Jahan Khamsehzadeh: Psychedelic Plant Medicines as Nature's Communicators, Healers, and Connectors

About this episode

Jahan Khamsehzadeh discusses the role of psychedelic plant medicines in healing and human evolution.

Join me for a discussion with Jahan Khamsehzadeh, Ph.D., psychedelic guide, teacher, researcher, and journeyer with over 20 years of formal and informal research, has taken 1000+ personal psychedelic plant medicine journeys, and guided almost 700 journeys for others. Jahan astutely guides us through what psychedelics are and some specific medicines as well as the natural active compounds they offer. Jahan speaks to the human evolutionary history of psychedelic use including the indigenous use...

People in this episode

Host: Ron Waline

Guest: Jahan Khamsehzadeh

Topics covered

• psychedelics
• plant medicines
• human evolution
• indigenous use
• healing
• nature

Keywords

• psychedelic
• plant medicine
• healing
• indigenous use
• natural compounds
• evolutionary history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ph.D.

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