Julie Piatt

Some of these moments have been the most beautiful moments that I've seen with you.

You feel like not the old you.

You feel evolved.

Am I ready?

Are you ready to talk about it?

I'm just here as your compassionate witness to hear all about your journey.

Okay, well, that's good.

That's good news.

In my own process of spiritual seeking and transformation, I have not used psychedelics.

However, in your case, for a being that is wired the way you are, I did see the potential benefit in it.

And so I was supportive of you exploring this journey.

Well, I said, I mean, just to sort of bookend.

So the other experience, your journey ebbed and flowed.

So you had moments of complete transcendence and then the darkness would slap back like worse than ever.

So it was very in and out, very bumpy, but moments of completely like, who are you?

Like in a beautiful way, amazing way, magical, playful, connected to your heart, all those things.

So it'd been over a year, and I had heard you talking about ibogaine, and I knew that this was sort of the substance that had the addiction recovery, the transcendence related to it.

And I was invited to actually a dinner party, and I walked in to see a very dear friend of mine that I know quite well.

And she was with a woman and there was something in my body that I just was pulled to this woman immediately before greeting anyone else.

I slid my arms around her and embraced her.