Bufo Alvarius, Discovering Psychedelics After 60 || Dan & Lorri
Artem SmirnovBufo Alvarius, Discovering Psychedelics After 60 || Dan & Lorri
Dan and Lorri both had life transforming psychedelic experiences later on in life. And they agreed to share them with us! Tune in to personal accounts of psychedelic experiences.
Meet Dan and Lorri
We met with Dan and Lorri outside of Port Townsend at an event for the psychedelic society. At the time of this interview, Dan and Lorri were starting their own psychedelic society in Olympia, Washington and were learning how to do it properly from the Port Townsend community.
Dan and Lorri both had life transforming psychedelic experiences that they agreed to share with us!
Discovering psychedelics after 60 with Dan and Lorri
Watch “Spiritual Awakening with Bufo Alvarius”
I come from an Ohio Baptist fundamental background, and my father was a pastor and I was a pastor as well, a fundamental pastor in New York City and Las Vegas.
-Dan Sabaka
Watch “Mother Using Plant Medicine: Lorri describes her experience with Bufo Alvarius”
The medicine acted as nature’s electroshock therapy and cured me of depression, a lifetime of depression.
-Lorri
Watch the full interview with Dan & Lorri
What do you do for the community?
Lorri
I’m from Olympia, Washington, and we would like to start a psychedelic integration circle there. So we’ve come to the Port Townsend Society Circle a time or two to find out how they conduct their circles. But anyway, we’ve come here to learn from those who have gone a little farther ahead in the process than we have as far as integration and decriminalization. We’re interested in all of those fronts, but especially with integration.
How does it feel to be able to be in an open room and just openly talk about psychedelics?
Dan
It’s kind of a hearth, a home kind of feeling.
We were just speaking with the couple and I just witnessed lots of folks who are dying to have someone listen to their experience. And because experience is such a dynamic thing to be able to share with someone listening back is pretty prolific and beyond the clinical just somebody to listen and say, ‘Yeah, I’ve done that, you know, I connect to that.’
That’s pretty cool.
I come from an Ohio Baptist fundamental background, and my father was a pastor and I was a pastor as well, a fundamental pastor in New York City and Las Vegas.
And I moved to Olympia about three years ago. And I’m 68 right now.
How did you come to the plant medicines?
Lorri
Well, my first significant psychedelic experience was ayahuasca.
In 2017, my son and I had sort of a private ceremony, which was amazing, life changing. But the real kicker was the Bufo in 2020. And I did that because my oldest daughter had done it and recommended that I do it as well, and in fact bought me a session for Mother’s Day.
And so I came at it from an entirely different direction than most people do. My child who was recommending to her mother that she have this experience.
The medicine acted as nature’s electroshock therapy and cured me of depression, a lifetime of depression.
And that was not an expectation going in. I just went in wide open to receive whatever it was I was going to receive from that sacrament, medicine or tool, whatever you want to call it.
And it took a little while for me to realize a few months later that I was free of depression after a lifetime of depression.
What plans do you have for your community?
Lorri
We’re creating Integration Circle in Olympia where other people who have just had not just a bufo experience, but any kind of psychedelic experience. They can come and share that with other people who have had those kinds of life altering experiences as well.
And for me it’s been more of an unfolding. The first experience was just an explosion. It unfolded as the weeks and months went by and it would have been nice to have a community to talk to.
Luckily, I have Dan and our soul sister, and the three of us helped each other integrate.
I would say we’re trying to create a safe, soft place to land after we’ve had one of these just paradigm shifting experiences.
Bufo is only about 10 minutes. It is called the business person’s psychedelic because you can literally do it on your lunch hour and go back to work, but you will be transformed. And it is nice to have a place to go where you can talk about that transformation.
Dan
Mother Earth has all this capacity to connect with this human condition that is filled with consciousness and filled with all this beauty and wonder.
I believe that Mama Earth knows the way as I know my way.
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