[heed]

From my understanding therapists can help you “integrate” your experience (post trip) into your everyday life. Having someone to help you figure out how you can apply useful feelings/mindsets you may have had during the experience seems (to me) helpful in maintaining any sort of benefit longer term.

[recuter]

Who and what bestows upon them such powers other than their own claims? The legal research of psychedelics has only recently resumed and is only available to a very select few.

[heed]

Well, clandestine psychedelic assisted therapy has been going on for at least a few decades and seemed to be largely based on both psychedelic experiences had by the therapist themselves, and trial and error - which you could argue is not too different from shamanic practice.

I’m not sure how much, if any, scientific rigor was applied in the past - I hope that changes.