Doing Mushrooms May Have Saved My Faith
The Refined Collective Podcast
Kat Harris
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Language disclaimer: this episode includes explicit language so maybe listen with headphones if you’re around children.
As you all know, I took a sabbatical last fall. I needed that time to focus on my own growth and healing without having a microphone in my hand. One thing I knew I wanted to experience during my time away from The Refined Collective was a psilocybin journey (aka mushroom journey). I know there are a lot of immediate reactions that come to mind when someone hears something like that. And I know there are a million questions that you want answered. This episode is a deep dive into the 2-day guided mushroom journey, including why I felt at peace with the decision.
It is important to note that I am not a doctor and this experience is not for everybody. But I wanted to share with you what my experience was like.
My Background
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I come from a family with addiction in it, and so I have always been careful about all substances. On top of that growing up Christian—I assumed anything drug related would be an open doorway for the demonic. For these reasons and so many more, I never thought a mushroom journey would be something I’d do.
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A few years ago I started hearing rumblings of people I knew micro-dosing mushrooms to support things like PTSD, anxiety, and depression. Out of curiosity, I started doing some research of my own.
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Three years into my research, I was presented with an opportunity to take part in a guided journey and I felt ready to do it.
The Basics
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I checked in with my therapist, my doctor, and my family. Everyone knew I was taking part in this experience.
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The experience cost $500 and was led by three facilitators and there was a doctor on the premises as well. It felt incredibly safe.
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The mushrooms themselves were put into a sort of hot chocolate.
The Breakthroughs
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I felt so held by God during this experience. I knew God was there with me and that I was safe even in the unknown of what this experience would feel like.
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There was a particular moment from childhood that came up and brought up some heavy and powerful physical reactions.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Refine Collective Podcast. I'm your host, Cat Harris. |
| 0:11.4 | This podcast is designed to hold space for honest conversations, from purity culture to |
| 0:18.2 | faith, sexuality, relationships, identity, culture, deconstruction, and more. |
| 0:25.8 | My hope is to look doubt in the face, be curious, seek God, and ask meaningful questions |
| 0:32.1 | to address any elephant in the room with openness, nuance, and grace. |
| 0:38.6 | I won't pretend to be an expert and definitely don't have all the answers. |
| 0:42.8 | And though it may feel easier and more comfortable to exist in the black and white, I invite you |
| 0:47.4 | to discover God with me in the gray and unexpected spaces. |
| 0:53.1 | So whoever you are, whatever you do or don't believe, you are welcome here and have a seat |
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| 1:19.2 | All right, let's go ahead and get to it. |
| 1:28.0 | Hello, welcome to this episode of me sharing about my two-day |
| 1:34.3 | psilocybin journey that I took in the fall during my |
| 1:38.4 | spatical psilocybin is also a fancy word for mushrooms. |
| 1:42.8 | Yes, I went on a two-day mushroom journey, something I never, ever, ever thought I would |
| 1:48.3 | do. And now I have done it. |
| 1:51.7 | And I feel eager and excited to share with you my experience. |
| 1:59.4 | And also, yeah, I feel like there's a lot of reasons why I want to share about it. |
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