Psychotherapist and psychedelic guide Mira Funk, LCSW, describes the process of working with her from beginning to end. The process begins with a 50-minute initial consultation. She and the client then agree on a retreat date and on an appropriate number of pre- and post-integration sessions. Mira recommends 5 at least pre-integration sessions and 1 post-integration session. Here is a breakdown of the session content: 1. Biopsychosocial Intake 2. Safety & Logistics 3. Hot Stove Vipassana Meditation 4. Floating in Space Nondual Meditation 5. Ocean of Love Nondual Meditation 6. Processing the Retreat Mira also discusses the different medicines she serves—5-MeO-DMT, N,N-DMT, and salvia divinorum—and the different retreat formats that are possible with these medicines. Each medicine has a short-acting vaporized route of administration as well as an extended release route. There's rectal 5-MeO-DMT, analog ayahuasca, and buccal salvia divinorum. Btw, apparently buccal is actually pronounced "buckle" not "boo-kle," oops! :-) After completing a retreat with Mira, you become eligible to join her Unjourneying Circle, an online psychedelic integration group that meets every two weeks over Zoom. You also can participate in her group retreats. If you want to connect with Mira, visit https://www.unjourneying.com and https://linktr.ee/unjourneying.
Psychotherapist and psychedelic guide Mira Funk, LCSW, shares the top six reasons that clients in her practice seek out psychedelic experiences. These reasons are: 1. Emotional Healing 2. Spiritual Insight 3. Neuroplasticity 4. Exploring Consciousness 5. Connection to Nature and Loved Ones 6. Physical and Neurological Healing
If you want to connect with Mira, visit https://www.unjourneying.com.
Psychotherapist and psychedelic guide Mira Funk, LCSW, defines terms commonly used in her practice. She offers an experiential definition of nonduality based on a lucid dreaming analogy from Tibetan dream yoga. Then she draws inspiration from Adyashanti for outlining psychedelic integration and nondual integration in particular. Finally, she distinguishes between what it means to journey and unjourney with psychedelics such as 5-MeO-DMT, ayahuasca, and salvia divinorum.
If you want to connect with Mira, visit https://www.unjourneying.com and https://linktr.ee/unjourneying.
In this introductory episode, Mira Funk, LCSW, shares the story of her background and how she came to be a queer, nonbinary psychedelic therapist and guide. In her childhood, she experienced medical trauma with a febrile seizure, Lyme disease, and babesiosis. During a bout of depression while at Harvard, she took a leave of absence and lived on a farm in New Hampshire, where she first encountered Zen Buddhism in the Kwan Um tradition. She eventually traveled to Korea to live at a Kwan Um monastery called Musangsa, where she experienced relief from her existential angst.
After a short-lived career in the arts, she went to social work school and became a mindfulness-based therapist. However, something was still missing. Everything changed when she did her first mushroom trip and had a direct taste of nonduality, especially as described in the Mahamudra and Dzogchen traditions. She felt inspired to go deeper with psychedelics, exploring 5-MeO-DMT, ayahuasca, and salvia divinorum. The healing and insight she received were so transformative that she resolved to devote her life to helping others through their psychedelic experiences.
Her own journey took some unexpected twists and turns when she experienced neuroinflammatory flare-ups on lion's mane mushrooms. Her difficulties led to her gender and sexual identity shift, and also prompted her to work with psychedelics in a new way she called "unjourneying," inspired by Ram Dass's guru Neem Karoli Baba, who supposedly experienced no psychoactive effects on LSD. Mira started actively meditating while taking psychedelics and discovered diminished effects and more profound mindfulness integration.
Another surprise happened when all serotonergic psychedelics started causing flare-ups. After extensive medical testing, she discovered that she has Lyme, babesiosis, and mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS). She decided to personally work only with salvia divinorum until her condition improves with medication. She found that unjourneying with salvia induces insights that feel orthogonal to nonduality, presenting a radical happeningness that deconstructs the illusion of free will and the very possibility of spiritual practice.
If you want to connect with Mira, visit https://www.unjourneying.com and https://linktr.ee/unjourneying.