Psychedelics & the Soul:
Level 1 - Mythopoetic Integration
Psychedelic Integration through a Mythopoetic Lens
Course Begins January 28, 2025
Learn how to integrate the symbolic language of visions, dreams and altered states of consciousness.
Join a vibrant community of psychedelic practitioners and inner explorers to learn about the world of symbolism, dreams, and altered states of consciousness.
In this 6-week course, I’ll walk you through the “Mythopoetic Integration Method,” a way of working with visionary and psychedelic experiences that draws upon the traditions of Jungian depth psychology, archetypal psychology, dreamwork, and animistic perspectives.
It’s hard to make sense of otherworldly experiences when we don’t understand the language of the otherworld itself.
Every psychedelic facilitator, therapist, and explorer needs a way of interpreting the symbols, archetypal beings, energies, and insights that are often accessed when charting the inner realms. But often, we end up leaving behind many of the precious gems of wisdom because we don’t have a way of understanding the meaning contained within them.
As discussed in Chapter 1 of my book, Psychedelics and the Soul, I naturally developed this style of integration after working with hundreds of clients and retreat guests as a psychedelic therapist and guide. After seeing people struggle to make sense of their experiences, and having no meaningful way to integrate them beyond what surface-level changes they could make in their life, I found myself wanting to help my clients form a deeper relationship to the insights, visions, and teachings they accessed during their journeys.
Grounded in depth psychology, archetypal imagery, dreamwork, and animistic perspectives, the Mythopoetic Integration method embraces the notion that myths, dreams, and psychedelic experiences all emerge from the same groundwater of the collective psyche, what many have called the soul.
Now, having taught as a psychedelic educator in 5 different training programs, including Inner Trek and Naropa University’s Center for Psychedelic Studies, I am offering this 6-week, in-depth course for the first time.
Over 6-weeks, you’ll learn how to apply this framework when working with psychedelic integration clients, and with your own visionary experiences.
Weekly calls will take place on Tuesday afternoons, 4pm PST, for 2 hours. Each call will consist of a live lecture, followed by time for Q & A, practice sessions, breakout rooms, and deeper dives into the material.
Each weekly module will have readings and supplemental material provided to help you deepen into the method. You’ll also practice this technique in realm time, with partnered exercises meant to get this method into your bones.
Course Structure
Module 1 - Mythos (Story)
The soul lives in stories. Every culture on earth has a creation myth that all other stories emanate from, and so do individuals. Healing can be seen as a process of revisiting the parts of our personal mythos that need tending and repair until we are able to heal larger stories than just our own. Storytelling starts in the preparation stage of every psychedelic journey.
Module 2 - Pathos (Feeling)
No good story begins with “happily ever after.” As Jung saw it, the psyche’s innate desire to move toward wholeness begins with the sense that something in our life needs to change. Usually this is accompanied by some form of suffering or deep feeling. Feeling makes things personal.
Module 3 - Association
Uncovering the personal associations with a particular image in an individual’s unconscious psyche is a foundational element of psychoanalysis and depth psychology. Association connects us to the personal unconscious and helps us find unseen threads between one’s lived experience and the Otherworld.
Module 4 - Amplification
Thinking symbolically and seeing through a mythopoetic eye means developing an ability to perceive archetypal themes behind the image, story, or dynamic before us. Amplification, a depth psychological technique perfected by Jung and those who followed him, is a way of connecting associations from the personal unconscious with the collective unconscious.
Module 5 - Personification
It’s not enough to simply interpret an image, extract our hit of personal inspiration, and move on with our lives. Mythopoetic Integration asks us to give psychic life to the symbol itself—what James Hillman called “personification.” It is not enough just to think about an archetypal image. We must think with it—and sometimes through it—in order to fully receive whatever gifts it might want to share.
Module 6 - Integration
Returning to society and integrating what we’ve learned is where psychedelic healing gets real. Traditionally, one was expected to come down from the Sacred Mountain with something to offer the people below.
But here’s the dilemma: if the culmination of initiatory rites and psychedelic journeys is to return with some renewed vision for the tribe, what does it mean when there is no village to return to, no elders to sing one back into the fold of family, work, community, and culture? Who is waiting for us when we wander back through the village gates?
Who is this for?
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Psychedelic therapists, facilitators, or integration coaches looking to go deeper with their clients.
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People who have completed a psychedelic training program but want more tools for the integration process.
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Practitioners looking to deepen their understanding of symbolic, mythological, and archetypal imagery.
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Passionate psychedelic explorers who want to find new ways of interpreting their own visionary experiences.
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Professionals interested in connecting with a community of peers interested in psychedelic healing, mythology, and the mysteries of the soul.
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Therapists, coaches or healers interested in learning about psychedelic healing and integration but don’t know where to start.
This course is not ideal for people just beginning their journey into psychedelics. This course is also not a good fit for people uninterested in exploring alternative worldviews, traditions, and psychological concepts. If you’re someone who gravitates towards more scientific, measurable, or evidence-based practices, this isn’t for you. Finally, if you’re not interested in doing your own work, connecting with others, or bringing some of your own self to the table, then this course likely isn’t a good fit.
Who this is not for:
I’ve taught the Mythopoetic Integration method to literally hundreds of students over the last few years. But this is the first time I am offering it as an in-depth course geared specifically for facilitators, therapists, and healers. The material is also supportive for exploring the symbolic imagery from your own journeys.
Enrolling in this course now will also act as a prerequisite for courses in the future.
This course is built upon years of personal experience as a depth and psychedelic therapist and retreat leader, and many more years spent studying the traditions of Jungian psychology, anthropology, and Indigenous cultures. Hard-won experiential knowledge, and academic study, and personal exploration has been poured into this course, with literally thousands of hours of face-to-face client work, thousands of hours of research and reading that inform what I’ll be teaching.
I am confident that you will come away feeling grounded in the techniques and practices in a way that will truly enrich your life and work.
Since this is the first time I’m running this course, it’s the cheapest I’ll ever offer it again.
Course begins on Tuesday, January 28th.
If you’re ready to join, register today!
✺ Frequently asked questions ✺
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Tuesday, January 28th, 2025.
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Tuesday’s, 4pm. 1/28, 2/4, 2/11, 2/18, 2/25, 3/4
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Each module consists of a 2 hour live call which includes lectures, Q&A, live demos, and partner exercises. Recommended readings will be provided each week as well.
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Yes. I’ve taught these skills to literally hundreds of students who had no prior knowledge of myth or Jungian perspectives.
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Yes, there will be a space for course participants to engage and connect with one another. Community platform TDB.
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Everyone is expected to show up to our weekly 2 hour call. Readings may take 1-2 hours per week. Practice sessions with fellow course participants will take 1-2 hours per week.