Leap First
Following her brother's death, Katherine turns to plant medicine to help with her grief and becomes fascinated with the promise and perils of using psychedelics to address mental health. She befriends an Australian-Tahitian shaman, Kerry Henwood, who teaches her about finding peace and acceptance.
Rediscovering
After decades of prohibition, psychedelic science is booming and it's thanks in large part to a British Countess named Amanda Fielding, aka Lady Mindbender. Katherine visits Fielding in the English countryside and meets with psychiatrists trying to figure out why psychedelics appear to cure the root of mental suffering. With Amanda Fielding, Simon Ruffel and Ben Sessa
Gold Rush
DMT, MDMA, magic mushrooms...former party favors are fueling an explosion of startups and investment funds. Katherine meets Christian Angermayer - a shroom loving, biotech investing, psychedelic art collecting, German billionaire and the single biggest financial force behind the psychedelic renaissance. With Christian Angermayer
Psychedelic Liberation
Katherine travels to Baltimore to meet with Charlotte James and Undrea Wright of the Ancestor Project. They believe that being healed means waking up to the broken systems all around us and are helping people of color heal racial trauma with psychedelics. With Charlotte James and Undrea Wright
In Search of Authenticity
Katherine travels to the Peruvian Amazon to meet Carlos Tanner, an unlikely emissary of spiritual healing. Following a close encounter with death, Carlos gave up his old life to become a plant medicine shaman and he wound up at the heart of the ayahuasca tourism boom. With Carlos Tanner
The Ministry of Plants
Katherine meets Shipibo curandero Don Enrique Lopez, who runs a plant medicine healing center in the jungle near Iquitos, Peru. For Don Enrique, healing is all about faith. With Don Enrique Lopez
The Battle Follows You Home
Veterans have emerged as unlikely champions of psychedelic medicine. Katherine meets with three vets connected with the Heroic Hearts Project. After service, each struggled with mental health and substance abuse, but eventually they found healing in the jungle, with ayahuasca. With Jesse Gould and Zach Riggle
Healing Necessitates Transformation
Katherine meets Gabriel Mac, an award-winning journalist, whose experience with psychedelic assisted therapy sets him on a path to unlock both childhood trauma and a deeper truth inside him. With Gabriel Mac
Credits. Season one of Seeking was made by many talented people:
Natsumi Ajisaka, fact checking
Sam Bair, mixing
Rob Dozier, producer
Grant Irving, editor and executive producer
Lizzie Jacobs, editor and executive producer
Hamza Oomerjee, producer
Nolan Schneider, original music
Lily Thompson, producer