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# Set and Setting | Coffee with Twig
- URL: https://ghost.psymposia.com/set-and-setting-coffee-with-twig/
- Published: 2016-05-12T01:52:06.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-29T01:02:17.000Z
- Description: Twig Harper talks about the importance of set and setting when using psychoactives.
- Author: Mike Elliott
- Tags: Videos, #youtube, #youtube-transcript

Twig Harper talks about the importance of set and setting when using psychoactives.

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## Transcript

*This transcript was generated automatically from YouTube's captions, then cleaned up by removing filler words, repeated words and background sounds. It may still contain errors.*

[\[00:10\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTuku2eDYr8&t=10s&ref=ghost.psymposia.com) Yeah so setting the space this is interesting because you know I'm just going to assume here if you're observing this you're a modern person you have access to some sort of technology where you can view what I'm saying at this moment and it's not actually at this moment it's actually recorded in you're playing it back so there's a high level of disconnect to the immediate world and if you find yourself in a situation where you have to control the setting for your set it becomes a little trickier because we don't have in our culture a lot of access points to a skilled facilitator so a lot of people go down the path of self initiation in these spaces and it's a sticky kind of way to work through stuff because once you get caught up in certain things its kind of who's these ideas are you going to bounce it off of right and so I mean I think just having someone there to hold the space for you that you trust in that you can do that and just you know they're just going to hold the space allow you to go in there but if you don't have that you know you have to also be mindful of your dosage

[\[01:11\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTuku2eDYr8&t=71s&ref=ghost.psymposia.com) Because at the high end of the substance if you're going to go really far you can completely break your consciousness away from linear time and space and so if your body doesn't feel safe a lot of those survival mechanisms are going to start being sent in there so you may be coming into sort of death in information and that's fun because that's the control death situation and a lot of people end up in the in that position I think the basis is if you can you know what your substances you know your doses you know how you're going to react so going slowly and going methodically into these spaces is sort of the self I think the best way for self initiation you know playlists of music that you know and that are good or sometimes you know nice as a foundation of stimulus to kind of just allow you to you know kind of cradles you into the zone I've heard the stories of people doing their best buy themselves though also locking themselves in the room turning the lights off preparing everything ready but then soon as they did such they're going for the hero's

[\[02:12\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTuku2eDYr8&t=132s&ref=ghost.psymposia.com) Journey something switched in their brain and they're on some cosmic journey running down the street trying to get into their neighbor's house you know that is not an uncommon story so you know I think this is the challenge of people is building socially that that foundation where you can get into these spaces safely because you're going to do them as much as you know as 16 bit