Truth, Love and Psychedelic Healing with Michael Ryoshin Sapiro

Summary

Dr. Michael Ryoshin Sapiro shares insights on the transformative power of truth as a form of medicine through psychedelic psychotherapy and mindfulness practices. He discusses the integration of personal and ancestral traumas, exploring how psychedelics can foster self-love and coherence. This episode emphasizes the role of compassion and awakening in achieving collective healing.

Key takeaways

• 1Michael Ryoshin Sapiro: PsyD, ordained Zen Buddhist monk, and psychedelic psychotherapist
• 2Truth Medicine: A book by Sapiro focusing on healing through psychedelic therapy
• 3Intergenerational trauma and ancestral wisdom in contemporary healing
• 4The importance of self-compassion alongside psychedelic experiences
• 5Ego death and nondual states as part of spiritual emergencies
• 6Depth psychology's role in addressing shame and shadow work

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New Thinking Allowed is presented by the California Institute for Human Science, a fully accredited university offering distant learning graduate degrees that focus on mind, body, and spirit. The topics that we cover here. We are particularly excited to announce new degrees emphasizing parapsychology and the paranormal. Visit their website at cihs.edu. book four in the new Thinking Allowed Dialogue series is Charles T. Tartt, 70 Years of Exploring Consciousness and Parapsychology, now available on Amazon. You are warmly invited to visit transformationandintegration.com to access additional resources that support the journey through deep transformation and to learn more about the ongoing offerings at Center for Transformation and Integration, including our certified training in transformational coaching with an emphasis in somatic integration therapy. I look forward to welcoming you there. Mike is an ordained Zen Buddhist monk and poet, clinical psychologist, psychedelic psychotherapist, meditation teacher, researcher, and author of Truth Medicine, Healing and Living Authentically Through Psychedelic Psychotherapy. A fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and former core faculty for psychedelics today's vital certification program, Mike also co-hosts global mental health summits with Wisdom for Life, reaching audiences in more than 70 countries. Mike works extensively within the special operations community and with first responders, and he is featured in An Act of Service, a documentary on ketamine treatment for first responders. Mike's work is dedicated to personal awakening for the sake of global and collective transformation. In today's conversation, we explore truth. Truth is a form of medicine, intergenerational trauma, shame, shadow work, wholeness, and healing through psychedelics and meditation. Mike joins me from Boise, Idaho, and now let's switch over to the internet interview. Hi, Mike. Welcome to New Thinking Allowed. Nice to be with you today. Thank you so much for having me. ...

Excerpt from New Thinking Allowed, Jan 5, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.