2 Russell Brand videos that I think are game changers

 

This is from 2 years ago “Ceremony, Relationships & Communal Living” - Russell Brand talking to shaman Wendy Mandy, to be fair the first half was the best bit but with lots of loose threads that I would have loved to have heard unravelled - the second half ended up being predominantly about psychological healing with powerful natural psychoactive substances, which I’m less keen on with my very fragile nervous system, particularly when certain very simple lifestyle/dietary changes/supplements can be so transformative. 

Also, I’ve been peripheral to the use of very many of these psychoactive substances mentioned in the second half, in friends that are essentially undiagnosed severely mentally ill & despite many many safeguards, extensive knowledge & proper supervision the desired effects of psyche repair did not take place in this population, in fact I’ve seen people worsen with these substances. But, that said, I do still believe they have an important place in healing, as does the now becoming mainstream medicinal use of ketamine, MDMA & even LSD in psyche repair….. & better compared to most of the mainstream psyche drugs available which I would not touch with a barge pole personally. 

I love & get huge benefits from my (citations in the sidebar) DL Phenylalanine powder, which is an individual amino acid that has specific beneficial effects on the nervous system, also my N-Acetyl Cysteine powder and my pure GABA powder. This summer I have been back on Kava Kava in the evening to get my cortisol under control which is fab & I’ve been using CBD oil by mouth too for a month which is lovely but too expensive to come to rely on. I also take masses of B vitamins, Vit C & high EPA fish oil every day (plus D & K2 & E for being old). I cannot eat refined sugar period & alcohol would have me hospitalised in no time…..just sayin….. 15 years sober otherwise I would have died…….& I have to be in nature twice a day whatever the weather…. it’s a bit austere but it works, being inside cut off for the sky & the Earth can be majorly depressive.

One last thing….. she’s got to me, Wendy, she’s reminding me of things I knew and since finding this video the other day I’ve stopped using my headphones in nature to reconnect my consciousness with the consciousness surrounding me in my local area & it’s been so so helpful & grounding….. there was a reason I started using headphones, I was trying to protect my nervous system from my own bark reactive dogs & as a way to avoid other people but it’s made me increasingly orphaned in my sense of place so I’ve stopped using them. I will still take them out though, they’re my favourite body armour. 😍

This video is not intended to make anyone on meds do anything rash, it is a very general video which is extremely powerful in its capacity to somewhat humorously explain the intense predicament we are in with “science” - love it…..thank you so much Russell 💜