#6 — Buddhism Meets Shamanism with Dr Isa Gucciardi

In & Through: The Onaya Podcast

“The Earth is a huge field of sentience..." 🌎

Dr Isa Gucciardi holds degrees in cultural and linguistic anthropology, comparative religion, and transpersonal psychology. She has spent 50 years studying spiritual, therapeutic, and meditative techniques, working with master teachers of Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and Sufism, as well as expert indigenous and shamanic practitioners from around the world.

She has trained thousands of students in Depth Hypnosis, her therapeutic model that blends elements of ancient wisdom and contemporary psychological thought, alongside her unique programmes of Buddhist Psychology and Applied Shamanism. She also lectures at UC Berkeley and internationally.

In this episode, Isa and Simon discuss the influence of her unusual upbringing in Hawaii; the common stream running through different spiritual traditions, and their different layers of orthodoxy; the idea of Jesus as a curandero, and the possibility that he spent time learning in India; attitudes towards psychedelics within Buddhism; companionship and resonance between different plants; the fallibility of shamans and dangers of glorifying indigenous cultures; the dark sides of shamanism compared to the ethical framework of the Dharma; impermanence, interconnection and the place-based teachings of the earth; and other topics.

Dr Gucciardi is one of many experts on Onaya's new 6-month Psychedelic Mentorship Training programme. For more information and to enroll in the next cohort, visit Onaya's website and use the code 'INTHROUGH10' for a special 10% discount.