Psychedelics - have to be experienced. This is true of basically anything in life — how do you explain the wonders of ice cream to someone? But is doubly true about psychedelics. Even if you’ve had experience with one psychedelic or one kind of psychedelic, you’re not really going to know what another is like. Seeing a film, where the camera is at a weird angle, the image is maybe a bit warped, strange flashing colors show up on the screen, is a sad, sad imitation. Mystical experiences are famously impossible to convey in words.

Psychedelics take you out of the structure of your mind. They show you where you’re composed, what you didn’t know that you knew, etc. Etc. They alter the very nature of how we experience what we’re experiencing - and this is why they’re so powerful as tools for working with the mind — for helping people to heal, and to wake up. Areas of the mind that tend not to communicate much are allowed to — the filters that are normally constrain the ways the mind operates loosen up.

I offer three kinds of experience with Psychedelics, as well as creating tailored experiences with people I have worked with before. In each experience I act a little differently, and we aim for different kinds of experience in each.

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First is an introductory experience, which I recommend if this is the first time you’ve taken psychedelics. We’ll aim for what in the literature is known as a Psycholytic dose. Here, we’re aiming for stretching the capacities of the mind out, rather than exploding them altogether, in the service of being able to stay present with what happens, and working with the material that arises in a more integrative way after the trip.

Secondly, I offer the classic psychedelic experience, where you intentionally take a larger dose in the hopes of completely dropping the habitual sense of self — commonly called ‘ego death.’ This kind of experience is and can be life-changing, often mystical, but can also be riskier, more challenging, and harder to integrate.

Third, I do what I call re-writing source code, where I work much more actively on getting into the structures of your mind and how you be yourself in the world — the core patterns that make you tick. This last one is the most personal, intimate and intense, and I’m working most actively in it alongside the medicine.

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For any experience, as a guide I provide a number of things - I hold the physical and psychological boundaries of safety for the trip, as well as helping you to navigate and work with your experience, all of which helps the dreaded so-called ‘bad trip.’ As mentioned, depending on the type of trip you’re looking for, and where the medicine takes you, I may be more or less engaged with you during your trip, but will always be checking in, and helping you make meaning of things, particularly as you’re coming down.

I’m also an integration geek — much of my interest is in how do you take this cool experience and use it in service of living a more whole, rewarding, enriching life. How do you take the (often mystical) experiences from psychedelics and the insights which make so much sense when you’re tripping, and embody them in a way that actually changes your life? That’s the whole point of doing this as far as I’m concerned.

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Psychedelics take where you are and open up a door to a better life you never knew was possible. They do so in weird ways you can’t really guess at before you take a trip, and they are not by any means a cure-all.

If you’re interested in learning more, reach out for an intake call.