We are each called in different ways to Spiritual Transformation. For many of us it is through a bone deep knowing that a more beautiful world and beautiful way to be alive is possible. So often we are called to true healing through our wounds, struggles, and challenges. That certainly was the beginning of each on my path, but only just the beginning. Like the butterfly emerging from the cocoon, the struggle gives us the strength to fly. Now is that time!
The master teacher plants and psychedelic medicines will bring us, one way or the other, to the ancient initiatory path. Eventually, no matter how much one holds onto the western therapy box, it will dissolve and both practitioner and client will stand naked before the infinite. Thus it can be extremely beneficial for those working in the ways of western psychedelic therapy to get hip to the ancient wisdom ways and realms of shamanic power. Shamanism is a hard knock school- because the stakes are HIGH- your very health and sainty hang in the balance. Please remember this, as you begin or continue your forays into these powerful states of expanded consciousness. The psychedelic journey is not without risk, just like one heading into the wild mountains you need to be prepared and have tools ready. We have created this course to help you prepare and have a foundational understanding and awareness of the great gifts, and equally great dangers, of the world’s most powerful psychoactive compounds and how to navigate the inner landscape of Entheogenesis.
The healing and awakening journey is a natural process of spiritual, emotional, mental, and somatic development that allows for more and more of the infinite light of Soul, what I call our True Essential Nature, to be embodied. You have to be willing to go all in. Full immersion. Anyone who works with the master teacher plants learns very quickly, once you have imbibed the divine sacrament, there is no way out but through. Just like the birthing process, there is only one way out and that is through. In the wisdom traditions and mystery schools this process of healing/awakening has been known as the powerful, sacred, and often combustible initiatory journey. Hallmarks of the initiatory journey include archetypal (and on the rare occasion literal): dismemberment, death (dissolution), re-birth (resolution) and new Life. The initiatory journey, like death and birth, is often messy. We dive deep into this in our online Entheogenesis course.
Although each of our journeys is radically unique in expression, this archetypal process of transformation and renewal is an inherent part of working with the master teacher plants, and even the designer molecules of the psychedelics. In this course we have the opportunity to deepen, expand, and learn how to enter this ancient wisdom with greater preparation and with some sweet tools and shamanic street smarts to journey with. It would be inconceivable to enter the big psychoactive initiatory ceremonies of traditional cultures without preparation, purification, and profound intention. This would be seen as not only outrageously disrespectful but as a sign of hubris.
No matter how you enter these states, be it in the wild jungle or the fluorescent lights of the clinic, one way or another if you continue with these states, you will have a shamanic breakthrough experience. The hallmarks of this are experiencing the alive sentience of all of creation; the interconnection of all beings, time, consciousness, and expressions of energy; how to heal the past through the present and the realm of ancestral healing; how synchronicity is the way Spirit speaks and everything has a teaching for you; and you will be propelled into the vast and complex realms of Spirit. We dive deep into this in our online Entheogenesis course.