Why 5-MeO-DMT Doesn't Have to Be Explosive - Mira Funk, LCSW

In this episode of The Psychedelic Podcast, Paul F. Austin sits down with Mira Funk, LCSW, a Harvard-educated psychotherapist and the founder of Unjourneying, a private practice built around 5-MeO-DMT, N,N-DMT, and salvia divinorum.

This episode is sponsored by Mira Funk.

Mira traces her path from fourteen years of Zen meditation into psychedelic work, and explains how a severe reaction to a common nootropic supplement unexpectedly reoriented her entire practice toward presence rather than dramatic, otherworldly trips. She and Paul go deep on the extended-release routes she has pioneered, including subcutaneous, rectal, and vaginal 5-MeO-DMT, and the titrated e-mesh method she uses for salvia divinorum.

Throughout the conversation, Mira is candid about the real risks of self-administration, the role of chronic illness in shaping her gentle approach, and why she believes structure matters most for those newest to this work.

Mira Funk, LCSW (she/her), is a Harvard-educated queer, nonbinary psychotherapist and psychedelic guide specialized in 5-MeO-DMT, N,N-DMT (including analog ayahuasca), and salvia divinorum. Based in Oregon, she is the founder of Unjourneying, a private therapy practice blending somatic, nondual, and neuroscience-informed methods to optimize psychedelic healing and insight. Unjourneying draws its name from Neem Karoli Baba's reported non-response to LSD; observing this same effect in herself and long-term clients, Mira embraced the radically vivid here and now as her lodestar, rather than some mystical elsewhere.

Having battled neurological Lyme disease for over three decades, Mira brings a gentle, trauma-informed approach to clients with physical and emotional challenges. She is the inventor of The Hourglass, a lung-friendly 5-MeO-DMT vaporization system with zero liquid carriers and two-stage cooling, and offers multiple extended-release routes of 5-MeO-DMT, including subcutaneous, rectal, and vaginal preparations for sexual trauma and pelvic floor dysfunction. She is currently the only psychedelic therapist in the field offering titrated dosing of pure salvinorin-A in an e-mesh format.

Highlights:

Fourteen years of Zen before mushrooms filled the gap Why structure helps most early in psychedelic work A supplement reaction that reshaped her entire practice 5-MeO-DMT as explosion versus something you can surf Building The Hourglass: her own zero-liquid vaporizer Subcutaneous, rectal & vaginal routes for 5-MeO-DMT A rectal 5-MeO-DM