Gregory Loewen

When I first learned about healing trauma with psychedelic medicines, I loved the widely held notion that setting an intention for psychedelic therapy was like creating a hinge, that makes it possible for the door of healing to swing open into a new space. But as I have gained more experience doing psychedelic therapy with clients, I have found that in real life, it doesn’t always prove to be quite so simple. Intention setting can be a challenging task, and intentions frequently change,...

I lost a client to suicide last year and I had to sort through some painful feelings as a doctor. Was there something else that I could have done? Was there something else that I should have said? I naturally turned inward and searched myself, and I suspect that many loved ones did this as well. As a physician who has taken care of cancer patients over the decades of my medical practice, it was not unusual for me to lose a patient if they died from their cancer. This happened...

For many years, I have aspired to be a really grounded guy. I used to muse that this new age expression was a reference to electrical physics, because an electrical current prefers to follow a pathway that leads to the ground. If an electrical cord is grounded, then it is unable to short-circuit. If a person is grounded, they are unlikely to short-circuit. Grounded people are safe to be around, Another way to think about groundedness is the of the deep rootedness of certain trees. If the...