psychedelic integration
Integrated Information Theory: Consciousness as Phi
If consciousness is the operating system running on biological wetware, then Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is the first serious attempt to write its technical specification. Developed by neuroscientist Giulio Tononi at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, IIT proposes something radical:...
Peyote and the Native American Church: The Most Successful Integration of Psychedelic Sacrament Into Modern Society
In the Chihuahuan Desert of northern Mexico and southern Texas, a small, spineless cactus grows close to the ground. It looks unremarkable — a blue-green button, rarely more than a few centimeters in diameter, barely protruding from the rocky soil.
Cultivating Intuition: Practical Protocols for Upgrading the Intuitive Antenna
You already have intuition. You have always had it.
Psychedelic Integration and Ethics
The psychedelic experience itself — however profound, healing, or transformative — is only the beginning. Integration is the process by which the insights, emotions, bodily sensations, and shifts in perspective catalyzed during a psychedelic session are woven into the fabric of daily life,...
Psychedelic Integration: The Most Critical and Most Neglected Phase
The psychedelic experience itself — however profound, however visionary, however emotionally transformative — is not the therapy. The therapy is what happens afterward.
Set, Setting, and Psychedelic Safety
The maxim that the psychedelic experience is shaped by "set and setting" — the mindset of the individual and the environment in which the substance is consumed — is perhaps the single most important practical principle in psychedelic science and practice. First articulated by Timothy Leary,...
Integration and Crisis Support: What to Do When Awakening Destabilizes
The preceding articles in this series have mapped the territory of spiritual emergency — the varieties of crisis (Grof), the specific syndrome of kundalini activation (Sannella, Greenwell), the adverse effects of meditation (Britton), the distinction between depersonalization and awakening, the...
Integration: Bridging Worlds and Making the Journey Whole
The ceremony ends. The retreat is over.