Expanding Insight
Coaching and Integration for Extraordinary Experiences
Of course, I have some of the very popular ones on my phone, like Cosmosis, The Telepathy Tapes, New Thinking Allowed, Psychedelics Today, and That UFO Podcast, but I want to give shout-outs to the ones that are a little less known at this time. My selection criteria for a podcast are: IFS-related: The...
I will briefly check in on the “drones” and orbs that have been seen all over the world recently. I don’t know what they are, yet. However, I will say that if there was an effort afoot to get people to recognize non-human phenomena in the skies with minimal panic, mixing familiar and unfamiliar...
We are so conditioned to accomplish things, or thinking we should accomplish things, that we miss so much. Consider leaving some time in your life for simple being and exploration. This could also be called “play” or “seeing what happens”. This drive toward accomplishment and results can get rather meta in some people. They...
If you choose to go to a group retreat, there are a lot of options out there. I’d like to talk about one pair of options, having to do with the level of interactions with the other participants during the journey. Type 1 – Individual mats In this setup, each person lies on their...
“Coaching for psychedelic journeys and anomalous experiences? Why that combo?” A psychedelic journey can often contain material that is extremely strange. You might meet dead people or non-human sentient beings, or smell colors, or feel your cells dividing. You may have visions of things from the past that you weren’t aware of before, or...
The Internal Family Systems (IFS) model of working with the psyche is becoming very popular. People are talking about their “parts” more and more. The simplicity of the word “part” allows people to get up and running in coaching and therapy so they can take an active role in the work. Although a part...
On a late summer evening, my husband and I were looking for something to watch on TV. We stumbled across “How to Change Your Mind”, and my husband said “That’s by Michael Pollan. He wrote Omnivore’s Dilemma. Let’s check this out.” We were confident that it would be an intelligent look at psychedelic medicines,...
In the extraordinary experiences that people have in altered states, or with other phenomena that seems to be otherwordly, there is an element of absurdity that can be upsetting, humorous, and frightening in turns or all at the same time. When you have temporarily lost your grounding in your regular life, the Cosmic Clown...
Once in a medicine journey, I called on my dead mother, “Where are you now?”, I asked. I heard her answer simply, “I’m resting.” It was very clear, and sounded like her voice. What caused me to perceive that? Did sound waves stimulate my eardrums? Did something zap directly into my auditory nerves? Was...
In an open forum recently, I was asked by someone who was looking for a therapist why he keeps hearing recommendations to find one who is versed in IFS (Internal Family Systems) to support his work with psychedelic medicines. The first and main point of my answer was that IFS can contain the transpersonal....