Prepare, Navigate, Integrate
Curated resources for every stage of the process: before, during, and after. Protocols, reading lists, integration frameworks, and tools that have actually held up.
Turn your experience into lasting change. This workbook walks you through the critical week after a journey, with journaling prompts, somatic exercises, meaning-making frameworks, and a 7-day post-journey protocol.
Core Practices
The practices that actually move the needle. Not a list of vague suggestions, but specific methods drawn from clinical research and direct experience.
Structured reflection isn't just self-help; it's a core integration tool. Learn the prompts and frameworks that help you extract meaning from difficult or confusing experiences.
Read the guideThe body stores what the mind can't process. Breathwork, movement, and body-scan practices that help you integrate at the level of the nervous system, not just cognition.
Read the guideTransformative experiences need a narrative container. Frameworks for building a coherent story around what you encountered, without forcing it into a shape that doesn't fit.
Read the guidePsychedelic experiences often surface relational wounds. How to bring insights back into your relationships, and when to involve the people in your life.
Read the guideThe first 72 hours after a journey are uniquely fertile for lasting change. What to do — and what to avoid — in the days immediately following an experience.
Read the guideIntegration isn't an event; it's an ongoing practice. How to build sustainable rituals that keep you anchored to your insights long after the initial momentum fades.
Read the guideCurated Library
Books that shaped my thinking and have genuinely helped the people I've worked with. No filler. Only books worth your time.
Michael Pollan
The book that brought psychedelics into mainstream conversation. Pollan's research is thorough and his honesty about his own experiences makes it essential reading.
James Fadiman
The most practical guide to set, setting, and safe use. Fadiman's work on microdosing protocols is the foundation of most legitimate research in the field.
Bessel van der Kolk
Not a psychedelic book, but indispensable for understanding why somatic integration matters. The definitive work on how trauma lives in the body.
Schultes & Hofmann
The ethnobotanical foundation. Schultes and Hofmann map the history and ceremonial use of psychoactive plants across cultures, providing essential historical context.
Kotler & Wheal
How altered states are being used by elite performers, military units, and Silicon Valley, offering a wider lens on the ecstasis conversation beyond psychedelics alone.
Albert Hofmann
Hofmann's first-person account of discovering LSD: a rare document of a scientist grappling honestly with the implications of his own discovery.
Science
Johns Hopkins | 2020
Davis et al. Landmark study showing significant reduction in depression scores with psilocybin-assisted therapy in cancer patients.
Read studyImperial College London | 2017
Carhart-Harris et al. The study that changed the conversation on treatment-resistant depression and opened the door to clinical trials.
Read studyNYU Langone | 2016
Ross et al. Evidence supporting psilocybin's effectiveness in reducing existential distress in life-threatening illness.
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