Access to Healing, Who Gets to Heal
Access to Healing, Who Gets to Heal? On the cost of medicine, ancestral wisdom, and the right to healing Healing has become an industry. We can purchase a retreat, book a ceremony, subscribe to a meditation app, or order medicine to our doorstep. An entire marketplace has emerged around our longing to feel whole. There […]
When the Sacred Becomes Ordinary
When the Sacred Becomes Ordinary There is a particular kind of knowing that can emerge in the wake of profound experience. For a moment, the boundaries we have grown accustomed to inhabiting begin to dissolve. The world feels startlingly alive. The trees, the body, the stranger passing on the street all seem to participate in […]
Healing Isn’t the Same as Feeling Good
On the difference between temporary relief and lasting transformation We live in a world that teaches us to chase the feeling of feeling good. We reach for comfort, distraction, certainty, and anything that might quiet the parts of ourselves that feel uncomfortable. There is nothing inherently wrong with wanting to feel good. Trust me, as […]
Dying Before We Die: Mushrooms, Mystical Death, and the Ancient Technology of Transformation
“If you die before you die, you won’t die when you die.” — Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key Before entering into this week’s blog, I invite you to pause and take notice of how the title landed in your body. What emotions, sensations, memories or feelings if any did the title of this essay […]
Psilocybin and the Aging Brain
Exploring Psilocybin’s Potential for Cognitive Aging What if an aging brain is more capable of change than we’ve been taught to believe? A remarkable case report published in Frontiers in Neuroscience this year has opened up a question that would have sounded almost impossible a decade ago: What happens when psilocybin meets a brain in […]
Aging as a Journey: What Plant Medicine Can Teach Us About Becoming
Aging as a Journey: What Plant Medicine Can Teach Us About Becoming I stand in front of the mirror holding onto my crystal gua sha as if it were a surgical tool, gliding it along the curvature of my face with the precision and focus of an open-heart surgeon. My skincare routine used to be […]
Grief, Mushrooms, and the Mystery of Letting Go
Psilocybin and Grief: Making Space for Loss, Ritual, and the Mystery “Every one of us must undertake an apprenticeship with sorrow. We must learn the art and craft of grief, discover the profound ways it ripens and deepens us.”— Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow The Lost Art of Grieving And yet, in today’s […]
The Subtleties of Microdosing and Macrodosing
Microdosing vs Macrodosing: The Whisper and the Roar Psychedelics have found themselves in the cultural spotlight once again, but much of the conversation has become centered on dosage. Should you microdose? Should you macrodose? Which is better? Perhaps a more nuanced question is this: What kind of relationship are you seeking with the medicine? When […]
Psilocybin Dosage Guide: Understanding the Mushroom Dose Spectrum
If you’ve spent any time around mushrooms, you’ve probably heard people talk about dosage as though there is a simple formula: “take this much and you’ll have this kind of experience.” But friends, psilocybin doesn’t quite work that way. Dose matters oftentimes profoundly but it is only one piece of a much larger picture. The […]
The Mental Health Revolution Happening Outside of Pharmacies
Not medical advice. This article is educational. Psilocybin is not a treatment for any medical condition, and nothing here is a substitute for care from a qualified health professional. If you take prescription psychiatric medication, do not stop or change it without talking to your prescriber. Microdosing for mental health describes taking sub-perceptual doses of psilocybin, […]
