André Duqum

With anyone who's kind of gone more of the psychonautic route, or they...

through these altered states of consciousness is you have these experiences, which give you like a reference point, a possibility of like a way of being this like, and subjective experience of like, of what it's like to put down the psychological baggage that you normally carry around in your life.

And like,

like the way that you described it was like, it's kind of like a remembering to your natural state of what it's like to be you without all the extra stuff.

I'm curious how, I suppose, successfully you've integrated sort of the distinction in your day-to-day life of the observer and the experience, because no matter how many experiences you have and how many, so to speak, rise and trips you go on,

coming back into sober waking consciousness to be able to integrate it and embody the experience in a way where you maintain that continuity of awareness, where there's like,

there's the content of your experience is placed in a larger context of awareness.

And being able to experience that more and more, in my personal experience, like everybody has their own journey with it.

I have a lot of friends who are, you know, definitely more experimenting more on the psychedelic path.

And I've dabbled in the past.

Just curious what all the hype was about.

Oh yeah, of course.

But like at a certain point, my personal journey was like,

I actually don't need another experience to know that there's a there there.

And the real work becomes to actually integrate what I know because there's always this balance of awareness and integration.

And I feel like

if we're honest with ourself, we usually have the awareness that we need to like move progress and grow internally.

And it's like the integration that most of us tend to need more.

So I'm curious, what is your thought process around like the integration and embodiment of the expanded awarenesses?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.