Dr. Joe Flanders

Psychologist, meditator, psychedelic and IFS therapist, founder @refugepsychology, Professor @mcgillu, dad and husband.

[Dr. Joe Flanders @drjoeflanders]

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[Carl Jung Archive @QuoteJung]

Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt.

[Robin Carhart-Harris @RCarhartHarris]

What are the most consistent aspects or dimensions of a psilocybin trip (in a scanner)?

[Dr John Vervaeke @DrJohnVervaeke]

Being rational doesn’t mean simply being intelligent or logical—it means the capacity to reflectively become aware of self deception and systemically intervene it

You use your intelligence to systemically (on many levels) overcome self deception

Now you want to coordinate all of the rationalities (so that they don't conflict) and they instead are coherent and afford each other

So you get a rationally self transcending field of rationalities

That long phrase can be replaced with:
Wisdom

[Dr John Vervaeke @DrJohnVervaeke]

Your brain is incredible at pattern recognition—but this superpower has a dark side:

Once you see a pattern—it becomes incredibly hard to "unsee" it.

You become trapped in your own mental models.
The frame becomes a prison.

This reveals something crucial:
The art of systematically breaking patterns to see reality anew.

You need practical techniques to disrupt your normal patterns of thinking.

[Dr. Joe Flanders @drjoeflanders]

Entrer dans le domaine des psychédéliques https://t.co/NJlIrixPuc

[Carl Jung Archive @QuoteJung]

“Intellectualism is a common cover-up for fear of direct experience.”

- Carl Jung

[Carl Jung Archive @QuoteJung]

Carl Jung, damn.

[Dr. Joe Flanders @drjoeflanders]

Joining The Synthesis Institute as Program Director feels like coming home.  https://t.co/DinN4s4MV2

[Dr. Joe Flanders @drjoeflanders]

Thrilled to have @DocDurDur on board for this course with @refugepsych

[Andrew Rose @andrewjrose]

Please to share that @DocDurDur from @JHPsychedelics will be joining us for this course on Music for Psychedelic Therapy as a guest lecturer. Early bird pricing is on for another 10 days. @drjoeflanders

https://t.co/VFNnudQ9Nz

[Andrew Rose @andrewjrose]

Please to share that @DocDurDur from @JHPsychedelics will be joining us for this course on Music for Psychedelic Therapy as a guest lecturer. Early bird pricing is on for another 10 days. @drjoeflanders

https://t.co/VFNnudQ9Nz

[josh hardman @Josh__Hardman]

"I’ve been wanting to speak out for the last year — but because of what Lykos and the MAPS board interpreted as my fiduciary responsibility to the Lykos board membership, they said I should control my message.

But now, I am unleashed."

https://t.co/KD3VDtO70r

[Zach Haigney @zach_haigney]

A core thesis of Deus ex Meatbody is the freedom-stuckness spectrum so well put by @RubenLaukkonen

“I have experienced, as many others have, that breaking out of stuckness and dissatisfaction (which are highly correlated), requires two things: knowing the mind and an experiential transformation. Knowing the mind is self-awareness. The experiential transformation is awakening.”

https://t.co/pFBEpQFtBN

[Andrew Rose @andrewjrose]

@AicherHelena You might be interested in this ... https://t.co/1caVsfv7Ec

[Dr. Joe Flanders @drjoeflanders]

Really excited to host this course with @refugepsych and also learn as student myself :) Join @andrewjrose, @alainmenier and me on what is sure to be a mind-blowing musical journey.
https://t.co/rGj0Zzlq9k

[Genevieve Jurvetson @gjurvetson]

If you’re following the drama surrounding the FDA advisory meeting on MDMA therapy, see this incredible article by Rachel Nuwer, who literally wrote the book on the history & science of MDMA.

Harvard Dr. @KingFranklinIV succinctly summed up the “dumpster fire” of a meeting; “The biggest issue is that the advisory committee members really showed a kind of astounding lack of knowledge about the subject matter."

The cost of their ignorance are the lives of our veterans and others in desperate need of PTSD treatments that actually work.

The researchers who know the science are now punching back.

The latest news: https://t.co/ajiTKdP5Lu

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

Exercise blunts the cortisol response from an acute psychosocial stressor

Here’s how to use exercise to help manage stressful situations 👇
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[Matthew W. Johnson @Drug_Researcher]

FDA MDMA/PTSD meeting has been fascinating. One of the most compelling reveals: This isn't what I would call "expectancy" assessment, but the effect of functional unblinding. For those thinking they got MDMA, therapeutic effect was nearly identical between MDMA & placebo. Yikes