Essay

I Didn’t Write a Psychedelic Book. I Wrote an Orientation.

Why A Field Guide to the Experience exists — and what it refuses to be.

Chelsea M. Thacker · January 27, 2026

Why A Field Guide to the Experience exists — and what it refuses to be.

This earlier essay is still published on Medium. This page holds its place in Living Terrain, where it connects to the rest of the work.

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