My Experience and Inner Work
Walking the Path So I Can Walk Beside You
Supporting your inner exploration with care, depth, and responsibility
Hello, I am Aaron.
My work is rooted in an ongoing inquiry into consciousness, human development, and what it means to live life more fully—with awareness, responsibility, accountability, integrity, and heart-centered love. I come to this path as a seeker devoted to deeper engagement with life through curiosity, discipline, emotional depth, and lived experience.
Over the years, my personal journey has included hundreds of experiences in non-ordinary states of consciousness across a wide range of medicines, practices, and ceremonial contexts. I share this not to claim authority over anyone else’s experience, but to name the depth of lived familiarity I bring to this work. These experiences have been approached as inquiry—into self, relationships, family, purpose, identity, and existence itself. They have also been part of a sincere exploration of what many people call God, Spirit, Divine Consciousness, the Universe, or simply The Mystery—that which cannot be fully named.
This path has shaped how I understand inner development, meaning-making, and the gradual maturation of awareness—how insight unfolds through sustained attention, reflection, and integration.
Alongside my personal inquiry, I’ve supported others in expanded and non-ordinary states across clinical, ceremonial, and integrative settings. I’ve worked as a psychedelic guide within a ketamine-assisted therapy clinic, offering preparation, in-session support, and integration coaching for individuals navigating mental health challenges, life transitions, and existential or spiritual exploration. Since 2022, I’ve also served on a support team for ayahuasca ceremonies within a registered entheogenic church, helping hold grounded, trauma-aware space for deep emotional, spiritual, and developmental processes.
My work has been shaped by a range of modalities, including shamanic journeying practices, kambo, breathwork, and a personal ibogaine journey. I am certified in Kambo facilitation and trained in Conscious Connected Breathwork, with experience guiding others in breathwork facilitation as a pathway for nervous system regulation, emotional release, and expanded inner awareness. Across all of these practices, my orientation remains consistent: presence, pacing, safety, deep listening, and respect for the body’s intelligence.
My path has also taken me into the jungle, where I participated in an extended entheogenic plant medicine dieta with the Yawanawa people in Brazil, and later spent time with the Ai’Cofán tribe in Ecuador learning about lineage, cosmology, and transmission from the Taitas. These experiences were grounded in intention—going to the Indigenous source and learning through ritual, prayer, and initiation. They taught me how intention guides experience, how attention refines perception, and how growth unfolds through patience, reverence, and sustained engagement rather than force.
Alongside this, my understanding of transformation has been shaped by ritual and philosophy around birth, death, and renewal, including study within Tibetan Buddhist frameworks of non-duality and dissolution. These teachings profoundly influenced how I relate to impermanence, identity, grief, mortality, and the ways the self dissolves and reforms over time.
All of this inner exploration is held within a strong integration framework. I am a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist® through the Grief Recovery Method and a Certified Compassion Coach, trained to support individuals in processing loss, navigating transition, and developing emotionally mature, self-responsible ways of relating to themselves and others. My work with grief and compassion is informed by Jungian-oriented shadow work, particularly through my involvement with The ManKind Project, which shaped how I understand unconscious patterns, protective strategies, and the parts of ourselves that operate beneath awareness. This lens supports integration that is honest, grounded, and relational—rather than bypassing, idealizing, or fragmenting the work.
Safety and responsibility are foundational to how I hold space. Earlier in my career, I completed EMT-B training and gained hands-on experience in emergency response and safety assessment. While those credentials are no longer active, the training continues to inform how I approach screening, preparedness, and ethical decision-making in altered-state work.
Today, I am enrolled in Ecstatic Mysticism, a three-year experiential training in psychedelic therapy, service-oriented leadership, and sustained inquiry into The Mystery, with the option to complete a Master’s degree in Psychedelic Therapy through Ubiquity University. This training reflects my commitment to remaining a student of the work—engaged in ongoing inquiry rather than fixed conclusions.
Across all of this, my role remains the same. I do not act as a healer with answers, nor as an authority over anyone else’s experience. I work as a guide and companion—someone familiar with the terrain, who understands both the beauty and the responsibility of this work. My offering is to walk beside you, offering presence, reflection, and open-ended inquiry so you can reconnect with your own Inner Teacher.
What matters most is what comes into our field of awareness—and how we choose to work with it. Awareness shapes choices, relationships, self-trust, and the way we move through the world.