Thoughts on psilocybin-assisted therapy, the healing journey, and the growing community of practitioners in Boulder and beyond.
One of the first practical questions people ask me is, “How long should I stay in Colorado?” They usually mean it as a travel question. They’re trying to figure out airline tickets, hotel reservations…
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I went to see The Odyssey expecting, I suppose, what we have all been taught to expect from The Odyssey: gods and monsters, adventure and danger, a clever and complicated hero trying against impossibl…
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One of the questions I get asked most often isn’t about mushrooms. It’s about airline tickets. People have figured out the healing center, found a place to stay, rearranged work, told the people they …
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I hadn’t really heard of ibogaine before last year, and that’s what made it so strange, because the two years leading up to that moment had been some of the most immersive and defining years of my lif…
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This holiday break I was standing in a living room full of people I mostly like, holding a drink I did not really need, when someone asked me that familiar question that arrives at every gathering eve…
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In the year 2000, I arrived in Amsterdam late at night with some friends. We had taken a ferry over from the UK and had already been on the continent for a while, so it was not jet lag so much as the …
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There are moments when two parts of your life that have always felt separate suddenly click together and you realize they have been talking to each other all along. That happened to me recently with s…
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Malidoma Some I am a cisgender white guy living in the United States, working at the intersection of technology, healing, and psychedelics. I start there because where a story is told from shapes what…
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One of my teachers at California Institute of Integral Studies, Ayize Jama Barrett, said something once that has stayed with me ever since: “You were never meant to heal alone.” The first time I heard…
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Umphrey’s McGee at the packed Boulder Theater on January 17, 2026 I was at a concert this weekend, which is where I so often find myself on Friday and Saturday nights. It was Umphrey’s McGee, a three-…
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