Psychotherapist Marc Aixalà of ICEERS explains what psychedelic integration is, and what it isn't.

Mark offers some metaphors to help psychedelic integration, his seven dimensions of integration, and outlines why each of these has to be custom tailored to the needs of the individual person.

Marc also offers us his perspective as to why integration is not psychotherapy, and why it should end once the person no longer needs a practitioner. Finally, he makes the case that preparation matters even more than integration, because psychedelic healing is a process, not an event.

• (00:00) What is psychedelic integration?
• (01:46) Metaphors, dimensions, and needs
• (04:47) The seven dimensions of integration
• (05:49) Why integration isn't psychotherapy
• (08:17) Why integration should have an end
• (10:43) Preparation matters more
• (12:54) Healing is a process, not an event
• (16:49) Outro

This is a clip from 'An In-Depth Exploration Of Psychedelic Integration | Marc Aixalà', Adventures Through The Mind 202.

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What is it actually like to take ibogaine? Jonathan Dickinson, CEO of Ambio Life Sciences and author of Ibogaine and the Bicameral Mind, takes us inside the flood dose: why you can't stand up for hours, why it's closer to a waking dream than a psychedelic trip, and what the people he's treated say they saw.

We also get into the book's big ideas (Lacan's "the Real" and Julian Jaynes's bicameral mind), why the benefits can arrive even when nothing seems to happen, and the real medical risk, including deaths.

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• (0:00) Opening
• (0:52) Ad
• (1:34) Interview Begins
• (4:11) What ibogaine is, and where it comes from
• (7:12) An oneirogen, not a psychedelic
• (14:03) Inside a flood dose
• (20:22) Visions, hallucinations, and false memories
• (26:35) Nobody says ibogaine is easy
• (35:19) Lacan, the Real, and why discomfort heals
• (44:33) The bicameral mind
• (56:04) Ad
• (57:14) No, I think it gets weirder
• (1:06:46) What to believe about what you saw
• (1:15:22) Ancestors and the realm of the dead
• (1:19:52) Leo Zeff, the Secret Chief
• (1:26:06) Patreon Thanks
• (1:28:04) When nothing happens, and it works anyway
• (1:38:28) The medical risk, and people have died
• (1:40:25) Leaving the country, and what it costs
• (1:48:49) Follow up links
• (1:52:05) Outro

Justin Townsend of MycoMeditations explains the "golden shadow" and why psychedelic facilitators need to be well-trained to hand that projection back rather than take it on.

The dark shadow is the unsavory stuff we don't want to admit to: the shame, the disgust, the fear. The golden shadow, however, is the beautiful stuff about ourselves: our strengths, our creativity and our capacities for success. However, the golden shadow can get buried and projected just as much as the dark shadow.

The way it shows up is as a kind of intense admiration for someone else. Putting them up on a pedestal, viewing them with all these beautiful qualities of ourselves that we're unable to see in ourselves. This could be a retreat leader, a therapist, a celebrity, or a guru.

In this clip from episode 170, Justin walks us through how projection of the golden shadow can happen in psychedelic therapy and the problems that his can cause for both the participant and the facilitator when that facilitator is not ready and willing to refuse that projection and instead help their participant integrate it.

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• (00:00) What the shadow and the golden shadow are
• (01:39) Spotting the projection, in retreats and in public
• (02:14) The facilitator's job, and how followers build a guru
• (04:31) Slow boil: how good people become the villain
• (6:54) Outro

***This is a clip from 'The Business and Practice of Psilocybin Therapy in Jamaica | Justin Townsend ~ ATTMind 170', Adventures Through The Mind Podcast, episode 170***

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