Real Reciprocity in Psychedelics and Beyond
Life is a Festival #107: Sutton King (Journey Colab)
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What is our responsibility for kinship and reciprocity as we explore the healing power of plant medicine? Sutton King of the Menominee and Oneida Nations, Head of Impact at the psychedelic drug development company Journey Colab, can show us the way.
On the show we explore Sutton’s commitment to healing and service from her early days dancing jingle dress to her work with the Urban Indigenous Collective in New York. Sutton explains her perspective on kinship and the Seven Generations Principle. We discuss Journey Colab, the psychedelic startup that is developing mescaline for treating alcoholism. Finally we review the responsibilities of psychedelic entrepreneurs as well as individual psychonauts to be in right relation with the honorable harvest.
A descendant of the Menominee and Oneida Nations of Wisconsin, Sutton King is a nationally recognized indigenous heath advocate, researcher, and social entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and President of Urban Indigenous Collective, a nonprofit advocating on the behalf of Urban Natives in the tri-state area, she is Head of Impact at Journey Colab, a start-up led by Sam Altman and Jeeshan Chowdhury developing psychedelic treatments for mental health, and she is the Co-Founder of ShockTalk, a culturally tailored telemental health platform that facilitates culturally appropriate patient-provider relationships.
With psychedelic exploration booming, we need leaders like Sutton King to make sure our transformational self-inquiry and healing doesn’t simple become another kind of hedonic consumption.
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Timestamps
:10 - A day in the life of a psychedelic activist
:15 - Dancing Jingle Dress as a calling to help heal her people
:24 - Kinship and the Seven Generations principle
:32 - Peyote, Journey Colab, and the Indigenous Reciprocity Trust
:39 - Cheif Oshkosh, and Menominee sustainability
:44 - Right psychedelic entrepreneurship from the Nagoya Protocol to “Free, Prior, and Informed Consent”
:53 - Urban Indigenous Collective
:59 - Reciprocity on an individual level
Graphics Designed by Andy McErlean
Audio Engineering by Trevor Coulter
Theme song ““Peculiar Colors” [Manjumasi]“ by dj atish