A ‘Spiritual Polishing’ of War Trauma with Psychedelics

Finding words for the Indescribable is an often-challenging role for a researcher. The following paper introduces our method of veteran-engaged collaborative writing and offers an example of a creative product. Psychedelic Healing: The Spiritual Polishing of a Battle Fatigued Paratrooper, was a culmination of collaborative writing experiments designed to uncover noetic experiences related to a psychedelic healing ceremony. We define the noetic as deeply insightful moments of knowing that are life-altering but difficult to describe. The writing experiments, intended to elicit these moments, evolved into a method to collect sensitive data around military war trauma and the ritual use of psycho-active substances to heal from those traumas. Click Here for more information