Set Setting and Integration Jennifer Allen LMFT ATRBC wwwboneknowingcom boneknowinggmailcom Ceremony LSD 60s Rite of Passage Set Setting and Integration Western Cultures Ceremony ID: 935379
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“Growing Corn” with a psychedelic Experience using Art & Ceremony
Set, Setting and Integration
Jennifer Allen, LMFT, ATR-BC
www.boneknowing.com
boneknowing@gmail.com
Slide2Ceremony
Slide3LSD: 60’s Rite of Passage
Slide4Set, Setting and Integration = Western Culture’s Ceremony
MAPS, NYU, Johns Hopkins, UCSF, UCLA, are all using models of Psychedelic assisted therapy to research psychedelics as medicine for things like: PTSD, end-of life anxiety, treatment resistant depression, OCD, social anxiety
Studies have had excellent results to date.
Set, setting and integration are key.
Slide5Set, Setting and Integration
The experience itself is the contents held together by the bread of SS&I.
Art and ceremony are especially useful in the pre/Set and post/Integration of the experience.
Slide6Creativity + INtention
= CeremonyCeremony as a Non-Ordinary State (NOS) helps orient to the Psychedelic experience.
Ceremony cultivates right relationship.
Ceremony is an act of sincerity, intention and creativity.
You don’t have to be religious to experience ceremony.
You can make your own ceremonies.
Slide7Why Art?
Spacial Matrix Ineffable quality of PE Imagery/symbol pre-languageCreative source + PE source
–
same?
Container
–
holds experience
Externalizes and reflects PE
Unfolds PE further
Familiar bridge to and from psychedelic experience (PE)
Slide8SET =MindSet
Intention
Right relationship
Slide9SET = preparation
Intention may determine which medicine to use:Empathogen Entheogen
Slide10SET: Strengthen your Kite String
P
ractices with other non-ordinary states and resources help strengthen your kite string, so you are free to fly.
Slide11SET = Orientation
Do you have practices that help ground you? (yoga, meditation, prayer,)Have you navigated other non-ordinary states you can source from? (ceremony, meditation, shamanic journey, lucid dreaming)
Slide12SET: Other NOS as Navigation
Learning to navigate the inner landscape with other non-ordinary state experiences.
Slide13Non-ordinary States
Slide14Set: Resource with Art
Create collage cards/mandalas of different internal/external resources like:Being loved, family, your spiritual path, feeling embodied, wisdom sources, connection to nature,
etc
Make them part of the “Setting”
Slide15Set: Know & Welcome Your Demons
This might be an emotion, a memory, a void, etc.Externalize them with art. Begin the dialog. You may meet them in the experience.They come as part of your healing.
Have
a plan to face them.
Be curious.
What we resist, persists.
Like a river- keep it flowing.
Slide16SET =preparation/Safety
Know the safety profile of the psychedelic and its drug interactions.ErowidTripsit
Dancesafe
Slide17SET = preparation/Safety
The nature of most psychedelics is to be non-toxic and non-addictive, despite being on Schedule I by the FDA
…
and still, know the drug’s profile and test it.
Slide18Setting
Plan to be in a safe place. With a “sitter”/ experienced journeyers. Layered comfortable clothes.Water bottle, blankets and pad to lay on.
Know what to avoid ahead (drug/foods).
Easy access to bathroom.
Eye shades & earplugs
Playlist
–
that follow arc of medicine
.
Access to
nature is a bonus.
Open sacred space
–
in way that suites you.
Slide19Setting: Creating Altars
Create a personal altar with special photos and items. Make it meaningful.
Slide20Setting
Slide21Integration = Growing Corn
Slide22Art as A Bridge
Creative process is a non-ordinary state we are familiar with.We can learn to navigate NOS via creative process pre-PE It serves as a pre-language bridge for ineffable experiences post PE
Slide23Art for Access
Unfolding the experience and gathering the gems by:
Diving down into NOS
with
a NOS Shamanic drum journey
Rapid intuitive image making from the depths 3x90, 1x15
Returning slowly to the surface with Free Association and Stream of Consciousness writing.
Sharing the gems & a life practice
Slide24Integration
The Felt Sense
Slide25Integration
Group Synergy
Slide26IntegratioN
Ceremony
Slide27Integration
Walking Integration
Walking
Integration
Nature
S
acred Witness
Slide28Integration
Life Practice
Slide29Opportunities for Integration
Jennifer offers monthly NOS/psychedelic Integration groups and workshops.
Next Integration Workshop 12/7/19
New group starting 1/2020
Art for Access workshops 2020
For more info./registration go to
www.boneknowng.com
or contact her at
boneknowing@gmail.com