The Science of Psychedelics Conference

[music] Hi everyone. Um, it is an honor for me to be here. I think something irrelevant. It's a very small story which is when I was five. Um, I pointed

I was in the car at a building and I asked my dad, "Dad, what is that?" And he said, "That's a church." Said, "What's a church?" And he said, "That's where people go waste their time.

which led me to study engineer. I think it's no uh coincidence that I grew up uh pretty skeptical of any of these things. Um I wouldn't call myself uh or I wouldn't have called myself an atheist then. More agnostic but um pretty much very close. Um and uh yeah I

went to engineer school in uh the technological national university in Argentina. I would say one of my missions here is to bridge that gap between spirituality and science. Um I would consider myself a deeply spiritual person but none of the scientific background has gone anywhere. I facilitated between four and 500 um medicine ceremonies with Iawaska and Watuma. I served about 8,000 people

by now. So what is the emotional body? Um, I think everybody is familiarized with their physical body. And for a lot of people, that's who they are in their minds. They're like, if I ask who who

are you? You would say, well, this this is me. I can't touch it. Not everybody, but a lot of people do. Some people

associate more with their thoughts and they're like, who are you? Well, I am this guy here that is thinking who is himself. You know, it's like that's me. Great. Uh that's another one of what I

would call our bodies. You know, body is not necessarily something physical, but it is if you want to call it a container. Um, so I have my physical body, I have my mind body, and then there's a few people, not that many, but there's they are out there that they associate themselves the most with their emotions. And so your emotional body, it is the part of you, it is not all of you, you are also your physical body and your mind body, but it is a part of you, the container in you that contains your emotions. You cannot touch them. You

cannot think through emotions but you can feel them. They are somewhere there. And like your physical body that can get hurt like your mind body like can get hurt. Your emotions your emotional body can get hurt as well. I'm pretty sure

everybody can think of examples in which your body any of the three that I mentioned have uh have gotten hurt in the past. Um, so and exactly like in the physical body, I'm coming always back to a physical body because it's the easiest one to relate to. If you get cut, maybe you don't need to do anything and it heals by itself. Um, same with the emotional body. If somebody um flips you

off in the middle of the street, ouch, >> but then I'm fine. I don't need to do anything about it. Now you know if a piano falls from a 10th floor over your body um I think you will need help. I don't think the body will have the capacity to do everything by itself. The

same happens with your emotional body. If something really big happens in um especially in formative years like in your childhood uh then you might need some help to help it heal. So um we're talking about the emotional body getting hurt and how does it get hurt? It is very simple. Um you know we

can talk about the many ways or the many examples of things that have happened to me or to any of you. Um but it all boils down um to one thing which is uh what will help us understand how to heal it and that is through um certain emotions being unprocessed. That's it. Super simple. If you were to

to say how does your emotional body get hurt, it is by certain emotions going unprocessed. So, for example, if you are um you're four, your parents were really loving to you ever. They never said anything bad. They always like, "You're my little angel." Um, "Wow, you're you're so cute.

You're so proud of you. This that all you know is that that's all you know." And then one day you do something and they ground you. That wasn't even within the realm of possibilities that that could happen. And so, it's like

What is that that breath that that contraction that you feel? You're not really feeling it in your body even though you might have physiological uh reactions to it. That is a part of an emotion that wants to show up. Let's say fear or um disappointment or hopelessness is so intense. It's so new that that

emotion has nowhere to go. And so what it does is, you know, I'm I'm making a lot of sounds because that's usually how it feels like. We don't have words for it. So you have that and then now you have to go to your room. What? What? What just happened?

Well, what what just happened is an emotion was too intense to be processed in the moment. So it's saved and stored in your emotional body waiting for the day in which you have the emotional maturity, the emotional intelligence, the right setting for it to show up and be held properly. So certain emotions don't get uh processed because they are too intense. Certain others are not that intense, but they have the problem that they are not being welcomed or received.

So maybe you're grounded and then the emotion is anger and it comes out, you know, whatever. Like you start throwing a fit and then your dad is like, "No, you're grounded even more." Like I thought I thought it was going to be no TV, but now it's no TV and dessert for two days and now you get more angry and now uh now he grounds you more. And so what basically he's unconsciously telling you and what's unconsciously happening inside you is my anger has no space. There is no space for my anger in

this world. Um and that is how the programming goes. So maybe anger wasn't that hard of an emotion to feel in the in that moment or that intense but it was not welcomed. And so your emotional body is now hurt. So we said either it's

too intense or it's not intense but there's no welcoming to that emotion. So now that we know how the emotional body gets hurt, we can talk about how does it get healed. Can anybody take a shot?