The Conspiracy Theory of Healing This post is about psychedelic integration. Hang in there. I'll get to my point eventually. As our world proliferates with conspiracy theories, we're starting to learn a few things. The first thing we learn is that some of them are true. Deepak Chopra loved hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein, and so did a bunch of other people in various positions of power and reknown. Various creepy and monstrous activities were participated in. We know this to be true now....
11 days ago • 7 min read
The point of psychedelics is not to just do psychedelics. The point of psychedelics is not to just do psychedelics. We know that if we do too many, too often, (or too much too fast) we might end up getting a little weird or a little burnt out. We might end up thinking too many weird thoughts, coming up with strange ideas, like perhaps our entire friend group is comprised of reincarnated healers, shamans, heroes, and warriors of light who chose to come back to earth to fight for goodness and...
18 days ago • 5 min read
Native of Eternity - Rest In Peace, Lorin Roche Lorin Roche changed my life, and on April 18th, he died. I'm very sad about it. I thought I'd get a chance to speak to him again. We chatted a little a few months ago, and I sent him a picture of my kids. I guess that's it. I cried throughout yoga class this morning. I wonder what the teacher thought. I found his work in 2008, when I was starting to dive into the Vijnana Bhairava Tantras, a meditation encyclopedia. While most of the translations...
25 days ago • 5 min read
Psychedelic Camp Shirts 12-step programs have this interesting concept called “attraction rather than promotion." The idea is that they don’t try to proselytize or sell people on the idea of sobriety. That generally just turns people off. It’s better to just walk around and be a better version of yourself than you were when you were drunk all the time. People notice that, and if they want help, they come to you. It also seems like a pretty good way of going about things for those among us who...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Are we fungi, or are we algae? Lichen. It's fascinating. Until just the other day, I thought it was a single organism. It came up in a conversation with a client, who explained that it's a symbiotic relationship between fungi and algae. Algae is capable of photosynthesis, which provides energy, nourishing the lichen. The fungus offers structure, it's the reason the lichen is able to live on rocks and trees. Without the contributions of both, lichen wouldn't be able to thrive in such a wide...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Every Time a Guide Asks For Consent, An Angel Gets Its Wings I love a good savasana adjustment as much as anyone. Pull my shoulder blades down, lengthen my neck, maybe swing my legs a bit. It's the best. I got one today. It was awesome. And something that made it so sweet, and maybe a little unexpected, was when the teacher came over, they touched my shoulder gently and said, "May I?" Oh, by all means! We speak a lot about consent in social and relational circles, but it's a fairly new...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Holding the Psychedelic Container I met with our local psychedelic society over the weekend, and we discussed the importance of a good container. We discussed the finer points of what makes a container a container, namely: Intention (Why does this container exist? What are the shared motivations and values of the people in it?) Ethics (What are the agreements and expectations shared by the people in the container) Responsibilities (Who is in charge or what? Who is taking care of whom?)...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
You're the common denominator of all your problems One of the most beautiful parts of this work is realizing how our beliefs limit our reality. There are some who love to intone the sacred adage, "your beliefs create your reality," but I think this perhaps misses the mark. It's only half the story. It's more likely that our beliefs limit our reality. This explains why there are scads of new agers staring into mirrors, desperately chanting "I am abundant" while noting changes. Opportunity...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Nibble the Product You may have seen the video of the McDonald's CEO pretending to eat his company's new burger. He appeared stiff, alien, and uncomfortable. I thought it was his first day on the job, maybe his first day on the planet. He referred to it as 'Product' before managing the tiniest nibble, obviously disgusted. A bunch of other burger joints made parodys, showing that they made burgers that could actually be enjoyed. I wanted to make my own, where I gobbled down some mushrooms or...
2 months ago • 3 min read