Psychedelic drug retreats are becoming increasingly popular, with one Canadian retreat experiencing a 183 percent increase in bookings from 2022 to 2023.
Run by Canadian natives Gary Logan and Robert Grover, the Journeymen Collective retreat offers interested adults access to magic mushrooms.
Both men told Business Insider that “their company work[s] with a multitude of executives, entrepreneurs, and visionaries to help them elevate their businesses to ‘conscious businesses.’”
“When leaders become conscious leaders so that they’re aware of what’s going on around them, they have greater precision of thought, greater clarity, greater creativity that they can lead in a different way and they can lead in a more effective and efficient way,” Grover said.
“So that’s where we come in and help people with a massive reset of their consciousness so that they can impact their company, their boards, their vision of what they’re here to do in a deeply impactful way,” he added.
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The duo reportedly work with interested parties for at least four months, according to Insider: “one month of preparation leading up to two days of ‘ceremonies,’ followed by three months of ‘integration’ post-retreat.”
The experience reportedly costs $15,000 per person.
But according to Katrina Michelle, a clinical therapist in New York and the former director of harm reduction for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, the problem is that good vibes aren’t guaranteed.
“These medicines are not something we can necessarily have superconsistent expectations about,” she told Insider. “It’s really hard to ever say with any psychedelic medicine that this is going to have this one effect when it comes to your psycho-emotional health.”
“You could get a mushroom that has a little bit more or a little bit less psilocybin, and then you would end up having a perceptual experience, which, depending on the activity of the day, might be more than you bargained for,” she added.
Though it’s still not likely to be as bad of an experience as fear-mongers would have you believe it might be.
“People are seeing that some of the myths that have been put forward in the past — that you’re going to lose your mind, or you’re going to lose control — are completely untrue,” Grover told Fox News. “You’re going to find your mind.”
“It’s like the start of the marijuana trend that happened here in Canada,” Logan added. “People are getting exposed to it. We just want to know that the exposure they’re getting is [educated].”
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One of their clients is Derek Delost, the CEO of the graphic design company DotYeti. Speaking with Fox News, he said he sought out the retreat because he’d felt “burnt out.”
“I think plant medicines are a really powerful tool on so many different levels, and to have their perspective and guidance in terms of how it relates to your work and career … was a fantastic offering,” he said, adding that his time at the retreat helped him devise a “clear vision” for this future.
“As soon as I had that vision, things just fell into place. I was clear on what my next steps were, and opportunities started flowing. It wasn’t an overnight process, but over a number of months, I got to where I am today, which is super happy, super fulfilled … I just really feel in sync with what I’m supposed to be doing,” he explained.
He warned though that one shouldn’t just rush into this — they should do the prerequisite work.
“You still have to prepare for things, do the discoveries, do the work, do the reflection and integrate the lessons,” he said, noting that it takes four weeks of preparation at the retreat before any mushrooms are consumed.
One of the most famous drug-using businessmen in America is billionaire Elon Musk, the owner of X, SpaceX, and Tesla.
“The world’s wealthiest person has used LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, often at private parties around the world, where attendees sign nondisclosure agreements or give up their phones to enter, according to people who have witnessed his drug use and others with knowledge of it,” The Wall Street Journal reported in January.
It’s not clear though whether he’s ever attended an official magic mushroom retreat like the Journeymen Collective.
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