Paul F. Austin

The prohibition of psychedelics is one of the greatest failures of scientific and political institutions over the last 50 years.

Psychedelic states aren’t about escaping reality. They’re about repatterning your relationship to it.

A single, well-guided high-dose psilocybin mushroom journey might be the highest ROI in mental health today. To address the growing crisis in the West, we must legalize psilocybin with urgency. Free the mushroom. Free the people.

Psychedelic integration begins the moment you commit to change. Not the moment you take the medicine. Willful choice is the essential ingredient to all behavioral change. Psychedelics just act as the catalyst.

Most people obsess over the “trip.” But the real transformation happens before and after... In how you prepare, how you integrate, and how you weave microdosing into everyday life. The peak experience is just the catalyst. Changing life is what you do with it.

Colorado wants to medicalize ibogaine. But how do you fit a medicine this powerful into a system built for symptom management? You don’t. They’re incompatible. If we’re serious about transformation, we need new systems, not old containers.

The ceremony starts when you say yes. Not when you take the medicine.

Colorado is planning to medicalize ibogaine within its new legal system. How does one regulate such powerful medicine within the our current healthcare systems? They are fundamentally incompatible. Colorado must pioneer new systems that support transformative work.

Psychedelics aren’t miracles. They’re mirrors. They show you the truth, but they don’t do the work. 90% of the change happens after the peak. If you don’t integrate and rewire, you’ll keep replaying the same old patterns, just dressed up in new clothes.

Most “bad trips” aren’t bad, they’re just insanely intense. The experienced guide doesn’t fix it. Instead, they midwife the meaning into new paradigms of understanding.

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Psychedelics aren’t miracles. They’re mirrors. You still have to look, learn, and live differently. If you skip integration—no journaling, no reflection, no honest change—it’s not medicine, it’s escapism. 90% of the work happens after the peak. That’s the path.

A skilled psychedelic guide never “manages” the journey. They listen, holding a regulated nervous system, and embodying presence. The medicine does the rest.

One of the most powerful questions when working with psychedelics: “What are you practicing?” Insight is useless without integration. And integration is ALWAYS about practice.

The most overlooked part of psychedelic work is what you do before EVER taking the medicine. It's what we call preparation. Intention setting, relational safety, and somatic readiness shape 90% of the psychedelic arc before a single milligram of mushroom is consumed.

Psychedelics won’t do the work for you. They just shine a light on where to go. The real work begins when your experience ends. That's why we call it integration.

Microdosing isn’t about doing more. It’s about doing less from a deeper place. When paired with somatic practices, it becomes a nervous system training protocol, regulating stress, deepening awareness, and increasing responsiveness.

Ibogaine is the most powerful addiction interrupter on the planet. However, it’s currently banned in the US. Colorado wants to change that by legalizing ibogaine treatment, creating access to a plant alkaloid that resets the brain from opioid abuse and TBIs. HUGE, if passed.