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Ryan Van Tuinen

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Ryan Van Tuinen

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We recap week 3 This week a notable change in Rory's behavior was seen when he reached out to Ryan as soon as the craving to to use drugs first emerged. This is a major difference in Rory's behavior from his past. Rory has never previously att
This was our second interview with Dr. Rick Strassman Author of DMT; The Spirit Molecule and The Psychedelic Handbook.We interviewed DR. Rick Strassman again following his recent appearance on the Joe Rogan Podcast and his release of his new b
In this episode Rory and I talk about our second Ritual, and how the week has went since then.
Rory and I talk about the first week of our new ritual
Earlier this year we finished up filming for a documentary which is set to be released later in the year. In this episode we talk about how our sacred ritual practice and other therapeutic connection outlets we had fell apart and ultimately led
In this episode we discuss our experience trying to use our ritualized setting and psychedelic therapy to help another human overcome addiction. Our experience was documented on film, which will be released on ReasonTV's YouTube channel in the
Part 3 of 3 We talk about this last summers experience recording a short documentary after a woman reached out to us with the hopes of having a plant medicine ritual that could help change her life. Much like Rory, she was also on a methadone
Part 2 of 3We talk about the de evolution of our current Ritual and what we will do to revitalize it and how we have started a new Ritual without any exogenous substances.
Part 1 of 3. In this episode we recap the past two years. What catalyzed our transformation then, what we've been through since, and where we see ourselves going forward. We also pick up where we left off from the last episode when Rory return
In this episode we talk about my trip to California and how it landed me in a psychiatric hospital for three days. Ever since then I have struggled. I have been actively trying to repress that experience and I have been using drugs to do that.
In this episode we recap the past two years. What catalyzed our transformation then, what we've been through since, and where we see ourselves going forward. We also pick up where we left off from the last episode when Rory returned from Califo
A few months ago I took a trip to California and ended up in a hospital with paranoid psychosis. For three days I worried that someone was going to kill me, I didn't sleep, I was so scared that if I did I would not wake up. After 72 hours and a
There is value in vulnerability. That is what I have learned since beginning this podcast. Still, I doubt it. I doubt if people will understand, if they will accept me and the things I've done. But so far they have. People have embraced it, and
Hi guys, I'm so grateful for all of our listeners. When my brother and I started this podcast I was still struggling with my mental health, even though I had been clean from opiates for a few months I still had so much of my unconscious mind to
We talk about what a hero means to us, how we see our fellow citizens as more heroic than most celebrities, and how we overcome the hurdles that are placed before us in our own hero's journey.
In this episode we talk about what life was like growing up and how we felt ashamed of things we couldn't control, in a sense life was happening to us. As we age and mature, we realize we have more control of how we think and deal with our thou
This week is the first week in a long time where we had our Sunday ritual practice without our dad there, we talk among other things, about that and what affect that had on the set and setting. We also talk about this past year, and how far we'
In this episode I talk about my best friend Hunter’s suicide and the guilt from my inability to act on the warning signs he exhibited before his suicide. I also talk about an experience when/where I overdose and with no one home but my brother,
Ryan asks me if I consider myself cured from addiction, we talk about toxic vs non toxic substances
This episode is really important to us. We discuss drug education reform, alternate perspectives catalyzed by altered states of consciousness, the importance of one’s relationship to substances, and holding a reverence for sacred substances.
Today we talk with Matthew Simpson author of the book, Worth The Fight: Acting for a Better World, A Guide to Spirituality, Psychedelic Medicines and Overcoming Trauma, and host of the podcast Worth The Fight. Matthew has done work for Veterans
In this episode we talk with  Tom Morano, he's a very close friend and the third member of our little ritual we do on Sundays, we talk about our experiences with him and his own life experience and his relationship to psychedelics and other sub
We interview Sam, a very close family friend, about her past drug addiction and her ayahuasca experience that ultimately helped her get clean from opiates and cocaine similar to Rory’s story. 
On this episode we have our good friend Gina join us to tell us about her experiences. We talk about rituals, psychedelics, mental health and more. Many thanks to Gina for being open and sharing with us, it was an absolute pleasure and definite
I've been getting a lot of questions on social media asking me about what the psychedelic experience provided me with, and questions about how it helped changed my behaviors and views on life. So I decided to record a 15 minute episode where I
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