Entheogens

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

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

What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightning.

-Terence McKenna

Therapy must make radical demands of the world and set a standard for what needs to happen, rather than adapting to the way things have been and meekly trying to help its patients adjust a little better.

This is the issue with older, well-established psychoanalysts, not to mention counselling farms like betterhelp or its AI version, Rosebud (amongst... See more

Shrooms aren't magic bullets

Often, the "trip" is the easiest part

The hardest and most important part is the integration where you take the lessons & insights you learned from your experience and actually EMBODY them into WHO you are.

That's the real MAGIC

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.