Contemplations: On the Psychedelic Experience

I've just only started to dabble in the plant medicines and compounds mentioned in this film. The people interviewed in the film come from all walks of life and give an open and unbiased view on their experiences.

Julian Palmer is much more than an interviewer, he has lived the life of a facilitator, plant tea brewer and individual experimenter for the last twenty plus years. This film covers the frightening, the heavenly and everything in between. There are cautionary tales, and first hand accounts of meeting gods. These are brought to life by the excellent animations, this is an impressive feat all by itself because just articulating the experience is hard enough, let alone reproducing it for others to understand.

If you are interested in the effects of ayahuasca, magic mushrooms or LSD, then this a great place to start. There really isn't another documentary like it!

A very iconic and unique Australian documentary featuring a cross section of some of the mainplayers in the Australian Psychedelic underground.

This is a both a journey into the psyche and an introduction to the felt experience of psychedelics. Refreshingly, it is more focused on the spiritual, transpersonal, paradigm shattering, esoteric aspects of psychedelics - rather than the current mainstream rhetoric around the trauma healing aspects of these uncanny plant medicines.

Add to this a well crafted, visual feast of special effects and articulate commentary and you have a unique and special documentary - well worth a watch.

Well done Julian Palmer and team.

It can be merely impossible to imagine or describe one's psychedelic experience to others whom may have never tired or fully ventured in the psychedelic arena.

"Contemplations: on the psychedelic experience" gives you an excellent way to visually comprehend a psychedelic adventure, whether it may be encountering and/or becoming a god or unveiling the secrets to the universe, to describing one's distressing decent into madness.

Julian Palmer has a way of conveying his film into layman's terms so that anyone can understand and appreciate. The illustrations married seemingly well together with the stories and experiences being described.

I thoroughly enjoyed this film.

Contemplations: On the psychedelic experience is a fantastic dive into the psychedelic underground. It's a warts and all documentary that details lots of people's first hand experiences with psychedelics. It includes some cautionary tales which are important to listen to and also documents lots of profound, life changing experiences which are very common in the psychedelic world. I'd strongly recommend it to anyone who's in anyway interested in exploring or deepening their understanding of the potential therapeutic risks and benefits of psychedelics. It gives a truly unique insight into people's worlds and experiences which I haven't seen before in any other psychedelic documentaries. I've found value in others that I've watched. But they haven't gone into anywhere near as much detail when documenting people's first hand experiences. This one definitely does and is definitely worth a watch for anyone who's interested in the subject matter.

Thank you, Julian and the team for putting this well-thought-through documentary on the journey of a psychedelic experience and what impactful benefits it can potentially have for someone's overall wellbeing!

The diversity of the people on the screen shared some very troubling and touching histories and in my view, anything that can improve (and sometimes drastically) someone's time on this earth, the better!

Sometimes it's just not possible to see the forest through the trees and that can cause a lot of (and somewhat chronic) negative emotions and moods and lead to poorer health outcomes.

Highly recommended!