deliberate choice to keep every figure ungendered so the cards speak to shadow and self rather than to gender, and the decolonization work running underneath all of it, from her training with Peruvian curanderos to her reconnection with Celtic ancestry. She talks about turning 53, about being consciously single, about the discomfort of being taken seriously as an ethicist while hiding the parts of her that talk to rocks and speak with the dead. And she pulls a card, live, to show you what the practice actually looks like. If you have ever built something that didn't land the way you hoped, or hidden a part of yourself because it was easier to be believed without it, this episode is worth your full attention. Find all the show notes and links here: https://www.innersourcepodcast.com/27 ______________________________ **Disclaimer** The information shared on this podcast, our website, and other platforms may be triggering for some viewers and readers and is for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional medical, legal, or therapeutic advice. While we explore topics related to altered states of consciousness, we do not endorse or encourage illegal activities or substance use. Always research your local laws and consult qualified professionals for guidance. The content provided is "as is," and we are not liable for any actions taken based on the information shared. Stay supported and informed, act responsibly, and enjoy the podcast.

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  Episode #26

  Ep26 Scott Wright—A Filmmaker's Own Awakening, Decades of Silence Breaking Open, and the Medicine of Connection

  Jun 6, 202654 min

  What if the most powerful kind of healing doesn't arrive until the second half of life? That question sits at the heart of this conversation between Dr. Sandra Dreisbach and Scott Wright, documentary filmmaker; former radio DJ known across America as "The Shadow," and director of The Next Chapter: Psychedelics, Healing, and the Second Half of Life, premiering this June in Toronto. Scott didn't set out to make a film about psychedelics. He set out to understand his own life: the decades of insecurity and self-judgment that shaped how he showed up for the people closest to him. A single journey in Mexico cracked something open, and what came out the other side was a documentary following eight people in their late fifties through their late sixties as they faced down a lifetime of buried grief, trauma, and one question almost everyone eventually asks. What is my life about now? In this conversation, Scott and Dr. Sandra talk about what it actually looks like to do "the work" later in life. What does it take to let go of decades of armor you didn't even know you were wearing? What happens when eight strangers go through something this intense together and are still calling each other two years later? They talk about growing up in a generation that treated therapy as something only "broken" people needed and about the message Scott hopes people take from his film: that healing is still available to you, no matter how long you've been carrying what you carry and no matter how old you are when you finally set it down. If you've ever wondered whether it's too late for you to change, this conversation is worth your full attention. Find all the show notes and links here: https://www.innersourcepodcast.com/26 ______________________________ **Disclaimer** The information shared on this podcast, our website, and other platforms may be triggering for some viewers and readers and is for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional medical, legal, or therapeutic advice. While we explore topics related to altered states of consciousness, we do not endorse or encourage illegal activities or substance use. Always research your local laws and consult qualified professionals for guidance. The content provided is "as is," and we are not liable for any actions taken based on the information shared. Stay supported and informed, act responsibly, and enjoy the podcast!

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  Episode #25

  Ep25 Dominique Debroux—Wise Women, the Evolutionary Story Menopause Deserves, and the Voice Inside That Already Knew

  May 18, 202651 min

  What if the story medicine told women about menopause, that we're simply outliving our fertility, was never the real story? Dr. Sandra Dreisbach and Dominique Debroux, documentary producer and nutritional chef behind Wise Women: Humanity's Untold Origins, trace that question through millions of years of human evolution. Through years of research with evolutionary scientists and anthropologists, Dominique and her filmmaker husband found that postmenopausal women predate Homo sapiens. They organized early human society. They are part of why our brains grew into what they are today. The menopausal transition is the point at which women grow into their wisdom and leadership. The science was there all along. This episode moves through the personal histories that gave that science texture. Dominique traces her path from the fashion industry, where a system she believed in turned out to profit from women's sense of inadequacy, through cervical cancer in her early twenties that pointed her toward food as medicine, to becoming a nutritional chef who designs comfort around nourishment rather than restriction. She talks about the dread that marked her own perimenopause, the sense of falling off a cliff of relevance, and how understanding the evolutionary story of what her body was doing changed that entirely. She talks about the hot flashes that came when she bit her tongue, and what shifted when she started saying what she'd been holding back. Sandra and Dominique also go into what it means for women to stop making themselves smaller, how the body communicates what it needs through symptoms we've been taught to silence, and why a woman's value was never stored in her fertile years. What does it feel like to have the receipts for what your inner voice has been saying? What changes when the dread of a transition turns into understanding of it? If this season of life is on your mind, or someone you love is in the middle of it, this episode is worth your full attention. Find all the show notes and links here: https://innersourcepodcast.com/25 ______________________________ **Disclaimer** The information shared on this podcast, our website, and other platforms may be triggering for some viewers and readers and is for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional medical, legal, or therapeutic advice. While we explore topics related to altered states of consciousness, we do not endorse or encourage illegal activities or substance use. Always research your local laws and consult qualified professionals for guidance. The content provided is "as is," and we are not liable for any actions taken based on the information shared. Stay supported and informed, act responsibly, and enjoy the podcast!

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  Episode #24

  Ep24 Anubhav Bhattacharyya—The Book Already Inside You, Storytelling as Healing, and Done Over Perfect

  May 3, 202632 min

  What if the story you've been meaning to write has been inside you all this time, waiting for the right kind of presence to draw it out? That question sits at the center of this conversation between Dr. Sandra Dreisbach and Anubhav Bhattacharyya, book architect and co-founder of Chevaun, where he helps people take a book from rough outline to a published reality in seven weeks or less. His process is entirely human-driven, built on genuine collaboration and a conviction that everyone carries at least one story worth sharing. In this episode, Dr. Sandra and Anubhav reflect on the making of her book Dancing at the Edge of Darkness, a journey that began when Anubhav spotted something he called "uniqueness" in Dr. Sandra's LinkedIn presence and reached out. What followed was months of creative partnership that challenged her academic conditioning, stretched the boundaries of what a book could be, and wove together fiction, philosophy, the hero's journey, and psychedelic integration into something neither could have made alone. They explore why storytelling has been humanity's most durable form of healing, from campfires to contemporary consciousness work, what it means to hold space for someone else's voice without overwriting it, and the piece of wisdom that frees every stuck writer to begin: done is better than perfect. If you've had a book living in the back of your mind for years, this episode may be what finally gets it out of there. Find all the show notes and links here: https://innersourcepodcast.com/24 ______________________________ **Disclaimer** The information shared on this podcast, our website, and other platforms may be triggering for some viewers and readers and is for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional medical, legal, or therapeutic advice. While we explore topics related to altered states of consciousness, we do not endorse or encourage illegal activities or substance use. Always research your local laws and consult qualified professionals for guidance. The content provided is "as is," and we are not liable for any actions taken based on the information shared. Stay supported and informed, act responsibly, and enjoy the podcast!

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