Meet the Psychedelic Boom’s First Responders
Everything was insane and fine.
一切都既疯狂又美好。
The walls had begun to bend, the grain in the floorboards was starting to run.
墙壁开始弯曲，地板上的纹理开始流动。
Jeff Greenberg's body had blown apart into particles, pleasantly so.
杰夫·格林伯格的尸体被炸成颗粒，令人愉快。
When he closed his eyes, chrysanthemums blossomed.
当他闭上眼睛时，菊花就开了。
A tech executive of 54, Greenberg had eaten 5 grams of psychedelic mushrooms that afternoon.
格林伯格是一位 54 岁的科技高管，那天下午吃了 5 克迷幻蘑菇。
He, like your cousin and your coworker and maybe you yourself, had discovered in recent years the world-expanding powers of psilocybin .
他和你的表弟、你的同事，或许还有你自己一样，近年来发现了裸盖菇素在世界范围内扩展的力量。
But world expansion can be dicey.
但世界扩张可能充满风险。
At some point that afternoon, Greenberg's thoughts took a dark turn, and soon dark melted into horrifying.
那天下午的某个时刻，格林伯格的思绪发生了黑暗的转变，很快黑暗就变成了恐怖。
The psychiatrist Stanislav Grof called psychedelics “nonspecific amplifiers” of the psyche.
精神病学家斯坦尼斯拉夫·格罗夫（Stanislav Grof）将迷幻药称为心灵的“非特异性放大器”。
Any thoughts, feelings, or memories on hand are subject to unplanned wild magnification.
手头上的任何想法、感受或记忆都会受到无计划的疯狂放大。
Frequently that results in a thrillingly revelatory experience.
这通常会带来令人兴奋的启示性体验。
Occasionally it toggles over into indescribable terror, which in turn comes in many flavors: Paranoia.
有时它会转变为难以形容的恐惧，而恐惧又具有多种形式：偏执狂。
Ghastly hallucinations.
可怕的幻觉。
Intense grief.
强烈的悲伤。
Fear of insanity, fear of death.
害怕疯狂，害怕死亡。
Greenberg thought of his puppy.
格林伯格想到了他的小狗。
He and his ex-wife shared it from when they'd been married, and now a memory came tumbling out of some corner of his mind: One day, in the aftermath of the divorce, he'd dropped off the dog with his former father-in-law.
他和前妻结婚时就分享过这件事，现在，一段记忆从他脑海的某个角落翻滚而出：有一天，离婚后，他把狗交给了他的前岳父。
The two had always enjoyed a friendly relationship, but once the handoff was complete, the older man had slammed the door in his face.
两人的关系一直很友好，但交接完成后，年长的男人当着他的面摔上了门。
This article appears in the Jul/Aug 2023 issue.
本文发表在 2023 年 7 月/8 月号中。
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Illustration: Vivek Thakker And now it wouldn't stop slamming.
插图：Vivek Thakker 现在它不会停止撞击。
How had he done something so awful that a fellow human would slam a door on him after being handed a puppy?
他怎么会做出如此可怕的事情，以至于人类同胞在递给他一只小狗后会摔上门来打他？
A dam burst.
大坝决堤了。
The difficult elements of Greenberg's life—family, career, parenting—began exploding in dark technicolor.
格林伯格生活中的困难元素——家庭、事业、养育子女——开始以黑色的色彩爆发出来。
What had happened?
发生了什么事？
Who was he?
他是谁？
He felt the mushrooms clamping his head in front of a massive screen showing the movie of his life.
他感觉到蘑菇将他的头夹在正在播放他一生电影的大屏幕前。
According to his Fitbit, his heart rate spiked from 90-something to 150.
根据他的 Fitbit 设备显示，他的心率从 90 左右飙升至 150。
Greenberg was looping.
格林伯格正在循环播放。
Passing thoughts became black holes clawing him to untold depths, playing and replaying in a mad, warping whirlpool.
一闪而过的念头变成了黑洞，将他抓向难以言喻的深处，在疯狂、扭曲的漩涡中不断地播放着。
Tricks that would have typically changed the channel—classical music, a splash of water to the face, waiting it out, crying it out—had no effect.
通常可以改变频道的技巧——古典音乐、往脸上泼水、等待它结束、大声喊出来——没有效果。
Worst of all, he had no help.
最糟糕的是，他没有任何帮助。
This wasn't a guided journey, after all, just a man alone in his house, losing his mind.
毕竟，这不是一次有导游带领的旅程，只是一个人独自呆在家里，失去了理智。
Who do you call in such a state?
在这种状态下你还叫谁呢？
Who could possibly understand this otherworldly misery with its indescribable new dimensions, its billowing revelations, its slithering dream logic?
谁能理解这种超凡脱俗的痛苦及其难以形容的新维度、滚滚的启示、滑行的梦境逻辑？
Of course, Indigenous communities spent thousands of years mastering that very stuff: the understanding, the preparation, the support structures that help make a brain-exploding experience positive.
当然，原住民社区花了数千年的时间来掌握这些东西：理解、准备和支持结构，这些都有助于使大脑爆炸的体验变得积极。
But Western culture, having gotten its hands on these substances, showed little interest in that wisdom—at least until recently.
但西方文化在掌握了这些物质后，对这种智慧并没有表现出多少兴趣——至少直到最近是这样。
By chance, Greenberg found himself in one of those rare moments when the cultural plates begin to shift.
一次偶然的机会，格林伯格发现自己正处于文化板块开始转变的罕见时刻之一。
In response to the growth of psychedelics, a new figure has emerged on the psychic landscape.
为了应对迷幻剂的增长，精神景观中出现了一个新的人物。
Call them psychedelic first responders, versed in the science of existential first aid and operating, at times, apart from the traditional sphere of psychiatrists and therapists.
称他们为迷幻的急救人员，精通存在急救和操作科学，有时脱离了传统的精神病学家和治疗师领域。
Where once you might take a free CPR class on a Saturday, you now can learn to escort the addled through the thickets of their own heads.
曾经你可能会在周六参加免费的心肺复苏课程，但现在你可以学会护送那些头脑混乱的人穿过他们自己头脑的丛林。
So it was that, in a fleeting instant of lucidity, Greenberg remembered to reach into his pocket.
就这样，在转瞬即逝的清醒瞬间，格林伯格记得把手伸进口袋。
I'm not here to herald the current psychedelic boom; it's been heralded.
我来这里并不是为了预示当前迷幻剂的繁荣；它已经被预示了。
What interests me is something that gets discussed far less often: the horrific and sometimes life-altering experiences many of those people will have.
我感兴趣的是一些很少被讨论的事情：许多人将经历可怕的、有时甚至改变生活的经历。
What do we do with that?
我们用它做什么？
I don't mean to sound alarmist.
我并不是要危言耸听。
Skiers sometimes smack into trees, and I still consider theirs a worthwhile activity.
滑雪者有时会撞到树上，但我仍然认为这是一项值得的活动。
But mountains have ski patrols.
但山区有滑雪巡逻队。
The help available to someone spinning out on psychedelics has historically been limited.
历史上，对迷幻药迷恋者所能提供的帮助是有限的。
Moreover, despite the popularity of using these substances with a professional guide, a shaman, or on an organized retreat, most won't.
此外，尽管在专业指导、萨满或有组织的静修中使用这些物质很受欢迎，但大多数人不会。
The majority of journeys are unsupervised and unsupported—at a concert, at a party, at home reeling from a puppy-based memory.
大多数旅程都是无人监督和支持的——在音乐会上、在聚会上、在家里，沉浸在小狗的记忆中。
One summer night 20-plus years ago, a friend and I ate a goodly amount of mushrooms.
二十多年前的一个夏夜，我和一位朋友吃了很多蘑菇。
The idea had been to peel back a few layers, behold unfamiliar vistas, and generally become unstuck in our perceptions.
我们的想法是剥开几层，看到陌生的远景，并普遍摆脱我们的看法。
It worked!
成功了！
In Frontiers in Pharmacology terms, the reduction of my serotonergic control, ascendance of my dopaminergic system, and expansion of functional connectivity in my primary visual cortex was “producing a more unified brain, with connections between disparate regions that normally lack communication with each other.” For the first hour I created the universe anew.
用《药理学前沿》的术语来说，我的血清素能控制的减少、多巴胺能系统的增强以及初级视觉皮层功能连接的扩展正在“产生一个更加统一的大脑，在通常彼此缺乏沟通的不同区域之间建立联系。”第一个小时我重新创造了宇宙。
Vast processions scrolled through my mind, as ornate and elaborate as Chartres.
浩瀚的游行队伍在我脑海中盘旋，就像沙特尔一样华丽而精致。
Then, and with apologies for being 22 at the time, I slipped into what I can only call a post-structuralist crisis.
然后，带着对当时 22 岁的歉意，我陷入了我只能称之为后结构主义危机的境地。
The world, suddenly, was a hollow facade of itself.
突然之间，世界变成了一个空心的表面。
I suppose some residue of college was working itself out: For four years I'd poked recklessly at ideas and traditions and constructs with no regard for consequences; now, staggering around Lower Manhattan, I saw the flimsy Potemkin reality I'd been so eager to expose, entire ecosystems of meaning drained of substance.
我想大学的一些残余正在自行解决：四年来，我鲁莽地研究思想、传统和结构，不考虑后果；现在，在曼哈顿下城摇摇晃晃地走来走去，我看到了我一直渴望揭露的脆弱的波将金现实，整个意义的生态系统都被耗尽了实质内容。
At some point my friend and I made it back to the apartment I shared with my girlfriend.
在某个时候，我和我的朋友回到了我和女朋友合住的公寓。
For the next God-knows-how-long, the poor woman assured me the stories in my head were chemical-induced delusions—nightmares, essentially.
在接下来的天知道多久的时间里，那个可怜的女人向我保证，我脑子里的故事都是化学物质引起的错觉——本质上是噩梦。
I lay on my rooftop a long time, willing my sanity to return.
我在屋顶上躺了很长时间，希望自己的理智能够恢复。
But it never did.
但它从来没有这样做过。
Kidding!
开玩笑！
I'm fine!
我很好！
By dawn I had fully returned to consensus reality.
黎明时分，我完全回到了共识现实。
I was unspeakably grateful.
我心里有说不出的感激。
Only later, in the months and years that followed, did I realize I had feelings besides relief.
直到后来，在接下来的几个月和几年里，我才意识到除了宽慰之外，我还有其他感受。
A kind of irresolution began to haunt me.
一种犹豫不决的感觉开始困扰着我。
Why were those ideas so scary?
为什么这些想法如此可怕？
What unresolved concerns were trying to surface in my cretin mind?
哪些未解决的问题试图在我的白痴脑海中浮现？
Terrifying as the ordeal had been, it had undeniably contained information—the kind you don't get access to every day.
尽管这场磨难令人恐惧，但不可否认的是，它包含了你每天都无法接触到的信息。
Instead of willing the nightmare to end, what if I'd somehow pushed through?
我不想让噩梦结束，如果我能以某种方式挺过去怎么办？
Which brings me back to Greenberg.
这让我回到了格林伯格。
The day before his trip, he'd downloaded an app he'd seen mentioned somewhere.
在旅行的前一天，他下载了一个他在某处看到的应用程序。
Called Fireside Project, it billed itself as a “psychedelic peer support line,” reachable by phone or text.
它被称为“炉边项目”，将自己标榜为“迷幻的同伴支持热线”，可以通过电话或短信联系。
Now, fishing out his phone, he managed to hit the call button.
现在，他拿出手机，按下了通话按钮。
What happened next was life-changing, Greenberg told me.
格林伯格告诉我，接下来发生的事情改变了我的生活。
A volunteer named Jasmine picked up the phone.
一位名叫茉莉花的志愿者接起了电话。
Immediately she emitted a gentle, knowledgeable, and grounded vibe.
立刻就散发出一种温柔、知识渊博、脚踏实地的气质。
She didn't try to distract him from his anguish or minimize it.
她并没有试图分散他的痛苦或减轻他的痛苦。
On the contrary, she validated what he was feeling and gave him permission to explore his pain further.
相反，她证实了他的感受，并允许他进一步探索他的痛苦。
“Very quickly she turned it into something I felt that I could go through,” he said.
“她很快就把它变成了我觉得我可以经历的事情，”他说。
Greenberg spoke with Jasmine for nearly an hour and a half, then called again later, as the crisis softened into something more like curiosity.
格林伯格与茉莉花聊了近一个半小时，随后又打来电话，因为危机已经缓和，变成了好奇心。
With her help, his angst metabolized into a searing peek under the hood.
在她的帮助下，他的焦虑转化为对引擎盖下灼热的窥视。
Where before he'd felt abject terror, he now saw an invitation to make real changes in his life.
之前他感到极度恐惧，现在他看到了对他的生活做出真正改变的邀请。
I set out to learn about the Jasmines of the world, and the burgeoning movement they belong to.
我开始了解世界各地的茉莉花，以及它们所属的新兴运动。
But as I looked into the Fireside Project and similar operations, I watched a slightly different story come into focus.
但当我研究炉边项目和类似的行动时，我发现一个略有不同的故事成为焦点。
In the emergence of this new citizen tripsitter is a broader story about how we've historically conceived of wellness, how we conceive of suffering—and how we respond to our own minds when they venture off course.
这位新公民旅行者的出现讲述了一个更广泛的故事，讲述了我们在历史上如何构想健康，如何构想痛苦，以及当我们的思想冒险偏离轨道时我们如何应对。
Historically, the options available to someone in rough shape ranged from indifference to county lockup.
从历史上看，身体状况不佳的人可以选择的范围从漠不关心到县拘留所。
To the extent that anyone attempted to alleviate such psychic distress, efforts centered around obliteration.
就任何人试图减轻这种精神痛苦而言，努力都集中在消除上。
Such was the mindset on a rainy Friday in 1969, when a soggy battalion of medical workers began fanning out across Max Yasgur's upstate New York farm.
这就是 1969 年一个下雨的星期五的心态，当时一群浑身湿透的医务人员开始在马克斯·亚斯古尔 (Max Yasgur) 纽约州北部的农场里散开。
Acid had already become a feature of festivals.
酸已经成为节日的一个特色。
(At San Francisco's Human Be-In two years earlier, Owsley “Bear” Stanley famously distributed some 300,000 tabs of white lightning to the crowd.) But Woodstock promised all new levels.
（两年前，在旧金山的 Human Be-In 音乐节上，奥斯利“熊”斯坦利向观众分发了大约 300,000 张白色闪电标签。）但伍德斯托克承诺所有新级别。
So the medical workers came armed with Thorazine, a powerful antipsychotic that resolves a frightening drug experience much as a ballistic missile resolves a ground skirmish.
因此，医务人员携带了氯嗪嗪，这是一种强效抗精神病药物，可以解决可怕的药物体验，就像弹道导弹解决地面冲突一样。
Enter Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farmers, swooping in from their New Mexico commune to provide security for the event.
波维·肉汁和养猪户从他们的新墨西哥公社突袭而来，为活动提供安全保障。
Over the next three days, at trip tents and in the wet grass, the Hog Farmers practiced a radical new approach.
在接下来的三天里，养猪户在旅行帐篷和潮湿的草地上实践了一种全新的方法。
Rather than arrest or medicate people having difficult drug experiences, they simply talked to them—distracted them, soothed them, gently reeled them back to earth.
他们没有逮捕那些经历过毒品问题的人，也没有给他们提供药物治疗，而是简单地与他们交谈——分散他们的注意力，安抚他们，轻轻地把他们拉回现实。
To the Thorazine crowd, it must've seemed like chatting someone out of cancer.
对于Thorazine 人群来说，这肯定就像是在与癌症患者聊天。
According to the Journal of Emergency Medical Services, some 797 trippers were treated that weekend.
据《紧急医疗服务杂志》报道，那个周末约有 797 名旅客接受了治疗。
Woodstock became a template for psychedelic harm reduction.
伍德斯托克音乐节成为减少迷幻药危害的模板。
In the years that followed, at concerts and gatherings and in 4 million Dead parking lots, “talking someone down” became standard operating procedure.
在接下来的几年里，在音乐会和聚会上，以及在 400 万个 Dead 停车场，“劝说某人”成为标准操作程序。
Compared to previous approaches, it was so humane that nobody gave much thought to where it fell short.
与之前的做法相比，它是如此人性化，以至于没有人去思考它的不足之处。
Start peeling back the evolution of tripsitting and pretty soon you're looking at larger shifts.
开始回顾旅行出行的演变，很快你就会看到更大的转变。
Where once the benefits of these substances were relegated to some questionably spiritual plane, emerging research has shown measurable—and often remarkable—therapeutic benefits.
这些物质的益处一度被归入某些值得怀疑的精神层面，但新兴的研究已经显示出可测量的——而且往往是显着的——治疗益处。
As the value of a psychedelic journey came to be reassessed, so too was the impulse to curtail an unpleasant one.
随着迷幻之旅的价值被重新评估，减少不愉快旅程的冲动也随之被重新评估。
Forty-three years after Woodstock, at Burning Man, a cardboard yurt appeared on the sun-baked Playa.
伍德斯托克音乐节四十三年后，在火人节上，一座纸板蒙古包出现在阳光炙烤的海滩上。
Inside the structure—shady, fabric-draped, benches here and there—psychedelic harm-reduction history was lurching forward again, with the first official iteration of Zendo Project.
在这座建筑内部——阴凉的、布满布料的、到处都是长凳——随着 Zendo 项目的第一次正式迭代，迷幻减害历史再次向前推进。
To the untrained eye, the volunteers sitting with distraught Burners were delivering a familiar form of harm reduction—a safe, nonjudgmental alternative to whatever the cops or medical tent would offer.
在未经训练的人看来，与心烦意乱的燃烧者坐在一起的志愿者正在提供一种熟悉的减少伤害形式——一种安全、不带偏见的替代警察或医疗帐篷所能提供的服务。
But Zendo, an initiative of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a research and advocacy nonprofit, didn't want to talk these trippers down.
但 Zendo 是一个研究和宣传非营利组织迷幻研究多学科协会 (MAPS) 的一项倡议，并不想说服这些旅行者。
Central to its mission was a respect for the journey, however challenging.
其使命的核心是尊重这段旅程，无论它多么充满挑战。
To quote one of Zendo's guiding pillars, “Difficult is not necessarily bad.”
引用 Zendo 的指导原则之一：“困难并不一定是坏事。”
At this point, maybe you've noticed my labored avoidance of the phrase “bad trip.” Those words have fallen out of favor in psychedelic circles, as research shows that even the most challenging journeys can lead to positive outcomes.
此时，也许您已经注意到我费力地回避了“糟糕的旅行”这个词。这些词在迷幻界已经失宠，因为研究表明，即使是最具挑战性的旅程也能带来积极的结果。
Minor semantic shift, fairly radical idea.
微小的语义转变，相当激进的想法。
Kelley O'Donnell is the director of clinical training at the NYU Langone Center for Psychedelic Medicine.
凯利·奥唐纳 (Kelley O'Donnell) 是纽约大学兰贡迷幻医学中心的临床培训主任。
As she characterized the new thinking to me: Achieving those positive outcomes means leaning into the experience, pleasant or otherwise.
正如她向我描述的新想法：实现这些积极的成果意味着要专注于这种体验，无论是愉快的还是其他的。
Otherwise can come in many forms, per the Zendo training manual, from reliving traumas to identifying with the victimization of others throughout history.
根据 Zendo 培训手册，其他方式可以有多种形式，从重温创伤到认同历史上他人的受害者。
Some merge with nature and experience pollution or the death of a species acutely.
有些人与自然融为一体，并严重经历污染或物种死亡。
Many just think they've lost their minds.
许多人只是认为自己失去了理智。
Through active listening and a gentle reassurance that the experience will pass, the idea is to calm the trippers enough that they might be able to explore those nightmares.
通过积极倾听和温和地保证这段经历将会过去，我们的想法是让旅行者足够平静，以便他们能够探索那些噩梦。
Rather than talk them down, talk them through .
与其说服他们，不如说服他们。
“He would run, and then drop to the ground and not move.
“他会跑，然后倒在地上一动不动。
Then he'd leap up and exclaim, ‘I'm alive.’ Again and again he did this,” says Chelsea Rose Pires, Zendo's executive director.
然后他会跳起来大喊：‘我还活着。’他一次又一次地这样做，”Zendo 的执行董事切尔西·罗斯·皮雷斯 (Chelsea Rose Pires) 说道。
“Finally we were able to explore what was going on, and he was able to talk about his childhood and his fear of dying.”
“最后我们能够探索发生了什么，他能够谈论他的童年和他对死亡的恐惧。”
Rule #1, under any condition, is that we honor and respect the person having the crisis.
规则第一条，在任何情况下，我们都尊重并尊重遭遇危机的人。
Even if we don't understand what's happening (the person having the crisis might be much more developed than we are, lost in worlds unknown to us, or reliving a drama we can't comprehend), we serve as an anchor, a resting place, and a quiet center …
即使我们不了解正在发生的事情（遇到危机的人可能比我们成熟得多，迷失在我们未知的世界中，或者重温一场我们无法理解的戏剧），我们也可以充当锚点、休息场所和安静的中心……
We have to remember that tens of millions of people have used psychedelics, in many different, sometimes not very supportive, environments, and returned home safely.
我们必须记住，数以千万计的人在许多不同的、有时不太支持的环境中使用过迷幻药，并安全返回家中。
With support, knowledge, and integrative work there is very little danger in the psychedelic experience itself.
有了支持、知识和综合工作，迷幻体验本身就没有什么危险。
Even the most frightening and bizarre behavior, when explored and worked with, will turn out to be beneficial and enlightening.
即使是最可怕和最奇怪的行为，经过探索和处理，也会变得有益和有启发性。
A longtime lawyer in the San Francisco City Attorney's Office, as well as a volunteer at a local parenting support hotline, White had an eye for undernoticed communities not getting the help they need.
怀特是旧金山市检察官办公室的长期律师，也是当地育儿支持热线的志愿者，他关注那些未被注意到的社区，没有得到他们需要的帮助。
He knew that more people were using psychedelics, he understood the outsize power these drugs wielded—and he knew that good support was not only hard to find but often inaccessible.
他知道越来越多的人在使用致幻剂，他了解这些药物所具有的巨大威力，而且他知道良好的支持不仅很难找到，而且往往难以获得。
(This is particularly true for those left out of the psychedelic movement in decades past.
（对于过去几十年被排除在迷幻运动之外的人来说尤其如此。
To that end, the organization committed to offering “identity-based integration support,” connecting any caller who is BIPOC, transgender, or a military veteran with a volunteer who shares that identity.) In April 2021, Fireside Project started answering phone calls—lots of them.
为此，该组织致力于提供“基于身份的整合支持”，将任何 BIPOC、跨性别者或退伍军人的呼叫者与具有相同身份的志愿者联系起来。）2021 年 4 月，Fireside Project 开始接听电话——数量很多。
Hanifa Nayo Washington, an equity and training adviser at Fireside, describes a general sense of alienation behind the boom.
Fireside 的股权和培训顾问哈尼法·纳约·华盛顿 (Hanifa Nayo Washington) 描述了繁荣背后的普遍疏离感。
“People are really suffering from disconnection, from being alone and not having a community to talk with,” she told me.
“人们确实正在遭受与脱节、孤独和没有可以交谈的社区的痛苦，”她告诉我。
That first year, Fireside trained more than 100 volunteers and conducted some 2,550 conversations with callers—including Greenberg.
第一年，Fireside 培训了 100 多名志愿者，并与包括格林伯格在内的来电者进行了约 2,550 次对话。
Within months of reaching Jasmine, he had walked away from his job (and psychedelically high salary) to focus on work “that adds value to the universe.” Eventually he got on the phone with Fireside again—this time not to ask for help but to offer it.
到达茉莉花后的几个月内，他辞去了工作（以及令人迷幻的高薪），专注于“为宇宙增加价值”的工作。最终，他再次与 Fireside 通了电话——这次不是寻求帮助，而是主动提供帮助。
By the time we spoke, he'd donated $100,000 and was poised to start as the organization's CTO, working for free.
当我们谈话时，他已经捐赠了 10 万美元，并准备开始担任该组织的首席技术官，免费工作。
There's a fairly obvious point I should make, maybe one that sometimes gets lost: While exceedingly rare, psychedelics can cause serious harm.
我应该提出一个相当明显的观点，也许有时会被迷失：虽然极其罕见，但迷幻药可能会造成严重伤害。
A family history of mental illness can propel someone into a psychotic episode.
精神疾病家族史可能会促使某人陷入精神病发作。
And the symptoms of a trip can potentially obscure a simultaneous medical crisis.
旅行的症状可能会掩盖同时发生的医疗危机。
A 2022 lawsuit found MAPS partially responsible for the death of Baylee Gatlin, who received care from Zendo volunteers at a music festival in 2017 and later died from organ failure and heat stroke.
2022 年的一项诉讼发现，MAPS 对 Baylee Gatlin 的死亡负有部分责任。Baylee Gatlin 于 2017 年在音乐节上接受 Zendo 志愿者的护理，后来死于器官衰竭和中暑。
“What this movement is doing is absolutely helpful for many people,” says Charles Nemeroff, codirector of the Center for Psychedelic Research & Therapy at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin.
德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校戴尔医学院迷幻研究与治疗中心联席主任查尔斯·内梅罗夫 (Charles Nemeroff) 表示：“这项运动所做的事情对很多人来说绝对有帮助。”
But while the “vast number of case reports would suggest that these substances are relatively safe,” he adds, we're still in the data-gathering phase.
但他补充道，尽管“大量病例报告表明这些物质相对安全”，但我们仍处于数据收集阶段。
For her part, O'Donnell calls the harm-reduction approach “incredibly valuable.” She also cautions that a single session with even a well-trained tripsitter won't necessarily be enough for someone whose past trauma is suddenly surfacing, or who is otherwise having a deeply disturbing experience.
就奥唐纳而言，她称这种减少伤害的方法“非常有价值”。她还警告说，对于那些过去的创伤突然浮现出来的人，或者那些正在经历令人深感不安的经历的人来说，即使是训练有素的旅行承办者的一次治疗也不一定足够。
The stakes, Nemeroff notes, are even higher than any one individual's well-being.
内梅罗夫指出，其中的风险甚至高于任何个人的福祉。
“What none of us want to have happen is that the unregulated use of psychedelics lead to tragedies, which then will result in a backlash,” he says.
他说：“我们谁都不希望发生的是，不受监管地使用致幻剂会导致悲剧，进而引发强烈抵制。”
“It's been so long since we've been able to actually study psychedelics.”
“我们已经很久没有真正研究迷幻药了。”
For now, there seems little danger of reversing our interest in psychedelics.
目前看来，我们对迷幻药的兴趣似乎还没有什么逆转的危险。
Sara Gael, a harm reduction officer at MAPS, describes a societal inflection point behind the current psychedelic renaissance.
MAPS 的减害官员萨拉·盖尔 (Sara Gael) 描述了当前迷幻复兴背后的社会转折点。
As waves of dysfunction—economic despair, climate change, white supremacy—have surfaced in recent years, people have increasingly looked to these substances to turn the prism on their worlds.
近年来，随着经济衰退、气候变化、白人至上等一系列功能障碍的出现，人们越来越多地依靠这些物质来观察他们的世界。
All of this makes me wonder about the real essence of the psychedelic peer support movement.
所有这些让我想知道迷幻同伴支持运动的真正本质。
It is, of course, a movement specific to these substances, rooted in a specific context: a time when drug policy remains insistently retrograde and official support systems have crumbled.
当然，这是一场针对这些物质的运动，植根于特定的背景：毒品政策持续倒退、官方支持系统崩溃的时代。
But maybe it's also more than that.
但也许还不止于此。
Jail, Thorazine, Wavy Gravy, Zendo: As nodes on an arc, these represent a decades-long, mostly underground evolution in how we understand a very particular species of psychic distress, but also in how we help one another at a more general level.
Jail、Thorazine、Wavy Gravy、Zendo：作为弧上的节点，这些代表了长达数十年的、主要是地下的演变，涉及我们如何理解一种非常特殊的精神痛苦，也涉及我们如何在更普遍的层面上互相帮助。
Pires told me that the principles behind contemporary psychedelic peer support apply to regular life too—she uses some of those same skills with her kids.
皮雷斯告诉我，当代迷幻同伴支持背后的原则也适用于日常生活——她在孩子们身上使用了一些相同的技能。
Slow down.
减速。
Offer calm.
提供冷静。
Let feelings arise .
让感情产生。
Maybe good tripsitting isn't all that different from being a good partner, a good friend, a good relative.
也许良好的旅行与成为一个好伙伴、好朋友、好亲戚没有什么不同。
And maybe one day we'll look back and be struck by this era—not so much by our growing interest in these substances, but our shifting understanding of ourselves in their midst.
也许有一天，当我们回顾过去时，会被这个时代所震惊——与其说是因为我们对这些物质日益增长的兴趣，不如说是因为我们在它们之中对自己的理解发生了转变。
This article appears in the Jul/Aug 2023 issue.
本文发表在 2023 年 7 月/8 月号中。
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