Finding Meaning

The Power of a Psychedelic Experience

I believe we are all manifestations of our past. Our first experience is the seed from which the rest of our life grows. Every decision is made with the past whispering in our ear, leading us down a path to an unknown destination. Like streams carving rivers into…

How MDMA Taught Me How To Feel

Before I took MDMA I didn’t trust my feelings at all. They always seemed wrong and didn’t fit in with the outside world. So I shut that door in my head, boarded it up, and tried my hardest to forget that room ever existed.

Being Too Sensitive

As a kid, I can remember thinking that I seemed to be feeling things more intensely than the people around me. The sun seemed brighter…

How Meditation Taught Me Who I Am

I’ve always been a thinker.

As a kid, I actively tried to cultivate a constant voice in my head. It was comforting. It kept me company when I felt lonely and it helped me escape when I felt scared or bored. And it was useful too. It could speak…

How Psilocybin taught me to enjoy life

I’d always been an inquisitive kid, so when I first watched the Oliver Stone film “The Doors” the promise of alternate states of…

How Yoga taught me how to breathe

I think I decided to break up with my body when I was 13. Up until that time I’d been fairly happy with running around and playing games…