Entheogens

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

Microdosing is about staying in the tension.

Macrodosing is about breaking through it.

Both require discernment.

Neither is a shortcut.

Shrooms are fucking great, but they won't make your rent cheaper, your boss kinder, or instantly make your life easier.

Psilocybin is a tool for increased awareness of yourself & your environment. It's up to you to use that information wisely.

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?”

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

This can be a frustratingly slow process.

Healing truly takes its own time - there is no rushing it, only assisting in it.

In practice, during a session this looks similar to what Somatic Experiencing would describe as “titration and pendulation” - moving back and forth between “control” and “letting go.”

Letting go 0.25% at a time, then noticing the... 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).