by Daniel | Sep 20, 2023 | Integration Lifestyle
I got a great call this past week. A man reached out to tell me that his wife was planning on doing some therapeutic work with psilocybin, and he wanted to know how he could best support her on her journey. I thought this was just so sweet, and a sign that the world...
by Daniel | Aug 19, 2023 | Integration Lifestyle
Watch the video for free below! Using psychedelics with the perspective of a yoga practitioner opens up a powerful world of transformative potential. Sacred texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and philosophies such as Ayurveda point us in a direction towards...
by Daniel | Jun 10, 2023 | Integration Lifestyle
My favorite part of coaching is being surprised by how infinitely interesting and beautiful people are. People are like fractals. If you zoom in on the right spot, you get more depth and wonder than you can ever imagine. That’s one of the biggest and best jobs...
by Daniel | May 23, 2023 | Integration Lifestyle
“Muddy Water is best Cleared By Leaving It Alone” Said Alan Watts, in his book, “The Way of Zen” Nature is as much a process as it is a thing, and this includes mud. We tend to think of the mud as something outside of ourselves. Work demands,...
by Daniel | Jan 2, 2023 | Integration Lifestyle
Tam Integration Predictions for 2023 1. More and more people will take their healing and spiritual growth into their own hands. 2. An increasing number of long time underground psychedelic users, healers, and wisdom keepers from all walks of life will come forward as...
by Daniel | Sep 19, 2022 | Integration Lifestyle
Spoiler alert, it can’t be done. Love and awareness are beyond the beyond, and at the same time immediately accessible to all of us. Regardless of race, religion, or bank account. I was a pretty rad conference this weekend, with some pretty rad people. One of...
by Daniel | Aug 9, 2022 | Integration Lifestyle
People ask me all the time about what I think a post prohibition world will look like. There are a lot of angles to this question. So many areas of our life will be affected by the end of prohibition. Lately though, I’ve been thinking about how psychedelic...
by Daniel | Jul 9, 2022 | Integration Lifestyle
Some of you have probably heard this joke. It poses the age old question, “Why do hippies dance like this?” and it’s accompanied by some wild flailing on the part of the comedian. The answer is of course, “To keep the music out of their...
by Daniel | Apr 27, 2022 | Integration Lifestyle
Let’s consider psychedelic navigation around our vast sea of consciousness. What is our latitude? our longitude? How do we chart a course? I been slowly reading a book called Longitude by Dava Sobel. It’s about how the desire to sail the seas inspired...
by Daniel | Jan 30, 2022 | Integration Lifestyle
The results of the community poll: What to do with content featuring speakers who have been revealed to be problematic? I’ll try to keep this as short as possible. It’s been a heavy week as it is. We sent out a poll last asking what to do with content that...
by Daniel | Jan 23, 2022 | Integration Lifestyle
We’ve had a lot of amazing speakers at our conferences. 120 speakers at our 3 Psilocybin Summits, and 111 at our Integration Jam. There is some overlap, but you get the point. The overwhelming majority of them are amazing individuals. They are friends, mentors,...
by Daniel | Jan 18, 2022 | Integration Lifestyle
Our job in our journeys to be a Care Bear. We find the parts of that need love, and shine light right out of our hearts, until those parts have all they need. We realize we’ve got an inexhaustible supply, and the quality of the love improves the more we give...
by Jean Johnson | Jul 26, 2021 | Integration Lifestyle
Jean Johnson Women's Circle Facilitator “Waves of grief and understanding moved through me. It was impossible and too much and yet I stayed. That’s the gift of the medicines, the gift of capacitation.” The Tale of Two Journeys, or,...
by Daniel | Dec 10, 2019 | Integration Lifestyle, Popular, The Circle
When we establish and honor an explicit structure for the coaching, the client feels the relationship as safe, welcoming, and solid. Doug Silsbee Paraphrased from his book 'The Mindful Coach' Leo Zeff Created Explicit Agreements, Why Don’t You? I was...
by Daniel | Nov 11, 2019 | Integration Lifestyle
Psychedelic Integration is not about developing psychic powers. It’s about cultivating sanity, presence, a clear mind, and an empathetic heart. Daniel Shankin, Tam Integration Psychedelic Archetypes and Astral Travel I recently received a question from somebody...
by Daniel | Oct 1, 2019 | Integration Lifestyle
Don’t surrender your loneliness so quickly. Let it cut more deep. Let it ferment and season you As few human or even divine ingredients can. Something missing in my heart tonight Has made my eyes so soft, My voice so tender, My need of God Absolutely Clear....
by Daniel | Aug 26, 2019 | Integration Lifestyle
Dude, Where’s My Breakthrough? The part of you that is attached to a breakthough is keeping you from having a breakthough. The universe does not owe any of us a breakthrough. It’s hard for us to hear that. We think we may have found this magic bullet that...
by Daniel | Aug 5, 2019 | Integration Lifestyle
A Quick and Easy Psychedelic Integration Journal You want to have a helpful and effective psychedelic integration journaling practice that is also clear and simple enough to use if you are still a little elevated. We can ask deep questions and ponder powerful...
by Daniel | Apr 8, 2019 | Integration Lifestyle
May there be peace on earth, in the waters, in the fires, and in the wind…May there be peace everywhere and in everyone. Sarva Mangalam There are so many delicious playlists for journeys. Far fewer, but just as important are the ones made for the morning after....
by Daniel | Mar 31, 2019 | Integration Lifestyle
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” Ursula Le Guin Loving What Can’t Be Solved I was recently talking to a woman whose husband’s mental faculties were in decline. They are both...
