UNORTHODOX
Headspace
Ep. 234: Meet the Jews at the forefront of the psychedelic movement, in the 1950s and today
Zac was featured on this episode of Unorthodox, “the world’s leading Jewish podcast™” in a story by Alix Wall about Jews advocating for psychedelics playing a larger role in our personal and communal lives. Also featured is George Sarlo, an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor from Hungary whose guided experience with ayahuasca in Mexico healed his childhood trauma and lifelong depression, and also brought him back into the Jewish community. He established the George Sarlo Foundation to provide funding and research for the use of psychedelics to treat addiction and trauma. Dr. Gabor Maté was the friend who convinced Sarlo to try psychedelics as treatment for trauma, an approach pionered by Dutch psychiatrist Jan Bastiaans, who treated hundreds of Holocaust survivors with psychedelic drugs.