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Most of us think that we
Behave for reasons that we understand but most of our behavior is actually governed by unconscious forces
Now the psychedelic plants can manifest what's in the unconscious mind
What you will bring out of you will save you
People's mind they're opening your scenes rapid evolution consciousness as accelerating and exponentially
So you're about to watch a documentary about plant medicines and psychedelics
just a few short years ago my entire perspective towards it was shattered and then
Reconstructed in a whole new light and my intention of making this film is to share the other side of the story with you
So where does the journey begin?
You know life has its ups and downs and then a period in my life where I felt totally lost
Unsure I started searching for answers and where does one search for answers?
the Bible spiritual texts family and friends elders
Psychiatrists maybe or of course the trusted Google that's where I usually like to go
So one night I was doing a YouTube watching something like Alan Watts and in the comments section someone
Referenced the name Terence Mckenna and it was it was as if that actual comment was directed directly at me
I could have been the only one who saw it and
What it said was if you really want to have your mind blown you have to you know
Look up Terence Mckenna. So I quickly entered his name into a google search and
Hit enter and I didn't realize at the time but you know that search alone right there changed my entire life
Within a couple hours. I had ordered all of his books
He spoke in such a way that just sort of caught my attention in a way that had never been before
So within the span of a couple of weeks, I'd made up my mind. I would be traveling solo to South America to
Partake my first-ever
Ayahuasca experience little did I know how profound the experience would be when I went there was envisioning addicts may be some tripperz
May be some punk metal type enthusiasts
You know a lot of hippy type people but when I got there was quite the contrary there were doctors
You know lawyers professionals artists authors
Athletes, it was a mix of everybody and I realized that everyone was there for a different reason, you know
I was there because I was a seeker other people were going through trauma and it was really interesting to see that wow
There's so much depth to this one thing that ties us all in common. So now I needed answers, you know, I
Assume any questions and and that's what really spawned me to make this documentary more than anything
I really wanted to know if we as human beings were meant to have altered states of consciousness
So after I sat there with all these incredible people meeting them for the first time
All these with all these questions racing through my mind the main one that stuck out was how do we been psyched out?
For many years plant medicine and psychedelics have been portrayed in a negative way is it just due to lack of understanding?
fear of the unknown or something else entirely
From the very beginnings of unrecorded time men have reached for substances in the world around them that would alter
extend and
materially change their perception of reality
The reasons loneliness and fear
Boredom and a desire for the new and the unknown
Some have used these drugs to journey into the Uncharted tunnels of the mind in search of medical and scientific truth
Others look behind the curtain just for kicks
This emergence into consciousness was triggered by our ancestors encounters with visionary plants and
the beginning of shamanism
If you analyze the cave art, it's there's not time to go into the details here
but there are so many details that make it clear that this was an art of altered states of consciousness of
visions
and
that plants like the Amanita muscaria mushroom or psilocybin mushrooms appear to have been
directly connected with this sudden and
radical change
When we originally created the historical timeline for this documentary we realized it could be a documentary in itself
We condensed it to a very simplified version
It was difficult to pinpoint the origin of many of the psychedelics and plant medicines in this movie
In this timeline the farther back we go into history
The more guests worked in theorizing we have to do where as we get closer to modern-day more evidence is readily available
Please keep in mind that these dates are based on what is currently known and new discoveries can potentially push these dates back indefinitely
Take for example the iboga plant from africa
traditions say it has been used as the beginning of time and actually represents the tree of knowledge of good and evil, I
Find this interesting because they are not the only ones who have made this suggestion
The egyptians representation of the tree of life was the acacia tree known to have contained DMT
one of the most powerful psychedelics known to man and
Interestingly enough many scholars believe that this same bush
The acacia was also the burning bush in story of moses when he had visions of God that came to him on the mountain in
The Adam and Eve story. Could the forbidden fruit have been the Amanita? Muscaria? Mushroom?
Terence Mckenna was a supporter of this theory. The mushroom is the fleshy spore-bearing
fruiting body of a fungus throughout the bible
There are many passages and references that can easily be interpreted as psychedelic and suggestion simply by reanalyzing a few simple words
fruiting body of a fungus forbidden fruit
Another theory that Terence Mckenna postulated was that the food of the gods
The psychedelic plants were actually what caused men to evolve into the current human beings we are today
Over a two million year period our brains doubled in size
Current theory suggests that we evolved to a change in our diet, which was primarily due to meat consumption
however
there are many carnivorous animals that have not evolved and there are primates like the chimpanzee that do eat their fair share of meat and
Have yet to evolve as well?
during that two million year span various droughts and changing climates caused the forests to recede and many of the lower primates ventured out of
The jungles onto the grassy plains and searched for food while searching for bugs under cow dung patties
They would find magic mushrooms the consumption of which would lead to cognitive
Advances within these primates and potentially lead to an evolution into the current homo sapiens. We are today
This is what has been come to known stoned ape theory
Where we start to see a little more concrete evidence is in the various cave paintings found throughout the world
some dating back as far as 40,000 years have shown various references to the possibilities of psychedelic or antigen use
Things such as geometric waves coming from the minds of the various indigenous peoples and even things as clear as mushroom heads were found
Painted on the walls of these caves
Around 15,000 BC we find evidence of cannabis cultivation which throughout history after this is pretty much found throughout the world
We also start to see psychedelic mushroom cultivation at this time
Around 4000 BC evidence of siberian shamanism who used the Amanita muscaria mushroom in their rituals was discovered in
3000 BC in Egypt
We see references to the blue lotus flower a known psychedelic plant as well as a plant called Mandrake also known for second Ella properties
At the same time the first evidence is found of the use of ayahuasca in the Amazon as well as peyote another mind-altering
Cacti throughout the rest of the Americas
By this time cannabis cultivation is in full swing and China uses both fiber and medicine
Just after
2000 BC the mysteries became wildly popular in Greece and after four days of fasting a
Substance called Chi kyon was ingested that led to profound visions and deep understandings of life and death
Around the same time roughly 1500 BC the rig Vedas are written in India talking about a plant
God named soma a lot of the knowledge around soma had been lost throughout history
However is believed to be a psychedelic drink of some kind known for increasing awareness imparting mystical experiences poetic inspiration and even immortality
Some say that soma may have been made from psychedelic mushrooms and be the reason why the cows considered so holy as the mushrooms grow
Directly out of the cow dung
Around 1000 BC stones carved into mushrooms are found all over the Mesoamerican
cultures include the Olmecs Incas and Mayans the Aztecs called these mushrooms teonanácatl which
Literally means flesh of the gods
Around the 4th century AD is where things get bad for our psychedelics
Christianity became the legal religion of the Roman state and all of the beliefs were condemned over the next thousand years or so
We went as the Dark Ages and the Crusades where numerous people were killed for not being Christian and most of tradition is destroyed
this continued right through the 1500s where European colonizers destroyed the Aztec empire and many other North American indigenous traditions and people
It took a while for second dogs to resurface simply due to the stigma surrounding them
most people who use them considered warlocks witches were crazy in
1938 LSD was discovered by the 1950s was being studied heavily by many organizations including the CIA a
Huge turning point was in 1957 when light magazine published an article on psychedelics and instantaneously boost their popularity
the 60s assured in a new age of widespread psychedelic use before the American government shuts them down totally in the seventies and
declares the war on drugs
All scientific studies are put on a standstill
in the last few decades
It seems that psychedelics are reimbursing under the shadows and we are witnessing a second Delic renaissance
Many people are starting to see the true nature of these plant medicines and have been drawn towards them for one reason or another
Does it make sense it's something that has been used throughout history be vilified and criminalize as they have been today
In the 60s there really were used in dysfunctional ways and
created a lot of suffering and
That covered their possible therapeutic use. It's very much like The Sorcerer's Apprentice when I'm not you get something very powerful
But whether it's beneficial or whether it's harmful depends on who's using it and for what purpose so in the sixties
They were very often used
in negative ways because there wasn't under the guidance of
Experience and and wisdom well before I took psychedelics ever we have to go pretty far back
into the 60s because
you know my brother and I were really children of the 60s and we were
influenced by the social movements around especially LSD LSD
Was it was the you know the analytic psychedelic of that era much as ayahuasca?
Is now so we knew that these things were there but very few people had access to them
After Wasson's articles about the magic mushroom cults in Mexico came out
That actually predated the 60s his article in The Life magazine in
1957 is I I think one of the big events that really brought
psychedelics into mass awareness
Life magazine was on the kitchen table of every house in America
Practically and everybody was pushing everybody was exploring about what is this new phenomenon of psychedelics?
And what does this really mean? They have been around long enough for people to really give a negative impression
Yet even though the government and the media was doing their best to kind of
show it in a negative light and
Eventually it was but at the time there was just a lot of curiosity
About it. The whole idea of consciousness expansion was even kind of a new cultural meme at that time and
So they weren't really
stigmatized in the
mid-60s, they were catalysts for change and institutions like governments and
Educational institutions and religion don't like change the women's movement the metal movement
the anti-war movement
All of these things were directly influenced by psychedelics and I at critical junctures in human history
psychedelics have
Always been part of and continue to be part of it. I
Don't think they're for everybody
I think what happened in the 60s is that too many people started doing them without any respect for them without any knowledge
without any context and
The society wasn't ready for so many people the society was still very adolescent
What I saw was this massive crackdown that not only criminalized psychedelics
But stopped all the scientific research all over the world
Wanna join me here won't you be seated, please? Ladies and gentlemen?
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to summarize for you the meeting that I have just had with bipartisan leaders
America's public enemy number one in the United States is drug abuse
what exactly are these illegal substances called psychedelics anyways a
psychedelic defined is something that causes a hallucinogenic effect or
Causes an expansion of consciousness some of the psychedelics you may be familiar with can are called LSD. Ayahuasca
psilocybin like magic mushrooms
DMT dimethyltryptamine
Mescaline peyote San Pedro cactus and the list goes on even sometimes MDMA will be put in the same category
All of these and many more they've just listed are classified as Schedule one narcotics
Sometimes in these troubled days the very thoughtless needs abuse has led to a living nightmare
addiction to drugs too often acquired with tragic carelessness
May take control of a life and force actions not dreamed of before
These addicts lights only work is to find money for drugs in their desperation. No means is to follow
The most restrictive drug classification is a Schedule one substance
Schedule one substance is
No
recognized medical use
potentially dangerous
Highly subject to abuse or addiction in other words, no redeeming value at all
Okay
a little bit of health news for you a single dose of
Psychedelic magic mushrooms can make people with severe anxiety and depression feel better for months doctors with new
New York University and Johns Hopkins
University performed independent tests with the illegal ingredient psilocybin they found it helped cancer patients relax and
Ease anxiety and depression in 80% of the patients studied in some cases the effects lasted
that is a great arbitrariness and the definition of was should be legal and what isn't
so the example I often give is that of
opiate use versus cigarette smoking
Cigarette smoking is far more harmful in terms of its health impact and its destruction of human life
In other words, give me a hundred people with smoke and other people who use opiates as long as I don't overdose
Those hundred the opiates will be far healthier
Thirty years later than if they smoke cigarettes and more many more than will be alive
So which is the more harmful substance no question
It's okay to go and get drunk because that gives you a little break and then next day despite your hangover
Back to the job, you know, or it's okay for Big Pharma to prescribe all kinds of consciousness altering drugs
to
Psychological issues such as depression or hyperactivity disorder these accepted consciousness altering subject substances like alcohol
Like the pharmaceutical drugs, they actually in a way underpin the entire solving state of consciousness
but psychedelic state
psychedelic sleeped questioning about everything about ourselves about our place in the world and about social structures and
This is something that the dominating powers in our society don't want to see happen
so I was trying to find out how many people were dying of overdose and
On these psychedelic substances and was very hard to find the numbers were so low was hard to even find data on them
you know as the in this chart here, you'll see the amount of deaths caused by different sorts of substances and
Psychedelics were not even big enough to get a blip on the list
It didn't even make it on the radar
The number of studies that are now out there that are showing the benefits for you know
emotional physical mental
Are growing in number every every single month and it's very very promising to see where the future might go with this stuff
so I was curious to see what were the effects not only on the user but also on society and it just so happened that
a guy by the name of David Professor David J Nutt had already done this exact study and he ranked all the narcotics and
substances on a scale of 0 to 100
and basically 100 being the worst and
Zero being the best
the one that scored the highest was alcohol at a number of 72 and things like LSD scored 7 MDMA scored only a 9 and
psilocybin was a 6 showing that the the
Relative, I guess dangers to people and the people around them was relatively low. Most people aren't aware
But in 2001 Portugal decriminalized all drugs
their drug-induced
mortality rate
went from one of the highest to one of the lowest in the world and in addition to that an amazing side effect was that
Their overall crime rate reduced significantly as well
more and more people are saying this war on drugs is
fundamentally wasteful racist is
Focused on building prisons instead of building schools. And so I think there will be a general
switch in society towards
public health rather than criminal justice approaches to the problems of drug abuse because
Legalization will not solve all the problems of drug abuse
it just solves the problems of the criminalization and prohibition just the same way that the
Legalization of alcohol and ending alcohol prohibition hasn't southall alcohol problems
But able gain which is another substance. That is really
dramatically and powerfully
useful and the treatment of opiate addiction
In fact, it's quite astonishing what it can do but somebody did approach the pharmaceutical companies
so I heard
where they began and they were
not interested because why would they be interested in the substance that a person only used once or twice and then
Addiction is finished
They're not sure to make methadone or other substances that you have to take daily for the rest of your life
In fact, we so freaked out the DEA both the things because they had no idea that the MDMA was used therapeutically only
Ecstasy was all that they were aware of so when this group of doctors from Harvard Medical School on elsewhere
You know
We're on this petition that I filed with DEA
we took him totally by surprise and
Then when the hearing started happening and we were getting this major media with all these religious people it's talking
They just didn't know what to do and they panicked and so they put MDMA they criminalized that in an emergency
basis while the hearings were still going on and
Eventually, we won the hearing the DEA administrative law judge said that MDMA should stay legal for therapy
It should be illegal for recreational use but legal for therapy. So there's definitely a prohibition that has been going on
with hallucinogens any type of substance that alters the mood or alters the mind and
these prohibitions as much as they may be looked at as
the government or the man
enforcing rules upon us and
Whether they may be arbitrary or not
There's a lot of talk about keeping hallucinogens out of the hands of people making them illegal passing legislation to make it
very difficult and
punitive when you get caught with
hallucinogens a culture like that
Of course
you're going to people saying that they don't want us thinking and using the day as
Whatever forces they maybe that's what government is all about. It's about that gray area and finding the balance between
Protecting the people and all and not cracking down too hard and imposing rule on everything in life
Now I'm no science major
But I found it quite interesting that the molecular structure most of the psychedelic compounds was very similar to the endogenous
neurotransmitters things like serotonin dopamine norepinephrine
The other thing that's quite interesting is that DMT the mother of all psychedelics dimethyltryptamine
Is found within our own brains in our pineal glands. They say it's released during dreams
Potentially at birth and death and even in near-death experiences
Now the psychedelic experience can be joyous and ecstatic and it can also be scary and challenging, you know
But every every experience is different for every single person and even every experience that you have within yourself can be different every single time
Do they make possible creative achievement and a more valid and intense perception or do they merely
Substitute an unreal fantasy world. Well the sometimes harsh facts of reality. Oh
Yes, I think that I experience things much more intensely now
I felt this warm fire shoot up the right side of my body Jamie Lee just filled me with this warmth
And then I look off in the distance and emerging out of the darkness or these purple and green beams that look like aurora borealis
Like they look like Northern Lights and they start waving towards me
and so these beams of light then wrapped themselves around me and I look down and it's just like I'm
Covered in Northern Lights, which was pretty cool and the beams then roll me over onto my left side into the fetal position
And I'm lying there feeling the most comforting deep powerful maternal presence that I've ever
Encountered and it was so like nurturing and comforting and no discredit to my own mother
but this was the greatest mother in all the universe and I knew that and so I'm about to close my eyes and then
Boom I hear this. So wow. So wow. Wow
Wow, and it's the shaman or Mohan as singing what they call eco rose
They claim that it's a song that they channel from higher powers, and it's not really of their own creation
and they use it to guide those who drink the ayahuasca through their
experience and as he's singing it these orange and blue shapes are emanating from his mouth and just like expanding across the room and just
Filling my entire perceptual field like this gigantic cloud at that point these three
beings
float into the right side of my
Perceptual field and I called them humanoids
they were about two and a half feet tall and all three of them were just
Expressing love and it was all telepathic like they were just like imparting it to me and like filling me with it
they start showing me all these lessons about love and just loving all things and for example
Love being that it's allowing all beings to make their own choices as I started
encountering more and more of these spirits
I recognized that they were
Infinite and it was like peering into a night sky and you see stars and then you notice that there are stars beyond the stars
It was like their spirits beyond the spirits and I was navigating this realm
in my consciousness and like beyond my consciousness to is it was separate from me and it was just like I was
Swimming in a sea of spirits in every direction. I looked it was infinite. So the psychedelics are really interesting because
They take you
within and without
You know in a way that you don't normally experience
It's kind of a mystery actually because just from the very basis that anytime you take a psychedelic. You really have no idea
where you're gonna end up which is why it's so important that if
you're gonna do it that you do it in a really good environment and
Among people that have a lot of love and respect for you. And so where do you go?
I mean you go you you go into
Everything you go into yourself and into into the environment around you more so than you normally experience
And so it's really quite a remarkable experience from that perspective
It's always gonna be different but it's always gonna be unique
But of course the biggest thing is really just to be safe about it. No matter what the environment is just as important as what
substance you end up taking and at the end of the day it really is about a
truly in-depth exploration of the self
Yeah, that's the purpose of ayahuasca to go into the unconscious that the person who gets scared just means they have fear it's not that
I wasn't cause fear so they already half year that I was taking them into so what what they
You know
Described as a bad trip is their inability to integrate what I was showing them which is their unconscious which was their fear
Which is their shadow, so if they've come to I was gonna feel light and love and you're not ready to drink ayahuasca
Because that's not what life is life is certainly at the part of life
There's light and love but that's not all they're all there is there is also shadow and the shadow is our teachers
So if you come to osku you have to be absolutely committed to learning from your shadow
Otherwise you are gonna have challenging experiences
You know, that's the purpose of ayahuasca. That's the way the indigenous people have used. Ayahuasca. It's a tool to
Become more conscious so that fear comes up now you're conscious of the fear
That's not a bad thing. That's a great thing
But you have to be ready to work with it and integrate it. I was actually in Boracay in the Philippines and
Girl from from Brooklyn who was a shaman?
No, we were friends and she knew my problems. She actually tried to work on me before and
She saw him Facebook
I was there and she was going to a
Retreat in Cebu and she stopped in at me and she said hey there's this there's this
guy that I knew who was just like you as a matter of fact, he was even worse and
I found that hard to believe but she said he was even worse and he went to
Do this plant medicine and that did the plant medicine one time and he changed his life and I thought you know what I tried
Everything else. I'm scared shit of doing
Plant medicine. I'm scared to death of you know, some kind of crazy trip or something like this
I said I'm scared to do it, but I'm done. It's my last chance the way this medicine works
It's a little bit different
he gives you the medicine and then gives you a blindfold you tap see on the tip of the head and
Tells you when you can
says
When do you tell me when you see my finger and I'm about to say well?
I can't see your finger because I have this blind foot. I see your finger all the sudden
I saw the dude's finger and I'm like
I have a blindfold on I know I have a blindfold on I'm not in Kansas anymore
This is I didn't even really believe in God
I was in church every day in my life, but I didn't really believe in God I
God for me was a side bet in case shit went wrong
Like if it was a genuflecting here and there and said some prayers just in case it was real
I had no feeling towards it
So all of a sudden I'm looking and I see this guy's hand and he says look at the ceiling
I look at the ceiling
He looked and I see the ceiling looked through the ceiling and I looked through the ceiling and he said do you see stars?
I said yeah
He said jump to a star and I jumped to a star and I was flying
And I'm like what the hell is going on here. He said look to your left
You see the moon nice. Look my left is I see the moon. He said go to it
So I went to the moon and and I couldn't slow down and I dove into the moon and my feet were sticking out of
The moon there's a truth
But the whole time you're talking to the shaman tell him what's going on and he's telling you what to do
So you have these things on this experience has happened to you. Like I guess like virtual reality. This is happening to you yet
I'm hearing him and communicating within so I'm in both places, right?
So he says I said, what's my first cuz he give him 10 questions. He writes him down
I said why am I so effed up?
That was my first question all of a sudden my soul turns into the 3 year old me. He's holding my hand
I'm walking a baby into a house. And as soon as I get around the house I can smell food
It smells like Turkey. There's being Crosby music playing there's snow outside
It's like around Christmas. There's a Christmas tree
I smell pine pine needles Nishant right and and I get the immediate feeling. That shit's not right
And and so I go with the kid and I see a stain that I made item
I would never remember making a stain at 2 years old
But when I saw it with my kid with my meat I go holy shit. I did that
I remember doing that and making the stain right on the wall
It was a cranberry juice stain on a wall and so we walk in
to the thing and we're going to this coke closet and he's telling me
where to go like pulling me and as soon as I see the coat closet
I know things are gonna get probably worse at this point. I open the coat closet and
My grandfather has his penis all over me
As a as a kid the three-year-old boy and so I'm like, oh well to me that explained a lot of things
I'm like, well that that's why I'm so crazy. That's why I can't connect with women. That's why I can't connect with dudes
I can't really connect it's weird. It's like, you know, I was so shut down, right?
so
was the best night of my life so the things this so I found out what was wrong with me and
I was just in such awe the whole time
So like it was a crazy crazy thing and then the next day I no longer wanted quit smoking cigarettes. I
Could drink I was drinking 10 drinks a day. I could drink two drinks and not drink another drink. I could I
Wanted to start eating better. I wanted to do these things and not that I was trying to do them
I just wanted to do them I something in me
James
The human brain after all is made for thinking not fumigating
It's hardly a tinkertoy for experimenting with drugs
This has been the public service message of the American Medical Association and your local station?
it's extremely hard to speak about the experiences of
Psychedelics or plant medicines to somebody who has no experience
The best way to describe an ayahuasca experience or a mushroom experience is to take the tea or to take the mushroom
right
because so much of the experience is inexpressible is
ineffable
Which is why we spend so much time coming up with language
things
Although it's very difficult to describe what a psychedelic vision looks like
There have been artists who have been able to recreate somewhat accurate depictions of these visions. I
Also found it quite interesting when I heard about a guy by the name of Sean Thornton Sean was an artist Webb pineal gland cancer
That's the gland responsible for the production of DMT within our brains
Now these mental effects to the confirmed LSD user to the Evangelist if you will are felt to be
religious and beautiful and godlike
Perhaps because they expect them to be
Realistically speaking. They are nothing more nor less than a period of insanity
So where does spirituality come into all this can you have a spiritual experience through a psychedelic
The question was of such great curiosity that Harvard actually conducted two experiments. One of them called a Good Friday experiment
The other was a done by someone named Walter Pankey
They concluded that yes
you could have a spiritual experience through the use of
Psychedelics and not only that it also lasted a very long time after the experiment had taken place
I read a book by Robert Mueller and he was the assistant secretary-general of the United Nations and the
Book was called New Genesis shaping a global spirituality
It was a brilliant book and I wrote him a letter and I said I really was moved by your book
But you don't have a word about
Psychedelics and I so I wrote to Robert Mueller and I told him about the Good Friday experiment and I said right now
MDMA is a psychedelic drug. I'd learned about it in 82 and 84. It was still legal and I said it's still legal and
Would you be willing to help open the door to psychedelic research?
At a college undergraduate gets this letter from the assistant secretary general the United Nations
And he said you understood me perfectly and I do
Think that psychedelics could be helpful and I will help you to try to bring back psychedelic research
And here's a bunch of people who are in the spiritual traditions that I'd be interested to know what they had to say
And so I kind of read between the lines and I heard him say mail them MDMA
So this was brother David Stein Darras who's a Roman Catholic monk
Vanya palmer's who was head of the Zen community in Switzerland Wayne, Teasdale a Catholic monk
Rabbi, Zalman shakhter who was Orthodox rabbi? So MDMA was legal
So I mailed them MDMA and they one of them brother David Steiner Ross took it in the monastery
Other people took it in their religious practices and then they wrote back to Robert Mueller that yeah really can be helpful
so that kind of confirmed for me this theory of social change that if people can have
Experiences of spirituality and mysticism whether by psychedelics or not other means are fine, too
that is a strategy towards peace and that reaffirm my commitment to bringing psychedelics back and trying to
mainstream them into Western culture people are not finding
Meaningful experience within our culture meaningful spiritual experience within our culture people have a longing for that
there are many people from
traditional faiths
Whether they be
Let's say of the monotheistic variety the Abrahamic traditions of Judaism Christianity Islam
who have
participated in
Ayahuasca ceremonies and have found that it has deepened their faith
right because it has given them a
direct personal experience of
Who knows? What the Virgin Mary Jesus?
different Saints
Or just a feeling of being embraced by the Holy Spirit
In fact, some people have said that all major religious traditions have at their root a psychedelic
beginning God created the brain in such a way to be able to communicate with us and
This goes a long way in explaining
You know why there is for example DMT in the brain that it helps
mediate the
visions which God uses to communicate certain information to us and
You know that information
can be
Evolutionarily useful or not. It might be psychologically useful or not
One of the things that they have been used for for thousands of years is to help people have spiritual experiences
And the essence of the spiritual experiences a sense of unity a sense that we're all connected the sense that there's one larger
System, you know on the planet in the universe and that if you can feel that
Then people that are different from you are actually more similar to you than different that we're all part of the human
family, and if you can identify as part of the human family instead of my country my
religion my race my gender my sexual orientation all these different ways that we
subdivide ourselves that if people could have a deeper
connection to life itself to the planet to everybody that then that would be the ground at which
Peace could be made the UNESCO Charter
Says that since wars begin in the minds of men. It's in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed
So this DMT that's inside of our brains this natural psychedelic I was really curious, you know, how do we access it?
So I went on a quest I started exploring different methods, you know, I tried meditating. I did crazy breathing techniques
I went to go train with wim HOF and learn his breathing techniques and we jumped in frozen lakes and I went out into the
Cold. I also participated in Inipi ceremonies Native American sweat lodges
At one point I went on a fast for 55 days
I lost over 40 pounds and at some point during that fast, I would not eat or drink water
So I dry fasted for up to 100 hours straight and on this quest. I reached many different altered states of consciousness
Nor near where I had reached with ayahuasca or any of the psychedelics, but there was something there but it just wasn't exactly the same
Here's how it explained the difference between taking a plant medicine or any medicine in order to open yourself up and
doing it through breathing and movement, you know, by the way shamans have been using breathing and movement and dance Oh,
Drumming bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum rattles
Did you did you do they've been using sound and movement in order to alter their states of consciousness so that they could receive
Information about how to heal others from the very beginning and that's not to say that plant medicines weren't a part of it
But that is to say that they also
Understood and took great care to get into the intelligence of the body by opening it up with vibration
Movement and breathing in order to get the information in order to expand, you know
When you take the medicine and boom you're waking up to things well, shamans have been doing that for generations
With just movement breathing and vibrations sound
So I was able to experience that first. I was able to experience opening up through
movement breathing sound
in the same way that a shaman would in that way and
I had my experience I had my evolution
I had all the gifts that were available to me many of which sound a lot like what people who have used met plant medicine
experienced and described which are the visions which are the downloads of insight which are the dreams that
Show up days and weeks
Afterwards all of a sudden it's almost like there is a now it's interesting that I go here
There's an opening a third eye opening and boom
You start seeing things that you couldn't see before the insights are there
by using
Bioenergetics active breathing active meditation over the course of three years
It had been a process for me. We're slowly
I'm opening up two states of consciousness slowly i'm tippy-toeing in two
different dimensions
Slowly I'm receiving the right information for me at the right time for my evolution over the course of years. It's a process
To this point where I got, you know at this point
I could change my state of consciousness now
With just a little bit of drumming a little bit of yelling and acting out and then I could work it I could work myself
into that type of state
When I experienced the plant medicine and when I speak to people who use it
it's like going from
walking around to five waking up instantly as opposed to
walking around and slowly
Waking up to yourself one way. I like to describe the difference between the two is
Active meditation and bioenergetics is like if you can imagine you're in a block of ice. We're all frozen in our block of ice
Active breathing is like the Sun
slowly melting and you know
You're starting to move a little bit a little bit more motility
And as you begin to ice melts and you begin to open up and then you become alive
The plant medicine is like you're in that same block of ice and someone takes a sledge hammer and goes
And cracks you wide open
That's why a lot of people end up
Going a little crazy because they're not prepared for it
I would say if you're going to use plant medicine begin with months of meditation first
That way you're familiar with the emotions that are going to arise a lot of people when they take that plant medicine, huh?
There's fear. There's there's uncontrollable sobbing
There's all this emotional reaction that they don't know where it's coming from, but it's been trapped in their body
They're just open to it now, and it could be very scary
But if you use active meditation you get in touch with your body and the way I'm describing now
over the course of a few months first
You will begin to open up slowly and process a lot of the junk that's laying on the surface first
so that when you do take the plant medicine, there will be a greater opportunity for a
more enlightening
experience
so when I started doing breath work, I
Started to notice that we could access certain states of
- certain states of consciousness
that normally wouldn't be able to be achieved by just a
Natural practice and that I could achieve them pretty easily and pretty effectively what I find really interesting about
this is that I've been teaching this stuff all over the world and I've been meeting so many people from so many different practices and
a lot of times they tell me when I do the breath work with them and
It's important. You can't just
hyperventilate and dive into this stuff
It's very important to do this in a in a proper setting in a safe way with proper guidance
But whenever I do this with people and they get into this state a lot of times afterwards
They say things to me like oh, I've been I've been in an ayahuasca journey
and I've had a very similar experience or somebody says I
Had an LSD experience and this was a very similar thing or they said I have been in a sensory deprivation
Tank for so many hours and I had a similar experience a lot of times
we refer to this kind of breathing as DMT reading and this simply has to do with
The shared experiences with people of which they know that they've had DMT in their system
So with ayahuasca, even like smoking actual DMT and people would describe these experiences and these would be extremely similar
so the kind of
things that people see the kind of revelations that they have the kind of connection they feel to
The universe or whatever you want to call it
But also the kind of change that they would feel in their daily life afterwards. So
during those very deep breathing sessions people afterwards would say a
long time afterwards would say it's changed me in a profound way in a very similar way as to what people say when they
Use DMT
meditation drumming ecstatic dance sensory deprivation
Tanks sound healing therapies all have been known or reported to create Ultra states of consciousness
similar to a DMT or psychedelic experience
So, what did I find out after trying all these different
Modalities trying to you know, access altered states of consciousness
I got to some pretty interesting places, but nor close to where I had been on psychedelics
Maybe I need to try them a little longer or dedicate myself a little bit more
Sometimes some of these practices practices might take ten twenty or thirty years to achieve those
states of what they might describe as enlightenment or Nirvana
But one thing is for certain is that it seems like we're all climbing up different sides of a pyramid trying to get to that
top to that state that altered state and you know, maybe
The psychedelics is a shortcut
Maybe it's just a faster way to get to that same place some guys who have gone
The other route said that once they did try psychedelics
It did take them to a similar state that they had achieved through other meditating or breath work
So I think we are going to the same place. We're just taking a different route
So transformation, you know, the effects of psychedelics on people sometimes are so profound that
It's almost like nothing short of a miracle
People who have been in such a dark place for so long whether it's with addiction depression anxiety
You name it and in one night or in just a couple of sessions their lifes changed forever
some people say they got more in one night of plant medicine ceremony than they had in 30 years of
Psychotherapy or with a psychiatrist? I came to Canada in
2000 so
Basically didn't speak
During the week. Well, it wasn't easy. So I
was growing up with my mom in Toronto and
I
Would have visitation with my father. I remember probably taking my first drink from him when I was about
Seven or eight around there there was often times when I was with him where I was in unsafe
situations if I took a sip of his drink
Or sometimes he would just give me a little brandy that it would put me at ease and comfort
My mom worked hard to support us. My dad wasn't there for us financially and so I was put with a lot of babysitters
I was
sexual abuse
Issues and feeling really really really unsafe
I'd always sort of had a sensitive body, but I was
fully functional
I've been working a lot. I
worked at Harvard Medical School one day I woke up and I was in
incredible pain and
I
Would say that the day before that in a way it was the last day of my life. I
Couldn't get out of bed because of the pain I
Had gone to a series of very top doctors. I was spent - sent to a specialist after specialist and
They kept making predictions and they kept coming out wrong
Someone said to me you have to be your own doctor at one point
And so I started doing my own research
and they took a blood test and they feel that they checked almost every box on on the list and I
Asked the rheumatologist. Can we?
Check for a scelera derma because luckily unlike a lot of these other diseases
There's a there's a test for it and after six months, I found my own
diagnosis which is scleroderma and autoimmune disease which
Hardens the connective tissue in their body which holds her body together
So I slowly turned into a mummy
about three years down the road of hard work and you know virtually
Imbalanced lifestyle it's work work work study study study
One night
It all exploded. I basically woke up in the morning about 5:00 a.m. And just like feeling so
bizarre and weird and it's like
Everything was spinning around. I basically was losing my breath. So later on I realized there was a severe panic attack
I didn't know what to make of it is basically it was so overwhelming and then basically that shifted everything in my life
I lost sleep completely
The anxiety attacks were going one after another like an avalanche day after day
Suffering during the day not sleeping during the night thinking the craziest thoughts like they would be just the thoughts were coming by
Themselves, you know things really started getting getting weird. You know, I started my blood pressure dropped like 60 to 80
My pulse went up over 100 always tired and not being able to relax or sleep or or anything finally
I just realized I need to go to the doctor and it's interesting oddly
now the doctor looked at me and like said you find you're just going like many people are going through stress is like
You know many immigrants do go
But everything is fine with you you just you know need to get it together
Didn't offer me anything you didn't offer me any counseling. You didn't offer me anything at all. It's like I left the office
Virtually with the same knowledge that I entered in the office
I just realized that I no longer can can can support like I can no longer be in the family
So I I declare to my wife that I'm leaving that we need to separate because it's taking too much on me
I I totally started losing it started getting to all sorts of conflicts at work
They let me go I work for the bank for for four years, you know, very good good place, you know went for welfare
and started getting good from Salvation Army and
if you know any notion of what it is to be out of your mind that what that was what I was there's like a
Mental hospital, you know people are there they're walking
But you know lights are there but nobody's home. I found myself by age 11
going sinking into the bar and pouring a little bit of this and a little bit of that then I started with
weed and that got into cocaine we came back to Toronto and
was introduced to was looking to score cocaine and was introduced to heroin and that
Was really that I would say is my drug of choice. Everything else was
Went by the wayside
like I didn't wasn't interested in more alcohol and cocaine as my addiction progressed and it was very easy for me to slip into
Prostitution. I was not high functioning definitely not that was my primary relationship a hundred percent was my relationship with my drug. I
could only
Facilitate that by having relationships that made that possible
School ended everything ended and that became my life it ended up
me getting arrested and
I
got put on methadone Oh being in methadone clinics for
Like 17 18 years. I
Didn't really see anybody getting off of it
With it is widely prescribed and I didn't see anybody getting off of it without going back on
some kind of either prescription opiate or or
Street
you know drug they were gonna do a
year-long thing for me which was
Like four months or three months to to build me up to a place that would hold me and then keep me there
For six months and then three months to take me off of it. It keeps the
User in an active form of addiction because you have to wake up every morning and take it to feel
To feel normal that one year turned into many many many years with addiction
You have to be at a point of readiness and most people are forced
Into going on methadone because they can't afford their drug anymore or they're in legal trouble or they're gonna lose their child
so it's not them making a conscious decision that you know, what I've reached a point of willingness and readiness and and
This is the way that I can get to clarity
I've been clean and sober
since August 11th 2005
Besides the methadone. I got off street drugs and alcohol
From what? I understand you get maybe 10 years maximum to live and it's a very painful way to go
I was in tremendous pain and I was bedridden I travelled by stretcher by ambulance for
three to four years
and
I was told that there was no hope I think at one point I was taking a 32 pills a day
I knew I was going to die
But I was very close to death for a very long time and the pain was was tremendous
I didn't sleep for maybe two years even tucking in a sheet was too much weight
So I was sort of like a cadaver and they would just lay the sheets over me. I
Contacted a place in the United States
With nurses who will sit with you while you euthanize they won't help you. That's not legal
But they'll be in the room with you while you do it. So I was really looking for a Hail Mary pass
At that point I started to look actively for help
Outside the medical establishment. So I started because I'm a software development. I do a lot of internet
So Internet is is like home for me. So I started browsing. I started finding people
with similar stories in and then then I
met a lady who became my friend my girlfriend Natalie, so she
Introduced me to to
cannabis and
that was to me the first point that that that I actually
learned that that there is hope because
after I tried it I
fell asleep
After about
Four five years for for insomnia all I needed from for my doctor whom I talked to five years
previous to that experience the doctor who has been trained to
Understand human humans to relieve them from their suffering
Did not talk to me about the existence of human cannabis, which is known to heal stress
insomnia and
Then I had to go through all the conflict to throw to lose my family to lose everything my job
In order to meet that lady who is dr. A-hole. He doesn't even have
the actual education but she gave me the gift of cannabis and I fell asleep at that point I thought
That I was clean like I thought that I had my life changed so much
I went to a like my 13th treatment center all this time
They're saying they're bringing doctors into all these places to prescribe me my methadone and I'm saying well
Maybe I should start tapering. My methadone. We saw are you kidding? Just look what look where you've come from
Look what you've done just think of this as your insulin like, you know, this is just your medication
This is prescribed and this is your medication and like just be grateful
For where you've come from, you know, you're a miracle so I met my husband in 12-step rooms
He's recovering out--it's alcoholic as well. And my now husband and we became really good friends
I met him when I first got out of treatment
We were friends for years and we ended up getting married. And once we were married, I started like a pretty heavy-duty
taper of methadone and it took me to a place of
psychotic breaks like it just my brain was saying it's been too many years and
My brain my body my soul. My spirit was just
Absolutely havoc, I started listening to some podcasts
With a man named, dr. Christopher Ryan, and he was the first clear
Intelligent voice that that really articulated using psychedelics in another way
in a medicinal way because I had only
ever
Viewed it in in the typical way that our society
Treats it where I wasn't very interested in that. So I reached out to Chris and Chris said I don't know you very well
So I'm reluctant. She suggests this but if I were in your position, I would I would probably do ayahuasca. I couldn't
get to Peru I
Couldn't even get from my bed to my commode about a foot away from my bed without help I managed to
to acquire ayahuasca
I had spoken with dr. Gobbler mate'
who has had patients with scleroderma before and
He was able to give me some advice to help me
stay as safe as possible while I was doing it, but I just I couldn't move I
was reaching out to
like all different doctors head of psychiatry here had
Addictions at this hospital and they were all telling me the same thing. Well, you're on a smaller dose. Don't taper anymore, please just
Lisa please covet covet your recovery, you know coming out far you've come
and
I I knew that I couldn't I couldn't do it. I couldn't wake up every morning and have to take something and
besides that my I was nuts I was
suicidal
So my husband was reaching out to absolutely everybody in his
Father's a doctor his brother's a doctor. They were reaching out and
somebody told them about
Gabor mate' in one week three people gave us his book the realm of The Hungry Ghost and I've seen so many doctors
like I've been to so many specialists and and
Western medicine was just kept giving me the same message just stay just stay and he doesn't talk about psychedelics in his book at all
but what I heard was a different compassion from him like maybe
But I still didn't reach out to him. My husband sent him an email and said please help my wife. She's gonna die
She's coming so far. He happened to be in Toronto a few days later. I met with him and
He listened to my whole story and quite a lot of details said very little and at the end
He said I think I have a way that you can save your own life
so a couple of months later I went to Mexico and
I did my first ayahuasca ceremony with ayahuasca. I
realized that that I finally found the teacher that I needed in life and I was conduct on my heart a
lot of lot of things of the mind the mind just just
Down the mine just was after that night was quiet
It became quiet
It stop rambling about about small things, but about whatever it was rumbling before, you know
Any reasonable things and those stories and scenarios it?
Eliminated all panic attacks, so I have no panic attacks anymore. I have no anxiety anymore. I
Don't even know how it's possible for me now to have them
it's
It's not something that that that somebody takes a book and reads about it with this mind
And makes an some kind of conclusion. It's logical conclusions. It's not about that. It's it's a direct experiential
Learning Oh, what can you say and that's where the real life-changing began? It's not an escape
Everything I used
was to numb and to escape any plant medicine any plant teaching is going to teach you truth and
clarity and
connection and
it's the exact opposite of what I
Was seeking for so many years. You can come back from the pain
that you've been running from
You can stop running
This has helped me do it I have liver disease. I have hepatitis C and I've never been treated for it
ayahuasca brought my counts right down to from very high to
In the normal average range of a healthy human being you know, I also didn't have my menstruation cycle for 20 years
and they said to me like you're
Perimenopausal like it's not coming back don't you know?
Don't worry about it kind of a thing to working with a shaman and he said to me after her ceremony
He said Lisa you have three spirits in your womb and you have to release them and I said three spirits
He said did you ever have any abortions?
and I said, yes, I had two and he said no, I think you had three and I'm like, oh, okay Dave I
Had two but anyways
he said I need you over these next few ceremonies to really pray on it and like everyday meditate and and
Tell them why you couldn't
parent them and why you had to do what you did and the place that you were in when you did it and
Try and like let them be at peace and go. He said I think after they leave your period could come back and
I was just looking at him. I had just started ayahuasca and started working with this shaman, and I was like
Well, okay
And then I'm just hearing my addiction specialist voice like we should just trust just trust just trust his trust and I'm like, okay
So I worked on this over a two-week period I did about ten ceremonies. I've done nine ceremonies
I was leaving the next morning from Mexico at
7:30 a.m
Water Taxi, and
He came to me and he said Lisa we worked really hard. He said we need to do one more ceremony tonight
I'm gonna have a private ceremony for you. There's still one release that has to happen. I was like I can't do it
I can't I can't I got to go back to my life tomorrow and there's absolutely no way
Well, I end up trusting and doing this last ceremony
and after the ceremony, he said okay our work is done and I was flying home on the plane and
After 20 years. I've no cycle. I went to the washroom
and I had my period and
I've had it ever since
so I came home and I told my mom the story and I told her the story exactly and I said
But I only had two abortions. She said no Lisa, don't you don't remember at the very end you had three?
Talked about trust I tried it for the first time at the end of 2013 and
The first time I drank I could stand up and walk and
The pain was gone, it was just gone I
Threw up a lot. It was very painful that it was very violent, but it was very difficult to do it alone after
Two years. I
Was well enough
to travel and
finally get to a real shaman and
And I've been working with with him since December so about six months. I
Was so used to being numbed. I had no relationship with my body. I had no
relationship with my spirit like I was just
Vacant and
Ayahuasca
Showed me who I am who I was meant to be reconnected me with
Myself my soul
my life force
Like that flame that was always flickering inside of me as much as I tried to snuff it out and I tried hard
it like brought it to a full burning torch and
The beauty of ayahuasca is after I've had the a painful painful time
It shows me the most incredible life that I didn't even know existed in light and in connection
So I would say that's what it is connection
It's connection with my physical body my emotional body without question knowing that I'm connected to something
Bigger greater
Without any doubt like I have no doubt now, so maybe it was a rebirth thing cuz it was
Like I know I'm part of something bigger
Why any type of healing including ayahuasca?
Where you know true healing I'm not talking taking the symptoms away by medication or surgery
True healing the number one takes time and it's a transformation. So ayahuasca will
go into the root of
The the illness and it's all always tied in the some type of trauma that we hold
It's not actually complicated healing
It's about getting in touch with
What's present in your body now?
What you hold from decades prior or you know years prior and it's just a matter of letting that go
But we hold it we hold it, you know, and we resist it. My colleagues. My medical colleagues would say well that's an anecdotal
Piece of evidence. It doesn't mean anything
Yes, it's anecdotal there's no long-term
Controlled studies of ayahuasca in the treatment of scleroderma. How could that possibly be when it's an illegal substance
But there's other stories like this
Plenty of them and I happen to believe in the power of human experience, and I know I've seen it
I've seen it with other conditions
I've treated people with severe inflammatory bowel disease who can get off their medications after the ayahuasca experience
I know people with rheumatoid arthritis
Whose doctors have given up on them who are medications? Yes, these are anecdotes, but
at least it means that we should be taking them seriously and studying it in my opinion and I would also say
according to very well-established
research
evidence
all
Chronic illnesses with the exception of a very few genetically determined ones
all chronic illnesses whether it's mental illness like
ADHD which I've been diagnosed or addiction or depression
Or psychosis or physical physical illnesses like
The autoimmune conditions cancer and so on
they're all relatable the early childhood emotional loss and their consequences and there's more and more evidence about that and
Not only early childhood, but even what happens in utero?
So
It also means that if you can understand the connections and because the tremendous literature now showing the not the
connection but the unity of mind and body
the recent study out of Virginia
Just last week, but turns out that the brain is totally connected to the immune system
emotions are connected the immune system now, that's not new, but it was big news because people
Didn't know about it
But again more more proof
Thousands of research articles
So that given that the emotional system and the immune system and the nervous system and hormonal apparatus form one unit
It would be
Stupid to suppose that emotional experiences have no impact on our physiology
So I also noticed through some of the studies. I was looking at that at the root of all disease
There's something called inflammation. Some studies were showing that
There's inflammation and depression are linked
some studies are also showing that emotional trauma and
Inflammation are linked and there's also a bunch of studies that show that psychedelics have
Anti-inflammatory properties there seems to be a link
But what is it this inflammation caused things like anxiety depression and maybe physical ailments or is it a symptom of them?
Could there be an emotional link?
for example can emotional trauma cause inflammation
Then it's slowly manifest into emotional mental and physical sickness like anxiety depression or even disease
Could it be possible then that psychedelics could potentially heal these emotional wounds and potentially also reduce and reverse inflammation. I
Feel a lot more research needs to be done in this area
The influence of psychedelics on modern society is
Profound but goes relatively unseen. It is said that Silicon Valley
Was sort of inspired or founded with a psychedelic influence behind it. Go into 60s 50s
guys like Steve Jobs
Said that you know taking LSD was a profound experience one of the most important things in my life
LSD shows you that there's another side to the coin
You can't remember when it wears off, but you know
It it reinforced my sense of what was important
Creating great things instead of making money putting things back into this groove of history and a few many conferences as much as I could
other discoveries like DNA and the polymerase chain reaction were attributed to experiences with LSD and
Even bands like Jimi Hendrix or the Beatles totally revolutionized their sound, you know through their experiences with psychedelics
hallucinogens seem to play the role of
Breaking down our perception with reality that relationship is something that
we don't even see because it's a part of the way that we operate and a lot of the times our
Reactions aren't as obvious to us. We feel that they're brought brought on
Because of the specific circumstances when really those specific circumstances in our lives
They just allow for the right conditions for us to express ourselves exactly the way that we are feeling in that moment
Or something that might be building up over time
so taking something like mushrooms or
San Pedro ayahuasca, you name it anything that
DMT, you know breaks down the the typical way we see things and
Opens up new patterns new ways of seeing you listen to music on LSD
You're gonna notice different things in songs that you've heard hundreds of times
Films you'll pick up on different things
People's facial quirks that you never notice. They make all the time. You'll start noticing
How weird your cat might be is it just because I'm on mushrooms
you know these types of things start to occur to you you started questioning a lot of the most deeply held beliefs and
Concepts that we hold about reality in general
now the caveat all this is
doing it responsibly doing it medicinally possibly shamanic Lea has to do with something that serves the greater good and
You you'd find a hard time?
Serving the greater good if you don't even understand
The patterns that are deeply rooted in you that do not serve you and possibly harm you the chronic
addictions
Anything that we do have bitchu alee rather than intentionally science has not
Has not explained
What consciousness is?
It can describe certain aspects of it, but explain if it cannot do so
Maybe the brain is more like a receiver or a transceiver of consciousness right now
We don't know and it's an area that needs deep investigation and you know what?
We got the tools to do it and you've got the psychedelic. So there there is there is no more efficient way to
Put somebody into a deeply altered state of consciousness and to explore what that state of consciousness really means
And something like dimethyltryptamine DMT
You know, it's a very powerful force
Right now our society is refusing to investigate but it's refusing to use psychedelics as a modality
For investigating the mystery of consciousness and that's a great mistake and that comes out of the idiotic and monstrous war on drugs
gradually science is looking into new research with psychedelics looking at their therapeutic potential but the next
Is to use psychedelics to investigate the mystery of consciousness itself the larger picture. I think the
Role that psychedelics will play in neuroscience and understanding how our brain works in
Psychotherapy understanding more healing technologies and in developing a global spirituality and helping people be more
appreciative of
other people who are different and more aware of our commonality that
all of that will be developing and so I'm very hopeful for
The future and think that the incorporation and the mainstreaming of psychedelics into society will play a major role in
healing spirituality recreation
creativity and
cultural and human survival if psychedelics do become
You know accepted for for use in our society
I think that's where you're gonna know eventually
I think there should be centers where people could go to have these
Experiences and they won't look like hospitals. They'll look like spas
You know you go for a weekend to take
psychedelics with mom and the kids and you have a wonderful weekend you come out and you're
More evolved in wiser person. Yeah an ideal world we would drop this Western arrogance that we know better
We would realize that
As much as we have achieved
with Western technology and
science
we've also lost a lot and
what we've lost
our
deep wisdoms
Developed and lived by Aboriginal peoples. I mean it would drop the idea that there's only one way of looking at things
And we would allow ourselves to explore other modalities to be justified
Be proud of what we know and to be humble about what we don't know. I
think that we live in a culture of PTSD and
We're always trying to soothe our symptoms. I just sort of see that that we just got it all wrong. I I was in a
white hospital room
with sanitized, you know airplane cabin air for a very long time and
And really you need nature
And I think that's
fit that there's an arrogance in in the West of thinking that
We humans can do nature better than nature cats
So the story had been told ended up being far different from the reality. I'd experienced in this last couple years once I started exploring
psychedelics and this whole other world and
you know, it made me made me think, you know, were we supposed to you know have this experiences have this relationship with
Plant medicines and psychedelics and if we were you know, what happened?
How did we get disconnected?
Was or was it intentional where we severed from this relationship on purpose or did it just happen and are we then?
experiencing a deficiency
you know and I think that the state of the world and a lot of people on a personal level feel all this chaos and
disconnection and
You know, it only makes sense that something like psychedelics can help to heal both the individual and the world
is taken in the right context and
people have the opportunity to take it in a place where there is no fear of being caught for
legality reasons and
You know, there's their centers opening up now where people can have these experiences
So, you know
There is a promising sort of light the end of the tunnel
And I feel that the world will be a better place if more people can have these experiences. I
Don't find it a coincidence that ayahuasca is coming out the jungle and spread across the world
And I both out of Africa is now spreading across the world
The disconnected world we live in is starving for reconnection
Not only have they been used safely for thousands of years. They really don't fit the illegal status requirements most of them fall under
They have shown immense potential for spiritual growth and have support from the spiritual community as well
They also create experience has transformed the lives of many is
It time to reconsider the rule of plant medicines at psychedelics in our society
Is it time to at least allow people to have the freedom to choose for themselves that right to explore their own consciousness is?
It time for truth
It is not too much to say that in your hands lies the possibility of a 30 other tragedies like
We must work untiringly
So that our children are obliged to learn the truth
Because it is only through knowledge that. We can safely protect them
Failing this the next tragedy may be that of your daughter
or your son or
your
or your
or your
Thank you guys so much for watching psyched out I
Really think that you know with more awareness around the subject of psychedelics
It'll become more mainstream and a lot more money and research will get to go into it. So that
We can really find out the full potential that it has, you know, whether it's for health, whether it's for physical health mental health
Creativity, you know the sky's the limit Cinna in my opinion. So thanks for watching guys
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