Just a quick note to let you know about a 3 Night Psilocybin Retreat in The Netherlands. Nurse Jo is curating this event and I’m going to be joining her and the team to hold space.
Usually our retreats with The Fellowship of Psychonauts are training events for experienced travellers who want to develop their space holding skills. This retreat is different in that it is suitable for people with little or no previous psychedelic experience.
In the season of Leo there is a delicious warmth in the air. Some days are bright, bold and blue, their horizons punctuated with towering Jupiterian thunder clouds. On others the breeze caresses the river reeds into sibilant susurrations as they sway beneath the sultry west country skies. High summer is here.
This time of the academic summer holiday is one I feel fully entitled to embrace, having finally finished another book which Psychedelic Press will release this autumn:
Trip Sitting is your essential guide to supporting safe, meaningful psychedelic journeys. Informed by cutting-edge science and extensive real-world experience, this book offers practical insights into the skills, techniques, and mindset that every effective trip sitter needs.
From preparing the space and setting the tone, to navigating the journey and supporting successful integration, Trip Sitting takes a holistic approach to care. With a strong foundation in ethics and practical experience this guide will help you hold space with clarity, confidence, and compassion, maximising the benefits and minimising the risks when exploring these magical medicines.
Whether you’re already working with psychedelics or preparing to hold space for yourself or others, Trip Sitting is a valuable resource. With a focus primarily on one-to-one sessions, its principles and practices can be adapted to a variety of contexts, from small group settings to personal journeys. This book is equally useful for those seeking a safe and effective psychedelic experience, offering clear guidance on what good practice looks like and how to recognize a trustworthy setting.
Music is an important part of my life and I celebrate being born in a time when so much amazing recorded music is available so easily. As a great fan of analogue electronic music — the first album I ever bought was Rubycon by Tangerine Dream — I’ve been enjoying the work of Caught in Joy, a prolific composer whose music can be found on both Bandcamp and YouTube. Being able to support content creators whose work I enjoy directly is also a real blessing. I’ve recently subscribed to the Patreon of Justin Sledge who is a real treasure in the scholarship of the western esoteric tradition and allied currents. Do check out his work if you’re not familiar with it.
Later this year I’ll be back in teaching mode with classes hosted by Treadwell’s Books, The College of Psychic Studies and Morbid Anatomy. I’ll also be available for one-to-one mentoring sessions, just message me for details.
A History of Chaos Magic – a lecture linked to the publication of This is Chaos edited by Peter J. Carroll, which includes my essay Chemognosis Redux, is on Tuesday 16 September. (All these session are live online and also offer the chance to catch up with the recording.)
I’m teaching with Treadwell’s The Magical Qabalah on the 11th and 18th of November and participants on that course will also get access to the set of audio pathworkings which I’ve been working on over the last three years.
Expect too more films from My Magical Thing, the charming and instructive pandemic side-project of mine that refuses to die, I think I’ve done more than 100 episodes to date!
Right that’s enough for now, back to reading the excellent book by my friend — and My Magical Thing participant — Rupert Callender What Remains: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertakingand enjoying the sunshine in my garden which right now is full of flowers.
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