Through The Veil with Alex Nelson

#022 || Wyly Gray || Ayahuasca for Veterans

April 14th, 2020  |  1 hr 2 mins

ayahuasca, growth, holisitic health, integrative medicine, plant medicine, psychedelics, ptsd, transformation, veteran, veterans

Wyly Gray is a US Marine and the founding director of Veterans of War ( https://www.veteransofwar.org/ ), a Non-Profit organization that helps Veterans prepare for and integrate transformative Ayahuasca experiences. This is such an important cause and I was honored to have Wyly on the podcast.

You can check them out on Instagram @veteransofwar ( https://www.instagram.com/veteransofwar/ )

In this episode we talk about:
[05:00] - How Ayahuasca is showing promise for healing brains with PTSD.
[08:10] - How Wyly overcame a miscarrage in his family and was called to Ayahuasca for the 1st time in Peru.
[15:00] - How PTSD functions on a fundamental level and how that interacts with Ayahuasca.
[21:00] - Why it’s ridiculous that the U.S. has demonized psychedelics that other cultures have used for thousands of years.
[27:00] - How making Psychedelics illegal has made them only safely accessible to those who are wealthy.
[31:30] - Current major roadblocks in legalization efforts.
[36:00] - The process Veterans of War uses for new members entering the program.

As always, you can find me either on my website www.throughtheveil.co or on Instagram @Alexanderdiesel ( https://www.instagram.com/alexanderdiesel/ )