The New Statesman - A magic mushroom trip in Amsterdam triggers a revelation
AS FEATURED IN THE NEW STATESMAN
And what comes next?
The "what comes next piece?”, is often the missing step of the transformative process.
What comes next is integration.
What do we do with these insights? How do we continue to make space so more insights can continue to flow? Integration is the connection with and the embodiment of our insights into lived everyday existence.
It was my pleasure a few months ago to guide Pravina Rudra, a journalist from the New Statesman, through one of my psychedelic programmes. In the attached article she articulates her experience. I was so especially happy to see how much continued to land for Pravina in the latter phase of the process.
This is integration.
As she puts it “two months later, I feel a little like Scrooge in A Christmas Carol: I experienced the terror of being visited by the ghosts of my past, present and future – then woke up with a second chance at life.”
You can read the article here