INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION When a person comes into my practice with a request for help, he or she brings at least his or her parents and grandparents. If a couple comes to me, the two partners bring twelve more people with them. What do I mean by saying this? What I mean is that the person or […]
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The main question concerning consciousness is this: Is consciousness a product of the brain, or does consciousness manifest through the brain? The theories range from sustaining, at one end of the spectrum, that consciousness is the ultimate reality and matter only a relative reality, to the assertion, at the opposite end of the spectrum,
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SELF-KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING ONESELF This forms a big chunk of psychedelic experiences. More than often, during a journey the journeyer has the impression to be in the presence of a Being whose knowledge and understanding about him/her surpasses by far his/her own self knowledge and self-understanding. The journeyer can experience a more intimate dialogue with this
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Psychedelics are nowadays intensely researched for the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in war veterans. So far the research is promising, psychedelics, especially MDMA seem to be very helpful. These positive results are after treatment in controlled clinical trials, to which few people have access. Yet many people suffer of post traumatic stress disorder
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Psychedelics are known in our Western culture under two names: the mostly used is psychedelics; the other is: entheogens. “Psychedelic” comes from ancient Greek “psyche” and “deloun” and means manifesting, revealing the mind. “Entheogen” comes from ancient Greek “entheos” and “genesthai” and means inspired by the divine. You can derive their benefits from these two
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In order to better understand the pitfalls, it is important to know the main effects psychedelics may have on you: A: Psychedelics amplify and magnify whatever is in your mind, either conscious, unconscious, recent, or from the past; B: you lose control; what you experience may go beyond what you would conceive as possible; you
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Then Most psychedelics have been used for thousands of years by our ancestors in the Near East and in Old Europe, by the native nations of the America’s, and by tribes in Africa. They are known for ages in India. For all these peoples, they are sacred. They are consumed only in religious ceremonies.
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Psychedelics have in our world a long history. They were part of ancient Greece and Judea, where the roots of our civilisation lie. Yet in the 5th Century AD they were banned. Why? Because a new world order, patriarchal and Christian, got consolidated in Europe, who considered psychedelics as heathen, demonic, and the domain of
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What psychedelics / entheogens are is a mystery. We don’t really know. Even if they are synthesised in a LAB, like LSD, they are still a mystery. Every explanation resembles the description of an elephant groped by blind people: a pillar, a long pipe, a huge flat cushion. They are all right, and none is
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INTEGRATION Psychedelic journeys are powerful experiences. They are also unpredictable, even the same journeyer does not know what to expect from one experience to the next. In form
