What Makes a Good Guide

• Someone who has done the work and continues to do the work emotionally and spiritually so they can show up with clear and uncomplicated energy.

• Someone who has no ulterior motives, especially no ego agenda. 

• Someone who’s intention is simple - to help their client’s consciousness bloom.

• Someone who loves each and every client. This is easier than you might imagine as love is deeper than personality.

• Someone who is fluent in the principles of improvisation - ‘yes and’. You need to be able to follow your client’s impulses and protect them while they act on them. 

• Someone who is not scared. 

• Someone who can confidently take control initially so their clients can relax, knowing that someone is there to catch them, hold them, keep track of them.

• Someone who understands the creative process and how to help them reconstruct their construct after it melts and they return to themselves.

• Someone who is physically comfortable and knows how to make physical contact in distinctly non-sexual ways.

• Someone who allows the client maximum freedom and expression without harm.

• Someone who can hold boundaries firmly so the traveler can be free to let all of their energy flow.

• Someone who helps the client accept the entheogen into their bodies - I do this through guided movement, stretch, and massage.

• Someone who the traveler trusts.

• Someone who has a rapport with the traveler.

• Someone who is stable, consistent, and present. 

• Someone who is familiar with the typical phases of the journey.

• Someone who can intuit what the non-verbal traveler wants and needs due to their extensive experience with the compound.

• Someone who lives with integrity and has no reason to hide.

• Someone who can swaddle well. 

• Someone who can hold space and the body.

• Someone who knows when to come close and when to give space - or is good at intuiting this timing.

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• Someone who is experienced at guiding in various environments rather than just a lab or therapy room.

• Someone who knows the ideal environment for the specific entheogen and can find and book them.

• Someone who is a master of listening especially when no words are spoken.

• Someone who can relate to their client but doesn’t assume they know how to heal their client more than their client knows themselves. 

• Someone who respects the inner healer.

• Someone who can see where energy is stuck and help the traveler move that energy.

• Someone who can partner well with the entheogen…it is a duet, not a solo.

• Someone who can remove obstacles that stand between their client and the power of the entheogen and the client's liberation.

• Someone who is fascinated by the psychedelic experience and is happy to hear many details about a traveler’s experience.

• Someone who will take the time to get to know the traveler before the journey. 

• Someone who will take the time to integrate over time with the traveler after the journey.

• Someone who can help the traveler harvest insights and apply them to their living art project. It is a creative process by definition.

• Someone who will not interrupt the traveler with many words.

• Someone who will not abandon the traveler but who will also not smother the traveler.

• Someone who will create the journey specific to the traveler’s needs rather than plugging them into a simple formula.

• Someone who does not follow the Johns Hopkins lab protocol which exists to generate consistent results rather than the ultimate liberation of the traveler.

• Someone who doesn’t rely on eyeshades and a soundtrack to impose a structure on the journey.

• Someone who is happy to be of service.

• Someone who is nurturing.

• Someone who is kind.

• Someone who can be still.

• Someone who can be in silence.