An excerpt from my book “Facilitation”
This is an excerpt from my book “Facilitation : A Framework of Psychoactive Exploration and Healing”, from the end of Chapter 13, “The Presence of Self Work” There are many things facilitators can do that can distract people from their own inner work. To my mind, TOO MUCH focus on ceremony, singing songs or dancing also doesn’t allow people to go that deep. Again, you really need to give people space to face their own challenges and find a way to both sit with their pain and then also to deal…
7 Key Insights from 25 years in the Trenches
This is a refined text version of a short talk I gave at the Psychedelics as Medicine Conference in Iceland February 28th 2025. Sometimes it seems that most people in our society default to believing what the priests of scientism tell them about our reality first and foremost and yet scientific psychedelic research is fairly nascent and quite limited in scope at this point. I’m personally not a scientismist, and don’t look to science to understand internal subjective states, but come back to my…
Why Phyllodium pullchellum is by far the best candidate for the Vedic Soma
The identity of Soma, the intoxicating beverage drunk during Vedic times, has been a hotly contested issue for hundreds of years in the east and west, with many people proposing their pet theories as to what the true identity of Soma was…
How To Survive The World
Chances if you are reading this you are an adult, and you know how to live in the world and deal with its dangers and make the most of its benefits. There is a lot in our world that is not good for us, and there are many blind spots in limited…
Who Should be Serving Psychedelics?
We are now experiencing a psychedelic renaissance in the western world. People are truly beginning to realise the value of psychedelics as the most effective medicines for the mind, body and spirit. And we are experiencing a flood of people…
7 Things Many People Don’t Know About Changa
Changa was created by an Australian Guy In Brazil most people think Changa appeared out of the Amazon from a mysterious indigenous origin and in Mexico most think changa is an ancient Aztec smoking mix. In neither countries do people seem to…
13 Mistakes That Psychoactive Plant Medicine Facilitators Commonly Make
This is a personal view of the mistakes that facilitators commonly make, which comes from my own experiences of taking psychoactives with other facilitators and also quite commonly hearing what other people report back to me. Whenever I have…
A Primer on Malefic Entities
“There are beings in the spiritual realms for whom anxiety and fear emanating from human beings offer welcome food. When humans have no anxiety and fear, then these creatures starve. People not yet sufficiently convinced of this statement could…
Reflections on Ayahuasca Drinkers
As a facilitator, these are some of the reflections I’ve had about ayahuasca drinkers, what they may not know or understand, what misconceptions they may have, what they think they know which may not be accurate and what I see as being common…
Modus Operandus
Many years ago, not too long after the web was born, and I was in my very early 20’s, I participated in the Ken Wilber web forum, where we all dissed the American “integral” philosopher Ken Wilber and sprouted our own views on metaphysics and…