Northerner said:

You're not going to get any shadow work done in a clinical setting for sure, i still reckon it'd be pretty cool. If I was rich I'd have a go.

At the same time I'm not sure how I'd go being messed with by head doctors when I'm melting face. It really doesn't seem ideal. Maybe would be like ripping off a band aid though. Painful but necessary.

Being in a setting where I've tripped more times than my guide has seen people trip seems a bit questionable. I have done some research about the topic though and they are really serious about who they get to counsel, how it's done, intentions, objectives, safety and all that.

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yeah...to all the above.

I does seem odd. I'm cynical of the growing trend in the U.S. to say the least - albeit that pertains only to where I've called home for some years now.

I always wonder about guides. Similarly so with regard to guided meditations.  Guided trip to what - an external influence from another mind-body suggesting (likely, not even their own ideas because, let's face it, who even has 'their own thoughts, ideas, and in a way that can be communicated so that the recipient has a 1:1 translation/simulation event just as the sender of it would?)

My body-mind? How can they guide me to where I am from where they are?  Makes no sense to me.  I think of it as moral support for those new to psychedelics or maybe require a bit of reassurance from time to time during the trip that its just a drug, a medicine, and it has a timer - the body will metabolize the chemicals and the effects do not ever last 'forever-forever'.  <- to put it crudely.

When I'm deep sea diving psychedelic style. I want to explore exactly just how I've come up, how everything involved at the time interdepends as per each participating phenomenon as it comes and goes - as they are what's manifested from my being's experience of interbeing in the moment, and, to do as percipiently as I can given my total state of being at the time. 'Gestaltickly', you might could say. (?!/haha)
And - from the ground up, though that ground isn't just on the ground, if you follow my meaning. It's just the first or rather original-place itself. That which no thing can be truly cloven from the whole of (coexistence), no matter what. I.e., Not at any point along the way; be it from before the cradle, and through to the grave and beyond.  That's just my own bias though. That keeps my head on my shoulders while my feet are on the ground, even when I'm tripping so as such that I barely feel human - literally vibrating like the core of a swirling galaxy or something. Love it.

Psychology without a psyche (as 'they say), but vibrant with the living organism energetically alive and well. Whilst taking place in a comfortably setup environment, relatively safe & snug all by myself with the whole world under my feet and all around me; man, honestly, how much more can a blind ass ask for than that?  Everyone who can might as well figure out their own ways of going about their own business insofar as psychedelic experiences - including dreaming - goes.

Anyway. Good stuff.