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Ketamine has a long history of use, and extensive long-term data supports its safety. It is considered an essential drug by the World Health Organization and is carried by military field personnel and by paramedics. Ketamine was first synthesized in 1962 by Parke-Davis organic chemist Calvin Stevens through efforts to produce a compound that was a

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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.

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

Specially trained psychiatrists and psychologists are now administering hallucinogens and other potent psychotropic agents (psilocybin, ketamine, ecstasy) as mental health remedies. Administering limited doses (one to three) of psychedelics interspersed with multiple sessions of talk therapy over many weeks has become the modern equivalent of shama

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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 the... See more