A crackling fire, the drum beat, feet rhythmically lifting and pounding on the Earth, dust whirling up like smoke, singing the world awake. Consciousness shifts. We are lifted out of the temporal and transported beyond as we have been doing since the dawn. As Jungian analyst Dr. Jeffery Raff said, humans have “...the innate capacity to unite with the higher world, and to unite the higher and the lower worlds as one” (p.1). In this episode, Molly Mitchell-Hardt interviews friend and colleague, trained Depth Psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Psychedelic Facilitator and Integration Therapist, Pilar Brooks.  They discuss: How Pilar became a Psychedelic Facilitator and Integration TherapistBridging and holding the tension between different cultural forcesCentering into the body, understanding the embodied “yes” and “no” and sense of boundaries in working with psychedelic medicinesHow healing contains both pleasure and painThe importance of exploring individual healing and our interconnectednessThe need for support in integrating expanded states of consciousness How life is a psychedelic journey How to practice reciprocity with nature in any environment Grief as an ecstatic experienceThe archetype of the dragon Find Pilar Brooks: Follow Pilar @somasenses Check out her offerings on her website. Use Coupon Code: welcomemagic for 50% off your first month of Pilar’s membership program Inner Altar. Follow us @mollymitchellhardt This podcast was produced in association with Channel the Sun by Kevin Joseph Grossmann.  Musical stylings by Kevin Joseph Grossmann. References: The Wedding of Sophia by Dr. Jeffery Raff