Ancient therapy of the future

I'm stoked about this! A Really Long Strange Trip.

My dream is to be a Psychologist that works with the terminally ill and doses them with psychedelic drugs. For real.

I'm excited. The research is coming back. It's more controlled. It's more reliable and valid. Maybe people will pay attention. Maybe people will finally get it.

I began tossing around the idea of pursuing a career with psychedelic therapy a few years ago after trying mushrooms myself. It was the most spiritual experience I've ever had. The most connected I've ever felt with, well, everything. The remarkableness of it was that the feeling was still attainable weeks, even months later. I can still feel the little fingers of oneness and love tugging at my brain occasionally, and I haven't touched any for almost a year now.

I've read books about psychedelic research and therapy (which was shutdown after the drug clusterfuck of the late 60s). The research was starting to shake things up. Patients were overstepping thresholds in fractions of the time it would've take conventional psychotherapy. Addicts were regaining control of their lives, the terminally-ill were finding solace in death. People were finding pathways to more permanent change.

Now, we've become a culture dependent upon anti-depressents, anti-anxiety meds, cosmetic surgery, and the obsession to reach perfection. We want solutions. We want cures. We want it now.

It's time to reconnect with the ancients, you lovely bastards.

If you're interested in this stuff at all, check out Dr Rick Strassman's site. He did research with DMT in the 90s. And here's an interview with Dr Roland Griffiths.