Destiny: Abbie Rosner, Psychedelics and the New Vision of Aging

Summary

The podcast explores how older adults are utilizing psychedelics to enhance their experience of aging, seeking healing and spiritual growth. Abbie Rosner shares accounts of over 30 older adults who have found joy and peace with mortality through psychedelic journeying. The episode highlights the importance of community and shared experiences in promoting thriving later years.

Key takeaways

• 1Abbie Rosner discusses best practices for safe psychedelic journeying in later life.
• 2Accounts from over 30 older adults illustrate the healing and transformative power of psychedelics.
• 3The rise of group psychedelic ceremonies fosters mutual support among elders.
• 4Rosner emphasizes the evolving role of elders in society amidst an ageist culture.
• 5Clinical research advances on psychedelic medicines have validated the benefits and risks for older adults.

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Transcript excerpt

Welcome to Destiny. Now here's your host, Cliff Dunning. It's always fun to talk about inner awareness, but this week we're talking about inner awareness with psychedelics and the thought of aging. How do we get older? What we do when we know that the end is coming? And we don't talk a great deal about death in America because we don't want to die. We want to live forever, and we do everything we can to avoid the even considering passing away facelifts, products for revitalizing our skin, our organs, and so forth and so on. In the Old World, our ancestors cherished and were very focused on the end times, and when relatives passed, friends passed, they were honored. Day of the Dead in Mexico is huge and it is very, very a big part of that culture. Indigenous people in the United States celebrate the passing and the dead, and we don't consider it anything but the last thing we want to consider. Hey, this is Cliff, you're host of Destiny, and today we're talking about working with plant medicines as a senior fifties, sixties, seventies and beyond, and what happens when you begin working with those inner dimensions when you're altered, and some of you I understand what I'm talking about. Others of you have perhaps heard about Graham Hancock taking his family on ayahuasca retreats, and ayahuasca is very, very powerful. Today's program doesn't go to those extents. And I mean, if you can go on, if you're sure enough to want to do that, if you're in your intuition says yeah, I'd like to try it. By all means, do the research, find the groups, the getaways, the tours, or someone local who's doing ceremony and consider ayahuasca. ...

Excerpt from Earth Ancients, Jul 8, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.