Vital Reset is one of my favorite places to facilitate psilocybin journeys. The collective energy in the center really does create a calming and nourishing atmosphere, and many of my clients have commented on the inviting aura of the space. Keep in mind, vibes are important in psilocybin therapy. You’ll likely arrive at the center a little nervous about your journey—the fact that you’re surrounded with good people and good energy is a lovely way to banish those butterflies.

From end of life care to retreats designed specifically for first responders, this news roundup reinforces the power of psilocybin therapy.

If the holidays taught me anything, it’s that people are generally disappointed and confused when they find out I work as a psilocybin facilitator. They look down at me with pity and seem to silently lament my wasted potential, while a little golden halo of superiority buzzes above their heads like an old florescent bulb.

Let’s just take the word trip and run with it. Think about all the trips you’ve taken in your life and how much you generally plan and what you tend to pack. Treating the psilocybin experience as an actual trip should help you prepare for your own hero’s quest. After all, it’s easier to slay dragons and find treasure if you’ve got a sword and a map. 

My recipe for a legal psilocybin session in Oregon—this mushroom dish is best served with a heaping dose of humility and a gravy train of empathy.

From in-home psilocybin therapy for the terminally ill in Oregon to encouraging news from Australia about psilocybin and meth addiction, these new stories are proving the legitimacy of natural medicine.

Music is far more than an accessory in psilocybin therapy. It’s a guide, a mirror, and an anchor. Whether through the hum of a sound bowl or the soulful croon of Etta James, music invites us to dance with the medicine and discover the profound depths of our inner worlds.

A well-built container isn’t flashy. It’s often invisible—like the unseen frame that supports a masterpiece. But without it, the transformative work of psychedelic therapy would be far harder to achieve.

More than a few folks have recently wished out loud for a comprehensive hub for the latest psychedelic news, so I decided to turn that wish into a lovely reality sandwich. Welcome to Shrooms in the News, a bimonthly roundup of what’s happening on the ground.

Holding space is a phrase we toss around in our psychedelic discourse, but rarely do we stop and actually explain what the heck we think it means. What does it mean to hold space for someone during a psilocybin therapy session?

Mushrooms aren’t magic. They don’t hold the secrets of the universe. They simply offer us another way to consider reality and our roles in it. They do reorder the cosmos, but only at the expense of our rigid and static worlds we’ve inherited. Likewise, they don’t sprinkle fairy dust on our deepest wounds. They uncover fundamental concepts and expose raw nerves that we’ve sealed up because they cause us so much anxiety and pain…

Many of today’s tributes will focus on serving our country and protecting our freedoms, and how duty compels them to bases all over the world and far away from their friends and families.  And all of that is absolutely valid. However, I wanted to encourage us to consider their sacrifice on a granular human level. How has that human transformed? How does their time in the service change how they see the world, how they think, how they define community and experience happiness?

It was the kind of gray day in the Pacific Northwest when the rain can’t be bothered to fall; everything—the sidewalk, the windows, the pigeons, even the air—was already made of water. On another afternoon, I may have found refuge in a coffee shop or hacked away at my memoir in my basement, but today was different. I had scheduled my first legal, above-ground psilocybin session, several floors up within a sprawling ballroom in the cosmopolitan heart of Portland, OR USA.