Lucid Shock: Awake Circles moderated by Lakshmi Narayan

The holidays and spending time (or not) with family brings up unresolved intergenerational and childhood or family trauma, and since this month’s integration circle falls on the day after Christmas our topic for the December circle is to share our trauma stories and how they get triggered or healed during journeys with plant medicines like ayahuasca, psilocybin, and ibogaine. As a survivor of childhood trauma myself, I understand the various faces and phases of healing trauma with or without plant medicines. Plant medicines can create a state of what I call “lucid shock” where you can relive forgotten or buried trauma with a “witness” consciousness, thereby making it possible to heal and forgive and transcend the trauma and make a quantum leap towards the wholeness of your own consciousness.