A few days ago, I entered the Psychedelic Synthesis retreat. A safe, secure, professional, legal, and medically supervised centre uses Psilocybin from truffles to develop human potential in all its dimensions and senses. Yesterday the experience ended. I will transform this post into a kind of report explaining everything experimented on. Because for me, it was an experiment and a life lesson. What I didn’t know was that it would be so profound.
Reflections and Conclusions from the psilocybin experiment
This video collects my testimony before, during and after the test, including a brief interview with the Synthesis retreat cofounder, Martijn Scharp.
The psilocybin retreat
The place is in Zandvoort, 40 minutes from Amsterdam, in an old reformed church. You can see more about the location here. The retreat consisted of three days; the first day on arrival was for acclimatization; the second was the day of the psilocybin ceremony. And the third was integration and farewell. I explain the events chronologically in the video I recorded about the experience.
The facilitators
Undoubtedly the most outstanding, super-trained group of professionals who act as guides, companions, and trainers from when you arrive until after you have left, from Natasja and Dan to Martijn, the cook or the group of doctors who watch over the welfare of the participants. You can learn more about all of them here, although not all of them appear.
The group of participants
We were 16 previously selected people, and I shared the experience with some friends. Some came from Russia, the United States, Belgium, and Germany, and others even repeated for the second time. It was a very homogeneous and varied group, starting from 30 up until the age of 50.
What is the withdrawal of the psilocybin Synthesis retreat?
To sum up, it’s a place that allows you to deepen and get to the root of the intentions you bring with you, just and plainly.
The intentions
Look, you may have a specific idea of why you do what you do, where you go, act as you act, think as you think or work in what you accomplish. Or it may not.
This “idea” will vary depending on how your mind is wired; it could be presented in many ways. There are visual people; others are more thoughtful, analytical, sensitive or kinesthetic. Regardless of the type of person we are, it is essential to be clear about our intentions, especially when participating in a sacred and transformational experience like this.
As I said a few days ago, the Psilocybin experiment ended. A crucial part was the intentions, which serve to work on the personal past, curiosity, creativity, growth itself, an exponential improvement.
My Seven Intentions and Findings with Psilocybin
These are the intentions that I worked on (and will work on) and the resulting findings:
- Lack of self-worth. Self-judgment, self-demand, excessive self-criticism. Finding – I understood why I sometimes don’t deserve what I have accepted and found the best way to overcome it. The key: learn to receive and eliminate my limiting beliefs.
- The craving for attention and my search for “more”: why this insatiable appetite for more and better. I am finding – it is mainly due to a lack of care.
- Find what is in my deepest self. Go as deep as you can to answer the questions: What pushes me so much to make me feel unstoppable? Answer: my nature, my spirit, my way of being, my essence, nothing more. What is my gift? To push me first and, as a consequence, force others to release the unlimited potential that we possess, get me and others into doing something big, and be able to go beyond continuously. Where do I need to focus radically? Being more gentle with myself in my experiments and high performance.
- How could I be more “me” and less what I needed to be or what I thought I needed to be? The great purpose and meaning. Was I finding – How? I realized that it was a mirage; everything; I am everything; there is nothing more to reach or search for.
- The dissolution of the ego. Finding – the problem is not that the ego appears; the problem is that I think I can dissolve it.
- Love and self-love; Is there anything I should have learned and overlooked here? Finding: yes, learning to receive as much as giving, without debt, without remorse. Continue taking care of myself, more than punishing myself.
- Unleash my full potential, expanding, stretching and strengthening my maximum performance. Deepen my psyche, soul, body, and emotions as much as possible to unlock everything blocked and sleeping. Awakening from sensations, feel more, think less. Finding – I don’t need more, or better or more extreme; I need to be gentler with myself and the environment, to enter more connected with nature, with the earth, with the simple and the easy.
I understand that to find the result we want, we need to choose our intentions carefully. But, because cause its depth will determine the degree of transformation we will experience.
The four different types of shamanic experiences
They explained to us that there are four different types of these experiences; they are the following:
- Nothing: when you sit down with yourself, and nothing happens.
- Paint: when fractals, colours, and shapes appear.
- Emotional: when something inspirational takes form and ends up manifesting physically.
- Guide: when an entity appears as a guide.
No doubt, my experience was between #1, #2 and #3.
Interesting questions that I have taken from the psilocybin experiment
It is what I extracted and what caught my attention in the form of questions. There are two that are extraordinary (guess which ones they are)
- Why do you take it personally?
- How would you be able to play with that event?
- When did you first feel fear, joy, joy, fullness, and frustration? (whatever the feeling, maybe)
- What are you going to teach me? (referring to the situation you are living)
- What is the gift that would come out of all this?
- What is correct about what is happening that I am still not seeing?
- When was the last time you cried with joy? And of sadness?
- What is it that fear is trying to teach me?
- Is it the ego that is trying to control me?
- Where do the signs appear that you are not integrating what you have learned?
Resulting Psilocybin key points/takeaways
Here are some key points that I have gathered from everything that was said and I could write before, during and after the experience with Psilocybin:
- We should feel comfortable dealing with rejection.
- Recreate the background when you get home with the music, the smell, the sensations, and the writing.
- We are and must be prepared for everything.
- Your crying will help another person.
- He is in the body, not in the mind.
- Mantra: I’m going to have self-pity. I am perfectly imperfect. My life, effort, and result are as they should be.
- The key is self-reflection.
- You can not get self-esteem without self-acceptance.
- Emotional release technique: tapping.
- Breathing is not enough when there are limiting beliefs.
- Meta-consciousness: realize that you are not understanding. If it happens, do not feel guilty, do not punish yourself, and change your behaviour.
- Cognitive integration: the journaling technique.
- I have learned two new mantras.
- What I take professionally speaking:
- A committed project that I didn’t know which way to focus on.
- Two new business ideas.
- An action to launch a new project.
- Make the High-Performance project start now.
- Two new collaborations
- A joint project with Valentino.
Do you have any questions about the Psilocybin retreat? Or about the experiment? If you want to join the Synthesis retreat, you can apply here.
Bonus: find here the first Psilocybin Spanish platform and my experiment on macrodosing Psilocybin.
* Find here a free guide for Psilocybin Assisted Therapy.