I think it might prove quite difficult to scale effective use of psychedelics out to a large population, due to bottlenecks on facilitation. I’d guess that becoming an effective facilitator requires quite a bit of in-person training with an established facilitator and contact with a mature psychedelic culture, in much the same way that becoming an effective meditation teacher seems to require quite a bit (years and years) of in-person contact with an already-established meditation teacher and culture.
I expect that this cannot easily be worked around via more or better written instruction. I’d expect that simply reading The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide (or a future improved version thereof) and then facilitating trips with no other exposure to teachers or culture would produce mediocre or ineffective results for trippers, in much the same way that teaching meditation under the same circumstances would, or teaching entrepreneurship having mostly just read business books would.
I particularly expect that non-facilitated trips will be ineffective on average if scaled out to a large population.
Perhaps a person can become a mature facilitator by extensive solo tripping experience, in combination with consuming written material. But this would also be a bottleneck on scaling out psychedelics.
Perhaps we can just scale psychedelics out slowly and maybe that would still be extremely worthwhile. But I expect this to proceed on timescales not much faster than the rate at which meditation is currently being “scaled out” in the western world.
Yeah, I expect the rollout of psychedelic facilitation to take roughly as long as the rollout of psychotherapy did. Maybe faster, because psychedelic facilitation could leverage the existing training infrastructure of the mental health establishment.
Perhaps the third wave of CBT is a good comparison case. I’m a little fuzzy on the specifics, but it looks like third-wave CBT got started in the 1980s, and was considered the standard best-in-class modality for psychotherapy by the 2000s.
So that would imply a rollout of 1-2 decades from starting point to “standard modality.”
I think it might prove quite difficult to scale effective use of psychedelics out to a large population, due to bottlenecks on facilitation. I’d guess that becoming an effective facilitator requires quite a bit of in-person training with an established facilitator and contact with a mature psychedelic culture, in much the same way that becoming an effective meditation teacher seems to require quite a bit (years and years) of in-person contact with an already-established meditation teacher and culture.
I expect that this cannot easily be worked around via more or better written instruction. I’d expect that simply reading The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide (or a future improved version thereof) and then facilitating trips with no other exposure to teachers or culture would produce mediocre or ineffective results for trippers, in much the same way that teaching meditation under the same circumstances would, or teaching entrepreneurship having mostly just read business books would.
I particularly expect that non-facilitated trips will be ineffective on average if scaled out to a large population.
Perhaps a person can become a mature facilitator by extensive solo tripping experience, in combination with consuming written material. But this would also be a bottleneck on scaling out psychedelics.
Perhaps we can just scale psychedelics out slowly and maybe that would still be extremely worthwhile. But I expect this to proceed on timescales not much faster than the rate at which meditation is currently being “scaled out” in the western world.
Yeah, I expect the rollout of psychedelic facilitation to take roughly as long as the rollout of psychotherapy did. Maybe faster, because psychedelic facilitation could leverage the existing training infrastructure of the mental health establishment.
Perhaps the third wave of CBT is a good comparison case. I’m a little fuzzy on the specifics, but it looks like third-wave CBT got started in the 1980s, and was considered the standard best-in-class modality for psychotherapy by the 2000s.
So that would imply a rollout of 1-2 decades from starting point to “standard modality.”