On a prerequisite for considering psychedelics:

I will very often chat with friends who are interested in exploring many of these different tools and I’ll say, “Okay, first thing you do is you’re going to do 30 days of the introductory course on the Waking Up app from Sam Harris.”

“You’re going to combine that with reading Awareness by Anthony de Mello. And after the second week or after four weeks, you’re going to do a holotropic breathwork course,” because there are a lot of facilitators and it’s a term, turning towards wholeness is what that means by the way, which is relatively easy to find in most metropolitan areas. And it was developed by Stanislav Grof and others. And you should do at least a weekend course of holotropic breathwork, ideally do two or three separate sessions so that you have a chance to have a breadth of different experience including maybe some challenging or strange or disorienting experiences. And then we can talk about potentially phase two or three if you even need to go there.