MAPS Canada Podcast

Episode 13: Wisdom From The Psychedelic Underground | with Rachel Harris

MAPS Canada Podcast

Show Notes

Have you humbled yourself to your elders? These women elders of the psychedelic underground are spiritual warriors-fearless in their journeys to the shamanic realms.

Rachel Harris, PhD, is the author of "Swimming in the Sacred: Wisdom from the Psychedelic Underground" and "Listening to Ayahuasca." A psychologist who has been in private practice for 40 years, she spent 10 years in an academic research department where she published more than 40 scientific studies in peer-reviewed journals and received a National Institutes of Health New Investigator’s Award. Rachel splits her time between an island in Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Visit her online at http://www.swimminginthesacred.com

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