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An honest review, for prospective clients of Nancy.
Dear prospective clients of Nancy,
So, you’re thinking about trying psilocybin therapy, perhaps for the first time, or perhaps you're looking for a conducive environment at a reasonable cost, to expand your spiritual aptitude. You've done your research, and you're aware of the substantial and rapidly expanding literature detailing the remarkable safety profile of psilocybin, and the promise it has shown in bringing about durable alleviation from numerous psychological pathologies. You perhaps understand the direction in which psychotherapies must evolve, due to the realization amongst a growing number of researchers and therapists, that cures for psychological, and therefore subjective ailments, must be medicines that act on us subjectively. In other words, sometimes something ‘mind-bending’, is just what the doctor ordered, if the patient is trapped in a rigid, toxic, prison of their own mind. And for that reason, you understand that a 'substance' like psilocybin, more specifically the interaction between psychedelic and your own subconscious mind, is not just the medicine, but also the doctor.
So, what you're looking for is someone to be a good facilitator of an interaction between you and medicine, and you need not look further than Nancy. What's important to understand is that whilst knowledge of psychotherapeutic techniques and psychopharmacology - which Nancy has in abundance - is desirable in a facilitator, it is completely ineffectual and useless without the unique skillset - that isn't taught in mainstream academically accredited psychological programs - that is experience and ability in navigating alternate realms of consciousness.
It appears to me, and many psychonauts will testify to this, that facilitators - Shamans as they used to be called - much like what makes a good tour guide on holiday is someone who has your best interests at heart, they speak your language whilst being attuned to the local environment and customs, and you sense that in them. A good facilitator has made a home in the strange new realm of consciousness you're experiencing. They have cultivated an otherwise invisible layer to their character, which you will detect only when you enter the psychedelic space. The result is, they are an anchoring presence, you are in their 'house', they are your shield, they are holding this space for you, and you may relax totally, so the medicine can do its work on you unhindered. The most important thing is to remember, remember, remember, surrender, surrender, surrender.
You can expect all the above from Nancy. She has an intimate understanding of everything I've outlined here and more, and she can take you on a beautiful and most conducive journey. You must listen and do as she says in order to get the most from the experience.
No two facilitators are the same, just as no two people are the same. And Nancy's personality, coupled with the way she has come to understand the science of psychedelics, and her experience working with the medicine, has led her to create a particularly beautiful sanctuary and ambiance, in which you can experience all the medicine has to offer, and derive maximum benefit.
Lastly, what James brings to the party is not to be scoffed at or underestimated, I mean this most sincerely, and Nancy also recognizes this. Firstly, dogs don't lie, which is useful, because it means when James is chill and happy, that signals to you that you can also relax.
But also, dogs are some of our strongest evidence of what we truly are, and what we truly are is love itself (whatever that means! But you may certainly experience this on your journey with Nancy and James) - other animals can be evidence of this too, but with dogs in particular - their evolutionary success has been due entirely to their befriending of the creature at the top of the food chain, us, whereas cats and horses are still wild in some sense. Signalling doubt as to the definitiveness of the term 'survival of the fittest'.
Of all the creatures, we chose them, and they chose us. They became mans' best friend. But why, and why is this important? Allow me to explain.
Because humans and dogs most easily recognize themselves in each other. All dog breeds are derived from wolves. The survival strategy that wolves evolved is predicated on a particular family structure and set of values within a pack, very similar to our own, more similar than groups of other primates in some respects. They mate for life, they share food, they look after their elderly, they show mercy, whilst having the capacity to act fiercely at the fringes of their family unit, to keep the brutality of the natural world out. 'The lone wolf' is in fact American propaganda, since a lone wolf, is a dead wolf. The particular set of values that we share with wolves maximizes the space for civility within the unit, whilst keeping brutality at the fringes to the necessary minimum. These days humans are mostly able to outsource brutality to the army, police and abattoir, and maximize to a far greater degree the space within, in which all that is good, and in which love, can find expression in the material world. This is the point of civilization. This is the driving force of evolution. It is all love finding its most stable form. Energy is energetic because it is in love, because it is love. Love is the irreducible source of creation. It is irrational and forever, it precedes all, including your rational mind, so it will not fit inside it. It is not subject to time, space or decay. It is God. It can be difficult to grasp but the fact is, there is no separation between you and all the beauty and love you can bring into the world through your ability to shape it. Your conscience is a manifestation of the force that is love, and even if you act and create in an ugly or evil way, you will always be love, learning to find its most stable form in the material realm, and the potential for evil will continue to be what gives value to love.
Love found expression through the pack, as it did through the tribe, it recognized itself in the K9 mind as it did in the human, it looked through the eyes of the dog as it did through ours, and we were able to blend our units and cohabitate a single civilization. The difference is dogs lack our intellectual faculties. Human's vivid sense of memory and imagination means we have the remarkable ability to suffer the past and suffer things that have not yet happened. Whilst dogs are incapable of tying themselves up in the knots we do. Dogs are locked into the present to a much greater extent, which is all that really exists. Their default consciousness is much closer to the state you will soon experience under the care of Nancy. They perceive the musical nature of creation, the music of sound, of colour, of matter and geometry, of life, and of behaviour, that is to say all of these things are either in tune, or out of tune. This is what negates the need for language in dogs, why would they need it? Much like humans of all nationalities understand the language of music, all dogs experience the music of life and of creation. They experience a realm of first principles, they know all they need to know about you and other creatures, and they needn’t say a word to each other about it. They live without the faculty that allows them to question the music of creation as we do, the faculty that can play an out of tune representation of reality in one’s head so loudly that it hinders one’s ability to perceive the rich beauty that surrounds them. And what are we left with when you take a creature so like us, but remove these human faculties? A creature that is constantly in love, always thrilled to see you, infinitely forgiving. This is your true nature. I commend Nancy and James, two most excellent facilitators, to you.
May the medicine untie the knots in your mind and help you to fall back into accordance with your true nature, and teach you to play the music of life again. Good luck. God bless.
William Falcus
Last Chance
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