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Psychology

Buddhist Philosophy, Shadow Work, and Integrating a Psychedelic Experience

August 16, 2024
Featuring: Kate Amy

There are many different aspects to consider when integrating a psychedelic experience, and many tools to help, like engaging in shadow work, practicing meditation, and even applying teachings from Buddhist philosophy.

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There are many different aspects to consider when integrating a psychedelic experience, and many tools to help, like engaging in shadow work, practicing meditation, and even applying teachings from Buddhist philosophy.

In this episode of Vital Psychedelic Conversations, Vital instructor, Diego Pinzon hosts his first podcast, interviewing Vital graduate and clinically-trained psychologist, “The Kinki Buddhist”: Kate Amy.

As Amy’s interest in psychedelics grew, she began to see a clear intersection between psychedelic states and the non-ordinary states she’d reached through years of meditation practice, as well as lessons from Buddhism that could help in better understanding psychedelic journeys. She talks about the importance of really understanding what it is one is seeking when looking to have a psychedelic experience, and the significance of integration – no matter how long it takes. While she has tips that have worked for clients, she feels that the psychedelic space has a long way to go in establishing best practices for the most effective integration.

She discusses:

  • Why she uses the name, “The Kinki Buddhist”
  • How she frames the psychedelic experience as taking an evolutionary substance (and/or receiving a software upgrade)
  • The necessity of having a positive relationship with your Self before a big trip
  • The continuous process of patients and facilitators both engaging in shadow work, and ways of discovering our different hidden parts
  • The rigidity many of us prescribe to certain healing frameworks, and how beneficial it can be to view strict rules as guidelines for exploration instead

and of course, her experience with Vital!

The deadline for submitting your application is next week, August 23, so make sure to get your application in today.

Links

Thekinkibuddhist.com

Mindworks.org: The 5 Precepts Of Buddhism And Why They Matter

Dhammawiki.com: 9 Jhanas

Vitalpsychedelictraining.com

Kate Amy

In this Episode

Kate Amy

Kate Amy began her journey working directly with clients 23 years ago. While completing formal tertiary post graduate studies of clinical psychology, clinical placements, and registration requirements, she also fostered a growing curiosity around yoga and meditation practices and what it meant to have a spiritual life. She opened and successfully developed her first private psychology practice in 2004. Around this time, she completed the third of many Vipassana meditation retreats, fell in love with the writings of the Venerable Thich Naht Han, and began attending a local mindfulness practice group in West End Brisbane.

She now resides in the Northern Rivers and sees individual clients and couples across Australia and throughout the world online and in person in Mullumbimby, Brunswick Heads, and Ocean Shoes. As “The Kinki Buddhist,” she offers a sex positive, conscious sexuality, kink friendly, LGBTQI-informed, and sensitive space for human beings of all flavors to express and explore their inner realms and their challenges in navigating this precious life. She predominantly practices from a Buddhist-based philosophy which is trauma-informed, focused on embodiment through somatic experiencing, and the constant cultivation in real time of a mindful and compassionate approach to understanding and being with our direct experiences.

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