Writing & essays.

The golden shadow is the hidden, unclaimed brilliance of positive qualities within us, our light, our gifts, our potential, that we have difficulty feeling or embracing. We unconsciously project it onto others because we feel unworthy, afraid, or unprepared to embody them.

The substance may open the door. The healing is often in the new relationship that becomes possible.

A relatogen is a substance, practice, or experience that brings relationship into awareness and has the potential to reorganize and deepen how we relate to ourselves, our bodies, our memories, other people, nature, meaning, and the wider field of life.

Integration is about creating wholeness in one's life —weaving together the extraordinary experiences we have in non-ordinary states with the ordinary fabric of our daily existence.