The Clearing

How can we stay calm & rooted, while the world around us is anything but?

We often find ourselves stuck in destructive patterns of thought and behavior. The mind gets trapped inside of itself and we feel as though there’s no escape. The question is, How do we get unstuck?

Mindfulness is the ability to maintain moment-by-moment awareness of ourselves and our current experience - including thoughts, feelings, body sensations, and the environment we are in.

Maslow suggested that in the state of peak experiencing, human beings are as close as they can be to the truest expression of themselves. We could say that when in a peak experience, an individual is completely at one with themselves, or in other words, being all that they can be.

Is ketamine a new wonder drug? Can we really teach old drugs new tricks?

Mushrooms that produce psilocybin, commonly known as “magic mushrooms”, can be found in nearly every country around the world, so we're exploring the molecule psilocybin and how it relates to all mushrooms as a whole.

Problems do not exist in nature, but humans have the innate ability to rewire our perspectives.

“Hungover and miserable.”Next time someone asks “how are you?” or “how’s it going?” answer with that and see what happens.It's a piece of advice I've given for a number of years. Try it. It’s almost a guarantee that you’ll generate instant rapport with that person. Whether you're actually hungover and miserable, or not. Try it.‍

Welcome to The Clearing, our Field Trip blog! We hope you'll find it interesting and informative or at at least thought provoking, and certainly cathartic.

Any blog for a company that is focussed on mental wellness through psychedelics and psychedelic-enhanced psychotherapy would be incomplete without a review of the psychedelic molecules and their potential therapeutic applications. So let's cross that off early in our blogging efforts here at The Clearing!

The first psychedelic we will be using as part of our treatment protocol the FDA-approved drug, ketamine, and so we thought it might be helpful for you to develop a better understanding of ketamine and how it's used in ketamine therapy.‍