In today’s spirituality movement there is an ever-growing popularity in the use of healing psychedelics to help aid in a person’s ability to heal, to deal with trauma, and to evolve into a healed, loving, accepting human being. Since before I even knew about the phenomenon people have been going to the jungles of Costa Rica and other far off the beaten path locations to take part in Ayahuasca ceremonies.
I have no personal experience with this but from what I have been told you go on a trip – THEN GO ON ANOTHER TRIP. Have an amazing out of this world experience, come face to face with some demons, overcome some of your internal chaos, see some of your shit from a new perspective, come home and eventually you come down.
I am not against using medicinal psychedelics. I am not judging people for using psychedelics as a tool to go inward and heal. I am writing this blog to bring awareness to the possibility of what I see happening if we do not learn from our past.
From what I have been hearing it is now no longer necessary to go too far off the beaten path to find your Ayahuasca experience. In fact, we had one here in Saskatchewan not too long ago. I was also watching a podcast and the two men on there were speaking as if they attend these ceremonies bimonthly. There is no denying, it is a growing phenomenon.
Again, I am not judging, I am however, scanning my environment for information and considering where this is all headed. I wonder about the dilution of the spiritual properties of these medicines as they seep into the western world. I see the possibility of people spiritually bi-passing their healing journey and stalling our evolution, and I can clearly see that, as much as the peace and love revolution was embodied in the 60’s only to burn out and fade away – we stand on the precipice of creating the same mistake if we lay the foundation for our spiritual evolution outside of ourselves.
It's not that I think that people should not use psychedelics, but I believe that the conversation around the fact that you are using something besides your own consciousness to reach a certain state within your own consciousness that cannot be maintained without the substance should be talked about more.
We have everything we need within. If you need to travel to a far-off place and go to a remote jungle to prove to yourself, you are ready to evolve – that actually makes a lot of sense. But now that these ceremonies are becoming available in our own backyards, I just can’t help but to wonder what the effect will be. On one hand, great - a bunch more people that would not have access to the healing get to experience this life changing medicine. And, on the other hand, the integrity to get yourself to the jungle in the first place – which may have been a bigger part of the healing journey – is no longer a necessity.
I speak as one who has taken a lot of “TRIPS” while sitting on the living room couch, and I can attest that it has helped ZERO percent in my spiritual evolution.
Will Ayahuasca be the guiding force of the new spiritual movement of the 2030’s bringing with it waves of revolutionary thought that will eventually peak and roll back?
Perhaps...
I think the 60’s had a lot of good momentum, but the drug use become such an integral part that it was not sustainable. Or at least, that is how history perceives it.
As we move into this brave new world of healing medicines, I believe it is good idea that we consider our past or we may be on course to repeat it.
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