Science-backed and highly-regarded, it's big on ensuring that therapeutic support is available before, during and after the 'trip'] 'Therapy using psychoactives is forging a whole new following among middle-class women of a certain age, who are using it to get over the humps of midlife,' writes Helen Jones.
At psilocybin retreats, magic mushrooms are called ‘medicine’, but the ‘caregivers’ administering them – chopped up and mixed with warm water, lemon juice and honey, to be eaten with a spoon – are wearing flowy white dresses, not white coats.
We all cried buckets of tears'] For our consumption of frankly mind-blowing amounts of psychedelics was done for one purpose only – therapy, and specifically to find for ourselves a new path in life.
And, in my experience, it’s forging a whole new following among middle-class women of a certain age, who are using it to get over the humps of midlife.
In our ceremonies (the name given to what we might otherwise call a ‘trip’), which lasted between six to eight hours, we were encouraged to stay on or near our mats and not to interact with other participants.
