The Psychedelic Experience

Profound Healing & Antidepressant Properties

To the uninitiated, the term ‘Psychedelics’ might evoke images of dancing hippies, drum circles, and colourful hallucinations. However, substances like LSD, LSA, psilocybin, mescaline, or DMT possess profound spiritual, healing, and antidepressant properties that are gaining increasing attention in therapy and medicine, particularly in the United States, Canada, and Australia.

While colourful visual images are undeniably part of the psychedelic experience, especially on higher doses, they’re only one small facet of the trip. A major feature of these substances is that they allow us to access our subconscious for a few hours.

Conscious Mind Just the Tip of the Iceberg

To understand the concept of the subconscious, it’s important to realise that the mind is like an iceberg in the ocean. The conscious mind is just the tip sticking out of the water, while the subconscious mind is the mass that lies below the surface.

The subconscious mind is where most of our memories and mental programming parameters are stored, which have a significant impact on our behavioural patterns and, in general, our mental freedom and health.

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Heal Trauma & Toxic Mental Programming Parameters

For example, in these altered states of mind, you can gain insight into why you feel afraid in situation X, or why you are blocked in scenario Y. You can understand the connection(s) between experienced past trauma and its direct influence on your present mental and emotional state.

With practice, and ideally, with the guidance of a professional, it is possible to dissolve/heal the trauma and its associated toxic mental programming parameter(s) and ultimately live free of it.

Promising Results Treating a Wide Range of Conditions

I believe that everyone can benefit from such a direct therapeutic approach, as we all suffer to some degree from trauma and inhibiting mental programming parameters.

Studies have shown promising results in using psychedelics to treat a wide range of mental health conditions, including anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and addiction. Unlike classical psychiatry, which focuses on treating symptoms, psychedelics allow individuals to address the root causes of their suffering, thereby promoting lasting positive change.

© Philipp, 27 November 2023