11 OCT 2022 · Learning how to surrender in a psychedelic experience is a practice that many journeyers seek to understand. In this episode, Jimmy and Nicholas explain the difference between giving up and surrendering. They’ll walk you through the process of actively relinquishing control as means for allowing the psychedelic experience to unfold organically and without internal resistance. Our hosts will discuss the importance of recognizing our survival mechanisms in order to detach from the self-preserving habits that take us out of the present moment. They’ll also highlight how expectations and comparison can quickly become an obstacle in a psychedelic trip and how setting expectations differ from creating a therapeutic plan.  Later they'll consider the role of social conditioning in our human tendency to focus on outcomes rather than the process. Then they’ll explain how we can find the emotional space to embed surrender into our current belief systems. To close off, our hosts compare surrender to the act of radical acceptance by unraveling their inextricable link to trust and faith. Nicholas and Jimmy define what it means to view your psychedelic medicine as an ally while providing tangible steps for mitigating fear and practicing the art of surrender in our daily lives.  About Psychedelic Passage: Psychedelic Passage facilitates safe containers for sacred psychedelic use by creating an online ecosystem that leverages human connection to pair journeyers with a network of pre-vetted, professional guides in their local area. The company’s comprehensive vetting process ensures each hand-selected facilitator serves journeyers with integrity. The goal is to inspire trust, confidence, and lasting change in each journeyer. To date, their network of guides has facilitated hundreds of safe and transformational journeys for people all across the United States. You can also learn more about the founders and hosts by viewing the bios for Nicholas Levich and Jimmy Nguyen.

27 SEP 2022 · Joël Brierre, the founder of Kaivalya Kollectiv, joins forces with Psychedelic Passage co-founders, Jimmy Nguyen and Nicholas Levich, to discuss the medicinal power of 5-MeO-DMT. They describe the difference between 5-MeO-DMT and Bufo alvarius, outlining why 5-MeO-DMT is arguably the most powerful hallucinogen known to exist. Joël explains why he’s found the multi-day container model to be the most therapeutic option for embarking on a 5-MeO-DMT experience and describes how the ‘God Molecule’ can help us resolve innate human suffering by loosening the rigidity of the self. 

27 SEP 2022 · Mitigating the chances of a bad trip is a crucial factor in preparing for the unpredictable and often challenging nature of psychedelic experiences. In this episode, Jimmy and Nick will review some actionable steps that can be taken to prevent discomfort, dissolve self-judgment, and redirect the tone of your journey. First, they’ll highlight some of the common themes of a bad trip. They’ll explain what ‘surrendering’ really means and how it applies to not only psychedelic experiences, but to life as a whole. They’ll also offer some examples of what a psychedelic facilitator might do to ease your mind during the intense parts of psychedelic experience. Then our hosts will explain why having a psychedelic facilitator or tripsitter present can help you feel a more solid sense of being grounded and safe in your body and in your environment. Nick and Jimmy will clarify just how much personal autonomy you have over the course of your journey and why emotional transparency with your facilitator can be of immense benefit. About Psychedelic Passage: Psychedelic Passage facilitates safe containers for sacred psychedelic use by creating an online ecosystem that leverages human connection to pair journeyers with a network of pre-vetted, professional guides in their local area. The company’s comprehensive vetting process ensures each hand selected facilitator serves journeyers with integrity. The goal is to inspire trust, confidence, and lasting change for each journeyer. To date, their network of guides have facilitated hundreds of safe and transformational journeys for people all across the United States. You can also learn more about the founders and hosts by viewing the bios for Nicholas Levich and Jimmy Nguyen.

20 SEP 2022 · Mitigating the chances of a bad trip by becoming more informed on the nuances of these experiences can help calm the discouraging fear often associated with psychedelics. This episode unravels the risks of placing labels on your journey and explains how setting expectations can be both limiting and liberating to our greater healing purpose.  Nick and Jimmy draw distinctions between adverse and bad trips, explaining why a challenging experience may actually be exactly what you need. They provide tangible examples of a bad trip, discussing how internal resistance feeds upon itself to create more separation between our egos and our authentic truths. The hosts examine the role of self-acceptance and surrender in laying down resilient and conscious foundations that are conducive to a fruitful journey. They also emphasize the importance of receiving adequate support throughout this process and illustrate the discomfort that may arise if psychedelics are taken in a recreational setting. Later, they tackle why there are no guarantees in a psychedelic experience and how curiosity can help you grow through the discomfort of these uncharted territories. Finally, they propose a thought exercise that will help you gauge if a therapeutic psychedelic experience is right for you.  About Psychedelic Passage: Psychedelic Passage facilitates safe containers for sacred psychedelic use by creating an online ecosystem that leverages human connection to pair journeyers with a network of pre-vetted, professional guides in their local area. The company’s comprehensive vetting process ensures each hand-selected facilitator serves journeyers with integrity. The goal is to inspire trust, confidence, and lasting change for each journeyer. To date, their network of guides has facilitated hundreds of safe and transformational journeys for people all across the United States. You can also learn more about the founders and hosts by viewing the bios for Nicholas Levich and Jimmy Nguyen. 

13 SEP 2022 · Determining therapeutic psilocybin dosages for maximum therapeutic potential is an essential part of intentional psychedelic use and psychedelic assisted therapy. This episode identifies the thresholds of psilocybin that produce altered states of consciousness and result in real, tangible shifts. Hosts Nicholas Levich and Jimmy Nguyen start by clarifying that dosage is correlated to intention, set, and setting–there is no one size fits all dosage when it comes to magic mushrooms. They discuss the process of how to find the minimum viable dose that gets you to the journey threshold. From there, the hosts talk about why some people experience ego death on 2 grams and other people are unable to reach the journey threshold on 10+ grams. This ultimately highlights the most significant factor impacting dosage, which is unrelated to bodyweight or gender. The episode also covers what the Johns Hopkins research discovered in terms of the optimal psilocybin dosage. Finally, the hosts discuss the impact different mushroom strains and serotonergic medications have on dosage. About Psychedelic Passage: Psychedelic Passage facilitates safe containers for sacred psychedelic use by creating an online ecosystem that leverages human connection to pair journeyers with a network of pre-vetted, professional guides in their local area. The company’s comprehensive vetting process ensures each hand selected facilitator serves journeyers with integrity. The goal is to inspire trust, confidence, and lasting change for each journeyer. To date, their network of guides have facilitated hundreds of safe and transformational journeys for people all across the United States. You can also learn more about the founders and hosts by viewing the bios for Nicholas Levich and Jimmy Nguyen.

6 SEP 2022 · What is the role of a facilitator? This is a question that hosts Nicholas Levich and Jimmy Nguyen often get from prospective clients. At its core, the role of a facilitator is to hold a safe, supportive, and non-judgmental space–also known as a container.  This episode addresses both the universal attributes that space holders take on as well as the specific roles facilitators will play depending on the context of the relationship and the client’s desired level of support.  Nick and Jimmy discuss the importance of showing up as a clean vessel in order to avoid inserting the facilitator’s own beliefs, desires, and interpretations into the container. They also talk about the gift of presence and how incredibly healing it can be to have another human’s unwavering presence while you journey.  The hosts discuss the inherent power dynamics of the journeyer/facilitator relationship and how crucial it is to establish boundaries and expectations at the start of the relationship so that power can be shared. Finally, they talk about the importance of ethics and specifically the issues of transference and countertransference.  About Psychedelic Passage: Psychedelic Passage facilitates safe containers for sacred psychedelic use by creating an online ecosystem that leverages human connection to pair journeyers with a network of pre-vetted, professional guides in their local area. The company’s comprehensive vetting process ensures each hand-selected facilitator serves journeyers with integrity. The goal is to inspire trust, confidence, and lasting change for each journeyer. To date, their network of guides has facilitated hundreds of safe and transformational journeys for people all across the United States. You can also learn more about the founders and hosts by viewing the bios for Nicholas Levich and Jimmy Nguyen. 

30 AUG 2022 · What is integration and why is it important? This is one of the most common questions that hosts Nicholas Levich and Jimmy Nguyen receive from clients. In this episode, they provide clear answers in an effort to help you as a journeyer get the most possible benefit out of the psychedelic experience. Regardless of whether you take a recreational journey or a more ceremonial one, integration is required for life-long lasting change after a single journey. The hosts discuss when integration starts, how long it lasts, and what to expect during the process. From there, Nick and Jimmy cover the common pitfalls people make while integrating as well as what happens if you don’t integrate the experience. This episode also covers some best practices to make the most of your unique integration process. Finally, the hosts discuss the differences between approaching integration solo versus with the help of professional or peer based support. About Psychedelic Passage: Psychedelic Passage facilitates safe containers for sacred psychedelic use by creating an online ecosystem that leverages human connection to pair journeyers with a network of pre-vetted, professional guides in their local area. The company’s comprehensive vetting process ensures each hand selected facilitator serves journeyers with integrity. The goal is to inspire trust, confidence, and lasting change for each journeyer. To date, their network of guides have facilitated hundreds of safe and transformational journeys for people all across the United States. You can also learn more about the founders and hosts by viewing the bios for Nicholas Levich and Jimmy Nguyen.

24 AUG 2022 · How psychedelics help you get unstuck is what hosts Nicholas Levich and Jimmy Nguyen cover in this episode. This feeling of being stuck, blocked, or in your own way is why the vast majority of folks seek out intentional psychedelic use. In this episode, the hosts talk about how to actually close the gap between knowing what you want and then actually doing it. They talk about how psychedelics can create alignment between the conscious mind, the subconscious mind, and the nervous system. Nick and Jimmy address how psychedelics help us move from mental concepts to direct experience and how that felt sense actually rewires the brain. They also cover what the default mode network (DMN) is and why it’s often the limiting factor in our ability to change. This episode includes discussion around the role of social conditioning and programming as it relates to this process of getting unstuck. Finally the hosts talk about how psychedelics bring to the surface that which has been suppressed and the change in perception that ensues. About Psychedelic Passage: Psychedelic Passage facilitates safe containers for sacred psychedelic use by creating an online ecosystem that leverages human connection to pair journeyers with a network of pre-vetted, professional guides in their local area. The company’s comprehensive vetting process ensures each hand selected facilitator serves journeyers with integrity. The goal is to inspire trust, confidence, and lasting change for each journeyer. To date, their network of guides have facilitated hundreds of safe and transformational journeys for people all across the United States. You can also learn more about the founders and hosts by viewing the bios for Nicholas Levich and Jimmy Nguyen.

16 AUG 2022 · Preparing for a psychedelic experience is an essential part of using plant medicines for healing and transformation. Modern media places so much emphasis on the psychedelic journey itself without addressing all the work that comes beforehand.  In this episode, Nicholas Levich and Jimmy Nguyen start by defining what preparation is as well as why it’s so important. They discuss tangible steps and practices that you can implement in your own preparatory process, as well as some universal tools and helpful frameworks. 

10 AUG 2022 · SSRI’s, antidepressants, and psilocybin–can you combine them? Many people are seeking an intentional psilocybin experience in order to combat depression, but very few know whether they can stay on their pharmaceutical medication or not. Some of these medications are medically contraindicated and some are not.  Hosts Nicholas Levich and Jimmy Nguyen address the various types of medications (not just antidepressants) and how they can impact the psychedelic experience. They provide some general guidelines as well as actionable advice for anyone who is currently taking prescription medication and considering a psychedelic journey.