Exploring and guiding explorations. Going all the way. Cozy adventures. Sacred desires. Altered states and fates. 🌞🍄
Jul 5, 2022 • 30 tweets • 7 min read
How to Have an Almost-Psychedelic IFS Experience — PART I 🧵
Some key directions and advice for deep transformative explorations (Art by DALL·E)
CREATING A GOOD CONTAINER
First thing, for the session to unfold freely and smoothly, we need a good safe container — ideal internal and external conditions (set and setting) that facilitate high quality of attention + expression.
To set this up, we seek…
Jun 29, 2022 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Internal Family Systems [Intro Thread🧵]
What is IFS and Why it is one of the coolest psychotechnologies out there ✨
Imagination is a powerful and underrated tool for self-discovery, healing, and growth.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a therapeutic framework that leverages the power of imagination to help you narratively explore your mind and do a lot of untangling + unburdening.
Jun 27, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
For me, the "strategically reckless" approach to anything involves creating a robust baseline safety (physical, emotional, social, financial) and then throwing myself into the deep end more intensely and frequently.
Approaching psychedelics, I created safety through — cautiousness and low-dose experiments, harm reduction, building relationships and support systems, focusing on physical health, prioritizing healing first, etc
Mar 3, 2022 • 27 tweets • 5 min read
Combining LSD (enhanced creativity and imaginal powers) and MDMA (radical love and emotional safety) to heal complex trauma (#cPTSD) ft. Ideal Parent Figure Protocol
Thread / Trip Report (25 odd tweets)
You know how we have these negative incident traumas that cause us to develop fear-based emotional learnings etc. These events are tangible and specific, and hence somewhat straightforward to process + resolve.
Dec 5, 2021 • 38 tweets • 11 min read
Doing a threadapalooza on the why/what/how of drugs (and altered states of consciousness in general)
Pls feel free to chip in with your insights, disagreements, concerns and stories.
It's time to unshackle ourselves and do/experience things beyond our wildest imaginations. LFG!
1. First, we need to challenge the Single state fallacy — "the erroneous assumption that all worthwhile mental processes occur in our usual awake mindbody state"
Altered states allow us to access novel kinds of perceptions, emotions and cognition — new ways of using our minds
Sep 25, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Been thinking about what could be the potential mechanisms through which classic psychedelics have a healing impact.
Hypothesis — Mystical experiences viscerally contradict some of our deepest held beliefs and trigger memory reconsolidation
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If you're not familiar, the idea behind memory reconsolidation goes something like this —
Emotional issues arise from certain beliefs/schemas we formed in response to external challenges. We can update these schemas through a process called memory reconsolidation wherein...
