Dhru Purohit

We have done a lot of work together as a group, which is one of your themes, whether people are exploring this as a couple or whether they're exploring this as an individual, the importance of making sure you have the right support in the ecosystem, not just with the guide, but the container that's around this.

And so while our guide told us that he generally does not recommend that people have their first psychedelic experience together as a group, because a lot of stuff can come up for people and it can be kind of distracting, that he felt that there was this connection that we had.

Long story short, when I was reading your book,

your introduction in the book where you were talking about your journey.

A few months ago, after the birth of our child, he ended up back in the hospital because he ended up getting an infection.

And I had this dream-stated experience where I was speaking to, you know, I had this very vivid dream of me talking to my son and him being very worried and feeling like he was being abandoned.

He came home, he was with us, and now all of a sudden he's being taken away.

And reading your story made me think of the importance of just even having a little bit of awareness that somebody could keep this story that's there.

That it would be, as my son continues to get older, besides just surrounding him with, like, love and care, the importance of making sure I'd sort of check in to see, you know,

Is that something that he might carry on to if he doesn't have the right... I don't know if the right word is reassure man or other stuff, but I had some very aha moments in reading that part of your story of, wow, this could even apply to my son and some of the things that he's gone through.

You know, I want to come back to your story of you sharing about your psychedelic experience.

I know my audience will be interested in this.

You get into the book.

Uh, but how did you choose at that time of being both a clinician

medical doctor, but now being a first-time explorer on your own journey of going down the pathway of exploring psychedelic medicine.

How did you choose your guide and how did you choose the medicine that you were about to embark on at that time?

And of course, you know, these aren't recommendations for anybody here.

This is just you clarifying how you approached that in the past.

And a big part of what you're talking about in the book today is also too,

How can people who are curious approach the same question for themselves depending on, you know, the goals or the things that they're thinking about working on?