At Chacruna: The Five Phases of Psychedelic Initiation

Jessica Nielson, Ph.D.

I’ve had a long-standing relationship with psychedelics, stemming from my exploratory days in high school and college to a spiritual transformation during a fateful trip to Amsterdam during graduate school. There was an awakening to something I couldn’t fully comprehend that was calling me to completely turn my life upside down, catalyzing a deeper immersion into the psychedelic community, a new perspective about how to approach my trauma research, and the maturation of my own psychedelic renaissance... continue reading.