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I Guide Magic Mushroom Journeys
~ confessions and fun facts ~

This year, I’ve had the great delight and honour of doing more of my deepest, most fulfilling ‘soul work’ than ever before. The trickle might be turning into a stream.
Guiding magic mushroom journeys.
I’ve known since 2019 that I have a calling in this work.
Living into that calling has been a slow, meandering, mystical journey.
One cannot do this work properly, heavily, and effectively if they haven’t tended to every little inch of their inner world. Continuing to do so is an essential practice.
For a long time, I wasn’t ready to fulfill the calling.
But things are different now.
When you take magic mushrooms intentionally, to explore your inner world, to feel and release and to heal, to guide your growth… your body becomes like a snowglobe.
The mushrooms are the hand that shakes the globe. The flakes that fall are buried truths, experiences, and feelings that haven’t been accepted, met, or felt.
This can be intense.
Profound.
Life-changing.
But if you aren’t curious about what lies inside your sub and unconscious minds…
If you aren’t prepared to meet who you truly are in the most intimate way possible…
If you don’t approach the experience with an open mind about what may come up…
Your journey will be challenging, for mushrooms can be like little sprites.
They don’t like when people enter their world and then try to hide.
They will dig in. They won’t let go until you listen or their power fades.
There’s a saying in this line of work that mushrooms rarely show you what you want, but always show you what you need. That is their god-given promise to you.
Whether or not you integrate their teachings is a different conversation.
(See: Acceptance vs. Expansion.)
When I guide, I’m not a ‘helicopter.’ In truth, there’s little I can tangibly do for someone beyond creating a safe, trusting, comfortable environment, physically, mentally, and emotionally, for them to have their experience in.
I open the portal. I shape the container. I channel the energy.
You are responsible for your experience.
I cannot do the feeling for you, but I can help soothe intensity.
I cannot accept your truths for you, only hold up a mirror.
Curiosity and openness are the only prerequisites.
Those, and your breath, are all you need to surf the waves.
Not just in the depths of a mushroom trip, but through life itself.
With love from the forest,
~ Alexander
P.S. Dive deeper → A Love Letter to Magic Mushrooms