Somewhere tonight a person is taking a psychedelic with no one awake beside them. A five-part safety standard written for the FDA, drug developers, state regulators, clinics and guides, for every room a drug company's rules will never reach.
Read MoreOn 14 September 02026, the FDA held its first public hearing on psychedelic drugs as a class and ruled religious, ceremonial, and personal use out of scope. Eighty speakers, two minutes each, not one question. A letter on the gap the Notice left open.
Read MorePsychedelic integration is the stretch between an event and the life on the far side of the event. Sand becomes rock without help, over millions of years. You have a season. A red cliff in Sedona shows the three conditions, and what to do with them.
Read MoreBeholding is taking in what is in front of you and letting it change you. In a room above a river that runs both ways, I learned the difference between being helped and being received, and how little of the second I had let land.
Read MoreHow a guarded man learns to meet the feminine after a lifetime of holding it at arm's length. A severed first bond, a sentry wired into the chest, a devotion that poured out and kept almost none. Its companion, Vows, is what this hard weather carved.
Read MoreAfter attending the Arizona Psychedelic Society conference in 02025, I share what I learned about a movement blossoming like the desert itself, measured, resilient, and visionary. Arizona blends science, spirituality, and Indigenous wisdom to advance research, advocacy, and ceremony rooted in reverence, where quiet desert intelligence guides healing and renewal.
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