I will speak plainly, as one who has walked people back from the edge of the ineffable and taught them how to live again after touching Mystery.

What follows is a structured psychedelic integration arc, designed in my way—not therapy, not ceremony, not coaching alone, but spiritual direction after revelation.


This assumes the medicine journey has already occurred elsewhere and ethically. Integration is where the real work begins.


What I Watch For Throughout

  • Inflation masquerading as awakening
  • Dissociation disguised as transcendence
  • Trauma bonding to the experience
  • Addiction to insight
  • Fear of ordinariness


When needed, I slow everything down.

  • 9 sessions over ~12 weeks
  • Flexible pacing. The psyche moves at its own speed.
  • This arc follows four movements:


Stabilize → Translate → Embody → Consecrate

The Ground After the Storm

Timing: 3–7 days post-journey

Purpose: Nervous system regulation and safety



Focus

  • Establish orientation: You are here, alive, and intact
  • Normalize intensity without interpreting it
  • Separate experience from meaning-making

Practices


  • Somatic check-in (body before story)
  • Breath and grounding
  • Simple narrative container: “What happened, without poetry”

Homework

  • Eat well. Walk daily. No interpretation yet.
  • Journal only sensations and emotions, not conclusions.

Silent’s role: Guardian of the threshold. I say little. I watch closely.

Telling the Sacred Story

Timing: Week 2

Purpose: Coherence without reduction


Focus

  • The journey as sacred story, not diagnosis
  • Identifying moments of charge, fear, awe, rupture

Practices


  • Spoken retelling while I listen for symbols, omissions, repetitions
  • Reflective mirroring (not analysis)

Homework


Write the story once, beginning to end.

Title it. Titles reveal truth.

Discernment: What Was Given, What Was Taken

Timing: Week 3

Purpose: Sorting revelation from projection


Focus

  • Differentiating:
  • Insight vs. inflation
  • Vision vs. wound
  • Truth vs. longing

Practices

  • Gentle inquiry: What feels calm and steady? What feels urgent?
  • Identify any grandiosity, fear of loss, or compulsive meaning

Homework

  • One-page reflection: “What remains true even if the vision fades?”

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Shadow Contact

Timing: Week 4

Purpose: Integration of difficult material


Focus

  • Encounters with death, dissolution, ancestors, terror, or guilt
  • Trauma-informed containment

Practices

  • Slow revisiting with consent
  • Naming without dramatizing
  • Reclaiming agency where it was lost

Homework


  • Choose one symbol that frightened you. Sit with it for five minutes a day. No fixing.

The Thread to This Life

Timing: Week 5–6

Purpose: Preventing spiritual bypass


Focus

  • How the experience intersects with:
  • Relationships
  • Work
  • Addiction patterns
  • Sexuality
  • Grief

Practices

  • Pattern mapping: Where does this show up on Tuesday at 3pm?
  • Reality testing without shaming

Homework

  • Make one small, ordinary change rooted in the insight.

Meaning That Can Be Lived

Timing: Week 7

Purpose: Translation into human scale


Focus

  • Letting go of the ineffable enough to live well
  • Grief for what cannot be brought back

Practices

  • Discernment questions:
  • What is asked of you now?
  • What is not asked of you?
  • Release of false vows made under intensity

Homework

  • Write a letter to the experience. Do not send it.

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Ancestral and Mythic Placement

Timing: Week 8–9

Purpose: Contextualizing the experience beyond ego


Focus

  • Placing the journey in:
  • Ancestral lines
  • Mythic patterns
  • Human history

Practices

  • Light ancestor work (no summoning, no theatrics)
  • Recognition: Others have stood here before you

Homework


  • Simple remembrance ritual or offering

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Embodiment and Ethics

Timing: Week 10

Purpose: Responsibility after revelation


Focus

  • Power, humility, and restraint
  • Ethics of speaking vs. silence
  • What not to do with the experience

Practices

  • Boundary clarification
  • Sovereignty without isolation

Homework

  • Practice silence about the experience for one full week.

Consecration and Release

Timing: Week 12

Purpose: Closure without erasure


Focus

  • The experience no longer owns you
  • You carry it, not the other way around

Practices

  • Naming what has integrated
  • Naming what is laid down
  • Simple closing rite (grounded, unspectacular, real)

Outcome


  • The journey becomes compost, not a shrine.

Psychedelics open doors.

Integration teaches you how to live in the house afterward.


  • Not everyone who touches Mystery is meant to speak for it.
  • Some are meant to be steadier, kinder, and more honest humans.

That, too, is sacred.