A frame that was useful for me has been this: MDMA is useful for integrating existing information and experience (trauma, childhood stuff, etc). Classic Psyche

A frame that was useful for me has been this: MDMA is useful for integrating existing information and experience (trauma, childhood stuff, etc). Classic Psychedelics (LSD, DMT, Psilocybin) are useful for generating new information which then needs to be integrated. MDMA was a much more predictable space to work. Psilocybin tended to take me to deeper as more frightening material - often on the cultural level. I don’t think I would take psi to work with mania / hypomania; with MDMA it has worked beautiful to create more space to integrate and express the part of myself that was frightening. That said, I have much more experience w MDMA in a therapeutic setting as an adult, and I could see how Psi could be just as effective. If there is trauma to be dealt with, I’d personally start with mdma — but again, I’m bias from my personal experience.