It is known that the likelihood of long-term therapeutic gains increases with the likelihood of the subject having a mystical experience, prima facie evidence favoring a critical role for subjectivity. It is precisely the high emotional impact of the memories of the vivid and highly unusual psychedelic experience that serves as the primary source

these shamanic practitioners is lucid dreaming, which they equate with death and use as a technique for removing the influence of past traumas from the mind.

The second meeting Marilyn had with Allan was more difficult than the first. Allan is an underground psychedelic therapist. Psychedelic therapy is built on the 1960s idea that psychedelics — drugs like LSD and psilocybin (the “magic” in magic mushrooms) that are known to radically alter cognition and perception — also have the ability to produce