Four Principles of Neurodiversity-Affirming Care - an excerpt from Neurodivergent Psychedelic Healing
Guiding others through psychedelic healing is sacred work. This first chapter of Neurodivergent Psychedelic Healing introduces four simple principles—collaboration, nonjudgment, curiosity, and flexibility—that help facilitators co-create safety with every client. When practiced with presence and care, these values expand what healing can look and feel like for all kinds of minds.
What happens when neuro-inclusion becomes the set and setting itself?
Journey Music for Psychedelic Playlists: Helios — Veriditas (2018)
Helio’s Veriditas invites the listener into dreamlike, emotional terrain—music that feels both intimate and expansive. Its textures cradle the nervous system, supporting integration and reflection after the peak of a journey. This series explores albums that function as companions for inner work—soundtracks that hold, mirror, and move with the listener through altered states.
Contours of Sound: Mapping Stanislav Grof’s Basic Perinatal Matrices (BPMs) to Journey Phases and Music Choices
This article examines how music can mirror the inner rhythm of a psychedelic journey through three complementary lenses: Stanislav Grof’s Basic Perinatal Matrices (BPMs), Helen Bonny’s early music therapy frameworks, and contemporary research, including the Copenhagen Music Program. Together, they show how the emotional phases of a session—opening, struggle, breakthrough, and return—can be supported through carefully chosen soundscapes that invite safety, surrender, and integration.