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 MoreA brain never touches the world. What arrives is light at an angle. Inside a mushroom journey nothing new comes in. The glass you already carry gets turned. The four turns, the fear at the door, and the one dial that stays yours.
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 MoreFive vows a man keeps so he can stand in real weather and not break, each cut to the shape of an old wound and turned the other way. Why a vow is not a wish, and a practice for writing your own. Its companion, Bend, is the force that taught him.
Read MoreWhat if the love you keep trying to find was never missing, only hidden behind the fear your body learned to obey? A reflection on MDMA, trauma, trust, and the strange mercy of finally feeling safe enough to receive what was always there.
Read MoreKetamine began on the battlefield as the buddy drug, given by one human who then stayed. We built an industry that forgot the second half. What integration actually is, why a clinic that listens matters, and a new partnership with Mind Body Centers.
Read MoreTimothy Leary’s prison-born framework becomes a doorway into bardos, birth, sacrament, nervous system safety, and the old danger of mistaking the map for the mountain, asking when a spiritual map frees us, when it traps us, and when love asks us to look up.
Read MoreWhen profound experiences fade, we often blame ourselves. But memory is not the problem. Continuity is. Technology, used slowly and ethically, can help us remember what we already know.
Read MorePart two of a two-part series on Working With Grief Through Ceremony, Psychedelics, and Integration. This piece offers a grounded guide to pacing, containment, and how grief becomes transformative when honored and embodied.
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