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So Paul Stamets introduced me to you.

So how did you meet Paul?

Yeah.

So I was aware of Paul for quite some time.

And this past Psychedelic Science...

I was shadowing people and working to help the people that went to the conference feel safe just because of the nature of the environment that we're in now.

In what way?

So psychedelic science had a lot of Jewish practitioners.

They had invited Palestinian practitioners in.

There was Arab practitioners there.

So there was a lot of...

education around sensitive topics happening, you know, and I was invited in just to be available to help people feel secure.

What were they worried about?

Yeah, any protests building up.

Well, you know, the nature of the environment, right?

There's like wars going on across the world.

This is a psychedelic conference.

Possible protests, possible people getting overwhelmed with emotion.

You know, because in psychedelic science 2023, there was a situation where when Rick Doblin was on stage.

A group came in and disrupted his presentation and they were allowed on stage to speak.