I have been facilitating psychedelic ceremonies for over five years.

In this time, I’ve had the honor to sit with more than 250 people from all walks of life, who passed through the threshold of some of the most profound experiences a human being can have. I have held space while grief of loss moved through a body that had been refusing to let it go for decades with wracking honest tears. I’ve watched people encounter the shadow of anger, guilt and shame they had been managing rather than meeting to the result of self-sabotage and mental collapse. And, I have witnessed the kind of profound heart openings that reignite a life in ways no amount of talk therapy, self-help, or personal development work had been able to touch.

Across all of it, one thing has become undeniable to me.

The psychedelic conversation happening in most public spaces is missing something essential.

Not the research. The research is extraordinary and growing. Not the clinical frameworks. Those are maturing in important ways as well. What is missing is the depth conversation. The one that takes the interior life seriously on its own terms. The deeply complex exploration into a mind and heart to explore what the medicine is actually doing when it finds the wound you thought you had already handled in frameworks that can handle the nuance. My work as a ceremonialist draws on indigenous wisdom from personal initiatory experiences, plant wisdom from direct transmitted knowledge, many Eastern & Western traditions, yet ultimately is anchored in the Therevada buddhist Path, a map that embodies over 2,500 years of contemplative wisdom about the nature of mind-heart.

I believe it’s time to treat the threshold of medicine in the public sphere as sacred territory requiring real deep earnest preparation, not just good intentions and an intake form.  I will have a followup article coming out shortly on how preparation has also been largely missing from the conversation with integration getting all the spot light.

I just launched a Substack. The first post is a personal manifesto: why I built this space, what you will find here, and what I believe the threshold of psychedelic mindfulness actually asks of those who approaches it with sincere intent.

If you are drawn to the psychedelic path, sitting with what a recent journey brought you, working with clients in this space, or simply seeking writing that goes past the surface and dives deep into the nature consciousness, the raw process of healing, ancient ways to orient around the experiences, and its real disruptive and transformative impact on interior life, this is the space I am building for you.

The full piece is linked below. I would be honored to have you there!