A Cross Cultural Technology of Healing Consciousness Using Psychoactive Plant Medicines

[Alchemica]

Really cool article. We need to learn the subtleties of plant medicines, not just the "opening medicines". Yep, even a diet optimised with the right plants gets psychoactive in a subtly healing way.

 

http://phytoalchemy.co.za/2018/02/14/cross-cultural-technology-healing-consciousness-using-psychoactive-plant-medicines/

 

"...there appears to be a broad lack of attention in the West to the role of the other major traditional plant medicine categories besides the strong consciousness opening medicines. In this paper I explore the sequential use of subtle acting psychoactive cleansing, opening, strengthening and protection medicines that are indispensable in the successful healing and self-development process that indigenous healers undergo in both South America and Southern Africa, as part of their initiation with psychoactive plant medicines, and that this process can not be understood by focusing on the opening plants...

 

...the sequential use of subtle acting psychoactive plant medicines is indispensable for the healing process observed in traditional societies, and that Westerners would benefit in recognizing that shamanic healing is not only the use of opening plant medicines..., but a well designed process of using numerous subtle acting psychoactive plant medicines, in a sequence, in order to heal and transform a person, that requires time and patience."