Psychedelic meditation is a contemplative practice that uses small, intentional doses of 5-MeO-DMT to access expanded states of self-awareness.
Awareness.
Much of human life is lived without awareness. Our experience is shaped by thoughts, emotional reactions, and protective patterns that form early and quietly organize how we relate to ourselves and the world. Over time, these narratives and defenses begin to feel like who we are.
This work begins by placing awareness at the center of experience.
Awareness is the capacity to notice what is happening — thoughts, emotions, sensations, reactions — as they arise. When awareness is absent, we are inside our experience, identified with it. When awareness is present, experience can be met, felt, and understood without being overwhelmed or defined by it.
From narrative to awareness.
With practice, something subtle but profound becomes possible.
Rather than living primarily from narrative — the stories we tell about ourselves, others, and the world — we begin to recognize those stories as experiences arising within awareness. Thoughts and emotions are no longer taken as absolute truths, but as movements within a wider field of clarity.
This shift does not remove difficulty from life.
What it changes is how difficulty is held.
As awareness becomes more stable, reactivity softens. Space appears around experience. Qualities such as steadiness, compassion, and discernment begin to emerge naturally — not as ideals to strive for, but as expressions of clarity.
Psychedelic meditation is a contemplative practice centered on training awareness itself.
Certain psychedelic states — and particularly those catalyzed by 5-MeO-DMT — are distinct in that they do not primarily generate visions, narratives, or symbolic content. Instead, they can produce an altered state in which awareness becomes exceptionally vivid, open, and unobstructed. The usual structures that bind attention to thought, identity, and emotion temporarily loosen, allowing awareness to recognize itself directly.
Within this amplified state, the practice is not to analyze or interpret experience, but to remain aware — to notice how sensations, thoughts, emotions, and even the sense of self arise and dissolve within a luminous field of awareness that is already present.
Over time, this functions as a form of intensive neuroplastic training in nonduality. Rather than learning nonduality conceptually, the nervous system learns — through repeated recognition — what it is like to experience without collapsing into narrative or identification. Awareness is no longer something glimpsed briefly, but something that can be recognized, stabilized, and integrated.
Crucially, the value of this practice is not the intensity of the altered state itself, but what carries forward afterward: a clearer relationship to experience, reduced identification with thought and emotion, and a growing capacity to remain aware in ordinary life.
In this way, psychedelic meditation is not about peak experiences.
It is about learning how awareness works, and allowing that recognition to reshape how life is lived.
A depth-oriented practice
This is not a casual or recreational practice.
It is depth-oriented, experiential, and unfolds gradually.
In its early phases, the work emphasizes low-dose 5-MeO DMT to support healing at the level of the subtle body — the nervous system, stored activation, and unresolved energetic patterns that shape perception and reactivity. Awareness is amplified enough to bring clarity and sensitivity, while remaining regulated and accessible.
Here, the focus is on allowing the psyche to complete arcs that were previously unintegrated. Drawing on Internal Family Systems (IFS) and parts-oriented work, emerging material is met with attention, compassion, and care. Protective and wounded parts are not pushed through, but seen and held within awareness, allowing integration rather than re-traumatization.
As the nervous system stabilizes and experience becomes less organized around defense, the practice may deepen. With sufficient preparation and integration, it becomes possible to work with stronger awareness-amplifying states in service of nature-of-mind practice — exploring nonduality not as a concept, but as a lived recognition that thoughts, emotions, and even the sense of self arise within awareness itself.
Across all phases, the emphasis remains the same: safety, regulation, and integration. The work is guided by readiness, not intensity, and by the capacity to remain aware — not by the pursuit of experience.
