Journey Home Project

A living map of transformation, where technology mirrors our return to wholeness.

A Transformational Map of Psychedelic Integration

The Journey Home Pilot Project: A Living Experiment in Reflective Healing

Journey Home is an emerging initiative and digital infrastructure project devoted to mapping the deep, sacred process of transformation that surrounds psychedelic-supported healing.

This next phase, the Journey Home Pilot Project, invites participants to co-create the future of integration. Together, we’re exploring how reflective technology can help distill what’s meaningful across preparation, ceremony, and integration. Guided by consent and heart, these tools serve as mirrors for remembering, not machines for replacing.

At its heart, Journey Home is building a living case study archive, a reflective library of real, anonymized integration journeys that reveal the emotional, spiritual, relational, and developmental patterns of becoming. These are not simply trip reports. They are records of threshold crossings, stories that begin long before the ceremony and continue long after.

This initiative supports seekers, guides, researchers, and the broader public in understanding healing not as a disorder to be fixed but as a rite of passage, a soul’s return to wholeness. Through this pilot, we’re inviting a small circle of clients and guides to bring these reflections to life, transforming individual stories into a collective map of becoming.

Mapping the Journey: From Experience to Integration

From Sacred Experience to Living Practice

The psychedelic path does not end with the journey itself. It begins in the tender work of integration.

Journey Home documents the full arc of transformation surrounding psychedelic experiences:

• Emotional breakthroughs and moments of ego dissolution
• Deaths of identity and reconfigurations of self
• Longing, grief, forgiveness, love, and realignment with soul
• The gradual embodiment of insight into daily life

These case studies illuminate shared developmental patterns across experiences, helping individuals and guides alike recognize that their process is not isolated or abnormal but part of a wider spectrum of human and spiritual growth.

Through the Journey Home Pilot Project, participants engage in this mapping firsthand. By analyzing language, emotion, and symbolic patterns that emerge over time, Journey Home helps reveal how insight ripples through everyday life, how what begins as a spark in ceremony becomes a pattern of being.

Journey Home Pilot Project

Reflective Insights for Your Integration (Invite-Only)

The Journey Home Pilot Project is a living experiment at the intersection of technology and transformation. Together we are exploring how reflective AI tools can help individuals stay connected to the insights, intentions, and shifts that arise through their psychedelic experiences, translating momentary realizations into embodied understanding over time.

This pilot explores how technology can support the integration process following a psychedelic journey by helping participants remain in dialogue with their inner experience. We analyze patterns across preparation, ceremony, and integration to identify the language, emotions, and motifs that surface throughout each person’s process, such as values, relationships, core struggles, and moments of transformation.

The goal is to help participants distill their healing intentions, recognize recurring themes, and observe how their perspectives evolve over time. At its heart, Journey Home listens for the language of transformation within each person’s story, helping them stay connected to the deeper currents of their becoming.

Rather than treating each session as data, reflections are shaped by who each person is, their history, worldview, spiritual orientation, and guiding goals for growth. This allows the technology to mirror back insights that feel relevant, resonant, and true, fostering reflection and continued integration.

All participant data is voluntarily shared, de-identified, and securely stored, with every step guided by privacy, consent, and integrity. The project is developed in collaboration with academic researchers and leading experts in AI ethics, ensuring psychological safety, data transparency, and human-centered design.

Ultimately, the Journey Home Pilot lays the foundation for a new kind of integration practice, one that amplifies connection and self-understanding rather than replacing it. By weaving together the strengths of coaching, contemplative practice, and modern analysis, we aim to make integration a continuous, supported, and personally meaningful process.

Participation Overview

We’re piloting a participant-led process that uses careful transcription, de-identification, and large-language-model (LLM) reflection to help you:

• Distill intentions and clarify themes that guide your healing.

• Notice emotional and linguistic patterns that repeat or evolve across time.

• Stay connected to the deeper meaning of your journey beyond the ceremony itself.

What You’ll Receive

• Private Reflection Packet – distilled themes, recurring motifs, direct quotes, and shifts across time.

• 1:1 or Small-Group Review – a personalized debrief session(s) exploring insights and next steps.

• Journey Home Profile (Optional) – an anonymized visual representation of your journey, kept fully confidential unless you choose to share to inspire others.

Why People Join

People join to deepen integration through clear, resonant reflection; to remember the full arc of their journey and clarify what’s next; and to co-design emerging tools that serve others while honoring personal sovereignty.

Eligibility for the Pilot

• Ideally, at least one year of sessions/ceremony or a multi-session arc with Yeshua.

• Willingness to allow our team to review anonymized transcripts from preparation, ceremony, and integration.

• Openness to provide feedback on what feels supportive and true.

Ready to participate?

Why This Matters: A Living Laboratory for the Field

As the psychedelic landscape expands, a quiet truth emerges, we are still learning what it truly means to heal, integrate, and awaken. Many new guides are finding their footing, and most people who journey do so without sustained integration support. The wisdom gained through experience often remains private, unarchived, and inaccessible to those who could learn from it.

Journey Home was created to meet this moment. It serves as both a mirror for the individual and a laboratory for the collective, helping us safely learn from lived experience and recognize the shared developmental patterns that move through transformation.

The Pilot Project marks the beginning of this larger vision, a collaborative effort to listen across many journeys and reveal how language, emotion, and meaning evolve through time. What emerges is not raw data but a field of understanding that can inform guides, researchers, and communities seeking to support the next generation of healing work.

Through this living archive, we can begin to:

• Develop more skillful integration frameworks rooted in real-world experience.

• Recognize collective themes of awakening, growth, and embodiment.

• Provide language and orientation for those navigating transformation.

• Inform ethical research and public education within the psychedelic field.

Healing, seen through this lens, is not a disorder to fix but a rite of passage, a sacred process of reorientation to self, spirit, and society. Journey Home helps map this invisible terrain, showing how the soul’s evolution expresses itself through language, emotion, and relationship.

At its essence, Journey Home offers orientation, coherence, and shared understanding for a generation learning how to come home, within themselves and within community. It also contributes to public health and harm reduction, helping the field grow responsibly while honoring the sacred nature of these experiences.

Psychedelic Guide AI: Compassionate Reflection at Scale

Extending Human Presence through Reflective Technology

Journey Home is creating a first-of-its-kind psychedelic guide AI, a wisdom-trained, compassion-based companion that helps clients and guides recognize what often cannot be seen alone. The intention is not to replace human care but to extend its presence through intelligent reflection that listens, mirrors, and remembers across time.

With consent, hundreds of hours of recorded sessions and ceremonies have already been securely archived, forming the foundation for a new kind of learning tool. The Guide AI is used as a post-session reflection system to deepen understanding, surface themes, and support integration. Experiments with real-time reflective prompts are also underway, increasing depth and presence within ceremonial and coaching spaces.

Purpose and Vision

The purpose of this technology is to help build an ecosystem of transformation, a living intelligence that brings clarity to the process of healing and awakening. By studying how transformation unfolds across many journeys, the Guide AI will help inform and empower a wide range of people, including:

• Practitioners and guides, seeking more precision and reflection in their work.

• Researchers and educators, developing ethical models for integration and learning.

• Policymakers and organizational leaders, shaping programs that honor safety and soul.

• Curious individuals, wanting to better understand their own inner process.

This intelligence will not replace human guidance or therapy. It will amplify their effectiveness, helping everyone, from individuals to institutions, access relevant insights, improve decision-making, and ground their work in lived experience.

Core Capabilities

The Guide AI enables deep insight across time, analyzing dozens of hours of a participants' sessions and ceremonies and surfacing patterns the human mind may not track alone. The more work a client and guide do together, the more precise and powerful the reflections become, expanding their shared understanding of the transformational journey and allowing for new levels of precision in soul-guided growth.

The system is designed to:

• Offer continuous reflective support between sessions.

• Provide gentle prompts and inquiries to sustain connection with insight.

• Track longitudinal integration patterns across time.

• Surface themes, language, and emotional arcs that reveal subtle patterns of transformation.

• Direct users toward trusted harm-reduction resources, such as Fireside Project and crisis support networks.

Ethical Design and Collaboration

Development is being guided by academic researchers, mental health professionals, and AI ethics experts to ensure all reflection is grounded in privacy, consent, and integrity. Every dataset is voluntarily shared, fully anonymized, and handled with reverence for participant sovereignty.

Visualizing Transformation

Three visualization modes are being developed to help participants and guides explore reflection in meaningful ways:

• Showcase View – a collective overview of anonymized transformation patterns across journeys.

• Profile View – an individual’s personalized summary showing key themes and emotional currents.

• Deep Dive View – an in-depth exploration for researchers and practitioners tracing language, symbolism, and emotional movement through time.

These tools together create a bridge between inner knowing and collective wisdom, helping individuals, guides, and researchers see healing as an unfolding story of soul-level transformation.

The Long Vision

By 2030, thousands of guides and participants may contribute to a shared, ethical, and secure ecosystem of anonymized sessions. Together, they will help map not only individual journeys but the collective evolution of human consciousness itself.

This is not about automation or replacement, but about amplification, bringing more precision, presence, and relational integrity to the sacred work of healing.

Journey Home mock-ups version 1

A glimpse into the inner story made visible. These early prototypes honor privacy while helping us learn from one another’s courage, offering a soft mirror into how real people grow, heal, and come home to themselves. This is an evolving expression that will improve as community wisdom guides it.

Meet the Team

Steward and Founder

Yeshua Adonai — Guide, integration coach, and founder of Journey Home. Yeshua holds the vision and stewardship of this evolving ecosystem, weaving sacred experience, research, and technology into a living archive of transformation. His role bridges trauma-informed facilitation, ethical design, and systems thinking to ensure that every reflection serves the soul and honors the human story behind it.

Research and Development Lead

Carly Leininger — Researcher, designer, and collaborator guiding the scientific and technical development of Journey Home. With a background in psychology, neuroscience, and digital therapeutics, she brings expertise in using artificial intelligence for reflection and integration. Carly helps shape the architecture of the Guide AI and ensures that every aspect of the system remains ethical, human-centered, and grounded in the safety and integrity of those it serves.

Ethics, Privacy, and AI Integrity

A circle of academic researchers, data-privacy specialists, and AI ethics advisors provide oversight on de-identification, security, and reflective language models. Their work ensures that every dataset is handled with reverence, transparency, and respect for participant sovereignty.

Engineering and Design

Independent engineers, technologists, and creative designers co-create the Guide AI and visualization tools. Their focus is human-centered design, building technology that deepens understanding and presence rather than replacing care or connection.

Community and Harm Reduction Partners

Practitioners, facilitators, and harm-reduction allies contribute grounded wisdom and relational safety. They support the project’s commitment to ethical psychedelic care, ensuring integration remains rooted in compassion, consent, and community.

How We Work

• Human first. Technology amplifies care; it never replaces it.

• Consent always. Participation is voluntary, revocable, and transparent.

• Anonymize by default. Personal identifiers are removed before analysis.

• Co-design with participants. What resonates stays. What doesn’t, doesn’t.

• Integrity over speed. The rhythm of development follows safety, not scale.

Consent, Safety, and Sovereignty

Your Story, Your SOVEREIGNTY

Your consent and safety come first. Every word, image, and reflection shared through this project is treated with reverence, never as data, always as a living expression of your healing.

Only those who explicitly choose to participate will have their journeys considered for the archive. All submissions are:

• Voluntarily shared

• Anonymized with care

• Published only with informed, ongoing consent

No personal information is ever used without permission. You remain in full control of how your material is stored, shared, or withdrawn. At any time, you may request for your material to be removed from the archive, and it will be permanently deleted without question.

This initiative is built on reverence, not extraction, and guided by the belief that your story belongs to you. Collaborations with researchers, privacy specialists, and mental health professionals help ensure that every aspect of this work honors confidentiality, transparency, and integrity.

How This Relates to Direct Care

This project is not a psychedelic service provider. It serves as a reflective and research-based initiative exploring transformation through lived experience, helping participants, guides, and researchers learn from real journeys without compromising safety or privacy.

For those seeking direct support, Yeshua and collaborating guides offer their services separately through trauma-informed health coaching that includes harm reduction, long-form integration, and spiritual coaching for individuals and couples. These sessions are relational, embodied, and personalized to each person’s unique process within a dedicated private practice.

Journey Home complements this care by offering a communal and reflective framework for understanding transformation on a larger scale. Together, these two pathways create a balance between personal and embodied support and collective insight, your direct care remains intimate and grounded, while your anonymized reflections contribute to a shared understanding of healing that helps others orient to their own path with greater clarity and compassion.

If you’d like to explore direct guidance or learn how this work could support your path, Book a Discovery Call.

How Participation Works

A Collaborative Reflection Process

Participating in the Journey Home Pilot is an invitation to co-create the future of integration. Each participant’s story becomes part of a reflective field where language, emotion, and meaning are traced over time to reveal deeper patterns of transformation. Participation is voluntary, confidential, and designed to feel supportive and reciprocal.

The Journey Home Onboarding Process

This onboarding marks the beginning of your collaboration with the Journey Home team. It includes a simple sequence of steps designed to honor your story, protect your privacy, and help you engage in a process that is both reflective and personally meaningful.

Our Onboarding Process: Step by Step

1. Consent and Orientation:

   The first step is to schedule a Journey Home Pilot Discussion with Yeshua and a collaborating mental health researcher. This conversation introduces the pilot's purpose and what participation looks like in practice. Afterward, you’ll receive a Consent Disclosure to sign before we begin any review, confirming our shared commitment to privacy and respect for your story.

2. Data Access and Review:

   Once consent is confirmed, the researcher will receive secure, limited access to your Homecoming profile, a HIPAA-compliant platform for safe storage. They will review transcripts, recordings, and communications only to assist with de-identification and anonymization, ensuring your material is processed discreetly and respectfully. This step protects the sacred nature of your sessions while enabling deeper reflection and analysis.

3. Collaborative Reflection:

   After the initial review, you’ll meet again with Yeshua and the researcher to explore your story together. These shared reflection sessions help uncover emotional and symbolic patterns that illuminate your growth. Through conversation and inquiry, we identify what is most meaningful and ensure that your emerging narrative truly reflects your lived experience.

4. Your Journey Home Profile:

   The result of this process is Your Journey Home Profile, a personalized reflection and integration map that synthesizes your growth, themes, and insights across time. This document includes a summary of key learnings and a practical plan to support ongoing integration. With your permission, an anonymized version may later be included in the Journey Home archive to help others learn safely from your experience.

5. Refinement and Continued Dialogue:

   After receiving your profile, you may be invited into follow-up sessions to refine, clarify, or expand your reflection. The researcher and Yeshua continue to synthesize insights behind the scenes, ensuring your story remains accurate and resonant. You retain full sovereignty and can request updates or removal at any time.

What You Receive

• Collaborative reflection sessions with Yeshua and a mental health researcher

• Secure, HIPAA-compliant data handling through the Homecoming platform

• Your Journey Home Profile – a personalized reflection and integration map

• Behind-the-scenes synthesis handled with care and confidentiality

• Deeper clarity and renewed direction in your growth and daily integration

• The satisfaction of knowing your story may one day guide others on their path

Cost and Future Access

There is no cost for participation in these early stages of the pilot. In the future, we may introduce a small fee for new profiles to help sustain and expand this work, but current participants will never be charged for past or ongoing access. Our aim is to keep participation complementary while building a sustainable infrastructure that can one day support other guides, practitioners, and researchers across the broader psychedelic field.

A Living Conversation

Each participant helps shape the future of this work, not as a subject but as a co-designer in an evolving dialogue between healing and technology.

If you feel called to participate, Join the Pilot →

Development Roadmap: From Story to Soul Map

Building an ethical, intelligent, and compassionate ecosystem for psychedelic integration

Journey Home is evolving through three deliberate phases, each expanding the project’s capacity to hold stories safely, refine technology for reflection, and deepen our shared understanding of transformation.

Phase 1 — Now: Establishing Ethical Foundations

This phase centers on integrity, privacy, and trust. The focus is on developing the ethical infrastructure, consent processes, and partnerships that create a safe and enduring foundation for this work.

• Implementation of ethical frameworks to ensure safety, transparency, and consent at every stage

• Development of secure infrastructure using encrypted, HIPAA-compliant systems for storing and processing data

• Refinement of pilot protocols, defining how stories are received, anonymized, and reviewed

• Collaboration with researchers and ethics experts, aligning with best practices in psychedelic and digital mental health research

• Onboarding of initial pilot participants, beginning conversations that will shape the first generation of Journey Home Profiles

• Preparation for collaboration and future analysis, ensuring all systems are built for responsible scaling and community benefit

Phase 2 — 2026–2027: Generating Profiles and Building the Reflective Infrastructure

This phase transforms the groundwork of the pilot into a living, scalable system. The focus is on generating refined Journey Home Profiles, integrating insights into guide practices, and constructing the digital framework that connects individual stories to collective understanding.

• Generate and refine Journey Home Profiles, polished reflections that let participants see their transformation and contribute safely to shared learning

• Build the searchable database and MVP platform, integrating secure input, reflection, and exploration of anonymized journeys

• Integrate learning into guide and research practices, translating insights from profiles into applied frameworks for facilitators and educators

• Collaborate with academic institutions, conducting studies that identify meta-patterns and parameters most valuable for collective growth

• Share findings with the field, presenting at conferences, in partnership networks, and through public forums to expand understanding

• Ensure sustainable growth, securing aligned funding and forming a benefit-driven organization to protect mission, ethics, and accessibility

Phase 3 — Future Vision: Cultivating a Living Ecosystem

This phase envisions a global ecosystem of reflection and learning, where technology mirrors human growth and collective insight guides the evolution of consciousness.

• Psychedelic Guide AI v1 evolves into a dynamic learning system, offering reflective insights that support integration and guide development across time

• A collective learning network connects guides, researchers, and participants, fostering shared discovery and ethical collaboration

• Educational tools and curricula emerge from anonymized data, supporting public learning, research, and guide training worldwide

• Advanced modalities such as voice tone and emotional pattern recognition deepen awareness and precision, grounded in care and consent

• Participant-centered co-design ensures the platform grows through lived experience, empowering individuals to see themselves more clearly while informing the field

• A living Map of the Soul’s Journey unfolds, visualizing humanity’s collective path toward healing, wholeness, and awakening

A LIVING VISION

Journey Home is a living commitment to evolution, growing through the insights and presence of all who walk this path. It exists at the meeting point of human care and intelligent reflection, where technology serves remembrance rather than replacing relationship.

The vision is to nurture a collective mirror of transformation, helping people see themselves and each other with clarity, compassion, and coherence. Each contribution strengthens a shared field of learning, forming a living map of the soul’s return to wholeness.

Support, Collaborate, or Contribute

Journey Home is a collaborative field of reflection in service to spiritual innovation. We welcome the participation of those who feel called to help this work grow, from guides and researchers to designers, technologists, and philanthropists.

Your contribution supports the ethical development of reflective tools, the expansion of the integration archive, and the creation of educational resources for the psychedelic field.

To explore ways to collaborate or contribute, you can book a call for a Journey Home pilot discussion, to explore more about my offerings, book a Discovery Call, or reach out through the contact form to share your interest. Together, we can build a living ecosystem of healing and understanding.