SO I never did drugs.
But then when I got older I learned that actually not all drugs are bad and not all people that do drugs are bad either. In fact, what I learned is that in some cases its more like the opposite.
Growing up as a kid in South Africa, I was taught that drugs are bad
and that people that do drugs are bad.​
Hi, I'm Lucien
I learned that actually no drugs are inherently good or bad. It’s more about how you use them - and that this couldn’t be more true when it comes to psychedelic drugs. That’s because, if done right, they can actually be really good for you - in fact, way better for you than I could have ever imagined.
I also learned that pretty much every human society since time immemorial has had it ingraned in their culture to do psychedelics. Regularly.
As a way of reconnecting and continuing to follow a wholesome path in their life.
Every human society did this. Every - single - one. Except for one notable exeption. This one. - Since the 20th century “war on drugs” we essentially denied ourselves access to an incredible public health benefit. We threw the baby out with the bath water so to speak and as mental health has worsened over the years, we are going back to basics and rediscovering the power of plant medicine to heal and nourish the human condition.
So now I see psychedelics as medicine. I think everyone should do them and everyone should have means to do them right. Because everyone deserves to have access to great mental health.
But we need to do it right - we need to do it on special occasions. We need to do it for good reasons. And we need to do it with a guide that knows the topic well.
This world would be a very different place if more people had access to effective means of looking after the minds and promoting their mental, emotional, and spiritual health and wellbeing.
Especially for those of us that are not religious. We still need spiritual nourishment because we all face the inevetable challenges of this life like loss, sickness, old age and the process of dying. Psychedelics help everyone regardless of their beliefs.
I am happy to say that I continue to see and experience the the power of psychedelics medicines to to promote this.
How I got into this
whole thing...
In many ways, it’s been my own personal life challenges and suffering that continue to fuel my passion for consciousness medicine.
Today, I use a variety of techniques for helping my clients to cultivate their inner world, the most notable being my facilitation work for expanded state experiences with psychoactive mushrooms. This modality particular has come to form the heart of my practice as a guide, owing to its ability to reliably facilitate an inner exploration for my clients in a way thats proven to be adaptive; that is more often than not I see my clients finding resolution within themselves and then returning to their daily lives with a new found sense of their human potential.​
I realized pretty early on that it is one thing to heal and grow in your self and another thing to become adept in supporting change in others. The truth is that becoming adept as a facilitator and guide require an entirely new chapter in my life.
I see my work continuing to grow and evolve as I myself continue to grow and develop as a human being. Even after a decade in this field, I still continue to learn more from each and every person I work with and session I facilitate.
About Lucien
Lucien du Toit is a South African lay practitioner of buddhist philosophy who resides in North Thailand. Lucien du Toit grew up among ideals of Western intellectualism owing to his Fathers influence. He was enrolled as a business Major at Stellenbosch University for 4 years before he decided to forsake his career in Finance and Marketing and instead seek to find definitive resolution for his diagnosis of depression.
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While suffering with Major depression and anxiety at the time, he traveled the East to engage in lay buddhist practice as well as meet with notable spiritual teachers such as Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. He has since been able to apply their wisdom to transform his mind to be free from the clutches of depression and anxiety. Born in post Apartheid South African in 1995, Lucien grew up in a culture of racial inequality.
Through conversations with his father who was an academic and a practicing medical doctor at the time, he was engrossed in topics of Western scientific thought and perspectives on religion and spirituality from a mostly atheistic perspective. Through these conversations he became interested in contemporary science and philosophy. As he grew older though, with depression beginning to take more of a toll on his life, he became frustrated with what the modern world had to offer in the way of attending to Depression and began to seek refuge in the philosophies and disciplines of the East, primarily Vedic philosophy and Tibetan Buddhism.
Since 2018, he has been living remotely in Asia and Europe. Lucien currently offers personal sessions and retreats from his private residence in the North of Thailand.
Learning through experience
Since 2014, I have apprenticed with healers in South Africa, France, India and Nepal. In the last 10 years,
I have engaged myself in many different retreats and spiritual disciplines around the world but with out a doubt, he biggest shifts occured in me from my personal association with well esteemed spiritual teachers.
The most notable being Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
in India and Yongey mingyur Rinpoche (Left) in Nepal.
Since resigning from from academia, I’m not ashamed
to admit that I’ve looked back a few times and questioned my life decisions. Because as it is right now,
I don't have a University degree or any fancy diplomas
to point to. But I can say, from the depths of myh being, that I have found a kind of inner peace that was once completely unkown to me as even a possibility. Personally, I doubt I would have ever found this had
I not chosen this path for myself. I am truly grateful and forever indebted to the teachers that have instilled the wisdom in me to allow this transformation to have taken place.