As psychedelics and plant medicines increasingly enter mainstream therapeutic and clinical settings, greater attention is being drawn to a persistent but underexamined phenomenon in psychedelic healing contexts: the apparent ability of some practitioners to sense and respond to participants’ needs with striking nonverbal precision, often described as working with energy, spirits, or “reading energy.” Such claims are commonly met with skepticism in biomedical research, they are difficult to operationalize, test, and distinguish from suggestion, expectancy, or other relational processes. Yet the phenomenon itself remains insufficiently studied, even as energy-based and culturally specific healing practices continue to appear in Indigenous, retreat, and clinical settings.