EP 053 | THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A BAD TRIP

In this episode, Sinclair discusses:

• Where the term “bad trip” comes from 
• Fear of psychedelics as a tool of control to repress medicine and consciousness expansion
• Why I don’t believe in trigger warnings — why triggers are a gift, a roadmap to where healing needs to happen
• Psychedelics are not for everybody, they have always been an underground path
• You need willingness, a rebel heart, an open mind to go beyond
• The origin of psychedelics in paganism, Earth medicine, and how our ancestors have kept this knowledge alive
• Plant medicine is a path to spiritual enlightenment and wholeness
• You need a willingness to go into the darkness. Your darkness.   
• Expecting to have only euphoric, loving experiences will create disappointment
• The full spectrum of experience must have dark and light in equal measure
• Waking up is not a bad thing
• Some medicine experiences are really fucking scary and overwhelming and painful and difficult
• Getting stuck inside hellscapes that last forever 
• The pain of looking at yourself and your choices
• Facing your own mortality — we are all going to die
• Shedding the old pieces of yourself to make room for more authenticity
• How people can have traumatic experiences with medicine
• What is buried, repressed, hidden, what you don’t want to confront 
• The descent into what is beyond isn’t bad, but it can feel bad, and that is valid 
• You can learn this in partnership with medicines
• People are desperate to sit with medicine, they are buying it online, and winging it
• Trying to piecemeal a safety net together from the internet
• Not everyone is ready to hold space for other people
• Take your time and be responsible to your soul and your well-being
• Discount shopping for medicine services is crazy – saying no to bargain priced shamans
• Creating safety is so important
• Getting triggered by the medicine and welcoming it in
• Why are we taking these medicines? Because something is stuck…
• Feeling the cosmic love and oneness is also a path of healing
• Learning how to reorient yourself to pleasure and ease is possible
• You don’t get to know more until you have completed your learning where you are
• You can do everything right and STILL you can have a hard time, the hard time is a gift
• Your body is always talking to you, your heart, your mind  
• Illness and disease have an energetic cause
• The beauty of a bad trip shows you your strength
• Getting taken to your edge gives you the ability to see everything as a teacher and a gift
• Learning how to surrender inside your medicine experience is a skill that you can learn
• Savoring the little things and learning how to appreciate and stand in your own power