#73 - Trip Sitting America | The Teafaerie (Erowid)

The Teafaerie, like God herself, is never serious but always sincere. She has facilitated psychedelic peer support at festivals since her work with Rock Med in the 90s, and boy does she have some stories to tell. On the show, we talk about the art of trip sitting and how we can see a difficult trip as an emergence, not an emergency. We discuss how to protect ourselves from conspiracy theories, personal mythologies, and the psychedelic renaissance itself. Finally, we end by asking, if the global pandemic is like a bad trip, how would the the Teafaerie turn our dark night of the soul into “psychedelic benefit enhancement”? In fact, stay tuned for an addendum after the outro, where the Teafaerie goes a little deeper on how to trip sit America. The Teafaerie gets her name from the fabled “Tea Time” of the Rainbow Gathering, a pirate tea house of no minor psychedelic repute. She writes the Teatime column on the psychedelic website Erowid and has been trip sitting wayward psychonauts in one form or another since the 90s. If you happen to be suffering from a little post-ecstatic bliss disorder, sit down and join us for some tea. LINKS
Teatime on Erowid https://erowid.org/columns/teafaerie/ Tea Time at Rainbow Gathering: https://kitchensofrainbow.org/tea-time/ Ruespieler YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeYOS3W6aVelr9x2zHqITyg TIMESTAMPS :05 - Serving Psychedelic Emergence :15 - Adventures in harm reduction from Rock Med in the 90s to drug testing today :23 - How will the medicalization of psychedelics change how drugs are taken recreationally? :29 - How do you trust the truth of your psychedelic experience :36 - How do you protect yourself in a suggestible psychedelic state :52 - There’s conspiracy a plenty but they are endlessly frustrated by chaos :58 - How do we protect psychedelics from the psychedelic renaissance? 1:04 - Trip sitting tips from two decades of psychedelic benefit enhancement 1:19 - The pandemic as a psychedelic experience 1:25 - Addendum on trip sitting America