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What is Psychedelic Integration?
So you’ve had experiences with psychedelic journeys, maybe they were beautiful and blissful, maybe they were a dark night of the soul or some in-between space that has left you scratching your head. You are not alone! Making sense of your journey, or integration is an incredibly important part of the whole psychedelic experience. I might go so far as to say it is even MORE important than the journey itself!
Integration is a space where you can “roll up your sleeves” and begin the process of reflecting, meaning-making, and taking steps forward. Without these steps, the journey is likely to be filed as a “cool/difficult/confusing” experience and it slowly fades into the background of the conscious mind-chatter. Without proper attention a journey will remain in the realm of an “unforgettable experience” but it fails to grow roots and things don’t change.
In the years that I have been immersed in this area, both personally and professionally I have begun to structure integration in a way that helped my brain make sense of something that is largely undefinable. I largely default to rationality and logic so making sense of processes and structures has been helpful for me to apply during my psychedelic integration. Of course, there are many ways to approach integration and there isn’t a “right or wrong way”, so take that with a grain of salt. I have broken down…
