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Coming Full Circle

Healing Trauma Using Psychedelics

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Coming Full Circle is a detailed, informative guide on using psychedelics to heal that is intertwined with a deeply personal memoir of the authors own journey of healing. It will empower its listeners with a greater understanding of the true potential, limitations, risks, and nuances to the process of using psychedelics to heal trauma.

With each passing year, new evidence of the immense healing potential psychedelics offer for anxiety, depression, addiction, PTSD, and more emerge from credible studies and research groups. As the excitement grows, so too does the often dangerous misinformation generated by profiteers and pseudo experts. A fierce protector of those who are utilizing psychedelics as a way to heal their emotional wounds and trauma, Shannon Duncan knows firsthand the courage, determination, and vulnerability required to approach emotional healing in this specialized way.

"Coming Full Circle comes at a time when many are considering trying psychedelics as a means to healing their trauma. This book gives an unflinching, realistic look at what treatment resistant trauma can look like and takes the reader on a journey of healing with a raw, painfully honest delivery. It's a powerful tale of healing emotional wounds and trauma with the help of psychedelics."

-Rick Doblin, PhD, (Founder and President of MAPS, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies)


"When it comes to psychedelic experiences and the management of trauma, Shannon Duncan has walked the walk. What he shares in Coming Full Circle, the result of years of direct engagement at the heart of the mystery, is both deeply healing and richly informative. Highly recommended."

- Graham Hancock, author of The Divine Spark and Fingerprints of the Gods.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 17, 2023
      This impassioned, deeply personal account of Duncan’s experience with “dedicated, guided psychedelic therapeutic work” makes a strong case for the power of what Duncan (author of Present Moment Awareness) calls “psychedelic healing.” Despite still being mostly illegal in the U.S., these drugs, he notes, have “been used as tools for entering non-ordinary states of consciousness for thousands of years.” In Shannon's case, their utility is to “open the doors within that allow true healing to be possible,” and his accounts of his experiments—both casual and later “deeper” and “intentional”—with psilocybin mushrooms, MDMA, Ketamine, and other substances point to their use in helping achieve self-love, feelings of confidence and joy, and “true, authentic growth that once earned cannot be taken away.”
      Readers who shy away from accounts of trippy, inscrutable trips should rest assured that Duncan’s writing, anecdotes, and arguments are clear-eyed and resonant, especially passages addressing how controlled therapeutic psychedelic use helped overcome his own “deeply entrenched defenses” and into wounded areas of his psyche, such as his Jungian “shadow self.” Duncan makes clear throughout that this is work not to be taken lightly, urging the participation of “a good psychedelic guide will keep you breathing, relaxing, and anchored in your body.” Still, the book abounds with surprises, such as his discovery of a desire and talent to express himself in music.
      “The interconnected webs of meaning that make up a person’s persona and define their sense of reality are far too complex for us to ever be able to predict the end results to any changes within that system,” Duncan writes. That’s both a promise and a warning. Coming Full Circle guides readers to practical, adaptable strategies—prepping for a journey, creating an atmosphere for healing, developing clear intentionality, finding a guide—for helping ensure that seekers manage any such changes arrived at during psychedelic therapy in a positive way, keeping their “gain”s. His story has power, and the hard-won advice is clear and courageous.
      Takeaway: A clear-eyed account of and guide to healing through psychedelic therapy.
      Great for fans of: Richard Louis Miller’s Psychedelic Medicine, Ayelet Waldman’s A Really Good Day.
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      Cover: B+
      Design and typography: A
      Illustrations: N/A
      Editing: A-
      Marketing copy: A-

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