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Every decade or so, a new cycle of personal development processes resurges - with overlaps from previous unfoldings. Given that I shall be giving presentation on <Psychedelics and Healing> on the 31st October as a pre-event to the Yallingup Wellness Expo the next day, I though it apt to begin an exploratory journey here…

Yoga, meditation, neo-paganism, various shamanic practices and ‘traditional’ (which rarely are truly so) practices make their resurgence through society in unpredictable and unexpected ways. To be open to the manner in which they form part and parcel of the world’s unfurling itself unfolds our own inner wisdom to remain open to ‘presencing’ the future (to use a term from Otto Scharmer’s Presencing).

From Ayahuasca in the Amazon, to Ergot in Europe, Peyote in Meso-America, the highly potentially toxic Jimson Weed in Asia, Iboga in Africa, various psilocybin-containing mushrooms spread across various regions of the world… amongst numerous other plants and animal secretions - each with unique alkaloid profiles, as well as their synthetic counterparts or ‘new’ derivatives such as DOM, LSD, or 2C-B, have or are being used for ceremonial, healing, and spiritually oriented practices.

Over the last few years, the use of psychedelics, not only to address those amongst our community who are suffering from trauma and other conditions, but as a means to increase personal integration, open to the spiritual dimension of reality, and improve general health, have made huge steps into social normative discourse and practice.

Not only books such as Fadiman and Gruber’s Microdosing; Tafur’s The Fellowship of the River, Strassman’s DMT, and of course Shulgin and Shulgin’s PiHKAL, have each extended a hand to balance the restrictive practices that across most of the world have been in place for the past 70 years or so. The outstanding but also increasingly available practices that either use plant and synthetic substances that alters perception for short periods of time for the purposes of healing trauma (whether these expresses itself in the form of C-PTSD, Anxiety or the numerous forms trauma can take) have been a genuine blessing for many - even when partaking of personal legal risks in some places.

Interestingly, none of the hallucinogens have the toxicity levels of either alcohol or of cannabis. Interestingly as well, most (if not all) of these, under an ‘hallucinogenic’ label, increase dendrite formation in the brain, hence also potentially increase creativity when used in the right environment - and of course here ‘environment’ is an equal psychoactive ‘ingredient’ in the mix.

An environment that sees plant medicine usage not as a ‘party drug’ (which for some may in any case be a step into deeper enquiry), but instead as a means to deeply access, reconnect, and heal trauma of all kinds, or open gateways to insights, to the future’s unveilings, and to the vastness of the underpinnings of being and existence that may otherwise be impaired. Or even to come home to oneself and to the spiritual dimensions of our being. These are the ‘traditional’ practices which are fast (very fast) being re-discovered, re-developed and enriched.

Personal Development, Integration, and Personal Healing practices have traditionally focussed on spiritual formation which includes facing and coming to terms with one’s own life-journey.

In the manner that I work, I include practices inclusive of imagery and meditation, the uses of certain extracts such as Blue Lotus and Cacao preparations, and some suggested movements and/or Breathwork. If you are interested in finding out more, please be in contact.

There are two forms this work takes:

a) intense session using ceremonial style Cacao and Blue Lotus (exchange is $590 individuals; $700 couples; $210 pp for groups of between 7 and 15). Each session lasts between 2-6 hours;

b) following an initial consultation, deepening work requires commitment for a once-a-month meeting for either 6 or 12 months (renewable if desired) - exchange is $260 per session, each approximately 1-2 hours.

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Also in the pipeworks:

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