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This article is from the Winter 2021 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly, We Thrive: Health for Justice, Justice for Health.
If anything has the potential to alter the grievous state of mental health and well-being and move us toward visionary, transformative and liberatory realms of possibility, it is the psychedelic renaissance we are on the cusp of today.1 The prospects for individual mental health and the transmutation of trauma alone are encouraging, but it is the potential for rebirth that keeps me engaged in and inspired by this work: the promise of our ego dissolving into its rightful place as steward of the soul; increased awareness of both our interconnection to one another and this planet, and thus the emergence of a more responsible, respectful, and reciprocal society; and expanded access to the creativity needed for systems change and eco-innovation. Psychedelic and plant medicines, some of which have been used in ceremonial contexts for thousands of years to transform consciousness, may be one of the only viable tools we have available that can properly awaken us from the illusions we currently occupy, keeping us stuck in the patriarchal, capitalistic, supremacist paradigms that govern our experience of life on this planet. Understanding and learning from plant-based or synthetic psychedelics is a quest to understand consciousness, the mystery of the universe, and our place within it.
As a forthright advocate for the safe use of psychedelics, and psychedelic psychotherapy in particular, my hope is that we can reintroduce these healing modalities to society, with great caremaking sure to avoid the usual profit-driven pitfalls that ravage our mental healthcare system and make wellness accessible to few. For health justice to succeed, we need to heal the past and step intentionally and attentively into new models and standards of care. This medicine space, like most other spaces that humans engage with, is ripe with opportunities for exploitation, misuse, and abuse, and it would be remiss not to address this fact.2 The greatest harm caused rests on the shoulders of the policy-makers who relegated this work to the shadows in the first place, criminalizing the use of psychedelics, incarcerating countless humans (mostly people of color), suppressing research, peddling misinformation, and all but guaranteeing that much of this work would be conducted in secret, where unsafe usage and abuses of power run amok.3 Few people question that the war on drugs has been a disaster of epic proportions, and it is our collective opportunity to encourage decriminalization, medicalization, and legalization of psychedelic and plant medicines, so that appropriate safeguards can be established.4
It is important for me to name at the outset that I am not a member of one of the many Indigenous communities that hold great wisdom on the topic of plant medicine; nor am I one of the experienced and revolutionary psychedelic guides who have been courageously practicing this form of healing underground for the last half century.5 I am a white-bodied, cisgender, transpersonal psychotherapist and trauma specialist with extensive experience in community and private mental-health practice. Though I was once optimistic about our human potential to survive adverse experiences and thrive beyond them, my years of treating trauma within the confines of a limited and limiting mental healthcare systemcombined with the increasing collective distress brought on by political unrest, gross inequality, climate crisis, and pandemic diseasehave challenged my confidence. Despite mounting frustration, I hold out hope; and my commitment to finding creative solutions to the problems I see plaguing us has led me to psychedelic psychotherapy.
I began my training with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) in MDMA-assisted therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), in 2018. MAPS, a pioneer in the field of psychedelic psychotherapy, conducts extensive research in the United States, Canada, and Israel; is engaged in drug policy reform; trains diverse cohorts of therapists; prioritizes health equity; and privileges public benefit over profit. Most important, MAPS is steadily moving the work forward using evidence-based research to establish the safest and most ethical legal container possible for working with expanded states of consciousness.6 My training, the final elements of which require FDA approval, opened the door to a world of possibility and hope once diminished by the mental health system.7 I have spent the three years since my initial training with MAPS ended continuing my studies with various educators and elders in the fieldworking to integrate and balance Indigenous wisdoms with the latest science, and learning and practicing in legal contexts to develop my skills as a psychedelic guide.
While there are a variety of molecules in the psychedelic category currently being researched in the laboratory, including but not limited to MDMA, Ibogaine, Ketamine, and 5-MeO-DMT, the psilocybin mushroom beautifully illuminates the potency of this work. A wise teacher of mine describes the various principles of the mushroom as a mirror. Mushrooms are the fruit of a large subterranean organism, their underground growth reflecting the unconscious shadow material we are unearthing each time we ingest their medicine. This organism and its underground mycelium, a network that connects all plant life and serves to transfer nutrients and minerals among them, reflects and teaches the interconnectivity of all living things and the idea that the exchange of love, care, and mutual regard are necessary for our health, well-being, and survival. Mushrooms are ephemeralthey fruit and die off quickly, reflecting and teaching the brevity of life and the impermanent nature of all things. They communicate to us the importance of letting go and embracing cycles of death and rebirth. Mushrooms are composters: filterers of toxicity that discard waste, they transform one thing into another in much the same way we in the healing professions work to transmute trauma and support the flow of grief as a means to make space for the integration of a renewed sense of meaning and purpose. While the mushroom provides us with plenty of useful metaphors, each psychedelic and plant medicine has its own unique spirit, and the molecules most aligned for ones growth can only be determined by oneself or with the support of a therapist or experienced guide.
Psychedelics, known for their mind-expanding and often heart-opening qualities, create opportunities for us to zoom out and witness our humanity from a wider perspectivean otherwise tall order for a person contracted by depression, anxiety, and/or traumatic injury. Furthermore, psychedelic medicines can induce powerful mystical experiences or glimpses into realms of the unknown, the contents of which have the potential to initiate the reorganization of our perception of reality and liberate us from the injuries that confine us.
The singular act of ingesting psychedelics, however, is not where the real magic unfolds. It is in several other important elements of this work that the conditions for transformation are created: Intention, preparation, set and setting, and integration are necessary agents when working with psychedelic medicines for the purpose of healing. Without these cornerstones in place, the experience lacks the container to yield truly meaningful results, and, in some cases, harm can result.
I once read the words Be careful where you are headed, or you may end up where youre going8a humorous but cautionary reminder of the importance of establishing an intention when doing any kind of healing work. We must first know why it is we are taking these medicineswhat it is we seek to heal, change, or understand about ourselves, our relationships, the universe. Intention aligns the journey with purpose and grounds the journeyer. Journeying with intention almost always leads to insights directly or symbolically related to the intention itself, and can serve as a powerful anchor point to return to when traversing difficult terrain and when engaged in the integration process.
Preparation is the practice of preparing the journeyer (client) and establishing trust between journeyer and guide (therapist). The guide starts with a thorough intake and client history, assessing for potential contraindications. Once it is determined that a client can safely move forward with the journey, the clients mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and environmental situation is explored, and the guide shares details of what to expect within the journey space. It is important that the client be of sound mind and have sufficient ego strength to enter an expanded state. They must be capable of creating space inside themself for the journey and for the process that follows.
Set and Setting refers to both the mindset of the journeyer and the container within which the journey itself takes place. Insofar as mindset is concerned, the journeyer must be prepared to surrender to the experience. While nervousness is inevitable, excessive fear and anxiety about the journey itself may interfere with a clients capacity to loosen their grip and give way to the process. If conditions have changed and an acute crisis or life challenge has emerged between the prep sessions and the intended journey date, a persons mindset may be compromised. Ensuring the client is stable and resourced enough to enter the journey space is essential, and will be evaluated in preparatory sessions and on the day of the journey.
It is the guides responsibility to establish a safe container and to communicate what that entails. The therapist or therapists (the MAPS protocol calls for two) communicate standard rules and steps for the journey, prepare music, control environment, temperature, and other such details, and monitor client needs throughout the process. Most important, the guide will have two feet in this dimension of reality, creating a safe space for the client to surrender to the effects of the medicine and retreat into the unconscious. If the therapist or client emerges from a particular lineage/culture and/or wishes to include a ceremonial- or ritual-based practice in the session, space is made to honor whatever spiritual or earth-based wisdom tradition that calls to be honored.
In addition to establishing trust with the guide and being of sound mind, the environment is an exceptionally important aspect of creating a safe container for the work taking place. Journey spaces and treatment rooms should be tranquil, calm, and invitingsafe sanctuaries with limited outside interference. Natural environments can also provide a deeply healing and supportive cocoon for this work. In many cases, access to nature is limited, and some studies are incorporating digital content as a way of simulating an experience of the natural world. According to renowned cinematographer and Fantastic Fungi director Louie Schwartzberg, a current study being conducted at the Pacific Neuroscience Institute on the use of psilocybin for alcohol abuse is incorporating elements of his Moving Art nature cinematography in sessions with subjects.9
And lastly, there is integration. By far the most important aspect of this work, integration is the key to ensuring that a psychedelic journey leads to meaningful change. Integration is the process of both embodying and actionizing the insights derived from a journey. It is one thing to adventure off to a supernatural world that defies the boundaries of this dimension of reality, and quite another to make use of that experience in a way that enhances the quality of our lives and benefits those around us.
Because psychedelic experiences often reveal information symbolically and have the potential to open difficult doors, its important that a competent and well-trained therapist provide a solid container of love and compassion as the client works to interpret the content of their journey after the fact and heal whatever material may have surfaced in the journey space.
As a therapist, I know all too well how slow the healing process can be, especially as we contend with increasingly complex trauma and an overmedicated and underresourced population. Psychedelic therapy cuts through many of the interpersonal and neurobiological self-protective mechanisms established in response to injurious experience. Those default modes are barriers to our healing and often need a powerful interruption to initiate change.10 Inducing a non-ordinary experience can speed the healing and life transformation process along, producing insights within hours that might otherwise take years to access in traditional psychotherapeutic models. In that way, a journey is like a wormhole, or passage through space and time. The insights and experiences clients emerge with then require attentive exploration in service of organization and integration.11 Integration grounds us back into our bodies and physicalizes the spiritual or ethereal wisdom we touch. Without integration, a psychedelic experience is just that: an experienceand the degree to which it is useful is up for debate. Integrating a psychedelic experience with psychotherapy or other mindfulness-based integrative modalities helps us to lay new cable and create healthier connections in the brain and extended nervous system, and in our relationships.12 This work, if done intentionally and integrated effectively, is extremely powerful and fast acting. It can liberate a person from pain and restore vitality, creativity, and a sense of meaning.13
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As this work travels from its Indigenous birthplaces to the Wild West underground to the laboratory to the therapy room, it continues to evolveand so, too, does our understanding of how to best be in a responsible and respectful relationship with these modalities. Recognition that traditional mental health models continue to fail our most vulnerable populations helps to build momentum and support for alternative approaches like psychedelic psychotherapy. Many questions remain unanswered around how this work can be conducted safely, cost- effectively, and at a scale that provides the greatest benefit for all. However, with the second phase 3 clinical trial for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in process (MAPP1 is complete; the second trial, MAPP2, is underway) and studies being conducted all over the world at leading research institutions, it is only a matter of time before this is an accessible treatment option and self-actualization tool.14 Psychedelic medicines will not work for everyone, but we can do better where whole health is concerned. We have all the necessary instruments at our disposal for a radical shift in human consciousness and the cultivation of a more harmonious human family. I continue to look to organizations like MAPS that are learning from the past and leading the way with intention to a future where visions of equitable access to mass mental health are realized, and health justice prevails.
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