What I Learned in The Psychedelics and The Mind Course By The Berkley Foundation

Lessons from the first part of their psychedelic course

Alexandre Porto
3 min readSep 14, 2023

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I have just finished the first part of the Berkley Foundation’s course on Psychedelics and The Mind and I am amazed by how much I learned even though I have been working with responsible psychedelic use for more than 10 years. It is amazing to see such a complete course available for anyone for free (yes, you can enroll now totally gratis!) made with such care and value.

Today, I want to go quickly over some topics discussed in the course that caught my attention and could be useful for you too:

What I Learned in The Berkley Psychedelics and The Mind Course:

Part 1

1 — Psychedelics are not a magic pill;

Going on a mystical experience means going into a sacred space, where we can have a personal mythic time. And in this unseen world, navigating the waters without a…

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Alexandre Porto
Alexandre Porto

Written by Alexandre Porto

Pieces of the integral man. Specialist in the responsible use of psychedelics. https://t.me/perrella