Essays, talks and conversations — on psychedelics, mental health, and the ethics of how we live. Some of it polished, some of it raw. All of it mine.
The piece that travelled furthest: a practitioner's answer to the world's most optimised man, on what the strongest psychedelic on earth actually asks of a person.
Read on MediumWhere the longer arguments live — psychedelics, neuroplasticity, and the preconditions of healing the field keeps overlooking.
Follow alongWhen a public figure turns a private experiment into a teaching, somebody should ask what the medicine and the attachment system have to say about it. So I did.
Read on MediumPractical, unromantic writing about ayahuasca and psilocybin: how to choose a retreat, what integration actually involves, and what nobody tells you before ceremony.
vine-of-the-soul.com/blogA shorter, more personal piece — the kind of writing LinkedIn doesn't expect and occasionally deserves.
Read on LinkedInOn what happens when the question you carried for years finally gets an answer — and the answer is not what you wanted, but what you needed.
Read on LinkedInShorter reflections, several times a week — triggers, integration, the biology of healing.
ConnectA free, referenced knowledge base on psychedelics, depression, anxiety and integration — written for people who want the full picture, not the marketing version.
info.vine-of-the-soul.comIf you've done everything the system recommended and still don't feel like yourself, that isn't a failure of willpower. It's a failure of the model. A complete map of what depression actually is.
Read in the wikiThe ceremony is the easy part. What integration actually involves, why it decides whether anything changes, and how to do it well — without mystique.
Read in the wikiIn conversation — a podcast appearance on psychedelic-assisted healing, and the work that begins after the ceremony ends.
Vine of the Soul Q&A — the questions people actually ask before their first retreat, answered without mystique.
Vine of the Soul Retreats appears in Ewout: Omstreden Alternativa Geneeskunde (season 4). Aired on RTL 5, September 2024.
Watch on VideolandI speak and write about psychedelics, mental wellbeing, and ethics for a better future — in English, German or Romanian.
