These protectors often cause clients to have “dud” sessions - high doses creating only very mild effects, or none at all (Just the black of the eyemask and no change in body feeling).

This psychosomatic “holding” is a well documented phenomenon (Stan Grof found that with certain very traumatized patients in his LSD research, he had to give doses 10x... See more

As more and more people take psychedelics illegally, blindly moving themselves through a messy version of the 4 stages as best they can, there will be an increase in refusal.

Refusal to continue to accept the status quo, to continue to accept chronic unsafety, to continue to be governed and led by those most dissociated and themselves unconsciously... See more

The idea that psychedelics can be adapted to corporate, left-brained, data-driven, profit-seeking operating systems is folly.

Instead, it is us that must adapt to psychedelics, asking over and over again, “what model is actually most aligned to the values that are inherent in these medicines?”

Integration is misunderstood. Most people don’t know what it really means.

It’s not just about mentalizing an experience.

The best integration is an embodied action, often simultaneously symbolic, communicating back to the unconscious that the message has been received, and is now being integrated.

That’s why I would always tell my client that... See more

out of 700+ clients, roughly 70% of people were only able to make progress in Stage 1 (finding safety), while another roughly 25% were able to move deeper into Stage 2 (fully feeling). Perhaps 5% or less moved into Stage 3 (reclaiming the Soul).

All this must be titrated - again the job of the therapeutic container - to ensure that the nervous system of the individual does not become flooded - in effect, by truth.

Because we have a tendency to rush in our culture, there is a very real risk of getting to this stage and undoing all progress by rushing into material and feeling too much, too... See more

If it is the drug (or “the medicine”) that is doing the work, rather than The Container - then it is a slippery slope to a fully AI-powered “support” system of therapy-gpt chatbots, fluffy articles about integration, and a skeleton crew of disengaged NPs and PAs prescribing a brick wall of 10 min appointments, 7 days a week.

Think of the margins.

Unf... See more

Psychedelics are not here to save the world. They are here to eat the shit of the world, and turn everything to compost, so that in 1000 years, there is a chance of an actual beautiful world our hearts know is possible.

Psychedelics are here to teach you - remind you - that you came here at this time to do a specific job, and that is to clear the... See more

Most people tend to miss that it’s actually the BODY driving what happens in the mind as much as the other way around.

So by focusing on the body, we over time can create a mind that is a nicer place to be.