When I warn against being a psychedelic science guru, I don’t mean sharing expertise w/ public e.g. Neil deGrasse Tyson as an astrophysics “guru." Rather I mean going beyond the basis of a mental health professional/scientist & teaching patients pseudo-religious explanations.
Experts should inform the public. Professors should profess. But the temptation of the practitioner to distort psychedelic therapy into their own metaphysical or quasi-religious framework is going to pose major challenges for the future of this field.
Practitioners can easily get sucked into seeing themselves at the teacher or conduit of "the divine." We should all guard against that, create safe containers & let clients work out their OWN metaphysical meaning if any.
I meant "seeing themselves AS the teacher ..."
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