Embarking on a journey with a therapist working with psychedelic medicine can be a transformative experience, offering profound insights and healing. However, to make the most of your sessions, it’s essential to enter this process with clarity and understanding.

As psychedelic medicine is experiencing an “above ground” renaissance in the West, there is, understandably, hesitation to integrate these medicines into healing and general wellbeing practices.

Below are the 5 things you need to know about how psychedelics work, shared from the work of Dr. Manesh Girn, “The Psychedelic Scientist”.

As previous posts have reviewed the external/reactive phases of the EXPANDED Method (Estrangement Escape, Excess Escape, Zones of False Happiness and Safety, and the Wounded Return), this article provides an overview of the science and concepts behind the Intervention phase of this process to better understand two therapeutic mechanisms embedded into EXPANDED- clinical behavior analysis and expanded states of consciousness.

While the EXPANDED Method is non-linear, the Intervention phase typically comes after nervous system regulation, Inquiry, and Intention, and leads to the Illumination and Integration phases.