MEDICINAL MINDFULNESS BLOG
What to Expect from a Cannabis-Assisted Psychotherapy & Psychedelic Cannabis Therapy Session
What to expect from a Cannabis-Assisted Psychotherapy & Psychedelic Cannabis Therapy Session -By Daniel McQueen Contrary to popular belief, Cannabis sativa is a classic psychedelic. Until recently, however, it just wasn’t grown with the quality, potency, and...
Primary Orientation
Primary Orientation by Daniel McQueen The Center for Medicinal Mindfulness integrates what founder Daniel McQueen has termed the Four Primary Paradigms of Psychedelic Medicine Use to elicit profoundly healing and transformational experiences in a safe, legal and...
An Untold Story of Closure
An Untold Story of Closure by Angela Amirault We’ve all been there. Imagining a conversation, playing it out in our heads. Waiting for the right time to tell someone exactly how they hurt us, letting them know about the damage they caused. We envision that once we...
Preparing for a Psychedelic Cannabis Experience Video
Preparing for a Psychedelic Cannabis Experience
Celebrating Our Ten Year Anniversary Video
Celebrating Out Ten Year Anniversary
All Hands On Deck: Celebrating 10 Years of Medicinal Mindfulness and looking towards the future of the Psychedelic Movement
All Hands On Deck Celebrating 10 Years of Medicinal Mindfulness and looking towards the future of the Psychedelic Movement. By Alison McQueen, MA, LPC, ATR and Jenn Paradise, MAThe revolution is here, thank Goddess. For the past decade, the Center for Medicinal...
Honoring What Matters Most: The Ritual of Art-Based Psychedelic Integration
Honoring What Matters Most: The Ritual of Art-Based Psychedelic Integration by Alison McQueen, MA, LPC, ATR Psychedelic experiences can take us in many directions, and the content of these experiences often takes up many pages in our journals afterwards. It can be...
What is psychedelic integration and why does it matter?
What is psychedelic integration and why does it matter? Psychedelic, as you may know, comes from the Greek psyche (life; spirit; soul; self, akin to psychein which means to breathe) and delic (to make manifest, to reveal and make visible). Thus psychedelics manifest...
Coming out Psychedelic with Daniel McQueen
Coming out Psychedelic with Daniel McQueen 2020 Book Signing Tour Join Daniel McQueen as he shares stories of his journey from trying to be a somewhat normal human being, to becoming an underground psychedelic guide, to being a legal, above ground practicing...
Cannabis Psychiatry
What is cannabis psychiatry? Cannabis psychiatry skillfully combines the scientific knowledge of the endocannabinoid system with the practice of modern psychiatry, using cannabis as a psychopharmacological tool. Who is it for? Utilizing CBD and THC skillfully in...
Conscious Cannabis and Breathwork Events
Conscious Cannabis and Breathwork Events* *All events are pre-Covid and will resume as soon as it is safe to gather again. Our Conscious Cannabis program started with an invitation from a friend to facilitate a group psychedelic experience using cannabis, back in...
Conscious Parenting
Conscious Parenting In all kinds of ways (if we are willing), our children take us into places in our heart we didn't know existed. -Dr. Shefali Tsabary, The Conscious Parent Go easy on yourself. You are clearing thousands of years of outdated conditioning. ...
Therapy for Depression
Therapy for Depression Depression and Finding Your Way in the Dark “Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried. You’ve actually been planted.” - Christine Caine There may be times in our lives when depression takes hold of us and makes...
DMTx Letters to Molly
DMTx Letters to Molly Medicinal Mindfulness Psychedelic Commentary Body and Breathwork The most powerful healing tool we have available is breath. And some of our most painful emotional injuries and psychic traumas are held in the body. A regular Community...
Body and Breathwork
The most powerful healing tool we have available is breath. And some of our most painful emotional injuries and psychic traumas are held in the body. A regular Community Breathwork practice uses the psychedelic medicine of our breath to heal bodies in ways that can be healed no other way.
Lessons from Hyperspace
Right now, the human race is in dire need of opening the communication lines between the ancient mystery traditions, modern science, and a spiritual recognition of the Universe and our place in it. The DMT experience seems to be where these worlds merge into a mystical union with our physical biochemistry and the spiritual realm of visionary trance states of consciousness.
Transforming Trauma Through Transforming The Way We Look At And Treat It.
When you have a mental disorder, it’s a sign something deep within needs to be healed and transmuted. It’s not meant to label people for lifelong conditions.
Breath, the original psychedelic
Every living spiritual tradition among the human species – and a few animal species too! – involves some kind of breath practice. Learn more about using this powerful psychedelic in our Community Breathwork practice.
Notes from the Edge and a Response to Michael Pollan’s NYT Op-Ed
Fresh out of our Psychedelic Sitters School Level 1 retreat to an interview for an Ancient Aliens episode. Denver has decriminalized mushrooms and a response to Michael Pollan’s NYT Op-Ed
DMT & The Hero’s Journey
According to current science, human consciousness is the most highly evolved form of consciousness on planet Earth. Every man, woman, and child holds the birthright to subjectively explore their own human experience. By doing so, they say yes to whichever path may be right for them. There are multiple routes we can individually take via religion, creed, political view, and national, cultural and social programming. However there remain several uncharted territories of the psyche yet to be explored.
Welcome to the Extended-State DMT Research Newsletter of Medicinal Mindfulness
Thank you for your interest in our Extended-State DMT research program (DMTx). For those of you who don’t know us yet, I’d like to welcome you to the Medicinal Mindfulness community.
My name is Daniel McQueen and I founded Medicinal Mindfulness with my wife, Alison, as a Psychedelic Harm Reduction program in Boulder, Colorado in 2012. We represent a small grassroots consciousness community and host regular Community Breathwork events, psychedelic experiences called Conscious Cannabis Circles, and we facilitate a professional training program called Psychedelic Sitters School.
Now Recruiting Crew for Psychedelic Summer Expedition
Medicinal Mindfulness is now recruiting members for a special Psychedelic Summer Expedition. This is an exploratory expedition. We’ll be setting off into mostly unknown transpersonal territory to explore new possibilities of creating what we call “psychedelic society.”
We will be deep diving into the training program starting in May for a four month expedition. New members are invited to participate as Journeyers, or to join us for a weekend Psychedelic Sitters School training program to participate as Sitter-Journeyers. Long-term allies are invited to participate as Senior Sitters, Mentors and Guides.
Dear Molly, Something I’m feeling into a bit is that there is anger in me. It’s deep down there. I keep it under tight wraps…
Something I’m feeling into a bit is that there is anger in me. It’s deep down there. I keep it under tight wraps. But I’ve had a couple flashes of it – just split seconds – and it comes when I’m poking around some of these edges. It’s somehow linked to the voice that says “none of this hyper spiritualism is real.”
Right Relationship with Substances, and Guan Yin: The Goddess of Compassion
By Contributor: Alison McQueen, MA, LPC
I’m not a “just say no” therapist. Humans of every culture, across the globe, since the beginning of time, have used plants and other substances to alter their consciousness. There’s nothing new about substance use; in fact, it’s a normal aspect of being human. Clearly, a number of personal and cultural problems are normal as well, and substances and addiction can and do play into this. So we must attend to our own individual relationship to substances, and determine on a personal level what it is to be in right relationship. We must look through and beyond what our current culture, or family, says about it; we must dig deeper. Our work is in tapping into a deep inner knowing, a felt sense experience of health, sanity, and self-compassion.
Entheogens and Psychedelics
Dear Molly,
I have recently been getting into ceremonial use of entheogens and find myself becoming increasingly annoyed with how I see these medicines being used. I am ashamed that I have used them for as anything other than for sacred healing but don’t know how to explain this to my friends who I feel still don’t get it. What should I do?
Dear Molly
I recently went to a festival and saw someone having a really bad trip on psychedelics. To my surprise, that person was being helped by a team of harm reduction people. I thought it was really cool because that person was freaking out but I mean that person just couldn’t handle the drugs right? I have done psychedelics so many times and that has never happened to me. Could you tell me more about psychedelic harm reduction and why some people freak out on psychedelics?
Conscious Cannabis at Psychedelic Shine
Daniel McQueen’s Speech from the 4th Psychedelic Shine:
Hello everyone. Thank you for coming to our fourth Psychedelic Shine hosted by Medicinal Mindfulness. My name is Daniel McQueen and I started Medicinal Mindfulness with my wife Alison in 2012 along with a ragtag group of consciousness activists. We’ve been on a wild ride ever since.
More Love Letters to Molly
For February’s Psychedelic Shine, a Heart Day Celebration, February 14, 2-4:30 PM, being held at Shine Restaurant, we asked our community to write Love Letters to Molly, here are the first five we’ve received, please keep writing, reading, and sharing…
New Love Letters to Molly
For February’s Psychedelic Shine, a Heart Day Celebration, February 14, 2-4:30 PM, being held at Shine Restaurant, we asked our community to write Love Letters to Molly, here are the first five we’ve received, please keep writing, reading, and sharing…
Love Letters to Molly
For February’s Psychedelic Shine, a Heart Day Celebration, February 14, 2-4:30 PM, being held at Shine Restaurant, we asked our community to write Love Letters to Molly, here are the first five we’ve received, please keep writing, reading, and sharing…
Psychedelic Shine
Psychedelic Shine… It is way past time…
Psychedelics to shine it is way past time
for psychedelics to shine it is way past time for…
our community to come together again.
Turning Toward Completion Before Beginning Again
This Friday, at our last Conscious Cannabis Circle of the year, we will be celebrating Completion. As we turn the last pages of 2015, it is a time to remember what has happened, honoring the lessons, both the positive and the difficult, before fully letting it all go. We often try to skip this part of the process because it is hard to say goodbye, but as we step deeper into our process, we begin to learn that saying goodbye is a necessary part of saying hello. What are you looking forward to releasing?