In my early years of training and work as a clinical psychologist, I spent countless hours in psychiatric hospitals and outpatient clinics. Again and again, I saw patients cycle in and out of care. Medications were adjusted, symptoms eased for a time, and then — relapse. The same faces, the same suffering. It became…

Many wisdom traditions agree: our inner world is not separate from the outer one, but a reflection of it, a mirror. What we resist within, we encounter outside. What we integrate within, we find reflected in life. This mirror becomes most clear in moments of expanded awareness — meditation, psychedelics, or profound spiritual practice.…