Key points

Ceremony’s context is the container that makes change durable. Context is treatment.

UNDRIP Article 31 makes honoring Indigenous ceremony a rights‑based obligation.

NEJM: Psilocybin may aid depression—promise does not equal permission. Honor context, avoid appropriation.

We’re great at talking molecules. We’re less honest about what holds a person together after the breakthrough. Ceremony is the container: elders, songs, prayers, land, kin, language. Strip the container and outcomes wobble. Honor the container and change grows roots. That’s not poetry—that’s practice. Context is the medicine.

Why Now: The Clinical Signal (New England Journal of Medicine)

A major New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) trial found that a single, carefully delivered psilocybin session improv

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