Michael Ryoshin Sapiro

Dr. Michael Ryoshin Sapiro, PsyD, is an ordained Zen Buddhist monk, clinical psychologist, psychedelic psychotherapist, and author of Truth Medicine: Healing and Living Authentically through Psychedelic Psychotherapy. A Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and longtime meditation teacher and researcher, he works extensively with special operations veterans, first responders, and others on the front lines of trauma and service. His work weaves Buddhism, depth psychology, and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy into a path of personal awakening for the sake of collective transformation.

In this conversation, Mike explores truth as a form of medicine—touching on intergenerational trauma, shame and shadow, self-love, nondual awareness, and how psychedelics and meditation can help us live more coherently, compassionately, and wholeheartedly.

Chapters

00:00:00 Introduction

00:06:15 Intergenerational trauma and ancestral wisdom

00:08:19 Truth as medicine  

00:11:39 Psychedelics, information, and, integrating the message

00:16:15 Yoga, truth, and, nonviolence in the inner terrain

00:19:30 Family, culture, and, the deeper levels of truth

00:24:21 How we run from the truth, shadow work and Jung

00:36:07 Self-compassion before and beyond the medicine

00:39:09 Ego death, nondual states and spiritual emergency

00:46:25 Training mind, body, and, heart and building awareness

00:55:28 Hope, faith, and, showing up with kindness

00:59:53 Wholeness and the spectrum of balance

01:05:21 Final thoughts

New Thinking Allowed Guest Host Leanne Whitney, PhD, is a depth psychologist and transformational coach based in Los Angeles, CA. She is the author of Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali and currently serves as Executive Director of Center for Transformation and Integration. Her website is https://leannewhitney.com/

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Producer: Elena McNally

Editor: John Hartmann

(Recorded on October 20, 2025)

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