Chaweon Koo

Here’s the science: Aerobic exercise like walking increases blood flow to the brain, especially to the prefrontal cortex — the part responsible for focus, decision-making, and memory. It’s like giving your brain a software update every morning. But the real magic? Creativity.

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

If we have a regulated nervous system, we can access, process, and release material that was previously unavailable to us, thus creating space for a closer relationship with Self.

Ketamine is an effective front-line tool in therapy if understood as primarily creating a safe place in the body for deeper work to occur.

Ketamine can assist with a return... 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.

For more than a decade now, I have been using Professor Tim Ingold’s term “thinking with ” rather than, say, thinking about something. I do not think about love. I think with Aphrodite. Communalising the activity taps that infinite font of richness that she both governs and is. Same for Hephaestus and Psyche and Eros and Hermes and all the rest of ... See more