“A high-dose psychedelic experience is death practice,” says Katherine MacLean, the former Hopkins psychologist. “You’re losing everything you know to be real, letting go of your ego and your body, and that process can feel like dying.” And yet the experience brings the comforting news that there is something on the other side of that death—whether

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psychedelics are death doulas, and not panaceas.

These oceanic Neptunian states are also an antidote to the problems of alcoholism and drug addiction. From the perspective of transpersonal psychology, substance abuse, codependence and other forms of escapism are recognized as being understandable but mistaken attempts to return to the womb and reorient toward Higher Power. Addicts who reach

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