008 | Steve Rio: Facilitating 5-MeO-DMT Ceremonies, Dying Before Death, and Having A Psychedelic Mindset in the Psychedelic Industry

Welcome, Steve Rio! Steve is such an impressive human being: a social impact entrepreneur, transformational guide, and musician. Steve has focused his life's work on helping people realize their full potential and raise consciousness. In this episode, we explore the toad medicine (aka 5-MeO-DMT), where the psychedelic industry is heading, and profound ego-death experiences. Tune in for: 

• Steve’s journey with psychedelics, consciousness, and opening a psychedelic retreat center
• What is 5-MeO-DMT/toad medicine?
• Ethical issues around toad medicine
• Synthetic vs. organic psychedelics
• The unique rituals and protocols at Enfold Institute retreats
• The type of people commonly called to Steve’s retreats
• Steve’s first experience with 5-MeO-DMT and how that lead to the development of their protocol at Enfold Institute
• How Steve and his wife came to curate their retreat approach at Enfold Institute
• Ego death and “dying before you die”
• Advocating for bringing psychedelics to the market with reverence as they become mainstream

Mentioned in the episode:

• My Full Review of Enfold Institute 
• Check out episode 79 for my trip report at Enfold
• And my second interview with Steve in 2024
• An Urgent Plea to Users of Psychedelics: Let’s consider a more ethical menu of plants and compounds (Article)
• Hamilton’s Pharmacopia
• Consciousness Medicine (book)
• Stan Grof's work (books) [1, 2, 3, 4]

Where to find Steve:

• Enfold Institute 
• Nature of Work 
• @steverio
• @enfoldinstitute
• @natureofwork.co

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