Medicine Woman Charlotte James on Nakedness in Nature & the Intersection of Race and Psychedelics [episode 87]

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Charlotte James works to create a world in which all beings are able to live in fearless pursuit of their radical transformation. She uses her purpose as an entheogenic medicine woman and her skills as a coach and digital strategist to build and engage a community focused on pursuing collective liberation. Learn more about Charlotte’s work at theancestorproject.com.

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• How Charlotte began her journey working with Kambo and grandmother Ayahuasca

• On feeling called to facilitate the medicine 

• The intersection between race and psychedelics 

• What happened when Charlotte heard the call from mushrooms on the need to organize community for black women 

• Charlotte’s experience apprenticing during the pandemic 

• Ancestral practice as harm reduction

• Working towards collective liberation 

• The myth of whiteness and why whiteness isn’t a monolith 

• On connecting to the traditions of your ancestors 

• What are you policing within yourself? 

• Restorative justice and decolonizing the self 

• The importance of BIPOC only spaces 

• Communicating with respect and compassion for each other 

• Building the life and the world you want to see 

• Being responsible for replicating our own trauma 

• Why we cant manifest our way out of oppression 

• How our eagerness can overshadow our integrity 

• Channeling integration into daily action 

• How judgment and shame blocked Charlotte’s connection to the medicine 

• Healing from body dysmorphia with nakedness in nature 

• Integration and the 5 circles of self

• Why it isn’t selfish to have your needs met 

• Exploring nudism and nakedness in nature 

• Clothes and respectability politics 

• Challenging what we perceive as acceptable 

• Integration circles for BIPOC folks 

• And so much more!

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References:

• Native Land https://native-land.ca/  

• Psychedelics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_drug 

• Rave scene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rave 

• Cannabis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_(drug) 

• Anthropology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology 

• MDMA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA 

• Die Antwoord https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Antwoord 

• LSD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide 

• Kambo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kambo_cleanse 

• Bufo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufo 

• Ayahuasca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca  

• San Pedro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinopsis_pachanoi 

• Iboga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibogaine 

• Cocaine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine 

• Okayplayer || Article https://www.okayplayer.com/originals/black-people-psychedelic-drugs-monnica-williams.html 

• Andrea Wright https://www.instagram.com/guidedbydre/ 

• 5-MeO-DMT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-MeO-DMT 

• Mike Tyson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Tyson 

• Shaman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism 

• People of Color Psychedelic Collective https://www.pocpc.org/ 

• Decolonization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decolonization

• Appropriation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation 

• Systemic racism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism 

• Restorative justice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restorative_justice 

• Vikings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings 

• Polytheistic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytheism 

• Animism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism 

• Entheogen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entheogen 

• BIPOC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color 

• Pagan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paganism 

• Islam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam 

• Judaism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism 

• Diaspora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora 

• Saxon People https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxons 

• 5D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-dimensional_space 

• Cognitive dissonance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance 

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed || Book https://amz.run/5YY1 

• Shipibo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipibo-Conibo 

• Body dysmorphia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_dysmorphic_disorder 

• Enneagram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enneagram_of_Personality 

• Tobacco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco 

• Sage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_apiana 

• Cacao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_bean 

• Polyamorous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyamory 

• Shawna https://www.instagram.com/shawna.cason/

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