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PERSPETIVA Psicodélico
TERENCE MCKENNA- Psicodélico
“Os psicodélicos são ilegais não porque um governo amoroso esteja preocupado que você possa pular de uma janela do terceiro andar. Os psicodélicos são ilegais porque dissolvem estruturas de opinião e estabelecem culturalmente modelos de comportamento e processamento de informação. Eles abrem você para a possibilidade de que tudo o que você sabe está errado.”
ALDOUS HUXLEY-Psicodélico
“É uma coisa muito salutar perceber que o universo um tanto maçante em que a maioria de nós passa a maior parte do nosso tempo não é o único universo que existe. Acho saudável que as pessoas tenham essa experiência.”
JESSE LAWLER- Psicodélico
“Os psicodélicos provam que há mais do que uma forma de ver o mundo.”
TERENCE MCKENNA- Psicodélico
“Parte do que os psicodélicos fazem é descondicioná-lo dos valores culturais. É isso que a torna uma batata quente tão política. Como toda cultura é uma espécie de jogo de burla, o doce mais perigoso que você pode distribuir é aquele que faz com que as pessoas comecem a questionar as regras do jogo.”
TERENCE MCKENNA- Psicodélico
“Acho que ir ao Túmulo sem ter uma Experiência Psicodélica é como ir ao Túmulo sem nunca fazer sexo. Isso significa que você nunca descobriu do que se trata. O Mistério está no Corpo e no modo como o Corpo se Transforma na Natureza.”
ALDOUS HUXLEY
“O homem que volta pela Porta do Muro nunca mais será o mesmo que o homem que saiu. Será mais sábio mas menos seguro, mais feliz mas menos autossatisfeito, mais humilde em reconhecer a sua ignorância mas mais bem equipado para compreender a relação das palavras com as coisas, do raciocínio sistemático com o mistério insondável que tenta, sempre em vão, compreender.”
ALAN MOORE
“O LSD foi uma experiência incrível. Não que eu esteja recomendando para qualquer outra pessoa, mas para mim, meio que martelou para mim que a realidade não era uma coisa fixa. Que a realidade que víamos sobre nós todos os dias era uma realidade, e uma válida, mas que havia outras, perspetivas diferentes onde coisas diferentes têm significado que era igualmente válido. Isso teve um efeito profundo em mim.”
ALDOUS HUXLEY
“Como é estranho que escritores como Belloc e Chesterton possam cantar louvores ao álcool (responsável por cerca de dois terços dos acidentes de carro e três quartos dos crimes de violência) e serem considerados bons cristãos e nobres companheiros. Enquanto quem se aventura a sugerir que pode haver outros atalhos menos nocivos para a autotranscendência é tratado como um perigoso viciado em drogas e perverso perverso da humanidade débil.”
DANIEL PINCHBECK
“Trezentos e cinquenta anos atrás, observa Shulgin, a Igreja proclamou: “A terra é o centro do universo, e quem diz o contrário é herege”. Hoje, o governo proclama: “Todas as drogas que podem expandir a consciência estão sem justificação médica ou social, e quem as usa é um criminoso”. No tempo de Galileu, as autoridades disseram: “Não precisamos realmente olhar através dessa engenhoca misteriosa”. Agora, o governo diz: “Não há necessidade de realmente provar esses compostos misteriosos”. No passado, a Igreja disse: “Como você ousa afirmar que a Terra não é o centro do universo?” Hoje o governo diz: “Como você se atreve a afirmar que um entendimento de Deus pode ser encontrado em um pó branco?”
GEORGE CARLIN
“Os alucinógenos são um trocador de valor… goste ou não, muda seus valores, abre janelas, portas de perceções era como Aldous Huxley as chamava.
MARY BARNARD
“Que… era mais provável que acontecesse primeiro… a ideia espontaneamente gerada de uma vida após a morte em que a alma desencarnada… experiências de felicidade eterna, ou a descoberta acidental de plantas alucinógenas que dão uma sensação de euforia, deslocam o centro da consciência e distorcem o tempo e o espaço…?”
… A [última] experiência poderia ter tido… um efeito quase explosivo nas mentes em grande parte adormecidas dos homens, levando-os a pensar em coisas que nunca tinham pensado antes. Isso, se quiserem, é revelação direta.”
ZOE HELENE
“E se, através da exploração responsável com psicodélicos, libertarmos as nossas mentes? Os livre-pensadores são mais difíceis de manipular e controlar, o que levanta a questão: por que os psicodélicos são ilegais?”
MARIA SABINA
“Antes de Wasson, ninguém tomava os cogumelos apenas para encontrar Deus. Eram sempre levados para os doentes ficarem bem.”
AMY EMERSON
“Faça o trabalho para manter as linhas abertas. Faça o trabalho para chegar às comunidades. Não confie em apenas um grupo para fazê-lo; todos têm um papel a desempenhar na formação deste movimento [psicodélico].”
STACEY WALLIN
“Acredito que nossa capacidade de ser forte, saudável e autoconsciente está profundamente conectada à nossa capacidade de fazer o bem no mundo e cuidar de nós mesmos e das pessoas ao nosso redor… E assim, vejo os psicodélicos – e mais especificamente – psicoterapia psicodélica bem apoiada, como sendo uma ferramenta maravilhosamente poderosa para os tipos de mudanças de que precisamos como sociedade.”
BEATRIZ CAIUBY LABATE (Bia Labate)
Doutoramento
“Assim, os detentores de conhecimento indígena informaram, de uma forma ou de outra, o nascimento do movimento psicodélico e continuam a fazê-lo. Há várias evidências disso, mas na minha opinião, e esta é uma mensagem muito importante, deve-se lembrar que há uma continuidade entre o que tem sido o uso xamânico de medicamentos psicodélicos… e os ambientes subterrâneos onde as pessoas usam essas substâncias terapeuticamente ou em algum tipo de ritual híbrido misto e o acima do solo da terapia assistida por Psicodélico.”
BEATRIZ CAIUBY LABATE (Bia Labate)
Doutoramento
“De muitas e muitas maneiras, todos nós estamos em dívida com os povos indígenas e suas tradições e seus conhecimentos quando estamos interessados nesses medicamentos.”
GRAHAM HANCOCK
“Pode ser que o DMT nos torne capazes de perceber o que os físicos chamam de “matéria escura” – os 95% da massa do universo que se sabe existir, mas que atualmente permanece invisível aos nossos sentidos e instrumento Psicodélico.”
ALEXANDER SHULGIN
“O potencial das drogas psicodélicas para fornecer acesso ao universo interior é, acredito, sua propriedade mais valiosa.”
TIMÓTEO LEARY
“A certa altura, dispositivos que alteram a consciência, como o microscópio e o telescópio, foram criminalizados exatamente pelas mesmas razões pelas quais as plantas psicodélicas foram proibidas nos anos posteriores. Permitem-nos perscrutar pedaços e zonas do Caos Psicodélico.”
JOE ROGAN
“Se a vida não fosse real, seria a viagem psicodélica mais louca de sempre Psicodélico.”
K ALLADO-MCDOWELL
“Você pode não pensar nisso enquanto espera na fila para tomar café, mas as plantas também têm linguagem. De alguma forma, nós, como espécie, decidimos que os símbolos eram necessários para a nossa língua. Mas as plantas não usam símbolos da mesma forma que nós, pelo menos não tanto quanto podemos distinguir do exterior. É por isso que precisamos de uma entrada no mundo vegetal e consciência Psicodélico.”
ELSJE MARIA LAGROU
“A cobra é um daqueles animais paradigmáticos que mudam de pele e, portanto, pensa-se que possui a vida eterna, bem como os segredos da cura. É também o mestre de todos os líquidos, da chuva ao sangue menstrual, passando pela ayahuasca, a bebida da transformação Psicodélico.”
SIGNIFICADO E FINALIDADE
TERENCE MCKENNA
“A vida vivida na ausência da experiência psicodélica em que se baseia o xamanismo primordial é a vida banalizada, a vida negada, a vida escravizada ao ego Psicodélico.”
CAITLIN THOMPSON
“Há essa ilusão de que ciência e práticas espirituais são separadas. Na verdade, não acho que isso seja verdade Psicodélico.”
ALEXANDER SHULGIN
“Há uma riqueza de informações embutidas em nós (…) escondidos no material genético de cada uma das nossas células… sem alguns meios de acesso, não há como sequer começar a adivinhar a extensão e a qualidade do que está lá. As drogas psicodélicas permitem explorar este mundo interior e compreender a sua natureza Psicodélico.”
VAGAS STEVE
“Tomar LSD foi uma experiência profunda, uma das coisas mais importantes da minha vida. O LSD mostra que há um outro lado da moeda, e você não se lembra quando ela desaparece, mas você sabe disso. Isso reforçou meu senso do que era importante criar grandes coisas em vez de ganhar dinheiro, colocando as coisas de volta no fluxo da história e da consciência humana o máximo que pude Psicodélico.”
MARY COSIMANO
“… a psilocibina pode oferecer um meio de nos reconectarmos com nossa verdadeira natureza – nosso eu autêntico – e, assim, ajudar a encontrar sentido em nossas vidas Psicodélico.”
ANTONIN ARTAUD
“Na consciência habita o maravilhoso; com ela, o homem alcança o reino além do material, e o peyote nos diz onde encontrá-lo.”
ALLYSON GREY
“We don’t do psychedelics all the time, not in the least. It’s an experience, though, that never leaves you. It stays with you for your whole life, and the learning and the lessons just grow and evolve.”
ALDOUS HUXLEY
“I am not so foolish as to equate what happens under the influence of mescaline or of any other drug… with the realization of the end and ultimate purpose of human life: Enlightenment, the Beatific Vision. All I am suggesting is that the mescaline experience is what Catholic theologians call “a gratuitous grace,” not necessary to salvation but potentially helpful and to be accepted, thankfully if made available. To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large.”
TERRENCE MCKENNA
“Through psychedelics, we are learning that God is not an idea; God is a lost continent in the human mind. That continent has been rediscovered in a time of great peril for ourselves and our world. Is this coincidence, synchronicity, or a cruelly meaningless juxtaposition of hope and ruin?”
JOHN LENNON
“Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is a reality to me and always was.”
HARMS OF INDUSTRIALISM
TERENCE MCKENNA
“Our estrangement from nature and the unconscious became entrenched roughly two thousand years ago, during the shift from the Age of the Great God Pan to that of Pisces that occurred with the suppression of the pagan mysteries and the rise of Christianity. The psychological shift that ensued left European civilization staring into two millennia of religious mania and persecution, warfare, materialism, and rationalism.
The monstrous forces of scientific industrialism and global politics that have been born into modern times were conceived at the time of the shattering of the symbiotic relationships with the plants that had bound us to nature from our dim beginnings. This left each human being frightened, guilt-burdened, and alone. Existential man was born.”
RICK DOBLIN
Founder of MAPS
“If we recognize the power of entheogenic substances to open us to the universal truth and full dimension of human experience, and if we accept the role of the shaman as hierophant and psychopomp into this realm, as enacted for example by the Huichol mara’akame, we have to conclude that today in Western society we are deprived of two key resources for complete human growth. Young people, in their hunger for meaning, will still gravitate toward entheogens. The more experienced among us may try to ease their journey, but in the absence of qualified guides, not all will benefit from their experience.”
DANIEL PINCHBECK
“The modern person is drawn to the shamanic archetype—the vision of sacred earth, revelatory word, and multidimensional cosmos—finds himself horrified by contemporary society and the accelerating processes of global destruction it has unleashed.”
SOCIAL JUSTICE
AYELET WALDMAN
“In the course of American history, criminalization of drugs has always been closely tied to oppressive government’s response to people of color, and particularly assertion of civil rights’ entitlement.”
AYELET WALDMAN
“If you’re an African American 19-year-old with profound depression and you found that LSD helps you, your risk of arrest and incarceration is much higher than me, so I would never say that someone like that should put their body on the line. I’m in a privileged position with, you know, ‘with great power comes great responsibility.
ZOE HELENE
“What if, through responsible exploration with psychedelics, we free our minds? Free-thinkers are more difficult to manipulate and control, which begs the question: Why are psychedelics illegal?.”
BETTY ALDWORTH
“Early research on the use of psychedelics to treat trauma has focused primarily on combat veterans, a vast majority of whom are men. Without careful attention paid to make psychedelic therapy safe and inviting for women and people who are genderqueer or transgender, norms which make it safer for cis-gendered men to participate in such healing will only intensify.”
ZOE HELENE
“We women need to rise to the occasion. The ayahuasca experience rebirths inspires, empowers, and ignites us to do that.”
AMY EMERSON
“We don’t want to just get MDMA approved. We want to do it in a way that tackles misinformation and stigma around mental health and psychedelics and makes them accessible to underserved, marginalized communities.”
INDIGENOUS PEYOTE CONSERVATION COMMUNICATION COMMITTEE
“Individual, state or local decriminalization efforts that include peyote can be disruptive to the nation-wide strategy driven by Native American people to protect, conserve and ensure the spiritual and ecological sustainability of peyote.”
BEATRIZ CAIUBY LABATE (Bia Labate)
PHD
“More power to us and to all our descendants hopefully to bring a new world for the future females that are born after us. And so we’re focusing on bringing the voices of queer people, women, people of color, Black people, Indigenous people, and voices from the global South into the mainstream psychedelic conversation.”
DAVID BRONNER
“It’s incumbent on all of us to be respectful allies and show deference and respect to the Indigenous-led preservation effort already underway.”
ALBERT EINSTEIN
“The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws that cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.”
POSITIVE CHANGE FROM PSYCHEDELICS
GRAHAM HANCOCK
“I am convinced that the way forward for the human race is to recognize and protect the fundamental right of sovereignty over consciousness, to throw off the chains of our divisive religious heritage, to seek out forms of spirituality (or no spirituality at all if we so prefer) that are truly supportive of liberty and tolerance, to help the human spirit to grow rather than to wither, and to nurture our innate capacity for love and mutual respect. The old ways are broken and bankrupt and new ways are struggling to be born. Each one of us with our own talents, and by our own choices, has a part to play in that process.”
GARY FISHER
“With psychedelics, if you’re fortunate and breakthrough, you understand what is truly of value in life. Material, power, dominance, and territory have no value. People wouldn’t fight wars, and the whole system we have currently would fall apart. People would become peaceful, loving citizens, not robots marching around in the dark with all their lights off.”
BILL HICKS
“How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn’t that be newsworthy, just once? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition, and lies? I think it would be newsworthy. ‘Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we’re the imagination of ourselves . . . ‘ Here’s Tom with the weather.’”
GEORGE CARLIN
“Fuck the drug war. Dropping acid was a profound turning point for me, a seminal experience. I make no apologies for it. More people should do acid. It should be sold over the counter.”
JAMES OROC
“These days, when I knock on the doors of the Tryptamine Palace, I am no longer greeted with unconditional love, but instead, I am reminded of the responsibility that comes with ultimate knowledge: an undeniable responsibility to myself, to my tribe, to my species, to my planet.”
CARY GRANT
“I have been born again,” he told the astonished reporters. “I have been through a psychiatric experience which has completely changed me. I was horrendous. I had to face things about myself that I never admitted, which I didn’t know were there. Now I know that I hurt every woman I ever loved. I was an utter fake, a self-opinionated bore, a know-all who knew very little. “I found I was hiding behind all kinds of defenses, hypocrisies, and vanities. I had to get rid of them layer by layer. The moment when your conscious meets your subconscious is a hell of a wrench. With me, there came a day when I saw the light.”
STANISLAV GROF
“After having personally conducted over the last fifty years more than four thousand psychedelic sessions, I have developed great awe and respect for these compounds and their enormous potential, both positive and negative. They are powerful tools, and, like any tool, they can be used skillfully, ineptly, or destructively. The result will be critically dependent on the set and setting.”
MONNICA WILLIAMS
“Using psychedelics can not only bring pain points to the surface for healing but can reduce the anxiety or response to these [traumatic] memories and allow them to speak openly about them without the pain they bring.”
LYNN MARIE MORSKI
M.D.
“…ideally also the mass population knows about [psilocybin] because only then can people make informed decisions about what is really best for them rather than just a doctor prescribing a pill.”
MARIA SABINA
“Heal yourself with the light of the sun and the rays of the moon. With the sound of the river and the waterfall. With the swaying of the sea and the fluttering of birds. Heal yourself with mint, neem, and eucalyptus. Sweeten with lavender, rosemary, and chamomile. Hug yourself with the cocoa bean and a hint of cinnamon. Put love in tea instead of sugar and drink it looking at the stars. Heal yourself with the kisses that the wind gives you and the hugs of the rain. Stand strong with your bare feet on the ground and with everything that comes from it. Be smarter every day by listening to your intuition, and looking at the world with your forehead. Jump, dance, and sing, so that you live happier. Heal yourself, with beautiful love, and always remember … you are the medicine.”
NISHA KHANNA
M.D.
“If there’s something that you’re holding in the subconscious or the unconscious, something that isn’t serving you that needs to be let go, psychedelics can blast through that.”
RACHAEL PETERSON
“I think that [clinical] trial was the single most effective thing I’ve done to manage my mental health, and I had tried almost everything. And it leads me to believe that we need to radically change how we think about mental health.”
MICHAEL POLLAN
“… a motion center is talking directly to your visual cortex, which could allow you to see things you’re feeling. It could result in hallucinations. Those new connections may […] manifest as new perspectives, new ideas, new means, new metaphors. But the point is that by temporarily disrupting the order of the brain, a new order forms. And that order may have incredible value at either the level of mental health and psychology or the level of creativity.”
FRANÇOISE BARBIRA FREEDMAN
“The central place that shamanism occupies as medicine and religion within the popular culture of the Upper Amazon precludes its reduction to ‘folk psychiatry’ or cheap medicine. Once again, through the use of ayahuasca, the Forest as cosmos is likely to provide a new source of symbols to express and resolve social perceptions of enemies, out there and within, close by, and in cosmopolitan capitals. In wider power fields, Forest shamans, whether native, of mixed blood, or gringos, guide the visions of the poorest and the richest sometimes sitting side by side to ‘get straightened’ […] in the center of the caduceus.”
CONNECTION WITH OTHERS
RAY MANZAREK
“Through all of history, mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.”
JAMES OROC
“Entheogens (or psychedelics, to be more historically correct) have now been recognized as the mother of our Western ecology and conservation movements, as well as the entire field of transpersonal psychology and our apparent desire to return to some firsthand spiritual and/or mystical understanding of G/d (rather than blindly accepting traditional religious dogma without an experiential basis.”
JAMES OROC
“The collective unconscious, the same as other transpersonal phenomena, is evidence that our mind is not an isolated entity but is constantly in touch with other minds as well as with the world around us. We are never entirely detached from the outside world; never entirely enclosed within our skin. Our mind and our body resonate with our environment, including other people in our environment. Our mind is coherent with the world, and when we do not repress the intuitions that link us with other people and with nature, we can become aware of our oneness with the universe.”
MARY COSIMANO
“I believe this theme—love, the need to reconnect with our true selves—addresses the underlying outcome of our psilocybin studies. Yet very often, we’re afraid to open ourselves to this connection, so we put up barriers and wear masks. If we are able to remove the barriers, to let down our defenses, we can begin to know and accept ourselves, thus allowing ourselves to receive and to give love.”
MARCELA OT’ALORA
I think a lot of times with trauma, we try to change the experience… And the reality is that healing begins when there is no need to change the experience, but that we can actually hold that pain… and, at the same time, there’s this other part that is the connection, the interconnectedness, the effect that we have on each other, the love that… is so universal… And I think that’s really felt in psychedelic experiences that you’re holding both of those exactly at the same level.”
RACHAEL PETERSON
“I experienced this kind of unity, of resonant love, the sense that I’m not alone anymore, that there was this thing holding me that was bigger than my grief. I felt welcomed back to the world.”
DR. ROSALIND WATTS
“In a forest, you can see one-third of it, which is the trees. But two-thirds are underground. It’s like the roots that go down. And the way trees communicate with each other is through mycelium. And mycelium is a mushroom. It’s a fungus. The whole of the forest communicates through this layer of mushrooms. Mushrooms are a great connector, and you can think about that analogy… imagine yourself as a tree. And you’ve got your trunk, which is your connection to yourself. And you’ve got your branches which are your ideas going out. And then you’ve got your roots, and you’ve got this layer of mycelium, and you’re connected to all these other people. And so to make your tree grow really strong, it’s about your place in the forest. You’re not standing alone.”
JAMES OROC
“The collective unconscious, the same as other transpersonal phenomena, is evidence that our mind is not an isolated entity but is constantly in touch with other minds as well as with the world around us. We are never entirely detached from the outside world; never entirely enclosed within our skin. Our mind and our body resonate with our environment, including other people in our environment. Our mind is coherent with the world, and when we do not repress the intuitions that link us with other people and with nature, we can become aware of our oneness with the universe.”
DANIEL PINCHBECK
“The visionary plants are the guiding spirits of archaic cultures. They are sacred because they awaken the mind to other levels of awareness. They are gateways to a spiritual, or multidimensional, universe.”
TAKING A PSYCHEDELIC
JAMES FADIMAN
“For some people, it is helpful to identify your goals. Your goals may be spiritual: to have direct experience with aspects of your tradition or another tradition, to transcend prior beliefs, and even to transcend belief itself. You may hope to have what is called a “unity experience,” in which there is no separation between your identity and all else. Your goals may be social: to improve relationships with your spouse, children, siblings, parents, colleagues, friends, and spiritual and secular institutions. Your goals may be psychological: to find insight into neurotic patterns, phobias, or unresolved anger or grief.”
JAMES FADIMAN
“The rule of thumb is the more profound the experience, the longer you should wait before doing it again. The Guild of Guides suggests a minimum of six months between entheogenic journeys because it takes at least that long for the learning and insights to be absorbed and integrated into your life.”
JAMES FADIMAN
“The rule of thumb is the more profound the experience, the longer you should wait before doing it again. The Guild of Guides suggests a minimum of six months between entheogenic journeys because it takes at least that long for the learning and insights to be absorbed and integrated into your life.”
JAMES FADIMAN
“Thus began the third phase of psychedelic research that continues to this day. Whereas, in the first phase, the participant’s experiences tended to be controlled and delimited, even if inadvertently, by the experimenter’s and the subject’s preconceptions, and in the second phase is more uncontrolled and wide-ranging in scope, the emphasis now was on the selection of specific kinds of psychedelic experience and of specific ways to produce and maintain them.”
RICK STRASSMAN
M.D.
“Psychedelics show you what’s in and on your mind, those subconscious thoughts and feelings that are hidden, covered up, forgotten, out of sight, maybe even completely unexpected, but nevertheless imminently present. Depending upon set and setting, the same drug, at the same dose, can cause vastly different responses in the same person. One day, very little happens; another day, you soar, full of ecstatic and insightful discoveries; the next, you struggle through a terrifying nightmare. The generic nature of psychedelic, a term wide open to interpretation, suits these effects.”
RICK STRASSMAN
M.D.
“If you want to have fun, take them alone or with friends and spend the day in a beautiful setting. If you want to learn something about yourself and your relationships, take them with a therapist. If you want to feel part of humanity, take them to a concert, rave, or other large gatherings. If you want to experience a deeper relationship with the divine and its creations, take them with a religious teacher, community, or in Nature. If you want to contribute to the research endeavor, volunteer for a scientific study. These categories are somewhat arbitrary, and all sorts of effects might occur in any one of these possible settings; spiritual experiences may occur in a research study, for example, and psychotherapeutic ones in a religious context Psicodélico.”
STANISLAV GROF
“Subjects see new dimensions in the universe, have strong feelings of being an integral part of creation, and tend to regard ordinary things in everyday life—such as meals, walks in nature, playing with children, or sexual intercourse—as sacred.”
PAM KRYSKOW
M.D.
“Although psychedelics may have the potential to be an effective therapy for a variety of ailments, it is in everyone’s best interest to incorporate strategies for safe use, managed use, abstinence, non-judgment, and addressing conditions of use along with the use itself.”
KATHERINE CODER
PHD
“I found in my previous work with psychedelics and also with plant medicines that the community piece is huge. There’s not a substitute for that; working on one’s own can be extremely helpful, but the community is paramount.”
JENNIFER SODINI
“When San Pedro begins to affect your consciousness, it first feels as though a subtle wave of change occurs and can best be described as a vibration of sunlight penetrating your energetic field. The medicine’s spiritual correspondence relates to masculine energies, the energy of the sun, and (in my personal experience) serves as a vehicle for remembering light through a presence of warmth.”
ANN SHULGINA
“Every person’s body chemistry is different. The effect of one single drug that appeals to me might have a different effect on someone else. There’s no way to tell what the perfect psychedelic drug would be because it would be perfect for only you Psicodélico.”
NATASJA PELGROM
“One of the most important questions to ask is always, why do you want [to try psychedelics]? Is it because it’s hip and happening and people in your surroundings are doing it? Really question yourself. Educate yourself on the consequences of any of the plants and psychedelics. Read up. Then if you are forwarded to a facilitator, ask questions. Ask a lot of questions.”
JANET MACUNOVICH
“Take care with manufactured chemicals, certainly. Your safety and long-term health are more important than anything. Yet don’t forget that if you grow even a dozen different plants, you are surrounded by chemistry Psicodélico. Inside their cells, even the most ordinary plants create potent fungicides, insecticides, irritants, balms, hallucinogens, sedatives, nerve toxins, cell repair stimulants, lures, repellents… you name it. Treat all plants with respect!”
STANISLAV GROF
“LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used, it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry Psicodélico.”
SUSANA BUSTOS
PHD
“[S]inging [during an ayahuasca ceremony] expresses a deep communication between healer and client, the healer sensitively in touch with the client’s needs […] The [client] feels s/he has access to, is met, and is addressed at the very core of his/her healing issue in a novel way. Though it might sometimes appear unsettling due to its foreignness, the perception is that the process is essentially secure and guided by beneficial sentience that often entails depth, care, and precision never experienced before. All this supports trust and surrender.”
BEATRIZ CAIUBY LABATE (Bia Labate)
PHD
“The idea of a plant teacher is that these plants are, in fact, beings. They have agency. They have intentionality. They are alive. So these plants are like humans in the sense that they have a culture and they have their own rituals. They have their own kin. They have their own wishes and, if you will, their idiosyncrasies as well. They can be capricious, or they can be severe. They can be comforting. They can teach you. They can inspire you. They can punish you if you don’t follow their instructions Psicodélico.”
FRANÇOISE BARBIRA FREEDMAN
“In this relaxed state [from altered states of consciousness], the body and mind are free to follow their deepest impulse: to seek wholeness and flow. The resolution of inner conflicts is possible through accessing a more resourced state than the one in which a conflict or pattern of tension was created […] The psyche, like all things natural and wild, strives for balance, and when attended to and listened to, will intelligently communicate and move toward what it needs to reestablish the highest level of health possible Psicodélico.”
MYTHS
JAMES FADIMAN
M.D.
“We have heard claims that LSD sequesters in the brain, spinal cord, and body fat and can leak out at later times—even years later—to produce adverse effects (such as “flashbacks,” which are the re-experiencing of some aspects of the drug-intoxication experience in the absence of the drug). Recently, we heard from a medical student that she learned this “fact” in a class at one of the country’s leading medical schools. There is no basis in reality for this because there is absolutely no evidence suggesting that LSD remains in the body for extended periods of time Psicodélico.”
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