Ask these questions.If they can't answer them — walk away.
There are no credentials for this work. No governing body. No universal code of conduct. Anyone can call themselves a facilitator, and many do.
A lack of structure is not spiritual. It is irresponsible.
These are the eight questions we would ask if we were choosing someone else. Our answers are underneath each one. Ask them of us. Ask them of anyone.
Questions to ask any provider
Who decides whether I am eligible — and are they a physician?
With us: a licensed physician. He reviews a detailed medical and psychological intake, conducts the intake conversation himself, and decides. We do not overrule a no.
What to listen for elsewhereIf the person selling you the experience is also the person clearing you for it, that is the whole answer. Walk away.
What exactly will you screen me for?
Ask for the list. If they cannot produce one, there isn't one.
Ours is published in full on our harm-reduction page. Among the absolutes: MAOIs, SSRIs, SNRIs, tricyclics, lithium, significant cardiac disease, personal history of schizophrenia or psychotic depression, first-degree family history of schizophrenia or bipolar I, epilepsy, pregnancy, active suicidal ideation with plan or intent.
What to listen for elsewhere“We'll ask about your health” is not screening. Screening is a list, held by someone qualified to interpret it.
What are you giving me, and do you know what is in it?
Ours is pharmaceutical-grade, lab-purity-tested synthetic 5-MeO-DMT.
Toad secretion contains bufotenin and other alkaloids alongside 5-MeO, in proportions that vary between animals and that nobody has measured for the dose in front of you. It also requires taking it from an animal under pressure from exactly this practice.
What to listen for elsewhereIf the answer involves the word medicine and not the word assay, you do not know what you are being given.
How is it dosed — and what happens between doses?
In stages, with each stage assessed before the next. Between administrations you are back — conversational, oriented — and that is when you are asked whether to continue. The doses and their purposes are discussed in preparation, and what happens on the day is decided on the day.
Most of the serious harm in this field comes from a single large dose given all at once by someone with nothing to assess against.
What to listen for elsewhere“We'll give you a full dose and see what happens” is not a protocol. It is a coin toss with your cardiovascular system.
Will I be alone? Who is in the room, and what is each of them doing?
Two of us, the entire time. One attends to your body — position, breathing, blood pressure where our medical team indicates it. One attends to you, and to nothing else.
Neither of us is ever the only person watching. That is the reason there are two, and it is the only reason that matters.
What to listen for elsewhereOne facilitator alone in a room with an unconscious person is the condition under which almost every documented harm in this field occurred.
What happens if something goes wrong?
A full crash kit is on site. It has never been used.
A registered nurse is on site when our physician determines an individual requires it, and reachable and available to come on site otherwise. A licensed physician is reachable as needed. The nearest emergency department is nineteen minutes away.
We have never had an emergency. We wrote this down anyway.
What to listen for elsewhereIf the answer is “that's never happened,” ask what the plan is anyway. The absence of a plan is the plan.
What kind of touch will happen, and when did I agree to it?
Once you have taken a dose, you cannot reliably consent to anything. You cannot decline, withdraw, or ask us to stop.
So consent is taken in advance, in writing, during preparation. You decide then whether physical contact is permitted, and what kind. If you decline, nothing changes except that we do not touch you.
We do not interpret the absence of objection as permission. A person in this state cannot object.
What to listen for elsewhereThis is the question. It is the one on which practitioners in this field have been most publicly and most deservedly discredited. A facilitator who has not thought carefully about it has told you everything.
What happens in the three months after?
Three months of weekly one-on-one integration, with mandatory clinical sessions. Not optional. Not an upsell. Not a community forum.
The day opens a window. What gets built inside it is the only thing that lasts.
What to listen for elsewhereIf integration is a PDF, a Facebook group, or an add-on, the person is selling you a day. The day is not the thing.
Questions people ask us
Is it safe?
Not for everyone, which is why a physician decides and not us. It raises heart rate and blood pressure. It interacts dangerously with several classes of medication. A minority of people experience reactivations in the days afterward.
Anyone who tells you it is safe for everyone is selling you something.
Is this a group experience?
No. Up to two people are on site on a given day. You will never share the room and you will never share the experience.
You will share the preparation in the morning and the debrief afterward. Two people who arrived at the same place by different routes generally have more to say to each other than either has to us.
What happens if I panic, freeze, or resist?
Panic and resistance are common, and the month of preparation exists partly to make them less likely. Nervous-system work — interoceptive acceptance, somatic settling, resonance breathing — trains your system to stay open while its own alarms are firing. This is trainable.
If it happens anyway: nothing is asked of you, nothing is corrected, and nothing is interpreted. Two people are watching. One of them is watching only you.
Is this like ayahuasca?
No, and the comparison is the most common way people get hurt.
Ayahuasca is hours long, visual, narrative, and additive — it gives you more. 5-MeO is minutes long, non-visual, and subtractive. It gives you nothing. Different receptor, different mechanism, different risk profile, different everything.
Also: if you have taken ayahuasca within the last four to eight weeks, you are not eligible.
Will I have a spiritual experience?
We don't know, and it isn't what we're offering.
What we can describe is mechanical. For a few minutes the assumption that there is a you in here and a world out there stops running. What you make of that afterward is yours. It is not our claim, and we will not make it for you.
Will I lose my edge?
It is the most common question we are asked before an application, and the fear underneath it is specific: that the drive is the thing about to be removed.
It isn't. What the state briefly removes is the assumption the drive is standing on — the sense that there is someone in here who has to hold all of it together. The drive was never what that assumption was holding up.
What people describe afterward is not less ambition. It is the same ambition without the weight of carrying it.
We are not going to tell you how you will feel. We don't know.
Do I need to have done other work first?
Usually, yes. Most people who come to us have done years of it. If you have a significant trauma history and no preparatory work behind you, we will say so, and we will say the timing is wrong rather than take your money.
This is not a first step. It is not a substitute for therapy. And it is not the wrong year — just the wrong month.
What if I don't feel anything, or don't remember?
Most people cannot describe what happened. That is not a failure. There is no memory of the state in the ordinary sense because there was no one there to form one.
Some people's bodies discharge — shaking, movement, sound. Some don't. Neither is a sign of anything.
How do I start?
The application takes about ten minutes. It is followed by a conversation — to ask your questions and to work out whether this fits. The $500 deposit covers the physician's assessment, and either of us can say no.
Should I read other people's accounts first?
Our recommendation is no.
You will not get what they got. Reading a stranger's account gives you a shape to look for, and looking for a shape is the one activity this state does not accommodate.
This is inconvenient advice to give on a website with testimonials on it. They are there because you are deciding whether to trust an operator, and that is a fair thing to research.
What happens in the room is not.
Ask us all sixteen. If any answer is worse than the one above it, you have learned something worth the price of asking.