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> 2 trips on psilocybe (one month apart), proper set & setting & guide & a lot of talking about it later with a trusted person

What does "proper set & setting & guide" mean? Clinical? Or friend/shaman type thing?

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I'd like to know this as well. I think this is one of the biggest hurdles to a first time user: If you're anxious or depressed, you're by definition not in a good "set". And with psychedelic therapists being rare as unicorns where to find that trip-sitter who isn't just a "That's groovy, man" weirdo that will shape your trip (and your malleable brain) into the bog-standard one with everything experience.

eh truthfully this is why I asked, I guess you read my comment and saw through the lines :D

but yea I'm not "down with the scene", I don't "know people" and have been on anti-depressants for over a decade off and on with little break-through.

I've suspected that psychedelics or things like MDMA could help, but I don't know where to turn to for that.

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