Receiving Neo with Awareness & Care
Neo is a Sacred Sacrament in the House of Metamorphosis apothecary, and we believe that reverence for the medicine includes reverence for the body receiving it—your body. Conscious preparation is therefore an essential part of our ceremonial practice.
Informed & Sovereign Choice
Your participation with Neo is always voluntary. You are invited to discern whether engaging with this sacrament feels aligned for you and to understand its potential physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual effects before choosing to participate. Receiving a Sacred Sacrament Kit does not create an expectation that you consume Neo.
Medical & Psychological Considerations
San Pedro (Huachuma) contains mescaline, a psychoactive compound that can produce significant alterations in perception, emotion, cognition, and physiological activity. It may not be appropriate for everyone. Certain medical conditions, psychiatric histories, medications, supplements, or other substances may increase the potential for adverse effects or interactions.
Please consult an appropriately qualified healthcare professional before engaging with Neo if you have a medical or psychiatric condition, take prescription medications, are pregnant or breastfeeding, or have any uncertainty about whether San Pedro is appropriate for you. You should also disclose relevant medications and health considerations through HŌM's screening and informed-consent process before participating in facilitated sacramental experiences.
Medications & Dependency
One of the spiritual purposes for which House of Metamorphosis works with Neo is the exploration of dependency and the restoration of greater awareness, choice, and spiritual sovereignty. Your relationship with Neo may bring greater awareness to your relationship with alcohol, medications, or other substances and invite you to explore the deeper patterns, needs, or experiences underlying those relationships.
This does not mean that Neo should be used to independently discontinue or reduce prescribed medication. Abruptly changing certain medications can carry significant risks. If your journey inspires you to reconsider a medication, we encourage you to bring that insight into conversation with the clinician who prescribes or manages it and, where appropriate, develop a medically supervised plan.
Sacrament, Not Medical Treatment
House of Metamorphosis offers Neo as a religious sacrament within our sincerely held spiritual practice. We do not present Neo as a medical treatment or claim that it diagnoses, treats, cures, or prevents addiction, substance-use disorders, mental-health conditions, or other diseases.
We believe instead that sacramental experience can create opportunities for awareness, spiritual inquiry, and direct communion with the Divine. What you choose to do with what is revealed—including decisions concerning healthcare, medication, or substance use—remains an expression of your personal discernment and sovereignty, undertaken with appropriate professional support when needed.
Set, Setting & Integration
Your relationship with Neo begins before the sacrament is received and continues long after its immediate effects have passed. Your preparation, intention, physical environment, emotional state, community support, and integration can all profoundly shape your experience.
Approach Neo without demanding a particular outcome. Listen carefully to your body. Allow what arises to be met with curiosity rather than force. Remember that insight becomes transformation through integration: through the choices, conversations, practices, and relationships that follow.
Neo does not ask you to surrender your sovereignty to the medicine. It invites you to become more conscious of the sovereignty that was already yours.