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Clear-eyed writing for guides, facilitators, practitioners, explorers, and the psychedelic-curious.LATEST FIELD NOTES
Each article connects back to relevant medicines, conditions, categories, and primary sources across Entheodex.
What Is Psychedelic Integration?
A psychedelic experience can end long before it feels finished. Integration is the slower process of living with what happened, testing its meaning, and deciding whether anything belongs in ordinary life.
Read the field note ↗A Guide to Psychedelic Trip Sitters
A good sitter is less a spiritual director than a calm, sober witness with clear boundaries, a working phone, and the humility to call for help.
Read the field note ↗Psilocybin vs. LSD: Duration, Character, and Context
One is often called earthy and emotional, the other electric and analytical. The evidence tells a less tidy—and more useful—story.
Read the field note ↗What Does Psilocybin Feel Like?
People call it visual, emotional, spiritual, hilarious, tender, strange—and sometimes frightening. Here is a more honest map of the territory.
Read the field note ↗Set and Setting: What the Phrase Actually Means
It means more than good vibes, soft lighting, and the right playlist. Set and setting include the person, the room, the people, the expectations—and the power shaping all of them.
Read the field note ↗What Is an Entheogen?
The word is often translated as “generating the divine within.” It names a way of relating to certain substances—not a tidy pharmacological category.
Read the field note ↗LEARN CATEGORIES
Category hubs create useful pathways as the library grows, without separating the writing from the rest of the index.
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Felt experience
Perception, emotion, embodiment, difficult moments, and the language people reach for afterward.
Explore category ↗1 field noteCulture & language
The words, histories, rituals, communities, and power relationships surrounding psychedelic medicines.
Explore category ↗3 field notesGuides & support
Preparation, peer support, boundaries, difficult moments, and the practical care surrounding an experience.
Explore category ↗Keep the wonder.
Keep your footing.
Check the evidence
Use primary sources, name limitations, and keep “promising” separate from “proven.”
Respect the context
Culture, consent, legality, safety, history, and power stay visible beside the molecule.