This chapter describes a psychedelic healing protocol developed by Bénédicte Mannix for treating childhood trauma, explaining its therapeutic approaches and the philosophical and psychological traditions that inform her healing practices. The motivation for the development of this protocol has been to harness the power of psilocybin to heal human minds, bodies, and souls from psychological...
Fruitful comparison of psychedelic, spiritual, and psychotic experiences requires a degree of phenomenological nuance. Some shared features of these phenomena, such as encounters and communications with supernatural entities, are obfuscated by scientific and clinical terminology. Other supposed distinctions are based on an atemporal view of dynamic experiences. In Section 2 of this...