The idea of an intimate Caribbean retreat where high net worth individuals take “trips” on magic mushrooms all week then sit around the pool sipping wine discussing their lives may sound like the premise for a bad movie, but it actually makes for a great, even profound, experience.
MycoMeditations, which offers one of the world’s few legal psilocybin assisted therapy retreats, has been able to reimagine one of the hottest underground trends in the fast emerging field of psychedelics in mental health into a five star respite.
Eleven of us met at Bluefields Bay, a boutique resort in Jamaica, where we ate family style at a long dining table between three psilocybin treatments or, in ‘60s parlance, “trips.”
“We’re aiming to establish a gold standard for this type of experience,” said Justin Townsend, MycoMeditations’s CEO and a longtime student of psychedelics. “This isn’t a religious or spiritual retreat with a shaman, part of a medical study or a recreational week for drug users.”
Exactly what it was remained to be seen. The
