my first experience with psychedelics took place in a therapeutic setting.
Albeit an illegal one — France, where I live, has yet to make psychedelics-assisted therapy legal and available to people like me, who never found peace and relief through traditional approaches.
But let’s go back to my first trip and its set & setting :
- a night of MDMA
- a therapist / chaman
- a strong playlist, breathwork and a shitload of rituals.
- hours of preparation before
And as it turned out, the saying “15 years of therapy in one night” is true.
It changed my life. I remembered what broke me and could navigate the trauma after 30 years of burying it to the point of slowly killing myself through various types of self-abuse.
I’ll write about it soon (there will be mention of sexual abuse and incest, so if you’re sensitive to this topic, please skip the next post :).
This breakthrough would probably NOT have happened without this specific set & setting
… taking MDMA at a party is a way to experience the medicine