Transcript of a lecture will exporing the essence of compassion and how a lack of it is related to early childhood trauma and emotional repression. Furthermore, it will explore the potential of psilocybin in the resolution of emotional trauma and the cultivation of healthier relationships, as well as the potential of suffering as a necessary skill for being an adult
James W. Jesso explores the similarities between the relationship between shaikh and dervish within Sufism and working Psilocybin Mushrooms As A Spiritual Tool
Psilocybin mushrooms guide us into a state of increased emotional awareness, and in doing so, are able to bring us into a direct encounter with the shadow.
Psychedelics can provide us experiences that shift our conception of self and demand meaningful alterations of lifestyle and behaviour, and this impact can and does contribute to more ecologically mindful choices.
The discussion of organic vs. synthetic within this essay is intended to establish a framework for the use synthetic psychedelics as having the potential to offer substantial personal benefit.
An essay exploring love, romance, wounds, and loneliness.
“There’s no such thing as a bad trip” is a concept that is rising in popularity among experienced drug users. However, I don’t subscribe to this concept. To me, there is such a thing as a bad trip and it is determined by how we choose to deal with an uncomfortable experience.
Memories of ayahuasca arise, the feeling tone they echo in my soul is alive in me and now I’m sitting here immersed the presence of vulnerability and sadness.
I ponder if an increased capacity for silence correlates to an increased capacity for awe.
When someone first smokes cannabis, and the conditions are right, something remarkable and concerning happens…
There is a growing opioid crisis happening around the world and it’s getting particularly worrisome here in Canada. The casualty rate is growing dramatically…
I feel fragile. It has been following me for weeks, popping up periodically, calling me to attend to the ease by which my bodily…
That which we experience as reality is the epiphenomenon of a conditioned psyche, operated in congruence with the ‘physical’ organs of the body, rendering inherently meaningless sensory data into a meaningful experience.
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James Jesso is part of the new generation of psychedelic pioneers. He is an author of three books on psychedelics — Decomposing the Shadow: Lessons…
Microdosing Psilocybin After nearly four decades of ironclad prohibition against research against psilocybin, the active alkaloid in ‘Magic Mushrooms’, its reemergence back into academia…
Exploring the pharmacology treating depression with Ketamine, includes comparisons to psilocybin.
Apparently, being in love is tough. It’s filled with fears and insecurities, the pending pain of future loss, and the echoes of old wounds long since misperceived as resolved when they were only adequately compensated for.
I had forgotten this until recently, when context forced a reappraisal…
Originally titled “Psilocybin: A Spiritual Experience That Has The Potential To Unearth Your True Self” and published on Collective Evolution, Nov 29 2015 ~…
As the resurgence of psychedelic drug use in the Western world takes its firm footing at the base of the underground, a new psychedelic culture is sprouting forth into the mainstream. The premise of psychedelics as tools for personal transformation and spiritual development, as well as for assisting clinical psychotherapy, is finding its foundation in the contemporary cultural ethos. With this fresh spike in popularity comes experimentation of all sorts; a double-edged sword.