#psychedelic therapy

[sabindensmore]

The most wonderful and captivating cover of Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ I have ever seen. The performance, animation, editing, and sound are by my partner, Asha.

Two years ago we both weighed over 300 pounds. Ayahuasca, love, patience, and deep work has allowed she and I to recover our souls. This is what hers looks like as she explores the performances spaces she’s always needed to.

She is looking for collaborators and friends. People other than me who share her vision. Take a listen.

#radiohead #im a creep im a weirdo #awakening #music #singing #soul #genx #reciprocity #relationships #psychedelic therapy #ayahuasca #Youtube

[planetarybound]

Thorbahn is one of the first in a class of so-called “psychonauts” exploring new frontiers in hallucinogenic research, preparing to use a technology called extended-state DMT. When the drug is smoked, a trip lasts minutes—despite feeling much longer. But with a constant stream of DMT supplied to a user and blood serum levels of the molecule regulated, that trip can last hours or even days—seemingly an eternity.

The method might give Thorbahn and other psychonauts enough time to bring back detailed trip reports of their experience. An intriguing aspect of DMT experiences is a degree of similarity. The landscapes and beings can be recognizable to different users (a mechanical elf is a popular recurring visitor). And for Thorbahn, the trips seem “more real than real,” a quote heard often in DMT-experimenting circles. Advocates of extended-state programs want to know whether these experiences illuminate a new corner of the mind, even another dimension—or whether users are just getting really high.

Thorbahn, who has a background in biology and chemistry and runs an organic soil company in Colorado, was driving a highway late one night while listening to a psychedelics podcast when he first heard about the extended-state DMT program, DMTx, offered by Medicinal Mindfulness. The latter organization, founded in 2012 in Boulder, Colorado, by two psychotherapists, is a psychedelic therapy clinic and provides cannabis and ketamine-assisted sessions, claiming to have helped treat trauma, depression, and “feelings of meaninglessness.” Its website emphasizes that the clinic “fully complies with all local and Colorado State cannabis laws, and all federal regulations.” DMTx is a new offshoot, founded in 2016 with a long-term goal to “develop and implement FDA-approved clinical research” into DMT, according to its website. In the meantime, the website reads, “While we’ll continue to follow stringent safety protocols, working outside some of the cultural constraints of the FDA allows us to explore a model that is congruent with the passionate interests of the psychedelic community. Namely, to explore the important question: What in the world is really going on here?”

#psychedelic trip #DMT #psychedelic therapy

[evadoesillustration]

Designed this for a university project, for an article about Psychedelic Therapy (pt1)

#art #art student #artists on tumblr #illustration #irish artist #psychadelic #psychedelic therapy #trippy #lsd #acidcore #trippy art #trippy aesthetic #psychedelic art #editorial illustration #science #brain #mental health #mental illness

[eelhound]

"At a time in which a broad sense of powerlessness is increasingly being shared amongst Americans, in relation to the environment, our politics, and the economy, how should we relate to one another? What we tend to have now is mutual intolerance and culture war hate, which only propels the status quo. What we need is radical acceptance and compassion. 

To 'radically accept' does not mean we should forgo our morals, accept bad politics, or ignore violence and oppression, but instead to recognize that hate is almost always born out of trauma and wounding, and that hating hate only begets more hate. As James Baldwin once wrote, 'I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.'

In the emergent field of psychedelic therapy — which has proven remarkably effective at treating addiction, depression, and other chronic conditions, while posing little to no addictive risk itself — a treatment modality known as Internal Family Systems [IFS] is increasingly being used to strengthen the benefits of a psychedelic trip. IFS operates on the assumption that there is no such thing as a unitary self, but instead that we are composed of a variety of 'parts,' which exist in relation to each other. In essence, IFS proposes that we 'contain multitudes,' to quote poet Walt Whitman. One 'part' of you may feel like a loving parent, where another personifies your inner race car driver. In a healthy and secure place, these subpersonalities resonate and sing together, making us living embodiments of inner diversity. But when the body experiences trauma, certain 'parts' can become frozen in time, or repressed, leading others to abandon their natural roles in an effort to protect or even shame the 'exiled' parts. As a result, friction, imbalance, pain, and disharmony afflicts the entire system.

It is interesting to think about American trauma through the lens of Internal Family Systems, to consider the cultural narratives that scaffold our pain and the formative wounds that haunt the present day — many of which have largely been forgotten. If the collective American psyche took a heroic dose and reckoned with its history, good lord, who knows what would come out? A revolution? A protest? A giant comical fart?

But we aren’t ready for that. No, not even close. We haven’t even learned how to sit with ourselves and be quiet.

In some ways we are no more free than Pavlov’s dog. In others we can choose how to inform and condition our minds."

- Vinnie Rotondaro, from "How We Can Ease the Pain." Current Affairs, 12 September 2022.

#vinnie rotondaro #james baldwin #quote #quotations #american culture #american politics #pain #chronic pain #internal family systems #psychedelic therapy #identity #self #no self #anatta #hate #trauma #buddhism #nonviolence #compassion #acceptance

[newhologram]

I wonder if narcolepsy/such frequent sleep paralysis and hallucinations since a young age has anything to do with why traditional treatments don't help me but psychedelics seem to be key to recalibrating my body and mind?? Also y'know, being an "experienced" hallucinator. Maybe being more familiar with that kind of experience makes it easier for me to tolerate these intense medications. Even before my SP started, I hallucinated things all the time as a kid and I was terrified to sleep bc I just thought it was ghosts. T_T

#narcolepsy #psychedelic therapy #ketamine therapy #psilocybin therapy #medical cannabis #teku #spoonie #chronic illness

[trustmeimadoctor]

I'm the one trying to heal! We are the ones who were so fucking endlessly neglected and abused. Made to suffer in silence because our pain didn't matter! Why the fuck is guilt hitting hard from time to time? Why should We feel guilty about anything? We didn't choose this life! We didn't ask for the abuse no matter what our abusers say! What do We have to feel guilty for?!

#mental health #Journal #5-9-22 #psychedelic therapy #healing #PTSD #post traumatic stress disorder #Trauma #child abuse #child neglect #repressed memory #guilt complex #guilt

[semeowtic]

on psychedelic healing

psychedelic therapy has been one of the most soulful forms of a cleanse for me. I feel as though it is a cosmic right for us to forget the nuances of reality, to press your feet into the earth or look at the eccentricity of trees, to see them as beings which are living and breathing around us like passive observers. like looking at your lovers face and feeling the depths of their soul, in healing each other through embrace, the sensory lucidity of allowing your mind to see the world as its own fabrication, a state of no place or time. few things allow us to marvel at the beauty of the unconsciousness. we almost never truly see it. love is to receive, to foster and then to share it endlessly in every thing that we do. there is so much beauty in the world that my hands are heavy. in some Sisyphean way, we carry it regardless

#psychadelics #psychedelic therapy #psychoanalysis #dark academia #words #writing #lsd #acid #therapy #healing #spirituality #poetry

[sabindensmore]

This is my partner’s animated performance of Fiona Apple’s ‘Slow Like Honey’ from Tidal. It is part of a series of portrayals of living portraits as embodiment of song. She is seeking collaborators and friends. Musicians and others to help her on this quest. Take a look and reach out if you'd like. She will appreciate it.

#fiona apple #slow like honey #cover song #awakening #making amends #performance art #singers #90s music #appreciation #reciprocity #soul #genx #music #singing #relationships #psychedelic therapy #Youtube

[planetarybound]

"Strassman, a clinical research psychiatrist specializing in psychedelic research and author of DMT: The Spirit Molecule, is on the vanguard of studying that phenomenology. While the whole idea of studying extended trips may seem kooky to some, Strassman explained to me via email that there can be real scientific benefit to extended-state experiments. DMT is produced endogenously in mammals, meaning our brains make the molecule. But we have a much lower tolerance to DMT compared to other psychedelics like LSD. How or whether DMT fits into our natural physiology is an open question. Strassman wants to know if there is a DMT neurotransmitter system—like with serotonin and dopamine—and whether one’s tolerance or lack thereof plays a role in naturally occurring psychosis such as schizophrenia."

#psychedelic trip #psychedelic therapy #psychedelics research #DMT

[evadoesillustration]

Designed this for a uni project about psychedelic therapy (pt2)

#art #art student #artists on tumblr #illustration #irish artist #psychadelic #psychedelic therapy #psychedelic art #psychedelic aesthetic #editorial illustration #mental health #mental illness #therapy #science #trippy aesthetic #trippy art #trippy #lsd #acidcore

[rclowers217]

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#gen z #health #mental health #psychedelic therapy #treatments #trend #trippy #wellness

[sewercentipede]

everybody’s horny or on their period or microdosing mushrooms or having their birthday soon… march really has arrived

#my dashboard is synched in menstrual cycle and psychedelic therapy due to the harmonic convergence of waning Pisces and waxing aries season #I got my period the morning after posting this 💃 #so now I’m all four #1k #5k #10k