Robin Carhart-Harris

And we control and manipulate the quality of the aesthetics.

So in what we call this enriched condition, we have an enriched condition with all these psychedelic therapy elements included, and we have an unenriched condition with them stripped out.

So there's no music.

The sessions are staffed, but really for basic safety monitoring, not for any kind of active emotional support unless there's an emergency.

I mean, we're guided by Do No Harm, of course.

And yeah, we control the aesthetic.

So in the enriched, there's lovely glowing lighting and printed screens of beautiful nature scenes.

And then in the unenriched, it's a standard consulting room in a clinical research unit.

All of this suggests that there's a fair amount to get right or wrong with respect to how one promotes people into the role of being a therapist.

I'm wondering about quality control there and screening and supervision and training and

I'm thinking of one story I heard of someone who I think was in a group setting.

I don't even know what the compound was.

It might have been psilocybin.

It might have been ayahuasca.

But somebody in the setting was feeling like they were remembering childhood sexual abuse, I think, some trauma from childhood that had not been conscious prior to taking the drug.

But

They were also uncertain as to whether it was a memory or whether they were just imagining it.

And the therapist, you know, to my ear, who was in charge at that point, came in.

It was a heavily enriched context, but you might think it was enriched by this therapist's, you know, dogmatism or delusion because they seemed to be coming at this with a very strong sense of, you know, recovered memory being, you know, very much a real thing.

I believe they told this subject that the body never lies or the body never forgets or something like that.