FLAME with Brad Hook
From Mindfulness to Psychedelics: Rethinking Mental Health and Human Potential
Michael Juberg works at the intersection of mindfulness, compassion and psychedelic medicine. This is a conversation about healing — at the individual level and the collective one.
Michael describes himself as an underdog, and his story — grit, self-belief, persistence — shapes how he thinks about human potential. We trace how mindfulness is evolving from a private practice into a tool for social change: cultivating empathy, reducing polarisation, improving collective wellbeing rather than just individual calm.
Then the frontier: psychedelic-assisted therapy. Michael explains how ketamine, MDMA and psilocybin are being used in clinical settings to treat depression, trauma and existential distress — often with profound and lasting effects — and what the research does and doesn't yet support. Measured, hopeful and grounded in the science.
In this episode
- Mindfulness as a tool for social change, not just personal calm
- How compassion practice reduces polarisation
- Psychedelic-assisted therapy: ketamine, MDMA and psilocybin in the clinic
- What the research supports — and where it's still early
- Grit, self-belief and the underdog's path
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