Psychedelic Renaissance
Understanding where we want to go..
Today is a story of where I went last weekend, an experience of many & one of learning more on what is happening currently in the world of psychedelics & beyond. My interest in psychedelics beyond cannabis went to sleep for the most part while raising my kids & has vastly reawakened over the last several years. There was only one ābad tripā experience I have ever had, around age 19 due to the wrong mindset going in on shrooms while camping w/a few friends. All other experiences with either LSD, shrooms, DMT, etc of the more natural substances have brought me great peace, joy, insight, and growth.
~>DMT or dimethyltryptamine is not in itās natural form unless consumed within the vine plant, known as ayahuasca. DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) is the primary psychoactive component in ayahuasca, a traditional Amazonian brew.. DMT is a serotonergic hallucinogen, an investigational researched drug of the tryptamine family, itās structurally similar to psilocybin (magic mushrooms) & is known to produce short-acting and intense visual hallucinations. I haveā¦
Iāve never feared what is natural from the Earth, unadulterated by a lab. These days, lab made psychoactive drugs are being casually classified by some into the same group as natural substances. Honestly this alarms me, but doesnāt surprise me one bit. Drugs are drugs. Most concerning & important part is if they are safe enough to consume as medicine.
Plant medicine will always be plant medicine. Truly unadulterated by man, only made into an extract by adding hot water or another solvent like alcohol. This is what keeps the substance safe, never harming with continual use if respected & not overused. Why shamans & some spiritual teachers use as sacred medicine daily for insight & balance. Respect!
Going into the levels of herbs: 1-4, one is most mild & 4 being deadly-very few plants & fungi are! Always know before consumption, just in case!
At this Spirituality & Beyond conference in Oakland, Ca there were many diverse panels of speakers & a few musicians. Everyone was amazingly passionate about their craft or sacred offering to the world. Topics ranging from the Sustainability of entheogens harvesting to fentanyl test strips for Burning Man.
Today, the psychedelic world has expanded into other lab made substances known as dissociatives. The most popular one being Ketamine, discovered in the early 60ās is a well known veterinary tranquilizer & was an valued anesthetic used in Vietnam. Then, in the early 2000s, researchers began noticing something fascinating: patients who had received ketamine for surgery were reporting rapid and dramatic improvements in their mood. People who had struggled with depression for years suddenly felt lighter, more hopeful, in some cases becoming completely free of symptoms. Today ketamine use is on the rise in clinical mental health settings for treating anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Hopefully shifting more into this safer realm to avoid overdose & have safe access.
Unfortunately, many wonāt be able to afford the expense of these treatments!
These drugs are largely man made laboratory substances that have the risk of containing fentanyl if bought on the āstreetā. Dissociatives create the feeling of being out of body. Definitely a way to see self differently and even the world as being an illusionary experience creating an infinite perspective of what life essentially is. From what I gather, they differ though in not giving the psychedelic hallucination experience that traditional psychedelics do. There is a different molecular action happening here.
Reggie Watts, musician, comedian & psychonaut wrapped the conference up Sunday discussing how he came to be his authentic self through the early use of dissociatives from his mid teen years in Montana until the now. When asked what his favorite ādrug" of choice is he stated, after Cannabis, that it is Ketamine!
I have yet to try this substance. Clearly had been avoiding for the past 7 years, after hearing about a few unfavorable trips, one that lead to a death in the snow up in Tahoe. I feel drugs like this & others that are now being used widely by pshycho-therapists in clinical settings are meant for healing deep traumas & should be used in such a way under professional experienced guidance. Especially to insure the safety of what you are consuming. Over the past year, their has been a decline in fentanyl related deaths. The market is finally saturated & many have become more weary of whatās inside their drug of choice.
As you may have heard from one who has had a near death experience, one leaves their physical body, coming back altered, different, changed for life, but maybe in a better way than before. Maybe not taking everything so seriously, stressing over the endless conditioning of our culture.
I will always stand firm in going natural, always the safest, always the purest, & always plenty of options:)
Psychedelic plant & fungi medicine also can have a slight-medium dissociative effect, hence bringing into the realm of the drug types. As well as being medicine for higher ground, creating a positive mental health outlook if taken with experienced practitionerš
Going back to ayahuasca containing DMT, primarily classified as a potent, fast-acting psychedelic hallucinogen (a tryptamine) rather than a traditional dissociative (like ketamine), but it commonly produces intense dissociative effects. It acts as a serotonin receptor agonist, causing rapid, vivid hallucinations & profound detachment from reality & the physical body.
My own journey many years ago, definitely felt like I was out of body, butI sensed my physical body nearby.. š
As a mother on a mission to spread more healthy healing vibes & love, I pray that everyone stays safe & guided respectfully on their beloved journeys here!
Side Note~>sharing my latest music review(: Remembering Flea from the infamously amazing Red Hot Chili Peppers? He has dropped this creation recently & the video adds so much artistic expression!! He is such an amazing artist, look what heās doing nowš„¹ā¦ A friend of mine sent this one to me last week & I really injoyed as I always do when seeing what others are doing to spread more awareness, peace & love in the most creative ways!!
ā¦& if you havnāt seen this, definitely a must for Allšš¼
āBuild a Bridge, is where the Courage isā: Flea, A Plea
~Peace & Love
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