🗨️ This Week’s Edition

Psychedelics don’t just alter perception—they invite us to question the nature of reality itself.

🧠 This week, we explore what happens beyond the veil—those mysterious realms accessed through medicines like DMT, ayahuasca, ketamine, and psilocybin.

Are these hallucinations? Or are they doorways into deeper dimensions of consciousness?

🌿 We also unpack one of the most important principles in psychedelic work: set and setting.

It’s not just about what you take—it’s about where you are and who you are when you take it.

Mindset and environment can be the difference between breakthrough and breakdown.

🎙️ On the podcast, we sit down with Sara Roccasano, who left a 20-year Wall Street career to follow an unexpected call from the jungle.

Her journey with ayahuasca, integration, and self-reinvention is a story of courage, curiosity, and spiritual transformation.

📢 And in recent news:

• The FDA Commissioner named psychedelic medicine a top federal priority, signaling plans to fast-track research and approval for therapies like psilocybin and MDMA—especially for veterans with PTSD.

• University College London (shoutout to our advisory board member, Marcus Glennon!) has launched the largest-ever DMT brain imaging study, exploring whether this powerful psychedelic can help people reduce heavy drinking.

• State lawmakers across the U.S. are introducing a record number of bills to decriminalize or regulate psychedelics, reflecting a surge in momentum for psychedelic medicine policy in 2025.

As the science progresses and the stigma fades, we’re reminded that this movement is about more than policy or pharmacology—it’s about healing, remembering, and reimagining what it means to be human…

🧠 The Webdelics Team

📔 Psychedelics 101: Terms Everyone Should Know

✨ Set and Setting

How could two people on the same dose of a psychedelic have completely different experiences?

Enter: Set and Setting—the foundational concept that explains how mindset and environment shape every psychedelic journey.

🧠 Set refers to your internal state—your mood, thoughts, expectations, and mental health. It’s the emotional baggage (or clarity) you bring into the experience.

🌍 Setting is the external environment—who you’re with, where you are, the energy of the space, even the music or lighting.

Together, they create the psychological and sensory context for your trip. And they matter—a lot.

Why does this matter?

🌀 A chaotic setting can induce anxiety, fear, or disorientation, while a calm, safe space can lead to breakthrough insights and emotional healing. The same compound can be terrifying in one environment and transcendent in another.

📚 Indigenous cultures have known this for centuries—holding ceremonies in sacred spaces, led by experienced guides. Today, psychedelic-assisted therapy uses this same principle to create safe, intentional containers for healing.

Set and setting aren’t just nice to have—they're the steering wheel of the entire journey.

Respect them, and the medicine will often meet you with wisdom, clarity, and compassion.

🎧️ The Webdelics Podcast

📜 Top Article

🧠 Beyond the Veil - Exploring the Realms of Psychedelic Consciousness

Words by Steve Elfrink | OmTerra

What if the wild, vivid visions seen on psychedelics aren’t hallucinations—but revelations…?

What if, in the depths of a ketamine K-hole or the spiraling geometries of a DMT trip, we’re not escaping reality… but finally touching it…?

Across cultures and compounds, people report uncannily similar journeys: contact with intelligent beings, visits to alien realms, communion with ancestral spirits, or deep dives into the self.

The consistency is hard to ignore. And the question grows louder:

What if these realms are real?

In this week’s feature, Steve Elfrink takes us on a guided exploration through the altered states of ketamine, DMT, psilocybin, ayahuasca, LSD, peyote, and ibogaine—not just to explain the mechanics, but to feel the mystery.

Along the way, he weaves neuroscience, quantum theory, and indigenous wisdom into a tapestry of radical possibility.

Here are Steve’s unique poetic takes on the magic behind each medicine and their applications to our psyche:

🌀 Ketamine

Imagine reality splitting at the seams.

You fall through the gap—weightless, ego-less, suspended in a quiet infinity.

This is the K-hole…

A space beyond time where you witness your mind like a snow globe, floating just out of reach.

🚀 DMT

Where ketamine dissolves, DMT detonates.

You’re launched into hyperdimensional space—impossible shapes, ancient codes, beings made of language and light.

Some call them elves. Others call it God…

But whatever it is, it knows you’re there.

🧬 Psilocybin

The mushroom doesn’t explode—it unfolds.

Nature breathes through you. Trees speak. Memory spirals into myth.

There’s a gentleness here, a dreamlike rhythm that invites healing through wonder…

It’s the whisper of truth, not the roar.

🐍 Ayahuasca

This isn’t a trip—it’s a ceremony.

A vine wraps around your soul and begins to sing.

Visions come in waves: snakes, ancestors, your own shadow.

It cleanses with fire and love…

Grandmother Ayahuasca doesn’t just reveal—she teaches.

🌌 LSD

Less spirits, more symphony.

LSD strips away the self and reveals the code.

You are not in the universe—you are the universe…

Time bends. Colors breathe.

Unity consciousness isn’t a metaphor—it’s a direct experience.

🌵 Peyote

Earthbound and sacred.

Peyote brings geometry, heartbeat, and ancestral wisdom…

It doesn’t lift you out of the world—it pulls you into it, deeper than bone.

You remember who you are. And who you’ve always been.

🌑 Ibogaine

This is the deep work. The warrior path.

Ibogaine isn’t here to entertain—it’s here to unmask.

You meet yourself. Your ancestors. Your regrets.

But beneath the intensity lies compassion…

A brutal truth that sets you free.

🔍 So What Are These Realms?

Science offers clues…

Psychedelics shut down the default mode network—the ego’s control tower—and open up new brain pathways.

Some researchers suggest consciousness might not come from the brain, but move through it. Like a radio tuning to new frequencies.

Quantum theories, filtering models, and panpsychism all hint at something profound:
That mind may be more than matter.

That plants may be more than medicine. That these visions may be more than dreams.

🌿 Indigenous Maps

For the Shipibo, the Bwiti, the Huichol—these realms are not symbolic.

They are real places…

Plant spirits, animal guides, ancestral teachers—these are not metaphors.

They are coordinates on a spiritual map…

And we are just beginning to learn how to read it.

✨ What It All Means

Maybe these medicines don’t create visions. Maybe they reveal what was always there.

A deeper dimension. A forgotten truth. A more complete self.

The message, across every molecule and myth, is clear:

The plants are calling… The realms are waiting… And the doorway?

🤍 It’s already within you…

🎉 Top Weekly Blog!

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• Ketamine for Pain

💉 While ketamine isn’t a traditional psychedelic, it’s dissociative properties and impacts on the brain continue to make headlines because of it’s ability to help people overcome treatment-resistant depression and anxiety.

Whether it changes the brain via neuroplasticity or it’s anti-inflammatory impacts (or both), it’s safe to say that ketamine is here to stay for a while…

📢 Have you tried ketamine therapy? Or know someone who has? We would love to hear about it!

💬 We will leave you with this…

Alan Watts once said,

Psychedelics invite us into that dance—not just as curious observers, but as active participants in our own transformation.

They challenge us to let go of certainty, to question what we think we know, and to see the world—not as fixed, but as unfolding.

This isn’t just about altered states. It’s about altered perspectives…

So wherever you are on your path—skeptic, seeker, or somewhere in between—may this week’s edition remind you:

The veil is thin. The mystery is real. And the journey is just beginning.

Until next time...

🧠 The Guide - by Webdelics

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