Unjourneying: Nondual Psychedelic Integration with Mira Funk, LCSW

If Capital-E Enlightenment is defined as a supreme state of perfect and imperturbable bliss in this lifetime, was that the actual focus of the Buddha's spiritual path? Inspired by Kenneth Folk's reading of early Buddhism as targeting oblivion rather than bliss, I unpack 11 myths of Enlightenment and discuss their implications for the awakening process. I encourage seekers to embrace the full spectrum of their authentic emotional experience in the here and now.Mira Funk, LCSW | Unjourneying➡️ https://www.unjourneying.com🌟 https://www.patreon.com/unjourneyingRelated Resources:Deconstructing Yourself: "Masters of Oblivion with Kenneth Folk"https://open.spotify.com/episode/1zrs7fq18ZBCuaCmv0RDiX?si=a8SaWpYmRKyxDDD9fdGmhQMu: Roger "Thisdell on Centerlessness, Cessations, Defabrication, Valence, and Insight"https://open.spotify.com/episode/0laAlYPz2T9Ia44w4YiblS?si=VhGKBb9zRZWRsUnN3UHyQwHarvard's Project Implicit (Implicit Association Tests) https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html0:00 Intro – Why I'm Questioning Buddha's Enlightenment1:03 My Early Romanticized View of the Buddha3:02 The Received Western Story of the Buddha4:57 Kenneth Folk & "Masters of Oblivion" Podcast5:45 Nirvana = Cessation / Oblivion, Not Cosmic Bliss9:56 Why This Changes Everything for Western Seekers12:35 "The Buddha Is Not Your Friend" – A Darker Picture14:28 How "Enlightenment" Got Mistranslated in the West16:57 The "Sellvation" Dynamic in Spirituality20:14 Nobody Has Ever Been Enlightened (Capital E)25:00 Awakening vs. Enlightenment – My Distinction26:23 Myth 1: You're Happy All the Time / No Negative Emotions31:22 Myth 2: No Fear of Death34:36 Myth 3: No Self Whatsoever41:45 Myth 4: Seeing Reality As It Actually Is45:11 Myth 5: No Preferences or Distinctions49:45 Myth 6: No Thoughts52:01 Myth 7: Complete Centerlessness54:03 Myth 8: No Sense of Agency or Doership57:36 Myth 9: Infinite Personal Freedom1:03:36 Myth 10: Eternalism – "You Were Never Born and Will Never Die"1:08:06 Myth 11: "As It Is, Not As You Want It to Be" – Goenka & Daoism1:11:09 Car Breakdown Example – Realistic Responses to Life1:15:31 Roger Thisdell: We Are Always Suffering (Baseline Level)1:18:14 Reframing Awakening – Stop Making It About Ending Suffering1:23:28 Conclusion: Enlightenment Is a Myth – Be Human Instead1:26:55 Final ThoughtsUnjourneying is also available on YouTube.For educational purposes only.

Sharing from my experience, I outline a possible spiritual awakening trajectory through five different stages:1. Somatic Mindfulness (Vipassana)2. Nonduality3. Metamindfulness4. Unjourneying5. ???Mira Funk, LCSW | Unjourneying➡️ https://www.unjourneying.com🌟 https://www.patreon.com/unjourneying0:00 Intro & Disclaimer: This Is Just My Map1:54 Stage 1: Somatic Mindfulness (Vipassana / Body Scan)5:15 Stage 2: Non-Duality8:56 The Non-Dual "Hot Tub" Phase & Attachment11:10 Lyme Flare & the Crashing Halt12:37 Realizing Attachment to Non-Duality15:55 Stage 3: Metamindfulness (Noting Frames & Ways of Looking)19:21 Stage 4: Unjourneying20:05 Salvia Divinorum – Safety Notes & Protocol21:15 Deep Deconstruction of Doership & Free Will22:32 Dropping the Hero’s Journey (Marionette Insight)25:05 Why “Unjourneying” – Neem Karoli Baba Story & Post-Psychedelic Presence27:10 Post-Soteriological: Letting Go of Liberation as a Goal30:26 Post-Ontological: Releasing Attachment to Any Ground of Reality36:32 The Dance of What Is (No Goal, No Ultimate Truth)37:53 Stage 5: Open Future – There Are More Stages Ahead39:02 Closing ThoughtsUnjourneying is also available on YouTube.For educational purposes only.

I share what I see as the essence of my work by unpacking my Hot Stove Meditation, which includes three steps:1. Exposure therapy by intentionally welcoming in emotional distress.2. Contacting the emotional body sensations of distress using vipassana.3. Opening up into nonduality.Mira Funk, LCSW | Unjourneying➡️ https://www.unjourneying.com🌟 https://www.patreon.com/unjourneyingUnjourneying is also available on YouTube.For educational purposes only.

I'm Mira Funk, LCSW, a Harvard-educated, queer/nonbinary psychotherapist and psychedelic guide specialized in the facilitation and integration of 5-MeO-DMT retreats. Here I offer a detailed, behind-the-scenes tour of how my retreats work and what to expect, including:📋 My Safety Screening Developed in Collaboration with Dr. Ben Malcolm🧭 My Preparation and Integration Protocol✨ My Vipassana & Nondual Integration Framework🪜 Stepwise Vaporized 5-MeO-DMT for Trauma Release and Spiritual Opening⏳ Live Demonstration of The Hourglass, a Brand New Vapor Delivery System I Invented for Clients with Sensitive Lungs🌊 Extended-Release Rectal & Subcutaneous 5-MeO-DMT for Deep Psychological & Somatic ProcessingMira Funk, LCSW | Unjourneying➡️ https://www.unjourneying.com🌟 https://www.patreon.com/unjourneyingUnjourneying is also available on YouTube.For educational purposes only. The vapor that appears in this episode is VG/PG for demonstration purposes, not 5-MeO-DMT.

I describe the process of working with me from beginning to end. The process begins with a 50-minute initial consultation. The client and I then agree on a retreat date and on an appropriate number of pre- and post-integration sessions.I recommend at least 5 pre-integration sessions and 1 post-integration session.Here is a breakdown of the session content:1. Biopsychosocial Intake2. Safety & Logistics3. Hot Stove Vipassana Meditation4. Floating in Space Nondual Meditation5. Ocean of Love Nondual Meditation6. Processing the RetreatI also discuss the different medicines I serve—5-MeO-DMT, N,N-DMT, and salvia divinorum—and the different retreat formats that are possible with these medicines. Each medicine has a short-acting vaporized route of administration as well as an extended release route. There's rectal 5-MeO-DMT, analog ayahuasca, and buccal salvia divinorum. Btw, apparently buccal is actually pronounced "buckle" not "boo-kle," oops! :-) After completing a retreat with me, you become eligible to join my Unjourneying Circle, an online psychedelic integration group that meets every two weeks over Zoom. You also can participate in my group retreats.Mira Funk, LCSW | Unjourneying➡️ https://www.unjourneying.com🌟 https://www.patreon.com/unjourneyingUnjourneying is also available on YouTube.For educational purposes only.

I share the top six reasons that clients in my practice seek out psychedelic experiences:1. Emotional Healing2. Spiritual Insight3. Neuroplasticity4. Exploring Consciousness5. Connection to Nature and Loved Ones6. Physical and Neurological HealingMira Funk, LCSW | Unjourneying➡️ https://www.unjourneying.com🌟 https://www.patreon.com/unjourneyingUnjourneying is also available on YouTube.For educational purposes only.

Psychotherapist and psychedelic guide Mira Funk, LCSW, defines terms commonly used in her practice. She offers an experiential definition of nonduality based on a lucid dreaming analogy from Tibetan dream yoga. Then she draws inspiration from Adyashanti for outlining psychedelic integration and nondual integration in particular. Finally, she distinguishes between what it means to journey and unjourney with psychedelics such as 5-MeO-DMT, ayahuasca, and salvia divinorum.Mira Funk, LCSW | Unjourneying➡️ https://www.unjourneying.com🌟 https://www.patreon.com/unjourneyingUnjourneying is also available on YouTube.For educational purposes only.

In this introductory episode, Mira Funk, LCSW, shares the story of her background and how she came to be a queer, nonbinary psychedelic therapist and guide. In her childhood, she experienced medical trauma with a febrile seizure, Lyme disease, and babesiosis. During a bout of depression while at Harvard, she took a leave of absence and lived on a farm in New Hampshire, where she first encountered Zen Buddhism in the Kwan Um tradition. She eventually traveled to Korea to live at a Kwan Um monastery called Musangsa, where she experienced relief from her existential angst.After a short-lived career in the arts, she went to social work school and became a mindfulness-based therapist. However, something was still missing. Everything changed when she did her first mushroom trip and had a direct taste of nonduality, especially as described in the Mahamudra and Dzogchen traditions. She felt inspired to go deeper with psychedelics, exploring 5-MeO-DMT, ayahuasca, and salvia divinorum. The healing and insight she received were so transformative that she resolved to devote her life to helping others through their psychedelic experiences.Her own journey took some unexpected twists and turns when she experienced neuroinflammatory flare-ups on lion's mane mushrooms. Her difficulties led to her gender and sexual identity shift, and also prompted her to work with psychedelics in a new way she called "unjourneying," inspired by Ram Dass's guru Neem Karoli Baba, who supposedly experienced no psychoactive effects on LSD. Mira started actively meditating while taking psychedelics and discovered diminished effects and more profound mindfulness integration.Another surprise happened when all serotonergic psychedelics started causing flare-ups. After extensive medical testing, she discovered that she has Lyme, babesiosis, and mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS). She decided to personally work only with salvia divinorum until her condition improves with medication. She found that unjourneying with salvia induces insights that feel orthogonal to nonduality, presenting a radical happeningness that deconstructs the illusion of free will and the very possibility of spiritual practice.Mira Funk, LCSW | Unjourneying➡️ https://www.unjourneying.com🌟 https://www.patreon.com/unjourneyingUnjourneying is also available on YouTube.For educational purposes only.