The Psychedelic Practitioner Issue 3: Dosing - Ceremony

The Psychedelic Practitioner Issue 3 focuses on dosing and ceremony as the peak of the psychedelic journey, shaped by the “scaffolding” of preparation and integration. The issue argues that a “dose” is hard to define consistently because experiences vary across compounds and contexts. It contrasts Western clinical trial approaches (numerical dosing, protocol-driven delivery, typically 1:1 or 1:2 facilitation) with traditional healing paradigms that emphasize ceremony, lineage, and cosmological framing, sometimes including the facilitator ingesting the substance. It highlights how psychological factors such as mindset, sensitivity, trauma history, intentions, medications, and even the gut microbiome can change outcomes even at the same numerical dose. The issue also points to longstanding debates about how much to discuss potential visionary experiences during preparation, including concerns about priming versus the need for transparency. Beyond the dosing theme, the publication includes practitioner-focused guidance and field updates spanning clinical development, AI driven training simulations, and ethics topics like touch and boundaries.