Workbooks and Free Guide
The workbooks I wish I had been handed.
Before my first ceremony with entheogens, I didn't know what I didn't know. There was so much noise when trying to find information and answers, and what I needed was scattered across teachers, books, and late-night conversations. There were ceremonies I had to live through to understand what I should have been asking ahead of time. These workbooks are what I have written down since, so the people coming behind me have a clearer place to begin.
These are not how-to manuals, and they are not maps. The medicines we are talking about do not respect maps, and the practitioners who pretend to hold them tend to harm the people they are working with. What these workbooks offer is a way to slow down at the points where slowing down matters most. How to discern the facilitator you are about to trust. How to choose which medicine, if any, is the right one for the place you are standing in. How to prepare your intention so it is honest, and how to integrate so the work actually lands in your life.
I write as someone still walking this path, not someone standing at the top of it. The questions inside these workbooks are the ones I have asked, the ones I have been asked, and the ones I am still asking.
What are entheogens?
The word entheogen comes from Greek roots that mean "generating the divine within." It is the umbrella term I use for plants, animals, and substances that have been worked with ceremonially for thousands of years to support healing, prayer, vision, and connection with what is sacred. Each entheogen is a being with its own purpose, its own lineage, and its own way of meeting the people who sit with it.
The entheogens most people will encounter today include Kambo, Mapacho, Ayahuasca, San Pedro and Huachuma, Bufo and 5-MeO-DMT, Tepezcohuite (Tepe), psilocybin mushrooms, peyote, and iboga, and the list grows as more lineages are recognized in the wider world. Each one asks something different of the person who approaches. Each one carries its own preparation, its own dieta, its own integration window. These workbooks are written for anyone walking with any of these medicines, not only the three I work with personally.
What these workbooks are for
These medicines do not forgive being approached carelessly. The first work is choosing the medicine that fits the place you are standing in. Each entheogen has its own purpose and its own demands, and one of the quiet harms in the current scene is the assumption that any strong experience is the right one for the moment a person is in. Choosing the Right Entheogenic Medicine is the workbook for slowing that decision down.
The second work is what happens before the ceremony and after. Intention is the truth under the surface, not the thing that sounds spiritual. Integration is what turns insight into a life. Most of the people I see who feel their ceremony "did not work" did not skip the medicine, they skipped these two pieces. Intention and Integration is the workbook for both.
The third work is the hardest conversation in this field, the one about facilitator quality. There are practitioners doing this work with integrity and lineage. There are also practitioners who have not done their own healing, who confuse their needs with the participant's needs, and who cause harm in spaces that are supposed to be sacred. The reporting on sexual abuse in Ayahuasca settings is not an isolated story. It is the visible edge of a real pattern. Vetting the person you sit with is work you do not skip, and the Facilitator Vetting workbook is what I wish someone had handed me before my first ceremony.
Choosing the Right Entheogenic Medicine
A working guide to the medicines most people in this scene will encounter, what each one is actually for, who should approach which, and how to tell when the answer is "not yet" or "not this one." Drawn from my own training and my own missteps.
For anyone considering an entheogen but unsure which one is calling them, or unsure whether to walk this path at all.
Intention and Integration
The two practices that decide whether ceremony becomes a life or just an experience. How to set an intention that is honest rather than spiritual-sounding. How to integrate so the work lands in your relationships, your body, and your daily life.
For anyone preparing for a ceremony, anyone in the days or months after one, or anyone who has sat before and felt the insight slip away.
Facilitator Vetting
The questions I wish someone had handed me before my first ceremony. How to assess a practitioner's lineage, their training, their ethics, their financial honesty, and the harder things you can only feel in the room. The single best step you can take before saying yes to any ceremony.
For anyone preparing to sit with a facilitator they have not sat with before, or anyone helping a friend or family member choose one.
The Complete Preparation Series
(all three workbooks together)
If all three speak to you, this is the one product that holds them together. The complete set, read in order, for less than buying the three on their own.For anyone walking this path seriously, or anyone gifting this work to a person they love.
Before You Sit. A free guide.
A short guide for anyone approaching their first ceremony, or anyone returning to ceremony after time away. It is the foundation the three workbooks build on, and it is the right place to begin if you are uncertain where you are on this path.
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