The Five Belts of the Pentabelt Program

Let’s say that I had a bunch of young adults, young Californians, to guide, therapeutically into adulthood. My goal was not necessarily treatment, but resilience. I want these guys to thrive, have happy, healthy, meaningful lives. Assisting me in this process are the twin technologies of Psychedelic therapy and large language models, chat bots to help along the way.

That is the idea of Pentabelt. I’ve made this program and then divided it into 5 stages, each one building upon the last, presenting a challenge, having its own theme. Now, when I was a kid, I did karate, and went through the five belts. It was more than just fitness or self-defnese, it really was about personal development.

And that’s how I see Pentabelt. Taking young individuals and preparing them for adulthood.

So I made the stages into belts. Each belt has separate activities, challenges. When you meet those challenges, you graduate to the next belt. You earn the belt.

Each belt has its own color, its own theme. This is a California based program, so each belt represents a particular part of California, with its own themes and style. The Large Language Model will have its own character and its own archetype.

So what are the belts. In order they are white, orange, green, red, black. To best explain the sequence, we start in the middle—green!

A core element of psychedelic therapy is transcendence. Noticing your scars, noticing your trauma and rising above it.

Learning about how you want your life to be. What’s important to you. What’s your “why.” That sense of spirituality, of oneness. From this you can learn your values, what’s going to make your life meaningful. All elements of a good transcendent experience. This is all associated with psilocybin, magic mushrooms, though can also occur through MDMA and Ketamine. Either way, the best way to learn all of this is to, well, go out in nature. Get away from the home, the city. Be in nature. Connect to your core. And so we have the green belt. Being in nature, finding yourself. Learning your values. In this green belt we have two stripes. Stripe one: A sober trip outward towards nature and stripe 2: a Psychedelic trip in ward with a transcendent journey.

Keep in mind though that psychedelic therapy is more than just a trip. More than just a transcendent experience. There is work to be done, both before and after the experience to get the most out of it.

First, before anything, we need consent. We need understanding. The purpose of this program really is in depth change.

You’re not going to be the same person leaving the program as you were coming in. We need a stage to understand the risks and benefits of psychedelic therapy to really make an informed choice.

So there’s some paper to sign—informed consent. Writing out your goals, what you hope to gain from the Pentabelt program. All of this is on paper. And so we have the starting color is white.

Then, after the white but before the green, we have the actual preparation for the psychedelic experience. From my observations and studies you really want to start some form of meditative daily practice. Just to help you center yourself for the psychedelic experience. And help you start to focus on what’s important. Practicing transcendence before the actual experience may heighten the experience in the green belt. Plus it’s helpful to start off the self-care early.

Whatever you gain in the green belt any insights you put into action, you’ll need energy.

You’ll need focus. That can be started in the orange belt. In this belt we set a visible reminder to start daily self-care. A little daily mindfulness.

This reminder needs to be bright, needs to be visible. From there we have orange. Like the orange post it serving as a reminder to do the daily work in preparation for the green belt. And so we have the orange belt.

Then after the green belt, the initial psychedelic experience, we put the values into action. If all goes according to plan, you have a vision, of sorts. A sense of purpose for what you want your life to be about. You’ve been wandering through the fog, the fog of trauma, anxiety, depression.

With the medicine, the fog dissipates, if only for one afternoon. You can see where you need to be headed, like a giant compass. What comes next? Moving in that direction. That takes action and also sacrifice.

After all, you can’t say yes to one thing without saying no to another. After the transcendental experience comes the cathartic one. This is where the lower dose of Ketamine takes place, as well as the MDMA experience in the future. The psycholytic experience. You see the vision from the green belt. Now comes the time of facing the barriers to this vision and working through it. Healing the trauma, overcoming the addiction. There will be tough emotions to work through. There will be sacrifice. You will be cutting out the ways of living that no longer serve you. Hence the red belt. For the color of blood. Of struggle. And in that belt we have two stripes. Learning to say “no” to things. Addictions, exploitative relationships, dissociations. And the second stripe: saying “yes” to things. Healthy alternatives. New relationships. New connections.

Then finally, merging all the colors together, we get to black. In this belt, we connect with the community.

You find the tribe, your third place. We use all the tools gained in the other belts and we put it to use building your tribe and keeping it safe.

Learning to balance the importance of the community with your own individuality. Using certain substances with the community to create a “Schenedelic” experience, that of a community manifesting experience.

In this belt, there are no stripes, but there can be degrees. Particular skills learned to better navigate the world we live in. That will all come in at a future point in time.

So that’s the Pentabelt program. Feel free to view the other videos in this section. They go into a bit more detail about the trends that I think will really necessitate the program and its development. Much of the content of the individual belts can also be found on this website as well. Thanks you!