“Achieving” contact with the Soul via its language - symbol - is proof of a body beginning to regulate and become an integrated, habitable whole again.

““Why do so many people have difficulty in breathing fully and easily? The answer is that breathing creates feelings, and people are afraid to feel. They are afraid to feel their sadness, their anger, and their fear.””

— Alexander Lowen

if there’s one key thing I learned from these years, it’s that the neurobiological legacy of trauma is driving everything.

Said another way, it’s the nervous system where my client had the disconnect.

They didn’t connect their lack of meaning in jobs, superficial relationships, or living in a concrete, EMF-bathed matrix with feeling malaise or lack... 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?”

Have you actually had the courage to slow down and bravely look at the foundations of your life?

And have you assessed what is rotten there, what may be causing the depression and listlessness and chasing?

And have you gone deeper to see that underneath THAT foundation, there is a further, vastly larger rotting foundation that is our culture?

Can you... See more

That’s why a much better fit for Stage 2 is MDMA, as in the right context, this medicine can act similarly to ketamine, in that it creates safety while also tending to “bring up” more from the subterranean “grief well” than ketamine usually can.

the role ketamine plays likely makes up only 25% of the equation, if that.

The other 75% is provided by the relationship(s) - that is, the safety, connection, and being seen that only humans can provide each other.

The co-regulation, presence, and - ultimately - Love that true therapeutic relationship provides is the key.

It is the quality of the... See more

trauma is not the event, but the response to the event.

People can believe they have mentally or verbally processed an event, but the nervous system doesn’t respond to words.

Talk therapy doesn’t touch trauma at a deep level.

It’s like the nervous system needs proof - on a physiological level - that the body is allowed to relax and unguard.