It’s Monday after the Super Bowl and I’m still feeling swept up by a tidal wave of love. You don’t have to be a football fan or a follower of pop music to feel the buzz. Psychedelics has taught me how palpable the collective conscious is. If there’s one central human NEED, it is belonging. Our inherent DNA knows the threat of isolation. United. States. And Bad Bunny’s performance demonstrated United- as a force that can’t be divided by color, race, religion, and arbitrary political boundaries. We can’t separate from our lived experiences. No matter how much therapy I process, I’m still impacted by my feral childhood. How I integrate those experiences, is my choice. Seeing all those waving flags of different countries on one stage, I felt more woven together as a person in this country. We are all dancing to the beat of our hearts and carried by the air rising and falling from our lungs. We are sharing the same oxygen and water and the desire for love over hate.
We’ve heard ‘United we stand, divided we fall’. Currently, it’s estimated that 39 million people in USA are consuming psychedelics. And that 10 million are regularly microdosing psychedelics. Never before have we had that many people on this planet ‘tripping’. That has to be impacting the evolution of humanity. I want to believe that humans are inherently kind, want to connect, and be generous. Since I started microdosing psychedelics in 2016, I’m becoming more of the human I want to be, which is trustworthy and someone you can count on. As I am learning to catch my breath and have my breath catch me, there’s time to pause and reflect. Choices are emerging.
While I’m basking in the afterglow of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance, feeling ‘what’s right with humanity’, I ponder how psychedelics are tapping the web that holds us all together. In this image of me gazing at a psilocybin colony in my partner’s growing room. Maybe, just maybe – these magical mushrooms help us remember we are more alike than different.
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