The guide for the guide

An introduction to psychedelic trip-sitting

An artist’s rendition of visual hallucinations (Source)

A shaman, a ferryman, a doctor, a midwife. A trip-sitter is similar to all of them — similar, but not identical, because their task doesn’t involve a myth or an oar or a prescription-pad, but very simply, a trusting relationship.

A trip-sitter is a person who guides and supports the taker of a psychedelic drug. As far as the…