Dear Rosies,

In this week’s episode of the Rose Woman, we explore the foundations of human flourishing with Dr. Darcia Narvaez, a groundbreaking researcher who bridges neuroscience, anthropology, and evolutionary wisdom. Dr. Narvaez is an explorer of human potential, asking profound questions about how early experiences shape our moral development, well-being, and connection to the world around us.

Dr. Narvaez examines how early life experiences (the evolved nest) influence moral functioning and well-being in children and adults. Questions that interest her include: How does early experience shape human nature? What can sustainable indigenous societies teach the modern world? What types of moral orientations do individuals develop in species-typical and atypical environments? What is indigenous ecological wisdom, and how do we cultivate it? How can educators and parents foster optimal development, well-being, and communal imagination?

Her 2014 book won the 2015 William James Book Award from the APA and the 2017 Expanded Reason Award for research. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the American Educational Research Association. She hosts the website EvolvedNest.org and is president of KindredMedia.org.

In this episode, we cover:

• How to Raise a Baby in Line with Natural Human Biology
• How to Bond Like a Wise Parent
• Exploring Moral Development and Trauma
• What to Do if you Missed Out on This
• The Concept of Evolved Nest and its Key Components
• Modern Applications and Cultural Obstacles
• The Role of Nature and Play in Healing
• Indigenous Wisdom and Evolutionary Insights

Helpful links:

• Darcia Narvaez, PhD - Professor of Psychology Emerita, Psychology Department
• The Evolved Nest (Evolved Developmental Niche) (academic papers)
• Co-Founder, EvolvedNest.Org (podcasts, info, and monthly newsletter)
• The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities
• Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth
• Restoring Human Nature article by Darcia on Substack The Nested Pathway

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In this extraordinary episode, Zach Leary, Author of "Your Extraordinary Mind - Psychedelics in the 21st Century and How to Use Them" and Host of the Psychedelics Then and Now podcast, offers a deeply personal and revolutionary perspective on consciousness, healing, and the human growth potential. He opens up about his extraordinary journey through the psychedelic landscape, sharing intimate insights from growing up to finding his path of healing and transformation.

Over the last 30 years, Zach has found himself in the center of the psychedelic movement with a front row seat for the modern renaissance while also having first-hand knowledge of the historical legacy of the counterculture's influence on psychedelic exploration.

After spending many years as a digital marketing expert for some of the world's largest brands, Zach had a wake-up call 13 years ago that thrust him back into the center of the psychedelic cyclone thanks to the influence of his primary teacher and mentor, Ram Dass. Since then, he has found his unique voice and method in being able to contribute to the revolutionary new psychedelic movement of the 21st Century.

Join us for a deeply moving conversation that bridges personal narrative with collective transformation, offering listeners a rare glimpse into the heart of the psychedelic movement and the potential for individual and societal healing.

In this Episode, we cover:

• Zach on finding his path
• Transformation and Connection with Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, and Neem Karoli Baba
• On writing “Your Extraordinary Mind”
• The Role of Love and Psychedelics
• The Concept of the Sacred Feminine and Masculine within each individual
• What makes a good Integration?
• The Idea of Surrender
• Collective consciousness and the Current State of Human Evolution
• The Impact of Psychedelics on Collective Consciousness
• Zach's Current Work and Future Plans

Helpful links:

• Zach Leary - Author of Your Extraordinary Mind: Psychedelics In the 21st Century and How to Use Them on Amazon.
• Follow on Instagram @zachlearydrome, Facebook @zachleary and Linkedin @zachleary
• The Psychedelic Studies Intensive Program is an 8 week course with Zach
• The Psychedelics Then and Now podcast (formerly the MAPS Podcast)
• Psychedelics Alter Belief, Not Just Perception

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Ever wondered what happens when we stop trying to explain away the mysterious and start truly listening to the extraordinary? Join us for a mind-expanding conversation with Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripal, a pioneering scholar who's not afraid to explore the weird, wonderful, and unexplainable.

Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, where he served as the Associate Dean of the School of Humanities (2019-2023), chaired the Department of Religion for eight years, and also helped create the GEM Program, a doctoral concentration in the study of Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism that is the largest program of its kind in the world. He presently helps direct the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, where he served as Chair of the Board from 2015 to 2020.

Jeff is the author or co-author of thirteen books, nine of which are with The University of Chicago Press. He has also served as the Editor in Chief of the Macmillan Handbook Series on Religion (ten volumes, 2015-2016). He specializes in the study of extreme religious states and the re-visioning of a New Comparativism, particularly as both involve putting “the impossible” back on the academic table again. He is presently working on a three-volume study of paranormal currents in the history of religions and the sciences for The University of Chicago Press, collectively entitled The Super Story.

In this Episode, We Cover:

• Personal Background and Early Experiences
• The Role of Suffering and Religious Narratives
• The Concept of Superhuman Experiences and Erotic Experience
• The Importance of Experiences as Entry Points
• The Varying Degrees of Mystical Experiences
• The Role of Trauma and Suffering in Accessing the Extraordinary
• The Challenge of Integrating Extraordinary Experiences of the Impossible
• The Role of Imagination in Mediating Extraordinary Experiences
• The Sacred is Not Necessarily Good
• How to Think Impossibly: Get Weird
• The Importance of Visual and Symbolic Representations
• The Human Potential Movement at Esalen
• The X-Men and Evolutionary Potential
• The Importance of Reading and Storytelling

Helpful links:

• Dr. Jeffrey Kripal - J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University
• How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else
• The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities

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