Alexandre Porto
1 min readDec 12, 2020

James, I admire your work.

Really good read and it fits what I was telling my partner just yesterday:

Psychedelic research is in need of a more precise scientific language code.

Reading the book The psychedelic explorer's guide: safe, therapeutic, and sacred journeys. Dr. James Fadiman. I missed a precise documentation of the long-term effects of psychedelic use.

Not only that, the entire documentation of the scientific researches used as reference in the book just missed some objectivity.

I don't know yet how to put into words, but to synthesize it, it seems to me that we need to develop a new vocabulary to express the mental landscape that surfaces when the human body metabolizes the psychedelic substance.

Not only this, but we also need to develop a scientific code to quantify the abstract short and long-term effects of the psychedelic journey.

What is your opinion and how do we overcome this?

Alexandre Porto

Pieces of the integral man. Specialist in the responsible use of psychedelics. https://t.me/perrella