Essentials in Psychedelic Medicine

As a psychedelic therapist practitioner and trauma specialist, I can’t say the following enough. 

In the current trendy and passionate psychedelic renaissance, every claim promoting ceremonial medicine use must:

include how important set, setting, preparation and integration are. Spiritual hygiene of a space is essential.

the utmost importance of weeding out well meaning/inexperienced facilitators, sexual predators, people that haven’t done substantial personal work, and dark magic charlatans. This is rampant currently.

how the substance isn’t actually the medicine: the emotional, behavior and spiritual life changes are.

the medicine is actually a catalyst and must be treated as such. My favorite term is threshold guardian. The word medicine implies we need it repeatedly to “fix our disease.” 

the actual medicine is the emotional, behavior, and spiritual change we make post ceremony.

substances are not medicine for people that haven’t adequately prepared by doing psychedelic solid preparation, embodiment and meditative practices prior to ceremony. 

post ceremony, the new insights from the medicine journey coupled with these practices, are the actual long term medicine.

substances can retraumatize people that weren’t ready and weren’t held/supported properly.

If you are interested in the power of psychedelics in this current renaissance, the right set and setting and an excellent guide can make all the difference.