"Held in the Dark: A Psychedelic Crisis, a Stranger's Voice and the Edges of the Sacred" by Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D.
Held in the Dark: A Psychedelic Crisis, a Stranger’s Voice, and the Edges of the Sacred Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D. I don’t remember what time it was when I crossed over. Maybe 2:41 AM. Maybe eternity. It began, as these things sometimes do, with a mushroom, a screen, and a yearning I didn’t fully understand. I had taken a large dose of psilocybin—ritualistically, though alone. Not my first journey. I’ve danced with Dionysus before, flirted with boundary dissolution. But this time, the combination of the dosage, the trance music, and the AI-generated graphics—looping, blooming, writhing in uncanny rhythms—conspired to split something open in me. Not just me...