Medicine Guide

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What to expect 

The way to consume these sacred medicines varies depending on the medicine being taken, the age of the person, experience with the medicine, health, etc. During the experience, you may fell launched provisionally into the complete dissolution of the ego, which allows us to perceive for the first time, as an innocent child, the purity of all that exists. 

The mystical experience occurs when the observer fuses with the observed and consciousness is conscious of itself. It´s about a change in vision. In life, we can experience the divine through the human, but with this substance, we experience the human through the divine. We look for an instant through the eyes of consciousness molten into the totality of the present moment. These words represent only a mere intent to explain the inexplicable.

Personal Growth

Ego loss on this sacred medicines is often described in positive terms—even if the experience was terrifying at the time. Many see it as a process of death and rebirth followed by lasting self-improvements, including mental clarity, increased motivation, enhanced awareness, joy in living, and a sense of inner peace. Some have also had empowering “enlightenment” experiences characterized by a sense of inseparability from the universe or of being “all that exists.” Being forced to let go of the ego is precisely what draws many people to Sacred Medicines. The dissolution experiences can impart an understanding and acceptance of mortality that helps to overcome the fear of death. It can also break attachments with past trauma, negative behaviours, and habitual negative thought patterns.

How to prepare for your sacred medicine journey

Develop a deeper understanding of yourself as a multidimensional being. The spiritual practice of meditation and an awareness of the ego and shadow consciousness, within yourself, will help you easily navigate through the medicine healing. We suggest you have a strong spiritual foundation. The more you have cleared out of your subconscious, the more profound teachings from the medicine you will receive. Medicine first cleanses the emotional, mental and physical levels of your being before it will be able to teach you what it is you need to learn. It can take several ceremonies before some people are actually able to receive the profound visions and teachings the medicine can provide. However, it is the healing, the purging of the energy fields that is really more important than the teachings -although at some point; the teachings will be of tremendous value to you and your soul’s mission, but first you must purge a large portion of the energetic blocks that do not serve you.

Prepare your Emotional, Mental, Physical and Spiritual bodies

-Emotionally, discover what needs to be healed and released within your being. Become aware of it, so you can set a strong intention for healing to occur. Are you needing to release childhood trauma, anger, depression, addictions, attachments etc…. or perhaps you need to work on forgiveness.

-Mentally, do your research on the medicine so you will have a greater understanding of what to expect and how to manoeuvre through the experience with ease and grace. Prepare yourself to surrender. Once you ingest the medicine any resistance on your part is futile. Keep in mind any difficulties you may encounter are beneficial to your healing. Breathe through them and mentally tell yourself, this too will pass.

-Physically, prepare your body vehicle for the that might occur. Follow as much of the Shamanic Diet as you can for at least 2 weeks before you the intake of the medicine. The shamanic diet typically consists of no or little salt, no modern chemicals, no sugar (fruit that’s fine), no vinegar or fermented foods, no spices, no fats, no dairy, no caffeine or stimulants, no alcohol, no marijuana, no drugs, no red meat, no pork… 3 days prior to taking the medicine and 3 days after, no sex or any sexual activity such as masturbation, porn, intimate kissing, etc. The diet is a very important part of the healing process because you are actually ingesting the “Spirit of the sacred medicines” and you do not want anything in your system that could be a contraindication to the spirt of the medicine. Spiritually, it is best to have a strong spiritual foundation. Meditation will begin the process of bringing a higher vibrational spiritual energy into your being that will begin the purification process. Meditation will also help you connect with your inner being so when you are on the medicine you will be able to stay aligned with your higher soul. In addition, meditation will help you become aware of yourself as a multidimensional being and will also help you connect more deeply to the spiritual beings that work with you.

-Intention; approach the medicine with INTENTION but without any expectations. Your INTENTION is incredibly important. Before you ingest any medicine, we suggest you open up the lines of communication with it (spirit) through meditation a few weeks before you become “one” with it. When you ingest the medicine, it enters into your being…. you are ingesting the Spirits of It, as it is a multidimensional, it will help the energy to clean out your system. Connect with it and begin to form a relationship with the energy and your intention. We also suggest you ask the spirit of the medicine to “show you what you need to see in a way that you will accept with ease and grace.” Also, make a list before the ceremony with all of your INTENTIONS you have for your healing and also what you would like to learn. Your intention is an integral part of your healing and is usually exactly what you will receive and so much more…. remain open to what happens. Intention with NO expectations, and “BE IN GRATITUDE”.

How to create a clear intention

Intentions are the fuel to manifesting your goals and visions. An intention will help create more clarity in your life, especially when the seed is planted right before you start your ceremony. Setting an intention is like drawing a map of where you wish to go — it becomes the driving force of your higher consciousness. Without an intention there is no map, and you’re just driving down a road with no destination in mind.

1. Keep it positive

Make sure your intention has a positive tone. If your intention is to de-stress, then say something like, “My intention is to invite peace and calm in my life.” Try to avoid saying something like, “My intention is to fight this stupid stress.” Your chosen intention should always be positive, uplifting, and always in the present tense. You want to refrain from using any negative words.

2. Make sure it can evolve

Our minds are very clever ... when something new comes along, the mind is intrigued. But as time passes, the mind gets bored! Think about when you walk into a fragrant room — you can sense the smell immediately, but after a few minutes it’s not as potent. The same thing can happen with your intentions. If you stick with the same intention week after week, your mind will stop responding to it. The best way to resolve this is to make sure your intention or goal can easily be adjusted. If your intention on your first day is to invite peace and calm in, after few days you may change that intention to, “My intention is to enjoy the peace I create in myself.” Please be advised however, that you shouldn’t drastically alter your intentions or goals too frequently. The goal is polish and enhance.

3. Aim for the short term

It’s more practical to set an intention for the short term rather than the long term. You can still think of the big picture — just divide your long-term intention into few shorter ones instead. This will help you achieve a grandiose goal in shorter, more powerful segments. If your intention is to become more specialized in your profession, then first figure out the steps involved with advancing in your specific field. Then, once your intention is set, be sure to use it in your morning meditation. 

Living with intention

Treat it like a game and ask yourself: what is the healthiest day I can have today? Go hiking, meditate, call your father and tell him you love him, call your grandma and ask her for a story she has never shared before, she would really love that. Or do completely different things—just be sure to break up your routine. Do something new, something you know is good for yourself or someone else. This is called living your day with intention. Set the intention to complete any chores that are overdue or stressing you out. Clean your apartment/room so that it recharges and relaxes you to be there, as opposed to just reminding you of all the things you haven’t done lately. You want a completely open and clean consciousness. Trust me, it will pay dividends later when you are blasted to the centre of the universe to confront the Omni-self. Make sure you are properly hydrated; if you are not, your body will definitely let you know during the ceremony. The sensation of thirst is just one more string connecting your consciousness to your body. I want to remove all such strings and distractions so that the consciousness can leave the body easily.

The Journey 

Once your intention is set, surrender and release control. RELAX. Sacred medicines are beautiful medicines. It will open your spirit up. The medicine will embrace every aspect of you. If you find yourself in a difficult phase where old traumatic events and emotions are surfacing give gratitude and BREATHE. This is temporary and you are being healed at a very deep level. The Medicine cleans and heals you, and will provide you with periods of revelation, peace and a profoundly deep love….it will also show you your magnificence, your light! While the medicine is working on you, you will remain conscious…. you will know what is going on. Just remember to BREATHE through any difficult moments and remind yourself that “this too will pass. Give thanks to the medicine at any given time. If you find yourself in a difficult time, remember to thank the medicine for the teachings and ask what is the lesson you are meant to learn from that experience. Unless you get the message, the medicine is giving you, it doesn’t move you from there. Be very humble and loving to the medicine and yourself. Remember to feel compassion and love for yourself over all. The time window from taking the medicine until it starts working with you is going to depend upon the medicine being taken. Your spiritual guide/s taking care of the ceremony will have a 1 to 1 chat with you prior to the ceremony and answer all your questions. We use that time to be in silent and prepare our minds to be at ease with the medicine. Practicing some kind of meditation is good. You will be laying on your mattress, you may close your eyes and relax. Keep your mind clear of any negative thoughts you may encounter. Our favourite technique is to imagine that I walk into a room where is someone sleeping and I can’t talk at all, so we keep our minds shut at the same time as we pay attention to our breathing pattern. 

Face It

The medicine will show you your own life in a very honest way. You will learn why you behave the way you do. The medicine will show you your anger, ego, prejudices, shadow consciousness, pride, pain etc. so you can receive the healing you need and release what no longer serves you. The veils over your consciousness will be removed that typically blind you from yourself. This type of healing can occur through visions, through a deep level of feeling/knowingness. You do not need to fully grasp everything that is being shown to you. The medicine does not teach on a linear, logical level. It teaches on a multidimensional level that pierces through the conscious and subconscious minds. It will take time of integration to figure out the language so don’t get hung up on the “meaning of it all” your soul knows what is going on even though the egoist mental mind may run into confusion. Simply surrender to the healing. Understand that this ceremony is not just about taking the medicine and seeing visions. It is about healing (or purging) what no longer serves us and also it is a spiritual discipline. During the ceremony, we learn how to surrender, focus and also confront everything we like and dislike in our life with great love, acceptance and compassion. When we take the medicine in we are able to see a higher perspective and it teaches us how to be better humans….it teaches us about our true self, our highest potential and how we can cultivate higher spiritual qualities to help us deal with different problems in our human life.

Holding Space

The shamanic work, the ritual, the setting and the state of mind one is in will greatly affect the level of experience you will have. A good shaman/practitioner/space holder is one who is running the ceremony and is aware and in control of what is happening within the group. We make sure that the group is well grounded and anchoring you through sacred intention and by invoking protective spirits to maintain safe space. The space holders and the spirit of the ceremony work together; there is an immense intelligence within the ceremony of a really powerful shaman/practitioner/space holder. We make sure that the sacred ritual with the medicines hold safe, sacred space for you and us also make sure we are present to help you clear the blocks in your energy field that are rising to the surface to be cleared. Some of these blocks may be quite large and can be difficult to release. With all sacred medicine, it is unpredictable in that you never know what will come up from your being too released. It is possible to have 10 blissful ceremonies, and then one very profound deep healing ceremony that will be incredibly difficult, emotional, painful and may make you feel like you are dying (The power of a shamanic death). You will need assistance to help you get through this, and you will also need the protection that the ceremonial rituals provide. I make sure that facilitated environment is cleared and the SPACE is held with grace and gratefulness.

The Aftermath

The Aftermath and Integration of Your Journey. When the ceremony is over and it is time for you to go home, it will be important for you to remain committed to some sort of spiritual practice such as meditation, martial arts, yoga, regularly phases of offline and nature. Also stay committed to a healthy, alcohol and drug free diet. The medicines will expand your consciousness; however, you will need to connect with your inner being on a daily basis to maintain this expansion after you get home. At a very basic level, any sacred journey requires for integration, which means cleaning up your act in support of your newly upgraded self. Job, relationships, diet, habits, mindset—all these are up for transformation in the weeks following the ceremony. A second aspect of integration involves shadow work. Sacred medicines are a potent activator of the unconscious, bringing buried traumas, forgotten experiences, and rejected aspects of self to the light within your ceremony. Integration, in large part, is the process of absorbing and digesting this raw material; quite literally, incorporating it into your consciousness. This inevitably changes your perspective on life, self, identity, and purpose. As we continue, a third level of integration emerges: the task of bringing soul to the world, showing up as our true whole selves. We begin to cultivate a way of being that is in touch with what really matters. Our fractured modern psyches have been disconnected from Nature and one another, with consumerism and digital distraction stuffed into the cracks to assuage the pain of separation. Truly integrating our work with the medicine provides an opportunity to heal who we are as individuals, and as a species our perceptions, and the world. Through this process we move from blame to responsibility, from drama to dignity, from unconsciousness to awareness. All three of these levels of integration require tools and practices to support transformation—practical ways to work with body, spirit, heart, and mind. At minimum, we need to know how to deal with difficult emotions and destructive mental patterns, and how to sustain a healthy body that is both grounded on Earth and connected with spirit. If we have any insufficiencies in these areas, any sacred journey will expose them. It’s not the medicine’s job to magically remedy these deficits; it’s our work—integration work—to grow into new ways of being. It might be helpful to recognize that many of us are already walking the path of integration in our lives, and perhaps were long before we ever heard of sacred medicines. A basic definition of integration is “to combine two things so they become a whole.” We naturally integrate as we take in new information and generate new perspectives. Simply put, integration is the process of growth and evolutionary change—and humans have been doing this pretty much forever.

Eight Things to Do After You’ve Taken Psychedelics or any kind of sacred medicine

1. Take Time to Yourself

In Gabon in Central Africa, people are initiated into the Bwiti religion by eating the root of the iboga plant with a psychedelic dose very roughly equivalent to a food dose of its derivative, ibogaine. The new initiate, or banzi, then spends a week or so restricted to the village, talking their experience over with friends, family members and elders. During this time, the banzi is dressed in red to symbolize their new birth and they are regarded as hovering between the spirit world and this one. A blessing from the banzi is especially prized at this time, but you will have to pay for it—as a token of the banzi’s sacredness. The period of refection culminates in a naming ceremony where the whole community gathers together and chooses the person a new name based on the imagery that emerged during their ceremony and subsequent conversations. That same night the whole community will dance in celebration together until morning. In our culture, we don’t have the social cohesion to replicate this kind of post-medicine process, nor do we permit ourselves the time it takes. But we can still give ourselves permission to slow down, recover and reflect. It’s very good to take a few hours or days to lie back, drink tea, and stare into space. Maybe you want a friend to talk to or a lake to sit besides, as your head recalibrates. It could even feel like the glue that used to hold your ego together got dissolved and is now in the resetting process. Whatever you can digest in this period has the potential to stay with you, just as the initiate’s new name in Gabon stays with them for the rest of their lives. 

2. Write it Down

Research has demonstrated that memory is a funny old thing. Usually, we think of memory as a mental CCTV recording the vents of our lives, and although much will get lost or decay, the picture itself does not alter as it goes along. In fact, memory is a construct. It is deeply structured by our assumptions and expectations as it is being laid down, and each time we revisit it we create it anew, with plenty of opportunity for change at each iteration. The vast majority of false convictions in a court of law for instance, come from eye witness evidence. Now, along comes the super sensory mind-boggling psychedelic experience, where the only eye witness is you. Every time you recall this unclassifiable event it automatically gets reimagined, and therefore revised, and this is such a natural process you can’t even regard it as self-deception. The longer you wait to write it down, the more likely you are to wind up with a sanitized or romanticized version of events, because after all, every story improves with the telling. So, write it down, and write it down sooner rather than later—you did go to a lot of trouble to have this experience. Another good reason to write things down is that the images from the medicine experience are not just a nice keepsake—they can be extremely useful in ongoing emotional healing. You might find that a different form of expression, like painting, drawing, sculpture, collage—even gesture or dance—works better for you than words. But if you do not preserve the experience externally, your job is to create a storage place in your mind and heart so that it stays alive inside you.

3. How to Talk to People

Once the medicine is over, does it feel useful to you to talk to other people about what went on? If the answer is yes, who should you pick—people who have had a similar experience, or people you are close to and trust? Maybe you’re lucky enough for them to be one and the same. If you do decide to have a conversation, it’s good to figure out ahead of time what your need is. You might essentially want to vent and have the other person hold space and listen, or you might be keen to get their comments, feedback and advice. These are very different kinds of conversations, so it’s good to let the person know what you need ahead of time, so you’re not talking at cross purposes. Sometimes you want to say, “Right now I’d like you to just listen while I get this out…” and other times you may say, “I’d really like to know what you think about this.” Likewise, you need to pay attention to the other person as you’re speaking. Are they engaged and interested? Are they glazing over? Are they looking discomforted? If their attention is fagging or they are looking weirded out, you might want to wind things down or let them take a break. Like any other conversation, your job is to make sure the other person is still engaged and connected with you, and things are alive on both sides. Also, sometimes so much new information gets downloaded into us that we think we need to let everyone know about it as soon as possible. Actually, no. Hesitate after you have taken the medicine and hold back on converting the world. Your uptight co-worker and your auntie in from a small village will be very grateful.

4. Set an Intention

An intention comes out of a conversation you have with yourself where you figure out the things you most deeply want and how to ask for them with precision. Intention before and after your journey are to deepen your experience. You frame an intention with clear and simple words, none of the ifs and buts of regular speech, so your inner world can process it. People preparing to take the medicine are often invited to set an intention, and it may come out something like, “I want to change such and such a thing in my life,” “help me let go of this troubling mood,” or “let me find my deeper self,” and so on. During the medicine itself, it’s possible that your intention may help you negotiate the experience, make it more coherent and deepen your learning. Once it’s all over, your intention may be due for a tune up. How will it be revised or deepened now, or has the medicine made it redundant and given you an entirely new focus? If your intention when approaching the medicine is about what will happen across the next few hours, the intention you set after the medicine will be about what will happen across the entire arc of your life. Let’s say that when you took the medicine and your intention was to overcome anxiety. Now that you have been through the medicine, your relationship with the anxiety may have changed. What you used to see as a plague that ruined your life that you wanted to get rid of now might seem more deserving of 

your kindness, and you may want to help the poor thing out. If so, then your new intention would reflect this change and “rid me of this anxiety” might turn into “help me accept the anxious part of me so it can heal.

5. It’s Never Too Late to Have a Good Journey

Author Tom Robbins famously wrote that it’s never too late to have a happy childhood. By this he meant that we always have the chance to rewrite our internal narrative of a difficult childhood from, say, a chronicle of suffering and victimhood to a journey of resilience and survival. We might even notice happy times we had previously discounted. In exactly the same way, it’s never too late to have a good trip, no matter what opinion you had of it at the time. Some bad journeys are a temporary matter. The psychedelic experience is normal conscious experience squared, or cubed, or maybe a couple more. If your regular ego fears get triggered, they can hit the echo chamber of your tripping mind and turn from vaguely concerned to freaked out. Once the medicine experience is over though, this kind of fear usually calms down and most likely normal service will quickly resume. But some bad trips/ journeys take us to harsh places we are totally unprepared for, where fear and terror are the natural response. As the poet T.S Eliot said, “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” A visit to a place of such pain that it seems unbearable, or a place so alien it is totally unnerving, a Mordor of the mind populated by malevolent beings, or a place of agony and death are all experiences that may continue to seep into your regular consciousness after the medicine experience itself is over. Then it can be a harder job to put Humpty Dumpty back together. C.G. Jung, the psychologist who was also a bit of a seer, said, “The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.” Overwhelming bone-juddering fear can’t be solved, but it can be outgrown. This growth is what Jung called the individuation process and Joseph Campbell called the hero’s journey. In this journey, you broaden your sense of self from purely ego-based you to you as spirit. Spirit, you have the resilience and fortitude it takes to get through the harsh places. Besides being a trauma, maybe the ass-kicking of your bad trip/ journey was the push you needed to get started on the hero’s journey. What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, and the medicine that doesn’t kill us or drive us crazy can certainly make us wiser. The medicine will sometimes knock us out of our complacency, but it never signed an agreement saying it would do so nicely. Someday, though, you may be grateful for the shit-show of your psychedelic experience.

6. Give Yourself a Break

Even if you didn’t talk to God/Source/Divine or turn into an eagle, you may still be doing just fine. And even if you did talk to God and turn into a puma, you are still faced with the task of making that experience useful in your mundane, ongoing life. Reports of ego death, as Mark Twain once said of himself, have often been greatly exaggerated. Because our culture has no traditions around sacred medicines, we are not adept at understanding them. Maybe you quietly thought a valuable experience was one where you got lots of visual imagery or deep insights, or the meeting with God thing, but instead what you got was much more sensory-based, or emotional, or even auditory; maybe you hoped for an answer to a particular question and the medicine changed the subject, or maybe you asked to see heavenly light and what you got instead was a bunch of robot monsters chasing you around a very bad Star Wars movie. Pay careful attention to what you did get. What can you explore about the meaning? What if the medicine is wiser than you are? So, if you didn’t have a spiritual peak experience, give yourself a break and go easy. It’s a challenge, once you’re back in the ego world, to understand an encounter with immensity with equipment that is far from immense. The medicines are our bullshit excavators, and sometimes our expectations are what get shoved aside. Perhaps the robot monsters need to be there. Reconstructing and making meaning out of what happened is a subtle and painstaking task.

7. Do Some Emotional Healing

By emotional healing, we mean a spiritual/emotional modality of healing that directly follows up on the action of the medicine. It will speak the same language as the medicine, and the methods we are most familiar with are breathwork, yoga, walk in nature, walk barefoot in nature, weightlifting, positive thoughts, satay away from negative media, no gossip, practice loving and accepting myself and my brothers and sisters (blood and not blood), do not watch or engage in any distress event such as violent TV program/films or console games and do practice meditation. 

8. Do an Awareness Practice

They say that the journey of 10,000 miles begins with the first step, but the remaining 17 million or so steps shouldn’t be forgotten. That’s where an awareness practice comes in, because a lot of the qualities that an awareness practice develops—equanimity, awareness of course, clarity—are exactly what we need for entering a medicine experience and for absorbing its content after it’s done. If the medicine is spiritual surgery, then an awareness practice is the diet and exercise regimen the doctor tells you to do afterward. The practice you choose may be meditation, but it could as easily be yoga, qi gong or anything else that speaks to you. It might be a walk along the river or staring at a tree; whatever draws you closer to yourself and inner freedom of heart. Every session of awareness practice is a mini piece of the letting go, a further sorting through the debris we have inherited and accumulated as we make our way through life. A word of caution though, sitting around ruminating about how life sucks and people aren’t fair is not the same as meditating, and it is good to get yourself exposed to some kind of a formal awareness training. In the awareness practice, you absorb the lessons of the last medicine session and prepare for the next one by increasing your capacity for fortitude and attentiveness. Going from one session to another without enough refection puts you at risk that the next medicine experience will be a rerun of the lessons of the last one, a spiritual Groundhog Day of the soul.

Keep Your Frequency High

In our own experience we’ve found that the issue of boundaries can get very real. We are empathic people, and we are sure many of you are too. In fact, the more we get in touch with our bodies and health and our emotions, the more “sensitive” we are to toxins, to yelling on the street, to pollution, to others’ deep and dark emotional states. Especially after the intake of medicine your receptors can get wide open. Maybe for some this may be very unconvertable, for those without energy healing experience this might be quite a challenging process. If you’re a person who works with other people (probably most of us), you are susceptible to energies that aren’t yours and it’s very important for you to keep your new-found alignment, light and magic to the highest frequency of you. All matter in the universe is made up of energy. If you look at yourself under a microscope, you would look very different than you do when you look in the mirror. At the core of who you are, you are more energy than matter. Acting as a perceptual centre that transmits and receives information from the body and the environment, The Human Energy Field (HEF) is an electromagnetic field located 1-2 meter from your physical body. Your energy body and the energy bodies of others are constantly interacting. Someone may even be in your energetic space without being anywhere near you physically. The field holds your history. Your thoughts, beliefs and life experiences are recorded there. The tone in which you send and receive energy creates the pattern in which you live your life. Store more joy, live more joy! Imbalances and disruptions in the flow of energy can be the root cause of unhealthy emotional and physical conditions. The good news is that it is not difficult to give your energy body a good scrub.

Energy Field Meditation

∆ Imagine yourself sitting in the centre of a circle of light that ∆

∆ extends 1-2 meter from your physical body.

∆ Focus on your breath and with your intention bring your ∆ ∆

∆ awareness to your circle.

∆ It may be helpful to breathe in to your circle with your 

∆ inhalation and breath out to the edge of your circle with your

∆ exhalation

∆ Become present to the energy in your body. Notice how you 

∆ feel–Where are you experiencing areas of stress, anxiety, ∆ 

∆ pain or discomfort? Softly breathe into those areas.

∆ What energies are needing to be cleared? For example: A constant thought that won’t go away? 

∆ Anger over a conversation with a friend, worry about a sick relative?

∆ Whatever the experience, bring it to mind and with love and intention, gently place that thought, 

∆ or that feeling outside of your circle. Visualize it on the other side. Continuing to put whatever is no ∆

∆ longer serving you outside of your circle.

∆ As you gently see your thoughts and feelings outside your circle, notice how your body feels. Has the 

∆ pain shifted, the thought left, the anxiety lessened? Any of these indications means you have cleared 

∆ your field and your body of that energy.

∆ Bring your awareness back into your circle. Focus on your breathing. Is there anything else you see, 

∆ feel or sense that needs to be released? Continue with this exercise until you feel lighter, calmer and 

∆ more at peace.

Release into the earth

The earth is strong. The earth can hold big emotions. When in doubt, squat down, put your hands on the earth, and affirm “Mother earth, I give this energy back to you. Please absorb it. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Shake things up

Dancing, moving your body, and shaking are really great for moving energy and coming back to yourself. Set a timer for ten minutes and play your favourite tunes. You’ll be so pumped that you did and you’ll feel yourself way more than before.

Aftermath Conclusion

In the following 3-6 months, the medicine is still ‘’working’’ within you. Matters, triggers, programs might come up in a very clear and conscious way for you to transform. Integration sessions are therefore a vital element to your transformation process. This will help you tap into the inner peace of your being that has always been there, and it will also help you integrate the teachings and healings that the medicines have provided for you. The medicine is not a just one of thrill but a sacred live changing process that needs to be held in all its sacredness. You might have insights, questions, triggers and awakened parts of your being and you can start to feel quite detached from your day to day live.

Diet 

A plant-based diet with plenty of water is advised, but if that is not for you then eat whatever you consider healthy. Follow the dietary requirement (above) prior to the ceremony and 4 days after the gathering eat light and clean food and avoid the following for that it inhibits Psilocybin:

Any alcohol, sacred medicine or other drugs (cannabis included).

Chocolate 

Banana

Red meat, and especially NO pork

Coffee

Avocado 

Preparation 

Adjust your daily routine by meditating morning and evening at least 10min.

Exercise; walking, yoga, swimming etc.

Listen to motivational speakers

Try to avoid low frequency activity like; Bing watching TV, Video games or an environment with 

negative individuals

No sex or sexual activities min of 3 days before and after ceremony.

This is all suggested to facilitate the best experience for you. The best prep for your body to integrate 

into the process. The more you follow this guideline, the better prepared you will be for the work.

****IMPORTANT****

Medications & Health Conditions

Certain medications must not be taken over various periods prior to the gathering. This includes antidepressants, (MAO inhibitors serotonin re-uptake inhibitors) antihistamines, Painkillers, Tranquilizers, all stimulants including orally taken nasal decongestants, diet pills, medications for attention deficit disorder and other meds, many prescriptions and some over-the-counter. Ulcers, certain heart, liver, psychiatric conditions and epilepsy present real danger in the context of the gathering. If you are taking any of the above mentioned or other prescription-based medications, or have experienced health conditions listed above or other serious health issues, please let me know before committing to the ceremony. We will then discuss what is possible and the best course of action to take in preparing for the gathering. If you have any specific questions regarding meds, please get in touch asap. Full disclosure about medications is mandatory. If you have or take the following you will NOT be able to attend these ceremonies. Heart problems, taking any form of anti-depressive medication (like MAOI antidepressants), any mental issues like schizophrenia paranoia or any other psychiatric conditions. It shouldn’t be mixed with MAOIs or RIMAs, including some antidepressants, due to the risk of serotonin syndrome and death. Releasing agents and reuptake inhibitors, for serotonin and dopamine especially, can be dangerous in combination. For this reason, mixing sacred medicines with other psychoactive drugs or alcohol is not allowed during this ceremony and is in general discouraged days prior to your ceremony. We must be informed if you are or have been taking any of the following:

Antidepressants or other medications that contain MAOIs or RIMAs, inhibitors and serotonin re-uptake 

inhibitors. (Not to be taken for 15 days prior to gathering)

Tranquilizers (not to be taken for 15 days prior to gathering)

Antibiotics (not to be taken for 7 days prior to gathering)

Antihistamines (not to be taken for 5 days prior to gathering)

Painkillers including Advil and Aspirin (not to be taken for 5 days prior to gathering)

Flu Medications (not to be taken for 5 days prior.

Any other medications that are not listed let us know asap

Please inform us if any of the following apply to you:

Heart problems

High blood pressure

You are or have been taking anti-depressants within the last year and/or if you have ever been 

hospitalized for psychiatric problems

Liver issues

You have or have had ulcers, IBS or other stomach ailments

Possible pregnancy

It is crucial to understand your health conditions prior to a ceremony as it can put your life at risk if you omit your health conditions in order to get the experience. You may omit your health conditions at your own risk as some sacred medicines can literally kill you if mixed with any of the above.