I was feeling spontaneous with the prospect of psychedelics. That was step one into working with them incorrectly. I was led into traumatic dramatic territory — not what I signed up for and not possible to erase. Just as I was beginning to recover, COVID came to town, along with isolation, menopause and empty nesting. As the medicine dictated, it was time to end The Highly as a cannabis blog that communicated mostly through Instagram — that was the problem. It was unhealthy.

For the next full year, I turned off social media, hunkered down, and planned and plotted for my next psychedelic journey (GASP!) — it was the only way to override the horrible trip stuck in my psyche. This time I would leave nothing to chance. It would be done in ceremonial fashion, in my home in East Hampton, NY, with an immaculate set and setting.

It was when choosing my crystals that I realized that there had to be a better way. Picking up the baton from the Tantric Art movement of the 60’s, I added a carefully nourished, one-of-a-kind batch of crystals into the equation and onto the walls. AHHHH — this felt right, and indeed it was. What began for me was suddenly for “we”, and here we are.

I celebrate the power of psychedelics as a spirit medicine, and also share in the responsibility of acknowledging they can cause harm when the full spectrum of the medicine is not considered. This is my contribution to the ultimate set and setting.

To be continued,

Nina

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Higher and Finer — Love to The World

By Nina Fern 💙

The journal of my journey’s