The Levels of Consciousness Psychiatry Denies | Brian Stafford

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Happy to know I’m exactly on track with my unfolding process in my ecological journey home. ❤

Ritual Process AND Ritual Eldership. Prof Dr Robert L Moore talked, wrote, and cited lots of key sources – ancient, medieval, modernity and FROM recent decades of those journeying TOWARDS awakening, enlightening, and enSoulment.

What does this really have to do with psychiatry? Psychiatry is primarily a medical discipline concerned with mental disorders, diagnosis, treatment, and the reduction of suffering. It is not supposed to provide a complete theory of human development, self-fulfillment, spirituality, meaning, or our relationship with nature.
So when we say that "psychiatry suppresses" or "denies" these dimensions, it seems to me that we may be confusing psychiatry with Western culture more broadly. If modern Western society neglects ecological connectedness, spirituality, symbolic life, or certain forms of human development, that may well be worth criticizing – but why attribute that specifically to psychiatry?
Of course psychiatry has its own limitations, blind spots, and institutional dysfunctions, as virtually every social system does. But that is different from saying that psychiatry is somehow responsible for defining the whole range of healthy human development.

I wonder if he has spoken with Zach Bush MD. They have a very similar message

The man featured in the link, Brian Stafford, is my doppelganger opposite.

He is the rich, successful version.

I am the humble shaman replica.

Yet, we practice and preach the same pairing of Shamanism, Jung and psychedelics.

Leaning in on active imagination, as we all did naturally as children of wonder — he, Jung and I — feel the lure of nature that nurtures the soul.

He gave up a lucrative career as an endowed psychiatrist and was abandoned by his peers as an outcast for being critical of their methodology.

I was accidentally hit by a truck at the peak of my senior systems analyst career and forcibly disabled by resulting PTSD.

I became a backyard hops farmer.

He now teaches eco-consciousness in nature retreats, combining it with psychedelics, to encourage the hero's journey to emotional self-regulation.

At 73, I begin each new day in the active imagination mindset that I recall when I was 6-7ish, all alone in my neighborhood, as a boy in the act of discovery.

Today I rarely leave my double-wide and yet I am satisfied.

Every day, another adventure into the unknown on YouTube.

I am an elder shaman today who drums to enter the trance state.

And finds comfort in the upper realm with Emmanuel and Sophia, my spirit guides.

He is Jesus, known by many names.

She is the ephemeral feminine embodiment of divine wisdom.

Brian says he longs to become me one day, an elder, with heart.

I am a patient advocate for the sojourner experience to be adopted by the New Mexico Medical Psilocybin Act program presently under development.

I long to help others like me find wellness, just as I did.

But it is a battle against the sojourner, to build a business model instead that puts profit before patients’ needs.

Brian and I both are fighting systemic methods that limit eco-consciousness healing to only those who can afford it.

I wonder, shouldn't we collaborate?

He is now shunned by his former professional peers as "disillusioned."

To me, it is a courageous step, to choose to step away from your identity for any reason — and rarely done by anyone — willingly.

I am an old shaman drummer without a tribe to play for.

We both know our authentic selves as a result of our severance from the default mode network.

What could two opposites possibly offer to one another in this realm?

Uncertainty is not always unpleasant to imagine.

Why did this specific video appear now in my YT feed?

Synchronicity perhaps?

It is well-worth exploring, along my journey to wholeness, to find out.

For five years I've documented my journey with the mushroom and Carl Jung.

I think I sense an excerpt coming.

Like finding a message in a bottle on a deserted island beach.

I see a note inside.

What does it say?

Spoiler; the message is confirmation that what I've accomplished is equivalent to that of my highly accomplished doppelganger's.

Whether we meet or not, the message sent was for my benefit.

Inspiring confidence that I am on the path with heart.

My journey humbles me, often.

Praise Emmanuel.

It's unlikely that I will ever really meet my doppelganger.

But I can imagine it.

Jung says the man who imagined it first, built the Brooklin Bridge.

Active Imagination makes magic happen.

It is, after all, the reason for the journey.

I sort of lost the touch with my soul when I became an adult, say after I turned 20. Before that, I was lucky to have very open minded parents that let me grow wild, yet giving me a solid sense of ethics. The biggest gift I received was the possibility to grow my childhood wandering for a month a year on an extremely rich sea full of marine life and have a complete human-free hill as a playground, with my curious older brother as a guide illuminating me to the wonders of Nature. After that time this Eldorado got ruined by humanity and life asked me to reduce my free time for holidays. Regardless, when I encounter people mentioning medidation and having meetings in a room to do that, I know how lucky I was to wildly medidate by miself all alone with half my body immerged in the sea water at sunset with little gentle waves caddling me in the process, or sat on the top of the hill looking at the sky and sea melting on each other with the horizon as the only limit to infinity, or, most emotionally, waking up in the middle of the night and admiring with tears in my eyes to a star bright sky, with the Milky Way majestically crossing it. The professor of this interview rightly stated that you may find connection with the World by yourself, not necessarily out of teaching. I believe that I had it but lost it, except for very rare moments when I can sense the Universe again, but sadly very, very rare. Much better than none though. I tried to counteract homologation of modern western life all over my existence and, if I am a professor myself now, I know I reached it out of exercising my immagination despite being surrounded by standardization. I was gifted, I know, and I thank the randomess of our Universe for allowing me to be such a lucky child. Greetings to everyone

I’m surprised that you gave this Spiritual Narcissist a platform on your channel. To me your guest comes across as a Spiritual Narcissist. Strange that you would entertain this self centred gentleman. Discernment is everything.

we live in a sick society that was shaped this way by WHO???

If you don't listen to the calling – first you loose passion for what you been doing and if you keep resisting it comes to physical symptoms like clinching your teeth and overall stress and finally sickness and physical shutdown.
It is scary to take the leap and I been in couraged by dreams in plane speech that I am looked after and guided by the soul.
Still there is no blueprint, which validates that it is genuine, and the safe route does not cut it, so you have to trust and burn your personality in trials, knowing that one can never fall out of the arms of the universe.
Your path is yours alone and you will be discouraged by your surroundings because you show there is another way.
Still, one can not see the steps, and one is lost and alone, that is when you hand you self to the universe surrendering any notion of knowing about the world and trust. My suffering is still not big enough to take the leap but it'll be done.

Why do I feel myself cringing a little while listening to this? Maybe I'm projecting but I feel like there's something performative or insincere about this guest? Not sure what it is, just trying to understand my reaction. Generally I'm into the topic of soul, spirit, self understanding, Jung etc.

Dutch can’t help themselves and good thing to make to psychedelics. Just poor evil. You don’t need any medication to be awake, you need to go to nature … but Dutch just can’t help themselves

I can hear my own thoughts through this podcast 😇

So many internet hosts need this advice to succeed: Shhhhh… “um, mmm, yeah,”tend to be annoying. Let your guests be heard. Good luck sir, but I can’t stay… you’re simply too distracting.

It’s difficult not to be skeptical about an organisation like this. Does it not seem a bit cult like? Some sort of spiritual escapism into the wilderness? Modernity and suffering still exists for millions of people but the people who live in the US or have the means visit have to chance to find their ecological niche through ‘soul initiation’. I guess it’s easier for the people who’s ecological niche is to sell the shovels of spiritual progression than the people who are lost and looking for some meaning

As a woman I found being pregnant amazing. Luckily I had no major health issues though. I really felt connection to nature.

Thank you ❤

It’s okay to leave your ‘partner’. Might be a really good idea.♥️

​This is hands down one of my favorite interviews on this channel. Dr. Brian Stafford articulates exactly what is broken in modern Western culture and mainstream psychiatry, while pointing to the solutions we desperately need at this critical turning point in history.
​Instead of using pharmaceuticals to numb and suppress raw emotion just so people can function within an unhealthy system, we should be supporting individuals through natural grief and dark nights of the soul. Conventional psychiatry places temporary bandages on symptoms rather than healing the root cause. It’s deeply frustrating to see how many people have been emotionally blunted, harmed, or stalled by long-term antidepressant use.
​I’m so glad entheogenic and psychedelic medicines are finally getting the recognition they deserve. They offer a legitimate path forward where conventional psychiatric drugs have failed so many. Please bring Dr. Stafford back for a Part 2 to dive even deeper into this—there is so much more ground to cover!

I heard a voice like that almost 20 years ago. The same sentence twice and it turned out the exact way it said. It is a miracle as its probability was so low. I have pursued spiritualities ever since. Now everything converges together and I feel I am becoming everything. Honestly this experiment was never expected and incredible as well.

Lowkey this guy is not at the usual standard of guests on this program. Still some interesting points, but not exactly a rigorous thinker.

Wonderful. Seems like Brian and Bill are speaking thé tantric view from Eastern traditions (Hindu, Buddhist). It’s all about connection and relationship. All of creation is in relationship to every aspect of itself