Plant Medicine (Entheogens)

I am very interested in different modalities of healing.  Anything that you can do to transform yourself in a positive direction is worth exploring, in my opinion.  I have a friend that took an unusual path for her healing.  She had exhausted western medicine to no avail.  She was desperate and willing to try anything to help her be at peace with her childhood.  She was a victim of sexual abuse and it haunted her.  Unable to be in intimate relationships with a man or a woman, she longed to be free from the feeling of shame and quilt.  She used this unconventional way on blind faith.  This is her story in her words...
  
My use of sacred plants began in the late 90's.  I was aware of and had tried a few psychoactive plants in a party setting in my 20's.  I did not like the experience and quickly put it behind me.  When I moved from home, I was lost and searching for help.  Reading everything I could get my hands on I discovered that people actual use psychoactive plants (some call them Entheogen's - God awakening substances) to heal themselves from past trauma.  That you can actually rewrite the things from your past so that they empower you, not destroy you.  I read book after book on the subject and was convinced that I needed to go to the Amazon and work with a Shaman.  

Life stepped in and I never went.  Although, I did spend many years learning about the sacred plants and how to use them.  I experienced first hand the power that they posses and the places within yourself that you can go.  I accessed a part of my being that I would not have otherwise had access to.  I relived some of my childhood trauma on these journeys only to come out of it with a piece of myself that I thought I had lost, suddenly found again.  Years of sorrow and torment just disappeared from my being.  I was no longer the scared child caught up in my own horror of what happened to me.  I saw that yes this did happen, but I get to choose to hang on to the story about it or not.  It no longer haunted me, filling my every waking moments and thoughts with it's darkness.  I had peace inside for the first time in my life.  


I was entranced with the possibilities that these plants held for me.  I had a guide, who sat with me and made sure I was safe, and helped me through some rough spots in my being.  Soon, we traveled around the universe and I experienced places that I had only read about in mystic books and frankly, I didn't think were real.  But when you are there, their are no words, just being.  And you know beyond a shadow of a doubt where you are.  No explanations necessary.  


As time went on and I became more familiar with this state of consciousness, it felt more like home then here in this reality.  There were times when I didn't want to came back, it was so blissful, so pure and beyond anything I could describe with words.  I sat with God, and experienced him fully.  I wept and wept as to why me?  I had no idea why he opened himself up to me.  From then on he has guided me, comforted me and blesses me with his presence.  It became clear to me that he had a plan and I was apart of it.  I know there are things that I can not share with anyone, why would I deny someone the opportunity of experiencing these things on their own?  But I will say, there are places in the universe that are so special, so sacred that unless you have been invited there, you won't get to be there.  


Over time, I was able to integrate my experiences to this realm.  I saw the rat race that we all participate in and was able to separate myself from it and yet, still be in it.  I began to see that I express myself in this physical form that I call my mind/body, but that it was not me.  Of course, it is a part of me but not the whole.  Once you realize this within your self, you are set free from its constraints.  You are free to be who you are and recognize that the voice in your head is just that, a voice.  It's not real, and the less you listen to it the softer it becomes.  And once your mind isn't preventing you from experiencing who you are, well.... that's what we call nirvana.  


So this got me thinking.  Why do we have a one size shoe fits all for health care?  Even though their is story after story of people being healed of things that conventional medicine can not.  Past trauma's let go of, terminal patients guided to an easy blissful transition, old wounds healed and even scientists finding God.  With all this information about them being so powerful and impact full on us why do we still hold them as a negative socially? In Europe and other parts of the world Entheogen's are used as part of their medicine.  In fact, Doctor's in Europe are having such great results with the use of Entheogen's that they now have clinics that you can go to for healing.  

Plants were put here by God, who are we to say that they are bad and shouldn't use them?  Clearly, used in the right context they can be powerful allies.


Happy to share.....

All-is-one

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