Most importantly I think that intergration is best left as open to interpretation as humanly possible to allow for a more wider variety of intergrations to occur.
hixidom said:
What is integration exactly?
Good question, I haven't really put much thought in it. I will give it a go. Besides that I think everyone should make a concept for their own selfs I do have my opinions on intergration.
My intergration has been in the form of writing and drawing different emanations of my psyche and compartmentalize in categories what is observed in psychedelic experience. Mainly, hallucinations, thought-forms and emotions that have surfaced during a specific psychedelic experience. When I do this I can then draw connections within each concept and find what it means and how it relates to the self. My question is why these things come up and how to categorize them into a realistic framework as to what actually occured and why things progress as they occur during the experience. This could mean a psychological explanation or a spiritual framework. Or the interaction of the psyche and the "spirit world". Whatever that means.
I find for example Grof "Realms of the human unconsciousness" explains some aspects of the experience and relates them to common fields of psychology. In the thousands of therapies he has done with LSD he has succesfully dissapated certain sets of psychogologically harmful experience in almost all of his patients so they never have to occur again. This I think is in part due to succesfull intergration of psychological emanations but the book does little to explain the why's and how's. Atleast, I have found it unsatisfying from what I have read thus far.
In holotropic breathwork part of the intergration is making Mandalas. This is I think a good psychological cornerstone for psychological intergration. And provides a framework for healing and getting to know one's self. But, since psychedelic experience has so many different layers. I think ultimately intergration has an end but that would be practically impossible for one person alone to achieve because that would mean understanding and relating each and every detail of psychedelic experience in relationship to everything that it is connected to.
Personally, I find most difficulty in healing "Transpersonal" harmful psychological manifestation. Atleast, they are the most difficult to understand in a western framework without the need for
telepathy and spiritual intergration. I haven't even begun trying to unravel some of the more out-there DMT experiernces that I've had. Yet.. some have been suprisingly easy to find meaningful interpretation. But only in the psychological respects. And only in a psychospiritual context.