"Psychedelic Integration & the Heroic Journey"

Below you'll find additional resources from the workshop. I'd love to hear your feedback, ideas, or just to connect in general.

I love this community and am always looking to connect with folks! - Veronica (veronica@colibrisol.com)

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Recommended Books

• Dr. Joseph Campbell - "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" - Book about the heroic journey

• Malidoma Patrice Some - "Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiations in the life of an African Shaman"

  1. • Autobiography of Malidoma Some’s initiation that is reflective of a heroic journey.

• Dr. Kile Ortigo - "Beyond the Narrow Life: A Guide for Psychedelic Integration and Existential Exploration" - Link to Assessment

  1. • It is both a text rich with an infusion of these concepts, and an interactive workbook with prompts and exercises.

• Clarissa Pinkola Estes - Vasalisa the Wise from "The Women Who Run with Wolves" - The story I read during the lecture.

• Francoise Bourzat - "Consciousness Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom, Entheogens, and Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Growth"

  1. • A great resource for understanding psychedelic assisted facilitation. References from this book on integration and the non-ordinary states of consciousness categories are from this text.

• Arielle Schwartz - "Post Traumatic Growth Guidebook" - Where I drew ideas from the heroic journey journal activity

• Robert Johnson - "Inner Work" - about Active Imagination

• Tsultrim Allione - "Feeding Your Demons" - Meditative practice similar to active imagination.

• Carl Greer - "Change your Story, Change your Life: Shamanic and Jungian Tools"

  1. • Jungian and shamanic themes. I extracted the dialoguing activity from here and combined it with Robert Johnson’s work.

Misc.

• Slides - link to PDF

• Terrence McKenna on Carl Jung - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ievx0Fk7m6g

• Link to Event Page - https://graduate.lclark.edu/calendars/events/event/337718

Resources

• Laura Dawn - https://lauradawn.co/

• Paul Stamets microdosing or James Fademan microdosing Protocol - https://microdosinginstitute.com/how-to/microdosing-protocols/

• Plant Parenthood - https://www.plantph.com/

• Adventurs in Om - https://www.adventuresinom.com/

• https://Chacruna.net

• Microdosing Institute

Activities

Activity 1 - The Heroic Journey Journaling Activity

• • • • Bringing psychedelic and heroic concepts together through a journal prompt activity. Bring to mind you non-ordinary state of consciousness, then answer the following questions (abridged version from Arielle Schwartz Posttraumatic Growth Guidebook:

        • My call to enter this non-ordinary state was…

        • The biggest challenges that I faced were…

        • I got through these challenges by…

        • What I believe about myself now is…

        • When I interact with the ordinary world around me, I feel…

Activity 2 - Active Imagination with Imagery from the earlier activity (combined and abridged from Inner Work and Change Your Story Change Your Life)

• • • • This can be done on your own, or you can use the format with whoever you are holding space for.

      • Bringing to mind the no-ordinary state of consciousness experience, clearing the ego mind, removing distractions, and:

        • The Invitation - Inviting the image

        • The Dialogue - give yourself over to the imagination and let the conversation flow, let the inner figures have a life of their own. Do or say what comes to your mind that feels appropriate or ethical.

        • As, the following questions:

          • What message do you have for me?

          • What do you want from me?

          • Will you give me______________?

          • What can I do for you?

        • The values - Caution with action on the guidance received. Evaluate them with both the message received, and your personal morals and ethics. The message is oftentimes symbolic. This can be a window into deepening the active imagination following the symbolism.