Ep. 98 | Dreams, Indigenous Knowledge & Psychedelics with Mario 'Oneiros' Alonso

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The intersection of dreams, psychedelics, and indigenous wisdom offers a powerful lens for understanding consciousness and healing. This week on The Psychedelic Mom, Mario Alonso Cordero joins Micheala to explore the significance of dreams as tools for psychedelic integration, discussing how they can reveal hidden layers of the psyche.
By bridging modern psychedelic practices with ancient indigenous knowledge, Mario highlights the importance of honoring cultural traditions in the evolving psychedelic renaissance. His insights offer practical tools for dream exploration and advocate for a balanced dialogue between Western science and indigenous perspectives.

Mario Alonso Cordero a.k.a “Oneiros Speculum” (The Dream Mirror), was born and raised in Mexico. He is a writer, therapist and an expert in Dreams and Visions, with abundant experience in supporting sacred plant ceremonies and guiding psychedelic integration. He has a master's degree in The Philosophy of Religion and complementary training in Transpersonal Psychology.

Mario has collaborated in different educational and research projects on Psychedelics and Expanded States of Consciousness such as MINDSURF (Psychonautic Education) and is the founder of VIA SYNAPSIS (Academic Congresses) and NIDO (Psychedelic Care in Festivals) and researcher at NIERIKA (Entheogenic Research and Intercultural Therapy).

He has done fieldwork with the Mazatec people of Oaxaca, Mexico, and research on traditional mushroom ceremonies and indigenous perspectives on healing and entheogenic cosmology.

𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀

0:00 Welcome
2:07 Mario’s journey as an author and his exploration of dreams and psychedelics
5:00 Mario’s first LSD experience at age 16 that reshaped his life path
7:00 Indigenous symbolism and wisdom in Mario’s early psychedelic experiences
10:09 The cultural suppression of sacred plant medicines in Mexico and their revival through the work of Maria Sabina
13:52 The connection between modern psychedelic science and indigenous traditions
16:00 Differences in healing perspectives: Western individualism vs. Indigenous collective approaches
21:00 Indigenous symbolic geographies and how they guide collective consciousness in ceremonies
24:00 Western linear thinking contrasted with indigenous holistic and interconnected worldviews
31:00 Lucid dreaming as a spiritual practice and its relation to waking life
34:00 Psychedelics as opening the doors of perception, expanding beyond ego consciousness
38:00 Terence McKenna’s idea of sacred plants as ambassadors of Gaia, connecting us to plant consciousness
44:08 The risks of spiritual emergencies during psychedelic journeys and the critical role of integration
49:00 Exploring dreams as a language of symbols and their role in integrating psychedelic experiences
55:20 Dream work as a tool to uncover hidden potentials within the psyche for personal growth
1:01:00 Mario’s online Dream Circle

𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼 '𝗢𝗻𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗼𝘀' 𝗔𝗹𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼’𝘀 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀

Website: https://www.onirocosmos.com
Website: www.refugionido.com
Instagram:   / oneiros_speculum  
Facebook:   / oneirospeculum  

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲

Book: Onirocosmos: Manual para trabajar y explorar el universo de los sueños by Mario Alonso Martínez Cordero - https://tinyurl.com/8pnh3rby
Book: Navegar el infinito mar del pensamiento: Una introducción a la filosofía by Mario Alonso Martínez Cordero - https://tinyurl.com/4nvvm3a9
Psychedelic Care in Mexico: NIDO - https://www.refugionido.com/

𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼 '𝗢𝗻𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗼𝘀' 𝗔𝗹𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼’𝘀 𝗚𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗬𝗼𝘂

The first 3 people to reach out to Mario at his Instagram’s DM @oneiros_speculum, saying “I’ve heard about you on the Psychedelic Mom Podcast and I want to subscribe to the Dream Circle” will get FREE access to his Dreamastery Dream Circle

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The Psychedelic Mom Podcast is for anyone who wants to go on a mind bending, heart opening journey to find out the truth about love, life and this reality. It is for those with an insatiable curiosity and a deep desire to heal, wake up, and live a wildly authentic life.

Through intimate conversation with leading experts, scientists, psychologists, visionaries, artists, entrepreneurs, parents, psychonauts and newbies ... your host, Michaela Carlin, dives into myriad topics including consciousness, spirituality, cosmology, transformation, human optimization, biohacking, parenting, relationships, ancient wisdom, modern science, purpose, and the path to freedom, wholeness and joy.

Michaela is a mother of four, an entrepreneur and visionary exploring the fertile edge of consciousness. She is a facilitator of transformational journeys globally and a certified spiritual director and psychedelic integration coach.
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