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Justin LaPree was a Marine and a firefighter. He also nearly died because of what that service cost him. This is why he built The Illuminating Co., and why the moment we're in matters.

The system has helped some people. It hasn't helped enough of them. An honest look at what's missing from conventional mental health care, and what we offer instead.

Two words come up again and again in the research on entheogenic medicine: set and setting. Here's why they matter more than you might think.

19 million veterans. 3 million retired first responders. A suicide every 33 minutes. The data behind why The Illuminating Co. exists.

People ask us all the time: what is this actually going to be like? Here's an honest, detailed answer about the three phases of our retreat process.

The word comes from Greek — and it's been used for thousands of years to describe sacred medicines that expand consciousness. Here's what it actually means, and why we use it.