

Spore is inspired by the connection between psilocybin and healing the brain from Post Traumatic Stress Injury (PTSI). The terminology PTSD is both outmoded as well as inaccurate. The difference in word choice between disorder vs. injury may seem insignificant, but it is the difference between disability vs. certainty of hope.
The brain can heal.
Childhood trauma, substance addiction, combat-impact related injuries, social alienation wounds, can be healed with psilocybin. Important work is being done by Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research (Dr. Matthew Johnson) and by UCSF School of Medicine (Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris). Michael Pollan’s exceptional book “How to Change Your Mind” is perhaps the most thorough introductory overview.
Humans are a social species, with a portion of our sanity outsourced to friends, family, and to a certain extent cultural figures. The people we choose to include in our lives form a network of nodes, with whom we share thoughts and perceptions in an effort to determine reality. The narratives we agree upon form in part the reality of our individual lived experience. When nodes in our societal network become emotionally dysregulated, survival itself may be threatened.
Healing begins with self.
These tiny spores, capable of surviving the intense cold vacuum of space and germinating into psychedelic mushrooms, provide the gift of insight. Perhaps most importantly the gift of connection.



