This lecture offers some context for Bad Trips that enables a healthy and helpful approach to the wounding and challenges that come with them.

This clip comes from my presentation at the 2019 Spirit Plant Medicine Conference. That presentation was called Bad Trips: Rehabilitating After Psychedelic Turmoil. The clip here outlines the role of meaning-making in that rehabilitation process.

James W. Jesso interviewed by Swedish political satirist Aron Flam for the DEKONSTRUKTIV KRITIK podcast

The longer you walk the psychedelic path the more likely you are to watch that innocent twinkle fall tragedically from your eye and shatter everything you care about right in front of vulnerable mind, reducing you to weeping heap of pain, sadness, and grief.

“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.