One-Degree Shifts

Welcome to One-Degree Shifts. A psychedelic podcast where we explore the big questions of meaning at the intersection of psychedelic therapy, integration, wellness, and the heartfelt stories of transformation that connect us all.

One-Degree Shifts is a education podcast hosted by Nectara, with 43 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Nectara hosts One-Degree Shifts, a education show with 43 episodes published.

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  43: Humor as a Lifeline: Staying Sane Through AI Slop, Conspiracism, & the Meta Crisis w/A Aronovich

  Jul 9, 202656 min

  Adam Aranovich is a medical anthropologist and the curator of Healing From Healing, the crowdsourced Instagram account that catalogs healing culture as it performs itself online. He spent years working at the Temple of the Way of Light in the Peruvian Amazon. We talk about why humor lands where critique bounces off, and how a joke can keep a powerful experience from hardening into certainty. We meet Janice, the account's mascot, who is both the person fake crying on camera and the person laughing from the other side of the screen. We follow the pipeline from wellness into conspiracism, and land on what Adam's research actually found: it was never really the ayahuasca. It was the circle. We close on hope as a daily practice and what Adam wants to build next.

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  42: Beyond Love and Light: Systemic Healing, Social Justice, and Sacred Rage w/Daniel Miceli

  Jun 23, 20261 hour

  Daniel Miceli grew up watching addiction and systemic harm move differently through different parts of his own family, depending on how dark someone's skin was. That early awareness followed him into the Amazon at twenty one, into years of ayahuasca and bufo ceremonies, and eventually into the work he does now, helping people feel the difference between healing themselves and healing the systems they live inside of. This conversation moves through some hard territory. Daniel talks about watching Western facilitators drift toward far right politics while insisting their spaces are apolitical. He talks about anger as something the psychedelic world tends to push aside, and why he thinks that instinct causes harm, especially for people whose grief has real political roots. He talks about extraction, not just of plants and medicines, but of attention, labor, and land, and what it might look like to build psychedelic spaces that don't quietly repeat the same patterns they're meant to help people heal from. What stays with you isn't the critique though. It's the hope underneath it. Daniel believes the discomfort so many people feel right now is part of something waking up, not something falling apart. He talks about his son, about bearing witness without bypassing, and about why he still believes, after fourteen years in this work, that a better world is possible even if he doesn't live to see all of it. This episode asks a little more of you than some of our other episodes do. It moves through addiction, grief, violence, and some of the harder history underneath this work. If you feel comfortable, I invite you to lean into it. There's something at the other end of it worth reaching.

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  41: Ayurveda and the Art of Preparing w/Dr. Sujatha Kekada

  May 28, 202651 minS0

  <p>What if the most important part of a journey is everything you do before it begins?<br /></p><p>Pascal sits down with Dr. Sujatha Kekada, an Ayurvedic physician and co-founder of AmrtaSiddhi Ayurvedic Center in Bali, who has spent more than twenty years helping people prepare their bodies and minds for powerful experiences. Most of us get handed a list of things to cut out before a journey. No alcohol, no red meat, no caffeine. <br /><br />Dr. Sujatha spends this conversation on what to tend to instead. We move through the doshas, through agni, the fire that...

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  40: Whose Meaning Is It Anyway? w/Guy Simon

  Apr 11, 20261h 31mS0

  <p>What does it actually mean to make sense of something that broke you open?<br /></p><p>In this episode, Pascal sits down with Guy Simon, a psychotherapist, trauma researcher, and PhD candidate at Bar-Ilan University, to explore what actually happens when people try to make meaning after a challenging psychedelic experience.<br /></p><p>Drawing on 48 in-depth interviews with people who had difficult experiences outside clinical settings, Guy shares a map of five distinct patterns of meaning-making, and the specific conditions under which those patterns help, and when they don't.<br /></p><p>This is one of the...

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  39: Staying Human When the World Feels on Fire w/Daan Keiman

  Feb 3, 20261h 15mS0

  <p>How do we stay human and compassionate when the world feels like it's on fire?<br /></p><p>In this episode, we sit down with Daan Keiman, a Nectara collaborator, Buddhist practitioner, psychedelic care giver, and someone deeply committed to holding both grief and joy in these turbulent times. Daan brings the wisdom of years of spiritual practice, the honesty of someone still learning, and the courage to face the most difficult questions without pretending to have all the answers.</p><p><br />Together, we explore the tension between spiritual truth and lived experience, between rage and compassion, between...

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