The dragon is the symbolic challenge that the hero must face in order to be granted the precious treasure that it guards in Joseph Campbell's heroes journey. The idea of the heroes journey has helped me understand the psychedelic experience and its role in our lives and our healing processes a lot. It inspired me to offer you a little gift that may help you along on your own heroes journey. In psychedelic therapy they sometimes say that the music is the hidden therapist in th

My take on the psychedelic Heroes Journey.

Though psychedelic substances are notorious for their impressively wide range of effects, it seems the mystical or blissful ones attract...

When I was 26 I had just finished quite a few years of studying physics and I found myself in a position to make a choice: find work as...

Though I have lived almost all my life in the Netherlands I have lived abroad for a few years as a child. When I was 10 years old we...

Comparing psychedelic experiences to a trip to another country. By Coen de Koning.

Psychedelics are sometimes compared to mirrors. And I feel there is something to that comparison. Having a mirror in your home for the...