The Metaphorical Cooking Pot
Anders Beatty
Addiction as a Shadow Initiation
Addiction does not need to be erased to find healing—it needs to be listened to. Underneath the compulsion is a call. A call to wholeness. A call to initiation. A call to remember what was always known in the body, even when the mind forgot. Addiction is the soul's clumsy attempt at remembering itself. It is the sacred fire burning in the wrong temple.
Introduction-The Metaphorical Cooking Pot
Things are heating up on Planet Earth. But even within the worst crisis there is a recipe for transformation. Join Ibogaine coach Anders Beatty on a monomythic journey into yourself as he teaches you how to prepare for, navigate, and integrate your ibogaine treatment so that you don't just interrupt your addiction, you learn how to come home to yourself.
From Combat to Communion
This paper explores a psychospiritual model for the recovery of returning special forces veterans experiencing complex PTSD (CPTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), utilizing the framework of Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey, Robert Moore’s four-fold masculine archetypes, Carl Rogers’ humanistic theory, and the transpersonal psychology of Grof, Wilber, and Washburn. Within this paradigm, plant medicine is not merely a pharmacological agent but a ritual gateway into a sacred process of ego death, archetypal rebalance, and reintegration. The healing journey is reframed as a rite of passage that dignifies suffering, restores sovereignty, and allows trauma to be alchemized into meaning.
