I encountered Jonathan Robinson, the Psychotherapist, motivational speaker and best-selling author, through his course Healing with MDMA about how to facilitate MDMA journeys. Intrigued by what seemed a down-to-earth, no-nonsense stance on the clear effectiveness of MDMA as a psychotheraputic medicine, I decided to do a
We all know the quote 'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results'. [Probably originating , in fact, from an AA meeting , not Einstein, as often attributed ]. The reason this quote is so memorable is not just because of its truth but because
For most of my life, I railed against it, demanding explanation: Why was I put here? Why were humans made to suffer? I gnashed my teeth against the terms imposed on me and all of us by life, the binding to a contract we never signed, the obligation to participate
Let me start this article with an extended caveat: Last weekend, I took too much MDMA, and I spent the rest of the week coming down. Now, it’s easy in these situations to get dragged into whatever story our mind latches onto to explain our new, emotionally decrepit
Reading the book Braiding Sweetgrass recently, I was struck by the power of language to shape the way we think, and therefore to shapeour perception of reality itself. Apparently, seventy percent of the words in the English language are nouns, whereas in Potawatomi, the native language of the tribe from
Hello, I love you. Whatever happens, whatever you do and whatever you’ve done, I love you. I know you did not choose to be here. That it is frequently, perhaps most of time, a struggle. That due to a weird mixture of genes and circumstance you often find
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How do you see yourself? When you look in the mirror, can you hold your gaze without wincing in embarrassment? I remember chatting to a friend years ago, when we were very young, and he would talk about being embarrassed by himself when no one else was around. He would
Buddhism can’t solve all of our problems by itself. And Vipassana can be as harmful as it is also helpful, especially when shorn of the broader cultural context in which Buddhism originated.
This article is about my experience during and after Jonny Miller’s Nervous System Mastery course in November last year. The course is designed to help you understand and regulate your emotions, become more resilient in challenging emotional situations, experience a greater sense of aliveness and more. For $250
Most of the time, the moments that dictate the course of our lives are unknown to us. They are apparently random decisions, a different route we take to work, a flight we miss, a fall we suffer, resulting in some chance encounter, some opportunity that never arises, some unforeseen danger