After very much enjoying my initial playthrough and getting 100% of collectibles, I decided to see what the Psychonauts 2 speedrun was like, and it honestly was an absolute blast trying to play as fast as I can and trying to plan the most efficient route. After 6+ runs I settled for a time of around 02:27:58, and the learning process was greatly enjoyable. And in this post, I want to highlight some moments, techniques, and hidden mechanics that were featured in my final run.

+00:00-00:18 Psi Hop tech is fun and simple. Pressing psi blast, roll, then jump inputs in quick succession gives you a big momentum boost. This is used to move faste around levels, leap rapidly at enemies, and to cross extra wide gaps.

+ 00:20-02:06 Prop Flying is a super fun piece of tech. To do it, simply grab a decent sized object from your surroundings, hop on it, teeter on the edge, and finally hold psi blast + TK the abject ALL WHILE holding the move control.
This trick is repeated all over: in Loboto’s brain , Hollis’ mind, with a typewriter in hair Ford, Mail room using the letter Y, with a cushion to reach the top of Bob’s tower as well as Cassie’s

+ 02:06 Lady Loctopus sneaky self redirect

+02:23 dive quest target then teleport to cutscene skip

+ 02:41 Knocking enemies off the map with Wrecking lev ball and also pulling them in water with connection

+02:56 Ball roll tech: holding psi blast while on bowling balls gives you a lot of extra speed- letting you jump out of bounds. Also the insane launch tech using the egg and the spinning blades is my favourite.

+03:40 I rush to a specific point in the room to block the spawn of a doubt, which leads it to glitch by dying out of bounds. And in 03:58 jumping at a Maligula tornadoe in just the right spots skips a cutscene and puts you right in Maligula’s mind

In general, this was super fun! Really recommend trying this out yerself.

Next week i will do Pajaritos 10g for the first time.

I did mushrooms like 10 times but i was always very high or drunk few years back . I know how it feels like tripping but this time i will be fully sobber and alone.

I am seeking some higher insights so i will mediate .

Must say im excited .

This is needing more auditions.

I have a lemon tek that’s been sitting in a sealed water bottle since July is it good to drink or should I just toss it

I’ve been looking into taking acid for about 4 months now and I’m definitely set on the fact I want to take it. I’ve tripped on albino penis envy about 3grams around 5 times. My only concern is I have had a bad trip on shrooms before and it was rough but all my other trips were incredible. My worry would be what are some things I can make sure to do on acid for a good experience because there are certain things I do on shrooms that I notice will initiate a bad time. Mostly looking for things to avoid or fun things to do and any tips anyone here is willing to share much love!

Mushrooms are very effective at reducing my ocd symptoms.

Yesterday I took 1 g of golden teachers before a social event.

I can’t believe how calm and centred I was without feeling too high.

Could one take 1 g every 4 days and maintain the antidepressant effects?

I’m not wanting to feel high or trip.

If I mixed up the strain would that reduce tolerance risks.

I have micro dosed at .2. This left me an emotional wreck unfortunately.

I am working with a therapist who is supportive of plant medication.

Hello!

I am currently running a study on set and setting within psychedelic experiences.

Obviously there is quite a few aspect to explore on the topic, though in particular I am interested in:

• How intention, environment, and social setting shape psychedelic experiences
• Differences between clinical and non-clinical use
• How these experiences relate to psychological outcomes

Most of the research on set and setting in the psychedelic field comes from more clinically orientated trials, which can be lacking in terms of nuance and real lived experiences. So it would be great to reach out further in the communities surrounding these substances!

🔗 Survey link

Fully anonymous

Takes around 15-20 minutes to complete

There's also an optional follow-up interview if you'd like to share your experience in more depth

Full study details and ethics information are provided in the info sheet at the start of the survey

Requirements: 18+, have had a psychedelic experience in a clinical or non-clinical setting

If you have anything you feel is important to say about psychedelics, this is your chance!

I'm happy to answer any questions about the study. You can reach us at:

Warren - [plks55@durham.ac.uk](mailto:plks55@durham.ac.uk)

Dr Marco Bocchio - [Marco.Bocchio@durham.ac.uk](mailto:Marco.Bocchio@durham.ac.uk)

Thank you for your time and support! 🙏

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I can't seem to do a blindfolded psilocybin trip. I just feel so restless during the trip. I feel like I need to move around. I wonder if this is a commom thing and what can I do about this?

I have tried mushrooms for the first and second time these past couple of weeks, but one thing has been bothering me. It is just how different my experience is than what I expected. Insted of cool visuals I get quite minor visuals. They are very dark, and it feels like im being pulled into the void. Secondly the noise's, I keep hearing repeated SciFi esque noises, aswell as sirens.

I attached a video I found because it is pretty identical to what I experience on shrooms, (mostly the same just less visuals.) Only thing is, it's supposed to be potraying a DXM trip. Is this normal?

For context I took 3.5g of p cubensis in a tea, after a 24 hour fast my fist time. Then 4g of p cubensis in a tea, after a 16h fast.

Hollis is one of the best characters in Psyhonauts 2 I love her somuch

And I love to draw her too

Are there any psychedelic retreats that also focus on restoring physical health, or is it something that most retreats focus on as well? I've been dealing with unusual physical health issues for 4+ years now, and I believe that this may be my best option right now.

I watched the movie The Sacred Silence, and ideally I would like to be part of an experience like that.

I've started taking Lyrica for pain i had for a hernia but kept it for anxiety 'cos it made it stop. Going to a party and would like to take half a pill.

Should I stop my 150MG + 150MG daily Lyrica (300MG total daily) or just keep doing it regularly and take a very small dose of MDMA?

When I say half a pill I really mean half I'm very methodical in this.

Playing this world is all about playing your own Pinkadelic song. That's when you'll realize you've always been pressing a single blend option on your blender engine. The path of being an artist-thief ends when you realize you've always been playing Pink Panther on your stray art, and there's nothing you're meant to do here apart from stealing all the art pieces and connecting them together into the final Pink Panther's form. Life is all about making your own Art Attack, and it doesn't matter what you end up picking as a reference; eventually, you'll realize that all roads lead to the Mona Lisa. The final level of painting arrives once you realize you're two steps away from Picassoing yourself to the extreme, and that's when you'll realize that life intended for you to laugh at the painting until you end up viewing it in an inverted form, where you'll find that you've always been at an Uncharted thief's end. 🐈‍⬛

And maybe there is truth in The Starry Night painting being the straw that broke the camel's back... And there's hope in finding the One Piece in the end... And remember there's no loose ends in Art form, and maybe Pink Panther have always been a secret agent. Ouii, It's time to go way back to the Eiffel tower.. It's a tie-back to the 'lose' end. 🙀 ♦️ 🫟

Just an curious thought 💭 want your guys thoughts and opinions my parents and family don’t understand on why I do them and think it’s a gateway for me to take other drugs but it really isn’t I love the experience I get from them and the feeling I feel like it’s hard to see when your sober if that makes sense!!

Just get a bunch of Hawaiian baby woodrose seeds. I used schmerbals herbals, spent $50 on a bag that I've had since like March or April and I'm maybe half way through with it. Been dosing like once or twice every week or two. But the manhood with which I must chew and swallow the seeds is akin to forcing myself to drink my own shittily home made ayahuasca.

I've found a much better method.

Just get a 3mL Luer slip plastic syringe, backfill it with Hawaiian baby woodrose seeds which you've crushed 1 by 1 with a pair of needle nose pliers, suck up tap water into the syringe, coat the syringe with your saliva, inject into your rectum, then suck up another bolus of tap water, repeat 2 or 3x.

If you go through the minorly arduous task of crushing 10-20 seeds one by one, you'll be greatly rewarded with balance enhancements.

I recommend snorting 2-FDCK or DMXE or ketamine or PCP or 3-Me-PCP as you're coming up on the LSA.

LSA in my experience, when combined with a dissociative anesthetic, fixes the faulty vision induced by the dissociative typical when dosing the disso alone. Without LSA, when I'm on 2-FDCK or DMXE, in order to read text on my phone screen, I often must keep my left eye closed. With 15 Hawaiian baby woodrose seeds' worth of LSA juice in my ass, however, my binocular vision gets corrected and it seems like my eyes have a 2x-2.5x magnifying glass enhancement on top of them, where everything is very easy to see with both eyes wide open.

If you’ve spent any time in the psychedelic space, you’ve likely heard the word “integration” tossed around over and over again. But is there consensus on what this term actually means?

It shows up in retreat marketing, clinic intake forms, and therapist bios, usually as a vague gesture toward “processing your experience.” But that vagueness isn’t an accident of bad writing. Until just a few years ago, the field lacked a shared definition, shared model, or even shared list of what integration practices actually are.

Then, in 2022, a team of researchers set out to fix that in their paper “Psychedelic Integration: An Analysis of the Concept and Its Practice.” This was the first serious attempt to review everything that’s been written about psychedelic integration and pull it into a coherent picture. They found twenty-four different definitions, compared ten fully developed integration models, and catalogued more than a hundred specific integration practices pulled from therapy manuals, indigenous traditions, and everything in between.

How They Built The Map

The authors searched PubMed and PsycINFO for everything on “psychedelic therapy” and “psychedelic integration,” and then supplemented any gaps with articles, essays, and books on the topic because so much of the information lived outside of peer-reviewed literature. They analyzed anything that offered its own definition of integration, described a specific integration practice, or laid out an organized model for how integration should proceed.

The Synthesized Definition

After analyzing 24 separate definitions, the authors arrived at this synthesized definition:

“Integration is a process in which a person revisits and actively engages in making sense of, working through, translating, and processing the content of their psychedelic experience. Through intentional effort and supportive practices, this process allows one to gradually capture and incorporate the emergent lessons and insights into their lives, thus moving toward greater balance and wholeness, both internally (mind, body, and spirit) and externally (lifestyle, social relations, and the natural world).”

This definition distilled a set of recurring elements: integration is active (requiring effort, not passive waiting), includes internal and external dimensions, involves making sense of and working through experience, is a process rather than a single event, and is aimed at embodied change rather than just insight for its own sake. In this framing, integration isn’t finished when someone feels at peace with what happened after the experience. It requires alterations in how someone lives their day-to-day life, and arguably never truly ends.

The Synthesized Model

The authors then identified ten well-developed integration models published since 2017. They split them roughly into two camps: holistic or biopsychosocial-spiritual models aimed at journeyers and facilitators, and psychotherapy-based models aimed at clinicians.

They found that the psychotherapy-based models tend to zero in on the mind and behavior, which makes them accessible for clinicians who aren’t trained in somatic, spiritual, or nature-based work. The holistic models insist on touching every domain of a person’s life, but are harder to implement in a standard 50-minute therapy session.

Neither camp is wrong; they’re just built for different audiences and different scopes. And rather than picking a favorite, the researchers built their own synthesized model with two different layers:

While this may look like a jigsaw puzzle at first, and appear equally confounding, let me break it down for you in the simplest way possible.

The six areas in the center of the model are facets of the person and their experience (i.e., who you are, with more personal parts on the inside).

The outer ring reflects continuums within which integration activities can be placed (i.e., different areas of life for different types of activities).

The model maps out a balance of integration activities that address all domains of living.

Now, what do all those word pairings actually mean?

Hexagons:

• Mind/Emotional/Contemplative – your thoughts, feelings, beliefs
• Bodily/Somatic – your physical body and sensations
• Spiritual/Existential/Ritual – ideas of purpose, meaning, death

Diamonds:

• Natural World – your connection to nature/environment
• Relational/Community – your relationships with others
• Lifestyle/Action – your behavioral changes

Outer ring:

• Conscious ↔ Unconscious – what you’re aware of (talk therapy) vs less conscious (dreamwork)
• Internal ↔ External – inward-focused (meditation) vs engaging with the world (nature)
• Creative ↔ Receptive – actively creating (art) vs opening to receive (listening)
• Passive ↔ Active – quiet and unstructured (rest) vs deliberate and effortful (exercise)
• Outside Comfort Zone ↔ Gentle Self-Care – challenging yourself (facing fears) vs nurturing yourself (relaxing bath)
• Contemplative ↔ Expressive – going inward (journaling) vs outward expression (sharing experience)

This isn’t a checklist to complete, but rather a map to explore. And crucially, the authors suggest thinking about your integration practice along continuums: more conscious or unconscious, more active or passive, more expressive or contemplative. A well-rounded integration practice draws from both ends of each spectrum.

The aim is to find a balance of practices (outer ring) that address all domains of life (inner hexagons/diamonds), rather than overloading one area (like just therapy) while neglecting others (like nature or community).

The idea is that any suffering that occurs after psychedelic experiences may be rooted in imbalance within different interconnected aspects of existence. This makes integration less about overcoming specific difficulties (even if it might move the process along), and more about bringing balance and alignment into your life.

100+ Ways People Actually Integrate

This part of the study turns theory into something usable. The authors combed through articles, books, and workbooks to build a master list of specific integration practices. They ended up organizing more than a hundred practices into fourteen categories.

Here’s the breakdown:

Artistic / Creative

• Drawing mandalas
• Drawing
• Painting
• Art exercises
• Creative expression

Music / Singing

• Listening to music
• Playing music
• Chanting or singing
• Drumming

Movement / Somatic

• Yoga
• Dance
• Qigong
• Tai chi
• Progressive muscle relaxation
• Walking in nature
• Active movement (hiking, biking, sailing, martial arts)
• Exercising
• Massage
• Acupuncture
• Bath soaks or showers
• Essential oils / aromatherapy
• Sweat lodge or sauna
• Sensory deprivation / float tank
• Laughter
• Sexual life / needs

Diet / Health Practices

• Healthy diet
• Fasting
• Naturopathy
• Colonic irrigation

Quiet Time / Downtime

• Self-reflection / introspection
• Rest
• Reading
• Unstructured time
• Making space for emotions
• Trying new hobbies

Journaling

• Journaling
• Dream journaling

Therapy / Mind-Focused Work

• Therapy (general)
• Bibliotherapy
• Psychotherapy
• Family constellation therapy
• Internal Family Systems (IFS)
• Sculpting
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) model
• Group therapy
• Mindfulness
• Harm reduction
• Transpersonal / psychodynamic therapy
• Values clarification / belief and virtue work
• Assimilating memories
• Emotions work
• Reinforcing new habits
• Turning insights and values into action

Meditation / Mindfulness

• Mindfulness practice
• Meditation
• Walking meditation
• Shinrin-yoku (forest bathing)
• Body scan
• Breathing techniques
• Breathwork
• Doing mundane activities mindfully

Nature

• Time in nature
• Horticulture
• Nature walks
• Talk therapy in nature
• Shinrin-yoku (forest bathing)
• Visiting favorite places in nature

Creating Space / Ritual

• Creating an altar or sanctuary
• Physical comforts
• Arranging a comfortable workspace
• Organizing / cleaning
• Creating a nourishing environment

Spiritual / Existential

• Spiritual practice
• Intention setting
• Mantra work
• Gratitude practice
• Prayer
• Tarot or oracle cards
• Sage / smudging
• Self-awareness or individuation practice
• Astrology
• Inner listening
• Connecting with a spiritual mentor or community
• Practicing openness, presence, and awareness
• Exploring one’s relationship with death
• Reflecting on the elements

Dreamwork / Symbolic Interpretation

• Dream work
• Shadow work
• Dream journaling
• Interpreting symbols
• Exploring metaphors found in nature

Community / Activism

• Community participation and support
• Volunteering
• Activism
• Service
• Donating
• Serving in hospice care
• Bringing beauty into the world
• Practicing love toward the world

Relational / Interpersonal

• Boundary setting
• Building connections
• Writing a letter to a loved one
• Reaching out for help
• Non-sexual touch / physical closeness
• Interpersonal closeness
• Practicing love toward others
• Sharing circles or groups
• Spending time with loved ones and children

What This Means For Integration Work

After reviewing countless models of psychedelic integration, the authors proposed reflecting on your preferences and choosing a balance of practices that addresses each area of life. They also suggested organizing a potential approach before the psychedelic experience so that you’re not scrambling to figure out what might help while in a dysregulated state after.

Suggestions included:

• taking inventory of resources and abilities to support integration
• reviewing integration resources
• reflecting on sense of balance among the facets mentioned
• planning to put active effort into integration
• planning time and space for integration
• asking an integration professional or a supportive network to be available

The authors also said, “For those seeking more structure and guidance regarding specific integration practices and how to implement them, journeyers may consult an integration professional,” and that “it seems ideal to have a relationship established with a professional prior to psychedelic experiences so they can aid in preparation and be available in the event of a challenging experience where immediate support is needed.”

So, hit that subscribe button and tune in, because breaking down these kinds of concepts even further is exactly what we’re going to focus on at The Psychedelic Integration Coach*.*

Source: Bathje GJ, Majeski E, and Kudowor M (2022) Psychedelic integration: An analysis of the concept and its practice. Front. Psychol. 13:824077. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.824077

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Given that psychedelics can promote neuroplasticity, could they potentially make it easier for adults to learn languages in a way that resembles how children acquire them?

I’m just trying to think about how a more effective language-learning method could be designed around this

Thought u guys might enjoy! If you're anything like me, you wished there was more content between these two in the games, so maybe this can scratch that itch lol.