Neuroscientist Gül Dölen explores how psychedelics paired with mindful integration can reopen the brain’s sensitive learning windows to rewire habits, heal trauma, and expand consciousness.

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In this episode of Mindrolling, Gül and Raghu chat about:

• Gül’s research on psychedelics and how we can translate animal studies into human neuroscience
• Looking to Octopuses for sociological answers using MDMA
• Critical periods—windows when the brain is most open to learning and environmental influence.
• Psychedelics as the master key to reopening critical periods, especially when paired with therapy
• Inducing metaplasticity with psychedelics, reshaping harmful patterns, and promoting transformation.
• Non-substance methods to reopen critical periods, like sensory and social deprivation
• How mystical practices such as meditation and silent retreats can trigger a “beginner’s mind” state for deep insights
• How psychedelics propose a learning model rather than a biochemical imbalance model towards approaching depression, addiction, or PTSD
• Focusing on post-trip integration to harness long-term benefits from the psychedelic experience
• Maximize the integration period to cement insights gained during psychedelic journeys
• The social and psychological changes we go through as we age and adapt to new environments/situations
• The importance of “set and setting” and how it can influence psychedelic experiences and the formation of helpful or harmful habits

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About Gül Dölen:

Dr. Gül Dölen is a Professor and the Bob & Renee Parsons Endowed Chair in the Department of Neuroscience, and Department of Psychology, the Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr Dölen also maintains an Adjunct Professorship in Neuroscience and Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine. Dr. Dölen researches the role psychedelics may have in unlocking critical periods in Dölen Lab. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards.

“It turns out that our results really suggest that psychedelics are those master keys that we have been looking for all this time.” – Gül Dölen

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Embodied awareness practitioner Jill Satterfield joins Raghu to unpack how meditative poses, creativity, and slowing down can help us release pain, move energy, and heal somatically.

In this delightful episode of the Mindrolling Podcast, Raghu and Jill Satterfield converse about:

• Out-of-body experiences through immersive art and altered states of consciousness
• Jill’s college days and spiritual insights from taking peyote in the desert
• Finding a spiritual path through chronic pain and emotional suffering
• How trauma and pain disconnect us from bodily awareness
• The physiological impact of imagination on the body and nervous system
• How meditative and yogic poses can open areas of our body & psyche for exploration
• Witnessing processes within the body via ‘slowing down, staying in something, and moving energy’
• Somatic healing during retreat and bringing concentration into the body
• Adaptive postures for meditation and yoga, and allowing flexibility within our practice
• The benefit of curiosity for altering our perspectives and opening the heart
• Noticing that pain is an umbrella for many feelings, including some that are pleasant or interesting

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About Jill Satterfield:

Jill Satterfield has been a quiet pioneer in the integration of embodied awareness practices and Buddhist teachings for over 30 years. Her heart/mind and body approach developed from somatic and contemplative psychology, 35 years of Buddhist study, extensive meditation retreat time and decades of living with chronic pain. At the invitation of her primary teacher, Ajahn Amaro, Jill was the first to offer mindful movement and somatic practices on silent retreats at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and then the Insight Meditation Society 30 years ago. She has developed teacher trainings and mentoring programs that integrate embodied awareness with Dharma ever since. Learn more about Jill’s numerous offerings on her website.

"Imagination creates a physiological response. What you imagine changes your body—it changes your mind. If you're thinking about your guru, your teacher, someone you love, it changes your body." – Jill Satterfield

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