Historically, the Grandmother medicine called Ayahuasca was not used outside of indigenous communities until recently. Usually the medicine person (ayahuascaro/ayahuascara) ingested the dark brew to obtain information as to the source of the ailment, rather than have the patient drink the medicine. It was also used to learn of the other dimensions and beings that resided there. They would "map" their travels so they could return to a specific area for divination and teachings. This was a lifetime path of acquiring skill and cosmic connections.
Today ayahuasca is ingested by participants seeking healing and insight. Drinking the brew opens the doorways to many different portals which novices are not usually skilled at navigating or interpreting. It is important that there is assistance and support. During my medicine work in the Amazon, I witnessed many healings in ceremony without truly understanding how the miraculous was made possible. During my personal engagement with ayahuasca I asked how these transformations were possible. She took me into a gold room and began showing me the imprinted templates that we carry in our energetic and physical being as a result of present and past-life experiences. These imprints control our subconscious responses to the outer world. Ayahuasca upgrades the dysfunctional responses with new options allowing behaviors that no longer serve us to drop away so that we can become more aligned with the perfection with which we were originally created. The DNA is then adjusted so that the enhancements are secured and functional at a DNA level. All this affects the body, mind and spirit as a whole and resets the defaults that we had been operating from.
Another Peruvian medicine called Huachuma (San Pedro) has recently been recognized by the Western world for its ability to also heal and expand awareness. It is a "heart" medicine: this extraordinary plant opens our hearts in a way that connects us to ourselves, the natural world and other humans. It shows us we are a part of "the Web of Life" which is the fine energetic thread that connects all of us to the infinite timelines we travel as spiritual/human beings. It is a complex matrix that includes all that there is, was, and ever can be. When we heal the fractures of our past it reverberates into the present and future bringing connection to that which was fragmented. All those who are connected to these events or timelines are also healed and come into alignment with perfect balance. No longer do the imbalances of the past need to be carried forward from generation to generation. We have the opportunity to mend our ancestral lineage and discontinue behaviors and traumas that repeat throughout the generations.
The huachuma has been used for thousands of years by cultures that existed in the Andean mountains. It was often used in a temple called Chavin de Huantar located in Central Peru. The artifacts found in the temple came from many different cultural areas proving that people came from far and wide to be a part of these sacred ceremonies. Chavin de Huantar is pre-Inca. Click on the "Life in Peru" tab to view pictures of this temple and much more.
The most common psychedelic medicine that has come through the psychedelic culture in North America is the psilocybin mushrooms. They have become more available as their recognition for healing properties is re-surfacing through modern medicine and therapeutic use. Scientific studies are revealing that they are effective in treating various types of stress and neurological disorders, just to name a few.
The use of hallucinogenic mushrooms predates the arrival of the Spaniards to the New World. The Aztecs consumed a substance called teonanacatl (God's flesh) in religious ceremonies. Later, Psilocybe mexicana was discovered to be the active component of teonanacatl. The use of mushrooms by people native to the Americas to produce mystical revelations during religious ceremonies continued into the twentieth century.
Historically, the Grandmother medicine called Ayahuasca was not used outside of indigenous communities until recently. Usually the medicine person (ayahuascaro/ayahuascara) ingested the dark brew to obtain information as to the source of the ailment, rather than have the patient drink the medicine. It was also used to learn of the other dimensions and beings that resided there. They would "map" their travels so they could return to a specific area for divination and teachings. This was a lifetime path of acquiring skill and cosmic connections.
Today ayahuasca is ingested by participants seeking healing and insight. Drinking the brew opens the doorways to many different portals which novices are not usually skilled at navigating or interpreting. It is important that there is assistance and support. During my medicine work in the Amazon, I witnessed many healings in ceremony without truly understanding how the miraculous was made possible. During my personal engagement with ayahuasca I asked how these transformations were possible. She took me into a gold room and began showing me the imprinted templates that we carry in our energetic and physical being as a result of present and past-life experiences. These imprints control our subconscious responses to the outer world. Ayahuasca upgrades the dysfunctional responses with new options allowing behaviors that no longer serve us to drop away so that we can become more aligned with the perfection with which we were originally created. The DNA is then adjusted so that the enhancements are secured and functional at a DNA level. All this affects the body, mind and spirit as a whole and resets the defaults that we had been operating from.
Another Peruvian medicine called Huachuma (San Pedro) has recently been recognized by the Western world for its ability to also heal and expand awareness. It is a "heart" medicine: this extraordinary plant opens our hearts in a way that connects us to ourselves, the natural world and other humans. It shows us we are a part of "the Web of Life" which is the fine energetic thread that connects all of us to the infinite timelines we travel as spiritual/human beings. It is a complex matrix that includes all that there is, was, and ever can be. When we heal the fractures of our past it reverberates into the present and future bringing connection to that which was fragmented. All those who are connected to these events or timelines are also healed and come into alignment with perfect balance. No longer do the imbalances of the past need to be carried forward from generation to generation. We have the opportunity to mend our ancestral lineage and discontinue behaviors and traumas that repeat throughout the generations.
The huachuma has been used for thousands of years by cultures that existed in the Andean mountains. It was often used in a temple called Chavin de Huantar located in Central Peru. The artifacts found in the temple came from many different cultural areas proving that people came from far and wide to be a part of these sacred ceremonies. Chavin de Huantar is pre-Inca. Click on the "Life in Peru" tab to view pictures of this temple and much more.
The most common psychedelic medicine that has come through the psychedelic culture in North America is the psilocybin mushrooms. They have become more available as their recognition for healing properties is re-surfacing through modern medicine and therapeutic use. Scientific studies are revealing that they are effective in treating various types of stress and neurological disorders, just to name a few.
The use of hallucinogenic mushrooms predates the arrival of the Spaniards to the New World. The Aztecs consumed a substance called teonanacatl (God's flesh) in religious ceremonies. Later, Psilocybe mexicana was discovered to be the active component of teonanacatl. The use of mushrooms by people native to the Americas to produce mystical revelations during religious ceremonies continued into the twentieth century.