I’m the last person you would ever suspect of experimenting with psychedelic drugs. But this is the story of how at age 64 I completely changed my personality…
I was energized after my therapist had helped me to discover that my life had been dominated by a sense of shamefulness that I had believed…
Andrea and I had mutually decided to switch to a different couples counselor, but we had no one in particular in mind. After some internet…
I met David, my therapist, at the ketamine clinic. Because of COVID, it was the first time I had met him in person. All of our prior therapy…
My ketamine session had been wildly successful at helping me understand the origins of my sense of shame and the underlying trauma. Just a minute…
In the days following my ketamine session, I felt triumphant and euphoric. Not only had I gotten past my “mental block” and…
I felt frustrated and discouraged. My progress at ridding myself of my sense of shame had halted and seemed to be reversing. The talk…
On the morning of my psilocybin trip, my therapist, David, and my trip-sitter, Jimmy, arrived right on…
I had no idea how long it had been since I ingested the mushrooms, but it didn’t seem very long ago, and it felt…
The magic mushrooms gave me another sequence of hallucinations in addition to what I have just…
It was about 5:00 pm before I had emerged sufficiently from the influence of the psilocybin to look at the clock. I had…
My psilocybin trip was just over a year ago. I haven’t tried any psychedelic drugs since then — just those two times. Although now…
