The Tao of Psychedelics

The Tao of Psychedelics is not a book you read once - it's a book you return to, again and again, as the journey unfolds.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. G. Scott Graham currently works as an Existential Handyman - fixing what's broken, realigning what's off-kilter, and helping others rebuild their lives with meaning, purpose, and a bit of duct tape when needed. He's also an author, a career coach, a business coach, and a psychedelic support coach in Boston, Massachusetts.Scott is driven to help clients follow their "true azimuth," which is different from "true north." It means coaching clients to identify the true focus of their life - something that speaks individually to them. It means recognizing the forces that push our lives off course and adjusting to them so you get where you want to go. It means that when you are 90 years old and you look back on your life you have a sense of pride, accomplishment, and meaning - with no regrets.When he is not coaching people to be their very best, Scott manages a non-profit farm animal rescue. Scott participates in Tough Mudders, teaches Sun 73 Tai Chi, stand-up paddleboards with his dogs Groot and Rocket, and goes camping at State Parks throughout New England as much as possible. His daily spiritual practice focuses on anāpānasati, vipassanā, and mettā-bhāvanā meditation. Scott believes service is vital to a life well-lived: he volunteers as an EMT Instructor, as a Firefighter, and as a Master Gardener in his community.In his "free time," he writes books. The Quiet Way is a poetic series exploring grief, equanimity, psychedelics, dogs, and more - each volume grounded in Taoist insight, reimagined for modern life.These aren't self-help books. They don't offer steps or solutions. Instead, they offer presence. Each book is a companion - quiet, spacious, and honest - for the parts of life that don't fit into tidy narratives.Written in short, contemplative chapters, these books are meant to be read slowly, returned to often, and carried through the raw and beautiful moments of real life.What connects them isn't a method - it's a way of being: one that honors truth, stillness, paradox, and change.Read them when you're lost.Read them when you're trying to stay.Read them because something in you wants a quieter way.