The Tao of Psychedelics
About this ebook
Structured around 120 Taoist-style reflections — 60 before the psychedelic experience and 60 after — this book invites you into presence, psychological flexibility, and deep inner listening. Every reading is a daily companion that prepares your heart, your body, and your mind to engage fully with the medicine — and to live meaningfully in its wake.
In the preparation phase, these short poetic chapters help you quiet the noise, soften control, clarify intention, and grow the internal skills that matter most: awareness, openness, and embodied presence. In the integration phase, they offer grounding insight and emotional honesty — guiding you to stay connected with what you discovered, long after the ceremony ends.
Whether you’re preparing for your first psychedelic experience or integrating your tenth, The Tao of Psychedelics offers a rare kind of support: not advice, but wisdom. Not instruction, but invitation. Not certainty, but alignment.
Each entry draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, somatic psychology, and Taoist paradox — while staying grounded in nature, humility, and the universal rhythms of transformation. You’ll find yourself breathing deeper, noticing more, and stepping back into your life with a sense of rooted clarity.
This book stands powerfully on its own — but when paired with Psychedelic Preparation Workbook: Sixty Days to Engagement and Psychedelic Integration Workbook: Sixty-Day Journal & Transcendence Blueprint, it becomes part of a complete system to prepare, engage, and integrate with intention, courage, and grace.
If you're seeking not just a trip, but a transformation — The Tao of Psychedelics is your guide.
About the author
G. Scott Graham is an existential handyman — fixing what’s broken, realigning what’s off-kilter, and helping people rebuild their lives with meaning, purpose, and the occasional strip of duct tape. He’s also an author, career coach, business coach, and psychedelic support coach based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Scott is driven to help clients follow their “true azimuth” — a direction distinct from “true north.” It’s not about chasing some universal ideal. It’s about identifying what genuinely matters to you. It’s about recognizing the forces that pull your life off course and learning how to adjust so you still arrive where your heart wants to go. When you're 90 and looking back, your life should feel like it was truly yours — filled with pride, purpose, and meaning. No regrets.
When he’s not coaching people to be their very best, Scott runs a nonprofit farm animal rescue and lives what he teaches. He does Tough Mudders, teaches Sun 73 Tai Chi, paddleboards with his dogs Groot and Rocket, and camps in State Parks across New England whenever he can. His daily spiritual practice is grounded in anāpānasati, vipassanā, and mettā-bhāvanā meditation. A firm believer in service as the heart of a life well-lived, Scott also volunteers as an EMT instructor, firefighter, and Master Gardener in his community.
In his "free time," he writes books.
