Psilocybin Service Center Feature: Chariot in NW Portland
Chariot was one of the first psilocybin centers in Portland, and its location, aesthetic and commitment to community seems to embody the city itself. And every day of the week, nearly 365 days of a year, folks—alongside experienced facilitators—show up to take mushrooms, look inward and drop into the light.
The Idiot’s Guide to Psilocybin Therapy: Grit Your Teeth & Bear It
One of the most important things I do for my clients while we’re preparing for a guided mushroom journey is coaching folks on how to drop into the experience. Even if you’ve tripped before, apprehension tends to bubble up to the surface as we begin to feel the medicine enter our bodies and start flicking all those light switches in the cobwebbed corners of our minds.
Shrooms in the News Vol. 5: All the Guided Psilocybin Therapy Headlines Fit to Print
Shrooms in the News for Spring 2025—a roundup of what’s happening in the world of legal psilocybin mushroom therapy in Oregon.
What a Long Strange Trip it Was: A report from my most recent mushroom journey
Buckle up, folks. In the next handful of paragraphs, I’m going to attempt to describe—in context with preparation and integration—my most recent psilocybin journey where my identity washed away and I experienced a kind of spiritual reboot, among many other fantastic and mysterious things.
25 Reasons Why I Love Magic Mushrooms
They remove our blinders and biases and tell the truth.
2. They don't tell us we're fine if we aren't.
3. They re-calibrate your body and leave it ringing like a rotary phone in a Wichita kitchen in 1984.
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What Oprah Got Wrong and Right—A breakdown of her lovely conversation with Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan and Oprah Winfrey’s conversation—which included testimonials from psychedelic evangelists joining via video call—was both profound and superficial, inspiring and incomplete, so I thought I’d jump in with my tie-dyed crayon and color outside the lines.
Goons on the Ice, Microdosing Golfers and Gridiron Trauma—How psychedelics help athletes repair, reset and thrive
As a former elite athlete, this topic is pretty near and dear to my heart. When we think psychedelics, most of us will conjure up visions of drum circles and glow sticks or tapestries and eye masks. Locker rooms with lineups scrawled on whiteboards or 20-page scouting reports don’t immediately come to mind. That said, athletes are generally strong candidates for psilocybin therapy, and here’s why.
Ain’t No Mushroom Strong Enough: The Myth of the Miracle Cure
Psilocybin therapy is not a silver bullet therapy—it’s miraculous, magical, profound and transformative, but without rigorous effort and critical thought, the medicine might not have a lasting effect at all.
What is Psychedelic Integration?
Before we break out the sharpies and flow charts, let’s take a few baby steps backwards. What is psychedelic integration? What do we mean by connecting the dots of our experience? Why is it the most essential step of psilocybin therapy?
Shrooms in the News Volume 4: Anderson Cooper, Demoralization and Lasting Belief
Here’s your 4th installment of al the shroom news fit to print. From a 60 Minutes report spotlighting folks one year after psychedelic therapy to calls for research participants at UC San Francisco, it’s a whole lot of good news in the wellness realm.
I hear ya. If you feel like staying in tune with news from the brave new world of legal psilocybin therapy, I’d be happy to let you in on the conversation.