Medicine for These Times with Beth Weinstein

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Medicine For These Times with Beth Weinstein" features visionary leaders, plant medicine pioneers, transformational entrepreneurs, and spiritual guides devoted to service, transformation, and impactful, soul-centered work. Through uncensored conversations about ancient wisdom, psychedelics, sacred medicines, soul-centered healing, non-ordinary states of consciousness, subconscious reprogramming and integration, you’ll gain insights to help you share “your unique medicine", find inspiration for your heart-led sacred work, and be of more service during these times of profound change. A new paradigm of leadership is emerging—one that honors the wisdom of the past, shapes a more conscious future, and is deeply rooted in harmony with Mother Earth. You Are The Medicine We Need for These Times. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Beth Weinstein is a Spiritual Business Coach + Soul Expansion Guide, three-time entrepreneur, certified Master Transformational NLP practitioner, and a leading voice in soul-led business and psychedelic-assisted transformation. She has guided hundreds of visionary leaders and change-makers to step into their highest potential and leave a legacy that reflects their soul’s deepest purpose. | www.BethAWeinstein.com | @bethaweinstein

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June 16, 20261 hr 0 min

Plants as Elders: Initiating Humanity’s Spiritual Evolution? with Pam Montgomery

Pam Montgomery is an herbalist, author, international teacher and Earth elder who has passionately embraced her role as a spokesperson for the green beings and has been investigating plants and their intelligent spiritual nature for more than four decades. More recently she has been working with the plants to heal the wounds of separation from Nature in order to move into co-creative partnership with all Nature. She is the author of three books including Co-Creating with Nature; Healing the Wound of Separation and the highly acclaimed Plant Spirit Healing; A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness. She teaches internationally and virtually on plant initiations, spiritual ecology and co-creative partnership with Nature. She is the founder of the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries or ONE and was a founding board member of United Plant Savers. Episode Highlights ▶ Pam Montgomery's journey with plants and bio-intelligence ▶ The history and significance of Findhorn and plant communication ▶ Plant initiations and ceremonies for personal and collective healing ▶ The evolution of plant medicines and their role in spiritual growth ▶ The importance of sacredness, respect, and consciousness in working with plants ▶ The concept of plants as elder guides and keystone species ▶ The integration of plant wisdom into everyday life and global consciousness ▶ The impact of disconnection from nature and how to reconnect naturally ▶ The potential of plant-based ceremonies to heal trauma and foster community ▶ The future of plant-human relationships and collective evolution Pam Montgomery’s Links & Resources ▶ Free Gift: www.wakeuptonature.com/essentials ▶ https://wakeuptonature.com/ ▶ https://www.facebook.com/pam.montgomery.589/ ▶ https://www.instagram.com/pam.montgomery.589/ ▶ https://www.facebook.com/wakeuptonature/ Join Beth for her all new LIVE 3-Part Masterclass + Hot Seat Coaching, Clear Path to Aligned Abundance: https://go.bethaweinstein.com/clear-path-abundance/ (PAY WHAT YOU WISH) Download Beth's free trainings here: Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-business Integrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business ▶ Beth’s Coaching & Guidance: https://bethaweinstein.com/coaching ▶ Beth's Offerings & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services ▶ Instagram: @bethaweinstein ▶ FB: / bethw.nyc + bethweinsteinbiz Download Beth's free trainings here: Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business:  https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-businessIntegrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business▶ Beth’s Coaching & Guidance: https://bethaweinstein.com/coaching ▶ Beth's Offerings & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services▶ Instagram:  @bethaweinstein ▶ FB: / bethw.nyc + bethweinsteinbiz 

June 10, 202623 min

Clear Path to Aligned Abundance: Reprogram Unconscious Patterns to Receive More Money & Ease

Join Beth for her all new LIVE 3-Part Masterclass + Hot Seat Coaching, Clear Path to Aligned Abundance: https://go.bethaweinstein.com/clear-path-abundance/ (PAY WHAT YOU WISH) In this episode, she explores why so many coaches, therapists, healers and spiritual entrepreneurs are doing all the "right things", posting consistently, doing tons of inner work... but are still feeling stuck, unclear, stagnant and even struggling with money. Episode Highlights: ▶ Why AI and endless content are making many entrepreneurs more confused and stuck, not less ▶ The difference between conscious effort and the unconscious patterns quietly blocking your results ▶ Why clarity does not come through thinking, and what to do instead ▶ Money wounds, ancestral loyalties, and the hidden obligations holding you back from receiving ▶ Why posting more and working harder is often the wrong direction entirely ▶ What the Year of the Fire Horse has to do with slowing down and resetting ▶ The three-part series breakdown: clarity, unconscious blocks, and alignment ▶ Why abundance and ease are your birthright, and what gets in the way of experiencing that Join Beth for her all new LIVE 3-Part Masterclass + Hot Seat Coaching, Clear Path to Aligned Abundance: https://go.bethaweinstein.com/clear-path-abundance/ (PAY WHAT YOU WISH) Links Free Gifts: https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-business/ Sunarai: The Journey Home to Your Quintessence, Clarity & Abundance: https://go.bethaweinstein.com/sunarai/ Upcoming plant dieta (with astrology + special guests): sign up for the waitlist here https://go.bethaweinstein.com/rose-dieta/ If this episode speaks to you… Send it to someone who’s been circling a big decision or someone who’s trying to stop outsourcing their truth to “the next thing.” And if you’re not on Beth’s email list yet, that’s the place to stay connected when social platforms do what they do. Download Beth's free trainings here: Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business:  https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-businessIntegrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business▶ Beth’s Coaching & Guidance: https://bethaweinstein.com/coaching ▶ Beth's Offerings & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services▶ Instagram:  @bethaweinstein ▶ FB: / bethw.nyc + bethweinsteinbiz 

May 19, 20261 hr 14 min

Psychedelics, Cartels, Capitalism & the Crisis of the Container - Dr. Del Potter

Del Potter, PhD is an ethnopsychopharmacologist, chemist, and psychedelic pioneer whose career has moved across some of the most consequential and unconventional edges of the field, from Mesoamerican field research and underground manufacturing to cutting-edge pharmaceutical development and clinical trials. He brings a rare perspective to the psychedelic renaissance: not as a commentator, but as someone who was inside the apparatus that produced these compounds long before the current wave had a name. Dr. Potter holds a PhD from a joint program between the UCSF Medical School and UC Berkeley's Department of Anthropology, specializing in psychiatric anthropology, ethnopsychopharmacology, and neuropharmacology, with additional clinical training at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute. His postdoctoral fieldwork examined shamanic traditions and indigenous psychotherapeutic practice across multiple lineages, including ceremonial psilocybin and Salvia divinorum use among the Mazatec of central Mexico, ayahuasca and yagé ritual among the Shuar of Ecuador, and parallel traditions among the Yanomami of Brazil and the Cofán of Colombia, contributing to Richard Evans Schultes' comprehensive survey of psychotropic botanicals worldwide. A formative mentorship with Alexander Shulgin oriented his chemistry toward novel tryptamine compounds, particularly in the DMT and 5-MeO-DMT structural classes, and he has since developed a portfolio of compounds that retain the neuroplasticity associated with psychedelic receptor activity while producing no psychedelic effect. On the pharmaceutical and biotech side, Dr. Potter served as Chief Science Officer at Leef Holdings, designing what became California's largest fully automated medical cannabis manufacturing facility, and later directed first-in-human 5-MeO-DMT clinical trials at UCSF through his work with Alvarius Pharmaceuticals, followed by a Phase 1 trial at Trinity College Dublin. At University College Dublin, he developed and validated the use of human stem cell-derived brain organoids to assess how psychedelic compounds reverse epigenetic changes caused by substance abuse. In 2023 he founded Spiritus Bioscience to develop novel delivery formats for psilocin, DMT, and 5-MeO-DMT, with the first product entering clinical trials in Australia targeting Alcohol Use Disorder. He currently serves as founder and CSO of BioUnbound Inc., exploring the intersection of psychedelics and bioactive peptides for mental health and longevity applications. Dr. Potter is currently completing his memoir, whose working title is Was a Different Time: Chronicles of a Psychedelic Pioneer in the Reign of the Cartels.Episode Highlights ▶ Del's background supplying California cannabis genetics to the Guadalajara cartel and working at Rancho Bufalo ▶ Meeting cartel figures Miguel Felix Gallardo and Rafael Caro Quintero, and the fallout from the Kiki Camarena murder ▶ Manufacturing LSD in Marin County using precursor chemicals sourced through cartel connections ▶ How a DEA sting led to a federal task force, a stunning offer, and a get-out-of-jail-free card ▶ Mentorship under Alexander Shulgin and the countercultural milieu of Esalen, Claudio Naranjo, Allen Ginsberg, and Terence McKenna ▶ Why psychedelics have no intrinsic politics: the compound is the same, the container decides everything ▶ The retreat economy as product development: when one medicine stops differentiating, operators start stacking ▶ How the clinical and pharmaceutical models convert ceremony into a billable procedure ▶ The psychoplastogen pipeline: engineering the experience out so the worker is back at their desk by Wednesday ▶ Indigenous cosmological governance as a technical achievement, not a romanticized ideal ▶ The concept of restraint and reciprocity as regulatory systems, and what Western culture has lost ▶ Why patenting psilocybin protocols and dosing postures is a winnable legal argument ▶ Publicly funded, community-governed clinics as the only container that can hold what these compounds require ▶ The mental health crisis as inseparable from the housing, wage, care, and climate crises ▶ Building a parallel infrastructure: cooperatives, commons defense, and indigenous benefit sharing as models Dr. Del Potter’s Links & Resources ▶ https://delpotterphd.substack.com ▶ https://www.facebook.com/del.potter.75 ▶ @drdelpotter.bsky.social ▶ www.biounbound.com ▶ https://www.instagram.com/potter_del/ Download Beth's free trainings here: Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-business Integrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business ▶ Beth’s Coaching & Guidance: https://bethaweinstein.com/coaching ▶ Beth's Offerings & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services ▶ Instagram: @bethaweinstein ▶ FB: / bethw.nyc + bethweinsteinbiz Download Beth's free trainings here: Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business:  https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-businessIntegrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business▶ Beth’s Coaching & Guidance: https://bethaweinstein.com/coaching ▶ Beth's Offerings & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services▶ Instagram:  @bethaweinstein ▶ FB: / bethw.nyc + bethweinsteinbiz 

May 13, 202654 min

Why Healing Loops Keep Repeating (Even After Deep Work) | Ontodelic Inquiry - Antonia & Roger Vanoro

Antonia and Roger Vanoro are husband and wife, soul collaborators, and the creators of Ontodelic Inquiry™, a somatic and subtle-field approach to transformation that bridges depth psychology, body-centered therapy, and the lived wisdom of altered states. Ontodelic draws from the Greek roots for "being" and "revealing," pointing to a revelation of being that works at the level of the body, the psyche, and the karmic storehouse beneath. Antonia is an intuitive energy healer and guide with over 22 years of experience in the sacred medicine space, trained in Hakomi, IFS, depth psychology, and energy work (CHt, CPTC). She works with the body as a direct route to the unconscious, midwifing clients through their natural healing processes with love, compassion, and skill. Roger is a somatic therapist and embodiment guide whose work begins in the present moment, using co-regulated presence to support clients as the deeper body awakens, heals, and reveals its histories. Together they developed Ontodelic Inquiry to meet what conventional somatic and parts-based work cannot: multi-lifetime and ancestral material, experiences of unity and expanded states, and the deep patterns that keep people looping regardless of how much inner work they've done. Their Ontodelic Inquiry Training is for therapists, coaches, facilitators, and healers ready to go deeper in their own process and their work with others. It is, as participants have described it, a psychedelic experience without the psychedelics. Antonia and Roger are based in the Hudson Valley, New York, and offer individual sessions, couples work, mentorship, and immersive trainings. Episode Highlights ▶ What Ontodelic Inquiry is and where the name comes from, rooted in the Greek words for "being" and "revealing" ▶ How somatic and parts-based modalities like Hakomi and IFS can become their own kind of loop, and what becomes possible when you work at the level of the karmic storehouse ▶ Why peak experiences alone rarely produce lasting change, and what shifts when deep somatic preparation and integration are in place ▶ How multi-lifetime and ancestral material shows up in sessions regardless of belief, and why a therapeutic frame that can hold it matters ▶ The role of pattern interruption and real-time somatic mapping in unwinding what talk therapy and medicine work can't fully reach ▶ How this work connects to ancient wisdom traditions from Andean Cosmovision to Vajrayana Buddhism, and why that lineage matters ▶ Why bringing light down into the body rather than bypassing shadow is the alchemy at the center of their approach ▶ What AI reveals about the irreplaceable nature of human consciousness and the transmission field only living beings can carry ▶ Who the Ontodelic Inquiry Training is for, including therapists, coaches, facilitators, and healers ready to go deeper Antonia & Roger Vanoro' Links & Resources ▶ https://wheeloflife.us ▶ https://www.illuminateyourtruth.com/ ▶ https://rogervanoro.com/ ▶ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/antoniavanoro Download Beth's free trainings here: Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business:  https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-businessIntegrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business▶ Beth’s Coaching & Guidance: https://bethaweinstein.com/coaching ▶ Beth's Offerings & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services▶ Instagram:  @bethaweinstein ▶ FB: / bethw.nyc + bethweinsteinbiz 

April 28, 202635 min

Iboga, After: The Purge, Truth Medicine & Integration

She speaks with deep reverence about iboga as a master plant teacher, describing how years of preparation through transformational NLP, family constellation work, somatic therapy, and energy work shaped the depth of her experience. Beth reflects on the themes of masculine healing, ancestral purging, inner child integration, and epigenetic clearing that moved through her ceremonies, and shares why she believes preparation and integration are everything with this medicine. Beth also touches on the physical destabilization that followed, the profound purge she experienced, and why she is now considering offering pay-what-you-wish preparation sessions for others called to work with iboga. Episode Highlights: ▶ Why Beth waited 12 years before saying yes to iboga ▶ How deep preparation shaped the depth of her experience ▶ What sets iboga apart from other plant medicines she has worked with ▶ Prayer, intention, and what the medicine chose to work with ▶ Healing the masculine and surfacing deep unconscious patterns ▶ Inner child integration brought to a whole new level ▶ The purge: ancestral, epigenetic, and beyond words ▶ Dreams repeating for two years that came to fruition in ceremony ▶ Physical effects and bringing presence to parts of the body that were offline ▶ Why discernment and proper medical intake matter with this medicine ▶ Her plan to offer preparation sessions for those called to iboga Themes Prayer and right relationship with Iboga and other sacred plant medicines Timing, readiness, and discernment Integration as an actual lifestyle (not just an integration circle) When fear is a doorway in The way spirit weaves in your life LONG before the ceremony Truth vs. bypassing Mentions + Modalities referenced ▶ Iboga experience and insights ▶ Preparation and integration in plant medicine ▶ The sacred relationship with master plant teachers A note on Iboga safety + discernment Iboga is not to be taken lightly. Making this decision was not a casual path. Beth speaks to the importance of being held by skilled facilitators, proper screening, and not rushing toward a “quick fix.” If you’re feeling called, let your prayer deepen, let guidance ripen, and choose safety and integrity over urgency. New 1-1 Container Now Open! Sunarai: The Journey Home to Your Quintessence, Clarity & Abundance is a 12-Week 1:1 Private Alchemical Journey with Subconscious Reprogramming Transformational NLP Sessions; Plant Medicine Guidance + Support; Gene Keys + Energetic Activation; Embodied Soul Alignment, and deep purification work Links Free Gifts: https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-business/ Sunarai: The Journey Home to Your Quintessence, Clarity & Abundance: https://go.bethaweinstein.com/sunarai/ Upcoming plant dieta (with astrology + special guests): sign up for the waitlist here https://go.bethaweinstein.com/rose-dieta/ If this episode speaks to you… Send it to someone who’s been circling a big decision or someone who’s trying to stop outsourcing their truth to “the next thing.” And if you’re not on Beth’s email list yet, that’s the place to stay connected when social platforms do what they do. Download Beth's free trainings here: Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business:  https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-businessIntegrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business▶ Beth’s Coaching & Guidance: https://bethaweinstein.com/coaching ▶ Beth's Offerings & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services▶ Instagram:  @bethaweinstein ▶ FB: / bethw.nyc + bethweinsteinbiz 

April 20, 202632 min

Iboga: Before vs. After (14 Years in the Making)

In this episode, Beth shares why she’s finally saying yes to an Iboga journey…after contemplating and building a relationship with this medicine for 14 years. You’ll hear the story of how seeds were planted back in 2012, why she kept putting it off for years, what finally shifted, and what she’s learning and receiving from Iboga before the retreat even begins. This is about truth, fear, prayer, timing, deep integration and the difference between chasing quick and easy healing vs. building a relationship with a medicine as an ally. If you’ve been contemplating Iboga or another plant medicine, this may be helpful for you to hear about her process to discernment and decision making. What you’ll hear inside The first time Beth heard about Iboga and the phrase she never forgot: “First ceremony cleanses your karma… second tells you what to do with your life.” The long on-and-off relationship with the calling to this medicine and why she didn’t do Iboga for so many years The piece most people underestimate: ample space and time for integration, especially with Iboga. Taking an “energetic sabbatical”--what it actually has been, what it wasn’t, and why it matters Midlife portal and the deeper question underneath: “What do I really want?” The hard moment when a death at an Iboga center changed everything A trusted friend’s iboga experience and a mysterious “one thing” she hasn’t been able to move despite doing “all the things” to change it. “Hanuman made me do it!” (?!) Various “lightning bolt” moments and timeline-jumps. Microdosing Iboga, how it happened and what it was like A plant connection practice Beth recommends if you feel called to any medicine and what happened the very first time she did it with Iboga The FEAR of iboga… why has she rarely felt this level of fear before a medicine journey? The purge-before-the-purge: shedding the skin of the snake and endings for the highest good. Yet another call-out of the “Amazon Prime effect” of “quick healing” culture… and why intention, prayer, reverence, and relationship matter more than trying to “get something” from a plant Recurring ocean dreams Beth’s deepest intention… not “fix me,” but: “Whatever is in the highest and best for me to be of service on this planet at this time.” Themes Prayer and right relationship with Iboga and other sacred plant medicines Timing, readiness, and discernment Integration as an actual lifestyle (not just an integration circle) When fear is a doorway in The way spirit weaves in your life LONG before the ceremony Truth vs. bypassing Mentions + Modalities referenced Ayahuasca, psilocybin mushrooms, Bufo, and “trickster” medicines Master plant dietas and retreat integration Vipassana / extended meditation retreats Transformational NLP and Family Constellation work (and why it can feel like “there’s no other way to get there”) Devotion, chanting, singing…and her journey of lightening bolt moments with the Hanuman Chalisa and dreams of Hanuman Dream guidance from plant spirits A note on Iboga safety + discernment Iboga is not to be taken lightly. Making this decision was not a casual path. Beth speaks to the importance of being held by skilled facilitators, proper screening, and not rushing toward a “quick fix.” If you’re feeling called, let your prayer deepen, let guidance ripen, and choose safety and integrity over urgency. New 1-1 Container Now Open! Sunarai: The Journey Home to Your Quintessence, Clarity & Abundance is a 12-Week 1:1 Private Alchemical Journey with Subconscious Reprogramming Transformational NLP Sessions; Plant Medicine Guidance + Support; Gene Keys + Energetic Activation; Embodied Soul Alignment, and deep purification work Links Free Gifts: https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-business/ Sunarai: The Journey Home to Your Quintessence, Clarity & Abundance: https://go.bethaweinstein.com/sunarai/ Upcoming plant dieta (with astrology + special guests): sign up for the waitlist here https://go.bethaweinstein.com/rose-dieta/ If this episode speaks to you… Send it to someone who’s been circling a big decision or someone who’s trying to stop outsourcing their truth to “the next thing.” And if you’re not on Beth’s email list yet, that’s the place to stay connected when social platforms do what they do. Download Beth's free trainings here: Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business:  https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-businessIntegrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business▶ Beth’s Coaching & Guidance: https://bethaweinstein.com/coaching ▶ Beth's Offerings & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services▶ Instagram:  @bethaweinstein ▶ FB: / bethw.nyc + bethweinsteinbiz 

April 14, 20261 hr 42 min

5D Ramblings, Timeline Jumps, Ascension Symptoms with Derek Loudermilk

In this episode, Beth and Derek Loudermilk dive into the delightfully uncharted territory of synchronicities, ascension symptoms, and the accelerating strangeness of modern spiritual life. From an unexpected ultimate Frisbee encounter on a Mexican beach to earthquakes, windstorms, and mushroom ceremonies, the conversation weaves together personal stories that blur the line between coincidence and cosmic orchestration. Derek has coached global influencers, leading scientists, cutting edge entrepreneurs, billionaires, world record athletes, thought leaders, NYT bestselling authors, and high achievers around the world for more than 15 years Derek Loudermilk is a former pro cyclist and extreme microbiologist turned professional adventurer, author, and lifestyle entrepreneur. His podcast, The Derek Loudermilk Show, brings people to a high level understanding of cutting edge topics in science, spirituality, adventure, and human potential. Derek hosted the top rated ‘Art of Adventure’ podcast for seven years. Episode Highlights ▶ Psychic premonitions are accelerating: thinking of someone out of nowhere, only to hear from them hours later after years of silence ▶ Ringing in the ears, Schumann resonance, and solar flares: spiritual signals or just being human? ▶ A hape ceremony in Mexico is immediately followed by an earthquake, raising the question of what influences what ▶ Intense weather events during group ceremonies suggest collective energy shapes physical reality ▶ The Mandela Effect, Schrödinger's cat, and why some physicists think quantum superposition explains it all ▶ Timeline jumps: what they feel like from the inside and why they resist explanation in 3D terms ▶ Near-miss accidents may be moments where consciousness shifts into a parallel timeline rather than experiencing the crash ▶ Starseeds, Dolores Cannon's volunteer waves, and the question of whether all souls here now chose to be ▶ Collective intention experiments show measurable real-world results, from reduced crime rates to cleared ocean plastics ▶ Two paradigms are coexisting on Earth right now, and the shift is felt energetically even when daily life looks unchanged Derek Loudermilk’s Links & Resources ▶ Website: Derekloudermilk.com ▶ Instagram: instagram.com/derekloudermilk/ ▶ Youtube: youtube.com/@DerekLoudermilk ▶ The Metaphysical Quest TV show on New Reality TV: https://newrealitytv.com/tv-show/the-metaphysical-quest/ ▶ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@derekrloudermilk Download Beth's free trainings here: Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business:  https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-businessIntegrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business▶ Beth’s Coaching & Guidance: https://bethaweinstein.com/coaching ▶ Beth's Offerings & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services▶ Instagram:  @bethaweinstein ▶ FB: / bethw.nyc + bethweinsteinbiz 

March 31, 202632 min

Iboga: Before vs. After (14 Years in the Making)

In this episode, Beth shares why she’s finally saying yes to an Iboga journey…after contemplating and building a relationship with this medicine for 14 years. You’ll hear the story of how seeds were planted back in 2012, why she kept putting it off for years, what finally shifted, and what she’s learning and receiving from Iboga before the retreat even begins.This is about truth, fear, prayer, timing, deep integration and the difference between chasing quick and easy healing vs. building a relationship with a medicine as an ally. If you’ve been contemplating Iboga or another plant medicine, this may be helpful for you to hear about her process to discernment and decision making.What you’ll hear insideThe first time Beth heard about Iboga and the phrase she never forgot: “First ceremony cleanses your karma… second tells you what to do with your life.”The long on-and-off relationship with the calling to this medicine and why she didn’t do Iboga for so many yearsThe piece most people underestimate: ample space and time for integration, especially with Iboga.Taking an “energetic sabbatical”--what it actually has been, what it wasn’t, and why it mattersMidlife portal and the deeper question underneath: “What do I really want?”The hard moment when a death at an Iboga center changed everythingA trusted friend’s iboga experience and a mysterious “one thing” she hasn’t been able to move despite doing “all the things” to change it.“Hanuman made me do it!” (?!) Various “lightning bolt” moments and timeline-jumps.Microdosing Iboga, how it happened and what it was likeA plant connection practice Beth recommends if you feel called to any medicine and what happened the very first time she did it with IbogaThe FEAR of iboga… why has she rarely felt this level of fear before a medicine journey?The purge-before-the-purge: shedding the skin of the snake and endings for the highest good.Yet another call-out of the “Amazon Prime effect” of “quick healing” culture… and why intention, prayer, reverence, and relationship matter more than trying to “get something” from a plantRecurring ocean dreamsBeth’s deepest intention… not “fix me,” but: “Whatever is in the highest and best for me to be of service on this planet at this time.”ThemesPrayer and right relationship with Iboga and other sacred plant medicinesTiming, readiness, and discernmentIntegration as an actual lifestyle (not just an integration circle)When fear is a doorway inThe way spirit weaves in your life LONG before the ceremonyTruth vs. bypassingMentions + Modalities referencedAyahuasca, psilocybin mushrooms, Bufo, and “trickster” medicinesMaster plant dietas and retreat integrationVipassana / extended meditation retreatsTransformational NLP and Family Constellation work (and why it can feel like “there’s no other way to get there”)Devotion, chanting, singing…and her journey of lightening bolt moments with the Hanuman Chalisa and dreams of HanumanDream guidance from plant spiritsA note on Iboga safety + discernmentIboga is not to be taken lightly. Making this decision was not a casual path. Beth speaks to the importance of being held by skilled facilitators, proper screening, and not rushing toward a “quick fix.” If you’re feeling called, let your prayer deepen, let guidance ripen, and choose safety and integrity over urgency.New 1-1 Container Now Open!Sunarai: The Journey Home to Your Quintessence, Clarity & Abundance is a 12-Week 1:1 Private Alchemical Journey with Subconscious Reprogramming Transformational NLP Sessions; Plant Medicine Guidance + Support; Gene Keys + Energetic Activation; Embodied Soul Alignment, and deep purification work LinksFree Gifts: https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-business/Sunarai: The Journey Home to Your Quintessence, Clarity & Abundance: https://go.bethaweinstein.com/sunarai/Upcoming plant dieta (with astrology + special guests): sign up for the waitlist herehttps://go.bethaweinstein.com/rose-dieta/ If this episode speaks to you…Send it to someone who’s been circling a big decision or someone who’s trying to stop outsourcing their truth to “the next thing.” And if you’re not on Beth’s email list yet, that’s the place to stay connected when social platforms do what they do. Download Beth's free trainings here: Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business:  https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-businessIntegrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business▶ Beth’s Coaching & Guidance: https://bethaweinstein.com/coaching ▶ Beth's Offerings & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services▶ Instagram:  @bethaweinstein ▶ FB: / bethw.nyc + bethweinsteinbiz 

March 27, 20261 hr 51 min

Psilocybin, Energetics & Herbal Medicine: The Missing Piece in Psychedelic Practice

Samuel Perry RH (AHG) is a clinical herbalist, medicine maker and herbal educator in Upstate New York. Practicing in the Vitalist and eclectic tradition of American Herbalism, Sam offers compassionate attention and practical support in all manner of health concerns. An instructor and core faculty at Arbor Vitae School of Traditional Herbalism, Sam teaches herbal energetics and Materia Medica, helps supervise a free bi-weekly student clinic, leads plant walks, and offers medicine making demonstrations. A long-time practitioner of Zen Buddhism, Sam also leads meditation retreats. His work as an herbalist and his knowledge of and love for the living world offers a unique vantage point from which to engage these practices. His commitment to the ever-unfolding awakening of all beings is expressed in a playful and fluid style. Episode Highlights ▶ Sam shares why psilocybin belongs within the larger tradition of herbalism, not as a standalone medicine, but as part of an ancient, living lineage. ▶ Beth and Sam introduce their upcoming program,The Energetics of Psilocybin & Herbal Medicine: Remembering & Restoring the Missing Piece in Contemporary Psychedelic Practice, focusing on the often-neglected energetic dimensions of psilocybin. ▶ How the "Amazon Prime effect" shapes how many approach plant medicines, seeking instant healing rather than building a true relationship with the medicine ▶ Herbalism offers practical support for the physical discomforts of a journey (nausea, cramping, racing heart) so attention can stay on the teaching. ▶ Understanding your own energetic constitution changes how you receive and digest these medicines, because no two bodies have the same experience ▶ True set and setting goes deeper than intention and environment. It includes diet, sleep, relationships, medications, and the life you're returning to. ▶ Integration isn't a post-journey practice. It's the whole path. ▶ Our ancestors were not preliminary, and the traditions they carried hold a depth that modern science is only beginning to approach ▶ A practical herbal kit gives facilitators and personal journeyers alike the tools to support any body through any stage of the experience ▶ Building soil, the conditions for these medicines to truly take root, is the deeper intention behind everything this program offers Sam Perry's Links & Resources ▶ Website: https://www.arborvitaeny.com/corefaculty/samuel-perry ▶ https://ravencrestbotanicals.com/pages/retreat-schedule-2026 ▶ The Energetics of Psilocybin & Herbal Medicine: Remembering & Restoring the Missing Piece in Contemporary Psychedelic Practice: https://bethaweinstein.com/energetics-of-psilocybin/ Download Beth's free trainings here: Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business:  https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-businessIntegrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business▶ Beth’s Coaching & Guidance: https://bethaweinstein.com/coaching ▶ Beth's Offerings & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services▶ Instagram:  @bethaweinstein ▶ FB: / bethw.nyc + bethweinsteinbiz 

February 24, 202621 min

Nettle Dieta: Plant Spirit Immersion + Astrology-guided Resilience for a New Era

Episode Highlights: ▶Introduction to Nettle Dieta a 3-week plant spirit immersion ▶ Why late February and early March 2026 carry potent astrological significance ▶ Key 2026 astrological transits ▶ What a traditional master plant dieta looks and feels like in the Peruvian jungle ▶ The difference between a traditional dieta and a soft or social dieta ▶ Why stinging nettle was chosen for this specific moment in astrology and world history ▶ The concept of "bright boundaries" and how nettle teaches them ▶ An introduction to co-facilitators Sam Perry (master herbalist and alchemist) and Susan De Rider (mystery school astrologer) ▶ How working with plant spirits differs from consuming entheogenic medicines ▶ The power of communal, intentional containers and why the number of participants matters Nettle Dieta A Plant Spirit Immersion & Astrology-Guided Resilience for 2026: Join us for a 3-week plant spirit immersion held in community, moving into the Spring Equinox with Nettle as your ally for the astrology of 2026. Starts March 9th. https://go.bethaweinstein.com/nettle-dieta/ Previous Episodes Featuring Sam Perry: https://bethaweinstein.com/podcast/energetics-of-psilocybin-bridging-tradition-ancient-wisdom-the-body-sam-perry-part-1/ https://bethaweinstein.com/podcast/energetics-of-psilocybin-bridging-tradition-ancient-wisdom-and-the-body-sam-perry-part-2/ Download Beth's free trainings here: Clarity to Clients: Start & Grow a Transformational Coaching, Healing, Spiritual, or Psychedelic Business:  https://bethaweinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-businessIntegrating Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into Business: https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business▶ Beth’s Coaching & Guidance: https://bethaweinstein.com/coaching ▶ Beth's Offerings & Courses: https://bethaweinstein.com/services▶ Instagram:  @bethaweinstein ▶ FB: / bethw.nyc + bethweinsteinbiz 