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When considered in this context, it’s astonishing that Lykos is requesting that the FDA for the first time approve a psychotherapy process alongside a drug and asserting that the treatment is rooted in “transpersonal, spiritual teachings.”

Every provider offering MDMA-AT would be taught the transpersonal, spiritual framework offered by Grof that psychedelics are a catalyst for “inner healing intelligence” and that “focused bodywork” and “nurturing touch” can be instrumental in healing even when the patient is distressed by it.

“Psychedelics are remarkable for their potential to elicit non-ordinary states of consciousness and ability to facilitate healing through experiences of profound transpersonal and mystical states,” said Barbara Chandler, a therapist and ketamine-assisted psychotherapist based in Truckee.

It’s about data that is personal yet transpersonal.

One way to think about the future of transpersonal data comes from danah boyd, one of the anthropologists who first described networked privacy: Just as choice is not really individual in the network, harm isn’t individual, either — it happens to everyone.