Psychedelic Support
In the Netherlands it is legal for you to buy and consume fresh Psilocybine truffles.
If you are looking for professional and experienced support for your experience, we would be very happy to help you get the most out of it.
Psychedelic experiences are famously unpredictable and there is a lot to say about them but if you are interested in our help we recommend simply reaching out to us and we can clear up most of your questions in an online talk. This will also give you a sense of us, how we work, and it will help us get a sense of where you are coming from which will be much harder through text.
Everyone will come with unique intentions and from unique backgrounds, we will not provide a single solution but will listen and tune carefully to you and the processes that you find yourself in.
So please email us, even if you are not sure if you are ready for a psychedelic adventure.
We will likely be able to help you make that choice; if you are ready and if we are the right people to support you with a Psilocybin experience at this time.
There are a few general things that we can say about our approach.
Over the years and the hundreds of experiences we have guided we have found that for most people a 6-day program is very effective.
Such a process generally involves:
6 days in person with both of us
2 psilocybin experiences
4 days with a few hours of preparation/integration work each
an optional 1h breathwork session on the first day
Alternatively
3 days in person with both of us
1 psilocybin experience
2 days with a few hours of preparation/integration work each
an optional 1h breathwork session on the first day
at least 3 - 4 online preparation sessions before with one of us
and as many or few online integration sessions afterwards
Preparation
We strongly recommend investing in preparation sessions it helps to make the integration of the experience so much easier. We do not want to fix the number of preparation sessions because some people come to us with relatively robust and healthy minds and some come with more serious issues like depression or anxiety that is hindering their functioning and so some will simply benefit from more preparation time.
Additionally, if you feel you do not need a focus on preparation we may perhaps not be the best guides for your experience because we are quite seriously trained specialists and you may prefer a simple tripsitter or group retreat of which there are many in the Netherlands. We fully respect your needs and are happy to explore with you what would serve you best.
Why not one experience?
We find that a 2 - experience retreat is powerful as this allows us to learn from an experience with a more moderate dose and adjusting things so the second experience can be set up optimally for you. This is not just a good way to decide the dose that works best for you but also allows us to tune our style of support. The extra experience also allows us more time so we can slow down the work we do, build a deeper rapport or trust between us and work on your sense of safety. The safer you feel with us and the experiences you are having, the deeper your system will allow you to go.
Renting an apartment
We will ask you to find an AirBnB or alternatively a hotel room in Rotterdam or near us and we will work with you there. We recommend choosing a place with plenty of privacy and if possible close to a park or some nature. We have some recommendations to help you find a good place.
We do not recommend staying in Amsterdam though it is a beautiful city, renting a B&B in Rotterdam is substantially cheaper and as we live just outside Rotterdam this will save us a lot of travel time.
If you do wish to stay in Amsterdam or elsewhere outside Rotterdam we will charge extra travel costs.
Truffles
As therapists we cannot provide the truffles for you so we will recommend one or two brands and a volume for you to buy before the first truffle session. This is generally not a problem, truffles are for sale in smart-shops that are easy to find.
The psilocybin experience
For the psychedelic truffles session you will mostly lie on your bed and we recommend using eye-folds and headphones so we can play a specifically chosen music playlist. If you want you can bring your own eye-folds and on-ear headphones ( preferably with a cable ) for more comfort. Though we will also bring these to the session. Feel free to tell us your preferences around the music.
Dose
There is no reliable rule for the dose of magic truffles that we can give you. The two determining factors for the quality of the experience are the 'Set' and 'Setting'. Not the dose. We will not simply follow a set dose per kilogram of bodyweight because in our experience it is not true that a heavily built male will need more than a lightly built female. We find that, generally, people who have a more controlling mindset tend to resist the experience more than people who surrender more easily to the experience. But even this rule of thumb can prove deceptive.
We generally limit the dose to 50 grams of fresh psilocybin truffles (do not confuse this amount with an amount for dried magic mushrooms). We find that if this dose does not evoke an experience, taking more will not make as much of a difference as investigating what seems to be holding you back.
As with all psychedelics, truffles will evoke a an unbelievably wide variety of experiences in different people and between different sessions. Your experience will be highly individual, distinctly different from the next person and your experience will be distinctly different from your next experience.
There really is no predicting.
In the end we will help you be in a mindset prepared for anything and we will decide a dose together with you based on our experience, your intention and ultimately an amount that you feel safe with.
Keep in mind that we offer a very controlled setting; we certainly do not recommend anyone taking 50 grams of magic truffles without prior experience, very careful preparation and support.
And we do not recommend this upper limit dose to all of our clients.