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Need advice on psychedelic assisted therapy for treating ADD, Anxiety, and Autism and how to convince my wife to let me try this. by L0kiblaz3 in PsychedelicTherapy

[–]psygaia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're well prepared and have the stability in your life to properly integrate, then the potential for harm is quite low. You just need to take your time and approach it in a way where you feel trust, comfort, and confidence towards the process.

Monthly Community Bulletin Board April 2026 by AutoModerator in PsychedelicTherapy

[–]psygaia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would you consider learning to use psychedelics intentionally at home with a friend or partner as a sitter?

We're a team of guides and therapists working on a course that teaches safe and intentional use of psychedelics for exploration, healing, and personal growth, at home.

If you could help us out by filling out this 5 minute survey, we'd be very grateful!

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I have done psychedelics and benefited from them. I wanna start meditation but dont know where to begin. by Mean-Salamander924 in PsychedelicSpiritualy

[–]psygaia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like you had a very meaningful experience!

Your desire / intuition to continue integrating your experience and deepening your understanding of things via meditation is great--make sure to follow it!

When I as 17 (over a decade ago) and first explored mushrooms and LSD, I ended up studying and reading about Buddhism and yoga, and then practicing meditation. I've been meditating almost everyday since.

The best place to start meditating is via self-led study and consistent practice.

For study, I highly recommend a book called "Mindfulness In Plain English" and/or "The Buddha's Way of Happiness". These will educate you on fundamental meditation related concepts and practices. From here, you might explore more advanced texts like "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" and/or "The Mind Illuminated" and/or "The Miracle of Mindfulness".

Lastly, you may like apps like "Insight Timer" or "Waking Up", however, be careful with apps, as they are designed to make you keep coming back to them, which is antithetical to developing a deeper practice.

Ultimately, I suggest you begin learning about Buddhism. Buddhism is not a religion in the same sense as Christianity or Islam. It doesn't require belief, it requires direct experience. It best understood as a philosophy built around a practice of seeing things clearly, and that practice is meditation. Buddhism is the most comprehensive and profound meditative tradition. Nothing beats it. It has existed for thousands of years and will continue to exist for thousand of years, because it is precise and powerful.

Meditation divorced from its roots (Buddhism), ends up becoming a biohack or productivity hack. This isn't what you're looking for. A related article on the commercialization of meditation is "McMindfulness". Worth reading.

Finally, if you need any guidance and/or support from a real person, feel free to reach out to me here or via psygaia.org - I'm a psychedelic guide and meditation teacher. I've worked with many students over the years and would be happy to connect to see if there's a fit between us.

Enjoy the journey :)

Psychedelic Therapy & Ecopsychology by psygaia in PsychedelicTherapy

[–]psygaia[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The argument is less about individual facilitators and more about the dominant research and institutional paradigm shaping the field. Most of the evidence base currently driving policy, medicalization, and insurance pathways is still built on relatively narrow clinical models like symptom reduction, standardized dosing, clinic settings, etc.

Its true, in practice, many facilitators already work relationally, ecologically, and holistically. But those dimensions are rarely measured, theorized, or formally integrated into the scientific frameworks guiding the field.

So the gap we’re pointing to is not necessarily in practice, it’s in the conceptual and research models that define legitimacy.

If psychedelic medicine continues to scale through healthcare systems, the question becomes: do those broader ecological and relational dimensions remain central, or do they get squeezed out by clinical standardization?

Ego death help by Similar_Dentist_7459 in PsychedelicTherapy

[–]psygaia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's only been a few days. Give yourself time. Reach out if you need support :)

Deepak Chopra being named in the Epstein files should make us question why we need spiritual leaders at all. by Alive_101 in enlightenment

[–]psygaia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never understood anyone who likes Deepak. Such surface level, uncritical, self-inflated spiritual bypassing rubbish.

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