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