Psychedelic Earth Medicine.

Psychedelic Earth medicines are allies in opening the aperture of our consciousness.

I will share a hybrid mechanistic, science-based, and psycho-spiritual personal perspective on psychedelic medicine here. Many other perspectives exist and do well to articulate the beauty and healing capacity of sacred psychedelic Earth medicines.

One way that psychedelic Earth medicines serve us is as de-conditioning agents. The conditioning of our body-mind is something that happens throughout our life consciously and sub-consciously. Conditioning happens when our brain and nervous system adapt to our bio-psycho-social environment by organizing neural networks that function as ‘programs’ to optimize our survival and energy expenditure. These programs arise as intelligent responses to our bio-psycho-social environment and serve important functions when they are initiated. The nature of our programming varies widely spanning across all modes of being and experiencing including the ways that we speak, move, think, sense, feel, intuit, imagine, and know. You can research the ‘default mode network’ to learn more about the neuroscience behind some of our neural patterning.  

As we evolve and as our life circumstance and environment shifts, some of the programs that once served us may no longer serve us yet they may continue to operate as if we were living in the past. Programs of this nature can be thought of as ‘outdated’ or ‘misaligned’. It is important to bring into awareness that the ‘past’ in this context can be our immediate past, early childhood, prenatal life, and all the way back deep into our ancestral genetic lineage and spiritual past. To become aware of outdated or misaligned programming is a crucial aspect of our healing and awakening and can be extremely challenging because these programs are often stored deep in our subconscious. Such patterns are wise and protective in their nature and hence they will not un-pattern unless we can bring awareness to them and, in a sense, let them know that it is safe for them to release. Psychedelic Earth medicines can be helpful allies in illumination - bringing subconscious patterns into conscious awareness as these patterns are ready to receive signaling for release or change.

The programs that live within our body-mind influence how we experience reality and can either be in alignment or out of alignment with living in most full and clear harmony with Life. Herein lies the deep and sacred power of the medicine: when our programming is out of alignment, psychedelics can be helpful allies in temporarily lifting the ‘veil’ cast by mis-aligned programming of our body-mind. With the lifting of this veil, our Essential Nature is revealed more clearly to our consciousness and thus may serve as a template to re-pattern us both consciously and sub-consciously into alignment with our Essential Nature in service of freedom, connection, and living harmoniously with and as Life. This “re-patterning” of our body-mind by the template of our Essential Nature is what some refer to as Remembering.

Note that I work primarily with psychedelic mushroom medicine and therefore the perspectives that I am sharing here are in reference to this medicine and based on my own experiences as well as accounts of the experiences of others.