Healing with Psychedelics: Essays and Poems on Spirituality and Transformation by Chris Becker
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Trauma and injuries suffered at a young age (i.e. during childhood) is not rare like some would believe, but very common. This can result in anxiety, depression, and even various addictions to treat the symptoms. The author Chris Becker helps us identify our false histories; how we effectively cover up events that caused us trauma as kids in order to create a false sense of security. Then, through a variety of essays and poems, he chronicles his own journey with psychedelic-assisted sacred-medicine therapy.
A very interesting look into an old but recently rediscovered medicine area. I heard about psychedelic-assisted therapy treatments for veterans with PTSD and how effective they were, and this book shows that the same treatment can be effectively used for other mental ills. This is not a book that is simply giving you the information about this practice, but instead it seeks to give you a more personal account in hopes that you will be able to see the benefits in “real time” as it is experienced by the author.


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