My Year of Psychedelics : Exploring the amazing potential of mushrooms, MDMA, LSD and other life-enhancing substances - Sarah Napthali

My Year of Psychedelics

Exploring the amazing potential of mushrooms, MDMA, LSD and other life-enhancing substances

By: Sarah Napthali

Paperback | 4 February 2025

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Exploring first-hand the amazing potential of mushrooms, MDMA, LSD, and other life-enhancing substances.

Ten years on from the bestselling success of Buddhism for Mothers, Sarah Napthali is still keen to plumb the depths of the human experience, so the unfolding psychedelic renaissance captures her attention. Intrigued by other people's reports - of the power of mushrooms, MDMA, LSD, Ayahuasca and others - and the immense potential for personal and spiritual growth, Sarah is determined to experience these medicines for herself and to apply any teachings to the challenges facing a newly divorced empty-nester. She announces, to anyone who will listen, a project: a year of psychedelics.

Sarah makes her way through eight psychedelic medicines, in high doses, often twice per medicine. From a week-long psychedlic retreats in the Netherlands, Portugal and Costa Rica, to sourcing an underground MDMA guide, an above-ground 'psychedelic integration therapist', and enlisting an old friend to be her trip-sitter.

My Year of Psychedelics reveals how psychedelics interact with universal themes as Sarah navigates the highs of new romance, quitting her job and the freedom of travel, but also the loss of old friends that can come with divorce, the end of the honeymoon period, and a confrontation with aching loneliness and old wounds.

The psychedelic renaissance has provided a wealth of data and empirical evidence about the potential of psychedelics but this is a first-person account, a chance to join someone on their trips, and to see how it impacts their day-to-day life.

About the Author

Sarah Napthali is the author of the international best-seller Buddhism for Mothers which sold over 100,000 copies and was translated into 13 languages. Sarah wrote a further five books about applying Buddhist teachings in family life. Ten years later, her children have grown up, the family home disbanded, and Sarah has decided to quit her job in the public service and dedicate a year to exploring the world of psychedelics – mushrooms, MDMA, LSD and ayahuasca – among others. Sarah has criss-crossed the globe to join psychedelic retreats, she has sourced trip-sitters in Australia, and engaged in specialised psychotherapy to ponder the insights from her psychedelic experiences. Ever the seeker, always grappling with the big questions, Sarah has chronicled her discoveries with honesty, applying them to the lows of loneliness and the highs of new romance.

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