Swimming in the Sacred
Wisdom from the Psychedelic Underground
Swimming in the Sacred offers a revelatory look into the past half century of psychedelics use via in-depth interviews Harris conducted with women elders who have worked underground guiding sacred entheogenic journeys to cultivate insight, healing, and spiritual development.
“The women guides of the psychedelic underground have been in relationship with these medicines for decades, providing a sacred container for entheogenic journeys,” writes the book’s author Rachel Harris, PhD. “We need to hear from them now more than ever.”
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CHAPTER ONE
Out of the Silence
The book is based on in-depth interviews with fifteen women elders who have been working underground with entheogens for at least twenty years and, often, many decades more.
CHAPTER TWO
Visions From Childhood
Childhood spiritual experiences influenced many of the women elders as well as Albert Hofmann, who first synthesized LSD, and Al Hubbard, the Johnny Appleseed of LSD.
CHAPTER THREE
Becoming a Psychedelic Guide
Stories of how the women trained in years-long apprenticeships.
CHAPTER FOUR
Guidance from Unseen Others
The women elders have on-going relationships with plant teachers, ancestors, and unseen others.
CHAPTER FIVE
Visionary Realms
The women elders have worked with all the medicines at all doses for many decades. They know the territory well from their own experiences.
CHAPTER SIX
Somatic Sensing
Inner knowing in their bones confirms the intuition needed to guide entheogenic journeys.
CHAPTER SEVEN
What the Hell Is Integration, Anyway?
Psychedelic integration is extremely important and can mean almost anything.
CHAPTER EIGHT
Psychedelic Ways of Knowing
The women elders provide a sacred container for entheogenic journeys that is in contrast to the medical use of psychedelics to treat symptoms.
