How do you know if you’re a candidate for microdosing? Can MDMA therapy help heal trauma? What are the long-term impacts of SSRIs? Amanda sits down with Will Siu, MD, DPhil, psychiatrist, speaker, and educator. They talk through the root cause of anxiety and depression, the differences between plant-based and lab-made psychedelics, and connecting with spirit guides.
Curious about a specific topic? Here’s what they cover:
- Will’s background and story (1:00)
- Western psychology (3:00)
- Unlearning Western medicine (5:40)
- Key to transformation (9:25)
- Jung vs Freud (10:25)
- Commonalities between Jung and Freud (12:30)
- Differences between Jung and Freud (13:08)
- Role of dreams (13:36)
- Patient-therapist relationship (14:38)
- Pathology vs explorative therapy (16:00)
- Realm of doctor spirits (20:40)
- Time, space, matter (23:00)
- We all have helpers (26:10)
- Ayahuasca spirit guides (31:00)
- Spiritual artistry (32:30)
- Root of anxiety, depression, anorexia, ADHD, suicidal thoughts (36:35)
- 5 basic emotions (41:05)
- How we teach children not to feel (41:40)
- Experiencing suppressed emotions (42:30)
- Non-specific amplifiers of the unconscious (43:38)
- Psychedelics are not a magic bullet (44:20)
- What makes a guide helpful (45:35)
- MDMA’s heart-centeredness (47:08)
- Walkthrough of the major psychedelics (47:50)
- Sources of human suffering (50:45)
- MDMA for healing relationships (51:20)
- DMT for deep connection (52:25)
- Plant spirits (56:00)
- Ergot (fungus) derivatives (59:50)
- Plant vs synthetic lock and keys (1:00:15)
- Ketamine doesn’t exist in nature (1:00:40)
- Amanda’s “non” Ayahuasca experience (1:02:20)
- Macro experiences (:10:50)
- Microdosing (1:15:15)
- Know why you’re doing it (1:16:15)
- You can't microdose MDMA (1:18:00)
- What is a microdose (1:20:15)
- Are marijuana, sugar, and caffeine psychedelics (1:21:35)
- Things can go wrong (1:23:00)
- Missing the elders and mentors (1:24:00)
- How to find your microdose (1:26:10)
- Key to healing (1:29:33)
- Who is not a candidate for psychedelics (1:33:50)
- How medications interact with psychedelics (1:38:20)
- Serotonin syndrome (1:40:00)
- Impact of SSRIs on the brain (1:41:15)
