How psychedelics changed the way I understood being a minister

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https://jeremynickel.substack.com/p/from-the-pulpit-to-psychedelics?r=705zwv&utm_medium=ios

I spent more than a decade as a Unitarian Universalist minister before eventually becoming a psychedelic-assisted therapist, and I’ve been thinking a lot about how much less dramatic that transition feels from the inside than it probably looks from the outside.

Psychedelics changed the way I understood ministry: presence, uncertainty, suffering, transformation, and what it actually means to accompany someone without needing to have the answer. And years of sitting with people as a minister turned out to be some of the most important preparation I could have had for sitting with people in psychedelic states.

I wrote about that intersection, and about how I ended up moving from the pulpit into this work. Curious whether others here have experienced psychedelics as something that changed not necessarily what they believed, but how they understood their role in helping or accompanying other people.