This weekend is the Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit! It's a much-needed event that features the voices of participants from psychedelic clinical trials, along with some psychedelic researchers, myself included. Here's a link to register for free:

psychedeliclivedexperiences.com/summit

Super important new paper on reports of challenging experiences by therapists who have participated in research trials of psychedelic-assisted therapy. Reveals huge rift between what providers believe is necessary and what industry is developing as a standard. #psychedelicscience

Very excited to share a fantastic new album from one of my oldest friends, Jeff Tobias. There are so many gut-twisting feelings in our current moment, and I think this album captures them in a unique and revelatory way

A great (and not too long) discussion from Franklin King on psychedelics' putative potential to radically shift models of care & healing

Conversion therapy is a psuedo-therapeutic evil that we can't let take root in psychedelic treatments any more than it already has. We offer this letter in the spirit of drawing a clear line in the sand against such practices.

**If you agree, please sign the consensus statement at the bottom!**

Excited to see the publication of our commentary on the need for a better psychedelic safety net. Much appreciation to @philosojules.bsky.social and CPEP for being such a catalyst for good work on this topic!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1176/...

Many thanks to Emmett Hulser-Morris & Brian Pilecki for their recent review of the EMBARK book! 🙏

doi.org/10.1556/2054...

Now that we're all acquainted, could I ask a favor?

Does anyone have the full text of this manuscript they can send me:

archives.lib.purdue.edu/repositories...

From the bits I've read, its critique strikes me as relevant to where we're currently at

Hi there 🏔️ I’m Bill, and I live in the Catskills, NY.

1) Consultant and trainer at Cybin, Gilgamesh, & others. Co-creator of EMBARK: a.co/d/gw2K0qq

2) GuideSite Consulting: guidesiteconsulting.com

3) Finishing “My Brilliant Friend,” which has been RIVETING.

4) Cat’s name is Moose.

At long last, the EMBARK book is available to purchase! Alex & I hope it is of service to the field as it finds its way forward.

a.co/d/isu50BX

A must-read interview w/ a patient who experienced persisting adverse effects post-psilocybin. "When the trial ended, it was like going from great support to no support. If you introduce psychedelic therapy, and there's no support set up once the treatment finishes, you shouldn't go ahead with it."

It was a pleasure to exchange thoughts with the always-great Ed Prideaux on Peter Sjostedt-Hughes' proposal to incorporate didactics on metaphysics into psychedelic therapy. TLDR: I think it's risky to offer to suggestible patients, but potentially a great competency for therapists to get trained in

It was great to speak to Jules Evans (one of my favorite voices in the space) about EMBARK, the model of psychedelic treatment I developed with Alex Belser. He asked some very good questions:

www.ecstaticintegration.org/p/belser-and...

A moving and illuminating account of how the political gets swept under the rug of transcendence in psychedelic healing spaces - and its return in the form of a thousand unspoken cracks in some attendees' sense of safety