Get Your Set Together.

Get Your Set Together. Meditative Tools For a Successful Journey

Daniel Shankin, Mt. Tam Psychedelic Integration TamIntegration.com | [email protected]

I’m Not Advocating Anything I’m not telling you to use illegal, mind altering

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substances. That is for you to decide. These are tools for people who have already made that choice. These tools will also work for sober people who want to work with their mind set.

I’m Not a Doctor This is not medical advice. These are resources for

Disclaimers Let’s Get This Out of The Way

healthy people who want a wider range of tools for conscious living and mind-body health.

Nature Provides, I Don’t Please don’t ask the nice person on the stage for drugs. It’s about as funny as asking your coworker “Working Hard or Hardly Working?” Also, you’re putting you, me, and the lovely people who graciously organized this talk at risk.

Dedicated with humility and

CRYSTAL

gratitude to my teacher, Doug Silsbee

What Is Psychedelic Integration? Psychedelic Integration is a process by which we approach all aspects of the journey with as much consciousness as possible. It often looks like a collection of practices that enable people to be maximally present to the psychedelic experience, to understand that experience at the highest possible level and to live the fullest expression of that experience in their lives.

Preparation

During

Setting:

Presence:

Living the Answers:

Time, Space, Vibration, Compatriots, Guides,

Encounter the moment in a way that creates

What was the message?

Boundaries, Agreements

insight. Aka Harmony, Wisdom, Compassion

What is my work?

Post

Set:

Where do I remain confused?

Mind, Body, Emotions, Balance, Intentions

How do I proceed sustainably & ethically?

Responsibilities, Bandwidth, Cosmology

Proactive Approaches to Set and Setting

Setting

Set

Creation of an environment that possesses the least possible

Creation of a mindset that is less prone to being disturbed

potential to disturb the mind, and the greatest potential to

by both external phenomena and the patterns of the

enhance the experience. There can be no perfect setting.

mind-body complex.

Psychedelic Prayers I-4 Let there be simple, Natural things To contact during the sessions − hand woven cloth uncarved wood flowers − growing things ancient music burning fire a touch of earth a splash of water

Timothy Leary

fruit, good bread, cheese fermenting wine candles temple incense

Coined The Term, ‘Set and Setting’

a warm hand fish swimming anything which is over five hundred years old

Of course it is always best to be secluded with nature

The Three Quadrants Of A Healthy Mind Set What two words best describe Zen? Not Always So

01

02

03

TRAINING ATTENTION AND AWARENESS

SOMATIC AWARENESS & ENERGY CULTIVATION

SEEING AND REMOVING OBSTACLES

We work with concentration,

We aren’t heads in jars. Our body has

There has to be a hunger to uncover

attention, and awareness in order to

to be taken along for the ride. We

the deeper parts of our suffering. This

cultivate a sense of groundedness,

practice both enervating and deeply

requires curiosity, humility, and

centeredness, resilience, and calm

relaxing the system, while paying

dissatisfaction with the compensatory

abiding with a greater range of

attention to its messages

capacities or our normal way of

phenomena

functioning.

Cultivating Concentration We narrow our lens of focus, reducing the choices for our

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mind’s attention. By watching the breath or using a mantra, we train ourselves to take the reins of the mind. One result is a better understanding of what is urgent and important.

Experiencing as the Witness We practice not getting involved with what we notice, not

Calm Abiding Training our attention and awareness to create a mind that responds rather than reacts

rejecting, grasping, or explaining. We notice sensation as sensation, emotion as pure emotion. One result is a deeper intimacy and understanding of who we are.

Rest in our centeredness Spending time in the part of ourselves that is restful, grounded, centered, and secure builds resilience. We learn that this part of ourselves is always available, and that we have the choice in each moment to move through the world from this place.

Mantra and Breath

Ram Dass

Bob Marley

I am Loving Awareness

One Love, One Heart

Guy From Barsana, “Radhe, Radhe” Me, left to my own devices: “I screwed up my life” - “What am I going to do now?” “God, I’m a mess” - “I hate everything” - “I don’t have enough” “What’s going to happen to me?”

Recalibration of the Urgent and Important We’re super off about this stuff and drugs make it worse

Our survival instincts supercede all of our other mental and emotional processes, and seep into all of our decision making. We’re always subconsciously moving away from danger, and towards safety. As a result, what we see as urgent and important is skewed by fear and grasping. This is magnified in a psychedelic experience. (Ever been on a mission?) Practicing calm abiding de-escalates the insistence of the mind about what is urgent.

1. 2. 3. 4.

Breathe and/or chant mantra Notice the mind matrixing Label, ‘oh, you’re matrixing again’ Kindly and gently return to step 1.

The P.A.T.H. to Somatic Awareness And Mindfulness of the Body When there is a perceived threat to the ego’s fragile security, there is a fixation on that threat. These fixations send impulses stimulating the fight or flight instincts of the sympathetic nervous system into the musculature. Over extended periods of time, a myriad of confused, contradictory, and ineffectual impulses are sent to the musculature. These impulses lodge in the system as patterns of tension. This body tension reduces the level of presence, aliveness and joy. The ego becomes ruled by negative, unconscious, reactive thought patterns. Talking and thinking will not solve this problem. Only by listening to the messages of the body and allowing it to gently release the long held tensions can we find embodied peace.

Bringing your body along for the trip Denise Kaufmann/Mary Microgram Psychedelic Integration Superstar ● ● ● ● ● ●

Traveled with the Merry Pranksters, participating in The Acid Tests Played bass is first all-female rock band, Ace of Cups, formed in 1967 Avid Surfer Speaks about the role of women in the counterculture International Yoga Teacher Advocate for ‘Squatter’s Rights’ campaign to teach people the power of squatting.

Owning Your Set The Buddha’s Far Out Trip The three afflictions of the mind as taught by the Buddha are greed, hatred, and ignorance. He teaches that these mental processes precede the appearance of the material world. ●

When the mind is in greed, the world looks alluring.

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When the mind is in hatred, the world looks threatening.

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When the mind is in ignorance, we don’t understand the true nature of things, including ourselves.

Creating Antidotes Turning The Poisons into Medicine We can counter our deeply ingrained patterns towards the three poisons by actively working to cultivate their antidotes ●

greed - generosity

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hatred - loving kindness

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ignorance - wisdom

We don’t have to stop here. We realize that we have the capacity to generate a limitless variety of good vibes, including: ● ● ● ● ● ●

gratitude humility unconditional positive regard acceptance comfort neutrality

It’s Your Mind You can do what you want with it.

The mind makes a wonderful servant, but a terrible master. -

The Bhagavad Gita

It’s Your Heart, Too How much love can you blast through the thing?

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