Attention Ideology

Therapy

Someone to listen to our trippy BS is often all we want when we first get back to Earth

From Transcendent Country of the Mind by Sari Soninen published by The Eriskay Collection

Like all things consciousness-expansion related any integration practice will be highly subjective, and complex. 

And somehow, simultaneously, dazzlingly, beautifully simple.

Vital students, including storied specialists, were in agreement as to what many voyagers seek from their post-trip debriefs.

“Just being witnessed, or seen, or heard, is so paramount,” says one wise Vital student in the question and answer session after Kyle Buller’s lecture to open Vital’s training module on psychedelic integration.

“Just be open, without really much of any judgment, or even too much feedback”

Indeed Dr Timothy Leary, for it is he, wrote in The Politics of Ecstasy, ‘Close your eyes and listen... and learn that it's the oldest message of love and peace and laughter.’

Another Vital learner, recently returned from retreat, says of his own touchdown: “It's very important for the listener to just be open, without really much of any judgment, or even too much feedback.”

So, do say: ‘Wow’.

Don’t say: ‘Rr… right.’

Conversation stopper: ‘I think you should stop hanging out with those people.’