A woman with advanced Alzheimer's started speaking again after a single dose of psilocybin. It isn't a cure, and it isn't permission to try anything. But it raises a question worth sitting with: what if some of what dementia takes is dormant, not gone?

Someone asked me at a workshop: Do you journey? I said yes. That was the entire intake process. What followed was months inside a group where the substances were secret, questions were discouraged, and the culture of silence ran so deep that when someone died, no one called for help.