Thresholds
Crossings Between Who We've Been and Who We’re Becoming
~700 words (~3 min read)
In my work, I don’t just support people through psychedelic experiences; I support them through transitions. These are the moments when life itself begins to shift direction, when the old no longer fits and something deeper is asking to emerge.
If we see ceremony as a single event, we may miss the greater invitation. A psychedelic experience, like a birth, is part of a larger process, a life attempting to move through us, not just in us. When we expand our view to see it this way, we begin to glimpse what is truly unfolding: not just insight, but initiation. Not just healing, but transformation.
“You were never meant to stay the same. Life calls you to shed what is done, and become what is next.”
That is why I speak in the language of thresholds.
This framing helps us see with clarity and compassion. It helps name the space between what was and what is becoming, what I often call the gap. That gap is not a mistake. It is the terrain of transformation. And when we honor it as such, we’re able to meet it with reverence, presence, and courage.
What Is a Threshold?
A threshold is not a step. It is a passage. A lived crossing from one way of being into another. It may come through crisis or stillness, but it always asks something of us: a letting go, a surrender, a remembering.
In myth, the phoenix must enter the flames to rise.
In nature, the caterpillar dissolves in the chrysalis to become the butterfly.
The snake sheds its skin, raw, disoriented, and new.
A seed splits in darkness before it sends out roots.
We are born not by effort, but through contraction and surrender.
So too with ceremony.
“The psychedelic experience is a death-rebirth process. It is the ending of one structure of identity and the emergence of another.”
But this transformation unfolds on many levels:
On a ceremony level, you enter, dissolve, emerge.
On a life level, you shift into a new phase of purpose, clarity, or healing.
On a soul level, you join a timeless spiral of death and rebirth.
On a collective level, your transformation echoes outward into family, culture, and the Earth.
You are not separate. You are part of an interdependent web of becoming.
Each threshold crossed is part of a wider dance through time, community, and consciousness itself.
Some thresholds arrive with intensity, what mystics call a dark night of the soul. Others come gently, like a moment of grace when you realize: I am ready to love my life as it is. Both are real. Both matter.
Many thresholds also take the form of rites of passage, structured or spontaneous moments that mark a shift in identity, belonging, or responsibility. These may be cultural, spiritual, or deeply personal, but they all initiate us into a new way of being.
“You do not walk through the fire alone. Every step you take reshapes the world behind you.”
How Do You Know When You’ve Crossed?
You feel it in your body. An old pattern drops. A mask loosens. A new way quietly takes root.
Your nervous system might soften. Grief may arise. Or relief. You begin choosing differently, not from effort, but from clarity. What used to define you no longer feels true. What once terrified you now feels possible.
This is not performance. It is coherence.
You don’t fit in your old skin anymore. Something in you has already crossed.
Want to See How I Walk It?
You can read more about the thresholds I’ve crossed on the About Me page. I don’t offer a resume, I share a series of initiatory crossings: breakdowns, awakenings, devotions, and returns. My hope is that by seeing how I walk through mine, you’ll be more trusting of your own.
“The threshold isn’t just the fire. It’s who you are when you step out of the ashes.”
Begin Here
You are not broken. You are becoming.
Let’s walk this part of the path together.