“Integration is not about figuring out your psychedelic experience. There’s nothing you need to “get” from a journey. Psychedelics, and the higher intelligence that works through them, give you exactly what you need when you need it. True integration is merely letting the magnitude of that gift unfold.” ~Edan Armas, Third Wave
What is Integration?
While a wilderness immersion, retreat experience or psychedelic journey may be a profound experience, the real journey begins upon returning to everyday life.​ How do we stay open to what is yet to unfold or reveal itself? How do we start applying wisdom and insights from the experience? What practices and reflections will deepen us into the journey instead of focusing on analyzing it?​
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Integration Group
Integration groups are spaces where people come together to share, process, deepen into, and continue working with mystical experiences such as those that occur during psychedelic journeys or wilderness immersions. Dreams can also be mystical experiences when they feel life-altering or particularly stirring.
Group Outline
Our time together will begin with a poem or reading, followed by an explanation of our sacred agreements and guidelines for co-creating a safe space. The majority of the time will be open for people to share stories or reflections related to their own experiences. The group facilitator will sometimes offer mirroring, reflection questions, or invitations for those who want additional support or guidance.
Integration Approach
The Cavewoman Way offers mythopoetic integration support, mirroring, non-directive questions and take-away invitations. Instead of interpeting, analzying, or over-processing, we seek to deepen and amplify the insights, feelings, callings and curiosities that are stirring.
Books to Support your integration journey
Psychedelics & The Soul (Simon Yugler)
The Wild Twin (Martin Shaw)
Soulcraft (Bill Plotkin)
The Journey of Soul Initiation (Bill Plotkin)
The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide (James Fadiman)