Philanthropist Jeff Walker meets with Raghu Markus to discuss the emerging knowledge of psychedelics and energy work in the healthcare field.
“With psychedelics, we’ve set up collaboration around psychedelic health equity. We have a number of people in some foundations working on this question: how do we make sure that if the MDMA is authorized by the FDA, which it should be next year, that people who are in the city and people who have high ACE scores and people who are of color and have no income, will be able to access it?” – Jeff Walker
In this episode, Jeff and Raghu traverse these topics:
- Jeff’s journey from the financial world into mindfulness practice
- Applying mindfulness and spirituality to the business world
- The efficacy of meditation as a healing practice
- Psychedelic therapies from the 70’s to the modern age
- Music and flow states
- Community and the ‘we’ instead of the ‘me’
- Subtle energy and biofield healing practices
- Remote healing and cancer research
- Chakras, Ayurveda, Sound healing and energy work
- Being addicted to the experience of psychedelics
- Developing trust into connectivity and intuition
- Finding your Sangha and having trusting relationships
- Sharing in happiness and sympathetic joy
- Psychedelic Health Equity
- Trauma from migration and meeting basic needs
- Political concerns, decriminalization, and the need for good therapists
Links & Recommendations from this episode:
Check out The System Catalysts podcast for more from Jeff Walker and other change-makers
BridgeBuilders – the wellbeing/flourishing investment collective. https://www.bbcollaborative.com/
Contemplative Science Center at UVA – https://csc.virginia.edu/
MAPS – bringing MDMA through the FDA. https://maps.org/
PSFC – donor collective supporting psychedelics https://psfc.co/
The Generosity Network book – https://www.amazon.com/Generosity-Network-Transformational-Successful-Fund-Raising-ebook/dp/B00BRUQ84Y/ref=sr_1_1?crid=VDDYE4TJIT3F&keywords=the+generosity+network&qid=1697027462&sprefix=the+generosity+networ%2Caps%2C102&sr=8-1
About Jeff Walker:
Jeff Walker is Chairman of New Profit, a social change investment fund and is Vice Chair in the WHO/CHAP Venture focused on frontline health. He also currently serves on the boards of the African Philanthropy Forum, Just Capital, UVA Center for Contemplative Sciences (where he is chair), Giving Tuesday, the Aspen Management Partnership for Health, and the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce, where he was president for 10 years. He is a Partner in Bridge Builders investment fund for Mindful Wellness. Walker co-authored the book The Generosity Network, about new approaches to gather resources to address causes each of us are passionate about. He also received the John C. Whitehead Award for Social Enterprise from the Harvard Business School Club of New York City. He is currently teaching, researching, and writing on the issue of systems entrepreneurship and systems change.