STARTED SEPT 10 

Integrating Psychedelic Experiences

Jungian Psychology
TEACHERS
Robert Bosnak
TOPIC
Jungian
Format
 Live classes (recordings available)
Start Date
September 10
DURATION
12 hours (90 min each class)

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Something happened to you that you do not have words for. Your body still knows.

Most of us have had at least one experience that broke the frame. A dream that felt more real than waking life. A moment of grief or beauty or terror that arrived with its own intelligence. A vision that left us changed but unable to explain how. Psychedelic experiences are among the most powerful of these. They open doors to the awe-inspiring. And then they close.

Without integration, habitual consciousness returns to its old patterns as if the experience had never happened. What remains is a memory of 'Wow.' The brain is not a passive receiver of experience. It is a prediction engine. It constantly generates models of what it expects to feel, see, and encounter. It updates those models only when embodied sensations violate the prediction. The brain returns to habitual prediction models at the first opportunity.

Course description

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Why integration is difficult, and what makes it possible

With integration, perception shifts. The overall attitude toward life changes. A person becomes more versatile and flexible. More capable of holding complexity, contradiction, and depth. The question is how to reliably facilitate this.

Neuroscience has confirmed what depth psychology has long suspected. The brain encodes profound experiences not primarily in narrative memory but in the body itself. In the insula, the somatosensory cortex, the felt interiority of sensation. A tightness in the chest. A warmth behind the sternum. A specific quality of weight. These are not just symptoms. They are thresholds. Compressed points of entry through which the full experience can be re-opened, worked with, and integrated.

What is Embodied Imagination?

Embodied Imagination is a method developed over decades by Jungian psychoanalyst Robert Bosnak. It works directly with this embodied intelligence, what Bosnak calls MQ. By re-entering experiences as immediate sensory states, re-living the posture, sensation, and felt quality of an encounter, a person accesses what the thinking mind cannot reach. The experience becomes available again. And this time, it can land.

What makes Embodied Imagination unusual among integration approaches is that it is measurable. Its effects on the brain can be tracked through neurological and physical measurement. MRIs, interoceptive assessments, somatic markers. Research in psilocybin-assisted therapy at the University of Washington has shown promising results in transforming patient experience. Particularly in patients with advanced cancer.

The DREAM protocol: step by step

In this course, Robert Bosnak teaches the DREAM Protocol:
  • Drop in (returning to the embodied state of the original experience)
  • Recount (describing the experience from within the body, not from memory)
  • Enter (deepening into a specific somatic threshold)
  • Amplify (intensifying the felt quality until it becomes fully present)
  • Merge (allowing the experience to move and integrate)

The DREAM Protocol was developed by professor of oncology Anthony Back MD and Robert Bosnak. DREAM stands for Drop In, Recount, Enter, Amplify, Merge. It is now being formally tested with IRB approved research at Washington University in Seattle. What began as a method for working with dreams has become one of the most rigorously grounded approaches to integrating experiences that exceed habitual self-experience.

Extensive clinical results over decades by a wide variety of EI practitioners shows that even three minutes of precise somatic attention through disciplined imagination activates the brain's interoceptive centers powerfully. Comparable to extended meditation in experienced practitioners. The time it takes to accomplish lasting change is far less than we assumed. What matters is not duration but disciplined imaginal precision with the use of MQ. Knowing exactly where in the body to return. And how to re-enter the imaginal realm.

Please note: Attendees will have ample room to ask questions throughout the course. Bosnak assumes that any psychedelic experiences participants bring to this course were obtained and used in accordance with the laws of their country.

Live classes and on-demand access

Join us live for the classes in fall 2026 and/or watch the recordings later. Every class recording will be available in your account. Live classes: Thursdays at 5pm PT / 8pm ET

September 10 and 24
October 8 and 22
November 5 and 19
December 3 and 17

This program is ideal if you want to be able to:

  • Recognize the body as a primary source of intelligence and apply that understanding in your practice or personal life
  • Use a practical method for integrating psychedelic experiences and other intense experiences into daily life
  • Explain the 4E neurological basis of embodied cognition and describe its connection to Embodied Imagination as a method
  • Apply the DREAM Protocol step by step in a clinical or personal integration contex
  • Work skillfully with presences that feel genuinely other, whether encountered in dreams, visions, or altered states

who is this course for:

  • Physicians, nurses, therapists, coaches, and caregivers who want to help others integrate vivid imagery and intense embodied experiences
  • Those drawn to the intersection of Jungian psychology, neurobiology, and embodied intelligence
  • Adventurers and professionals curious about how embodied attention creates lasting psychological change
  • Anyone who has had a dream, a loss, a vision, or a moment of overwhelming intensity and known, without being able to say how, that something in it was still unfinished
  • Anyone seeking to understand how to integrate a psychedelic journey or microdosing

What you will receive

*You will receive a certificate of completion, but it’s not from an official accrediting body. Please check if it will be accepted by the organization you wish to use it with.
 video &  audio recordings
Article by Anthony L Black and Robert Bosnak
Accurate Subtitles
Certificate of completion*
Available in English

About the teacher

Robert Bosnak

In this course, Bosnak brings together his five decades of work with Embodied Imagination. His long-standing interest in psychedelics goes back to the 1960s, when as a criminologist he wrote his JD doctoral thesis on moving LSD from the criminal circuit to mental health. In the 1970s he held a staff position at an LSD-licensed psychiatric Jungian training hospital in Zurich. Today (2026) he collaborates with researchers on psilocybin-assisted therapy in oncology, with U Wash (Seattle).

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Scholarships

We here at Jung Platform want to make these programs available to anyone. If you would love to participate yet can’t pay for the full course, then please send us an email at scholarships@jungplatform.com and describe why you feel you qualify for a scholarship, how much you can pay, and what you will do to help the Jung Platform promote this and other programs.

frequent asked questions

Do I need experience with psychedelics to take this course? 

No. The Embodied Imagination method applies to any intense experience. This could be a dream, a loss, a vision, a moment of overwhelming beauty or grief. Psychedelic integration is the primary focus of this course, but the method is equally applicable to anyone who has had an experience they know was significant but have not yet been able to fully integrate. 

Here on Jung Platform you can explore Bosnak's Embodied Imagination® further in our eight-class course.

Is this course suitable for mental health professionals? 

Yes. The course is specifically designed to be valuable for therapists, coaches, physicians, and caregivers who want to understand and apply the DREAM Protocol with clients. Robert Bosnak draws on five decades of clinical practice and current research collaboration to ground the method in both practice and neuroscience.

What is the DREAM Protocol? 

The DREAM Protocol is a structured five-step method developed by Robert Bosnak and professor of oncology Anthony Back, MD for facilitating the integration of profound experiences. DREAM stands for Drop In, Recount, Enter, Amplify, and Merge. It is currently being tested in IRB-approved research at Washington University in Seattle in the context of psilocybin-assisted therapy with oncology patients.

How does Embodied Imagination differ from talk therapy or standard integration approaches?

Most integration approaches work primarily through narrative and cognitive reflection. Embodied Imagination works directly with the body's encoded intelligence, re-entering the original experience as a sensory state rather than a memory. This activates interoceptive centers in the brain in ways that narrative approaches cannot reach, and clinical evidence suggests that even brief, precise somatic attention can produce lasting change.

How does Embodied Intelligence relate to healing and transformation? 

When we move beyond the thinking mind, we enter a deeper layer of intelligence that lives in the body and in image. Robert Bosnak calls this Embodied Intelligence, a way of knowing that the brain alone cannot access. It draws on sensation, presence, and the felt quality of experience to create real and lasting change. This approach has profound implications for healing, creativity, and how we engage with the unconscious. You can explore this further in What is Embodied Intelligence? and Going Out of Your Mind With Me. 

Does this course involve or promote the use of psychedelics?

This course teaches Embodied Imagination as a psychological method for integrating intense experiences. It does not advocate for, facilitate, or encourage the use of any controlled substance. Robert Bosnak's work is grounded in decades of clinical practice and ongoing university-based research. All psychedelic references are educational and clinical in nature. 

article psychedelic integration beyond the verbal

Anthony L. Black and Robert Bosnak are the authors of a  journal article published in Sec. Psychological Therapy and Psychosomatics, volume 17 - 2026

A new paper in Frontiers in Psychiatry by Anthony Back and Robert Bosnak introduces the DREAM protocol, a structured method for helping cancer patients integrate psilocybin therapy experiences. Rather than translating psychedelic sessions into verbal narratives, DREAM guides patients back into the bodily and imaginal sensations of their trip, inviting them to inhabit feelings, and even the perspectives of figures or presences they encountered, to build a lasting, revisitable touchstone. Rooted in Bosnak's Embodied Imagination, the approach is still experimental: two pilot studies are underway to test its feasibility, safety, and therapeutic value.

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