Collective Wisdom Blogs

Entheogens: Master Plant Sacraments
Entheogens: Master Plant Sacraments poster is a printed 17″x 52″ high-resolution art poster that is a visual map and guide to the plant sacraments ayahuasca, iboga and ibogaine, psilocybin, san pedro, and peyote. It is a labor of love created by Awake Media. All proceeds go towards FEAT the Fund for Entheogenic Addiction Treatment.

Crucified on the Cross of Self-Perfectionism: An Interview with Rick Doblin
Crucified on the Cross of Self-Perfectionism: An Interview with Rick Doblin Rick Doblin founded MAPS.org (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), a non-profit organization that has spent the last 35 years in an effort to get MDMA approved for...

Patient D: Microdosing Ibogaine for Parkinson’s
Interviewed by Lakshmi Narayan and Eric SwensonPatient D is a 76-year old individual who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s five years ago and has been able to manage and improve his symptoms by microdosing ibogaine. He remains anonymous because of the legal status of...

A Journey in Word 2 by Jack Cross
There is a holographic awakening to be had from the words and letters of the English/Latin alphabet and author and psychonaut Jack Cross un-spells the Way in Part 2 of his series “A Journey in Word. The video is a mesmerizing visual experience that will put you...

Addiction and the Core Wound with Deanne Adamson
How does IBOGA work in a single treatment when traditional rehab and therapies fail? The answer is simple. It gets to the root cause. In the opinion of addiction expert Dr. Gabor Maté, who has worked with hundreds of addicts in the course of his practice, addiction is...

Hacking Addiction with Ibogaine: An Interview with Patrick Kroupa
Patrick Kroupa, an early pioneer in the movement to medicalize ibogaine for opioid addiction with Howard Lotsof (right), the man who discovered as a young addict in 1962 NYC, that a “drug” from Africa called “ibogaine” had ended his addiction...

The Tree of Tough Love: An Interview with Ben De Loenen
Benjamin De Loenen is the founder of ICEERS (International Center for Ethnobotanical Research, Education & Service) a philanthropic non-profit whose mission is to educate humanity about the power of plant medicines through gathering, researching, and sharing...

The I Ching for Integration, Healing & Growth with Lakshmi Narayan
Lakshmi Narayan has been a decades-long student of the I Ching, the oldest known oracular system that hails from ancient China. It is a system that confers timeless wisdom, and it is as relevant today as it was when it was created. In her effort to support those on a...

I am an outsider to Power Trips
Because the real power is inside, and the synergistic total alkaloid plant medicines are by nature going to have a better effect on your body, mind, and spirit in the long term. Ketamine, the only legal psychedelic is synthetic, and as many will attest is highly...

The Spine of the Mind by Jack Cross
This is a difficult thing to explain, but it kind of reminds me of this observation of subatomic particles, where you cannot determine both WHERE and WHEN an event will occur, be-CAUSE, at the subatomic level, the observation of the observer appears to affect the...

Transgenerational Trauma
Transgenerational trauma must be seriously taken into account, as it is a transference of one of the greatest distressing impacts where the mental-emotional, physical, social, cultural, racial, ethnic, religious or spiritual pain suffered by a person at a given moment...

Teonanácatl or flesh of the gods
( Psilocybe aztecorum( pictured), P. mexicana, P.baeocystis, and P. quebecensis, Family Hymenogastraceae ) and Xochipillior or Macuilxochitl-The Flower Prince The texts always use the flower in an entirely spiritual sense, and the aim of the religious colleges was to...

The Millionth Buddha
Maybe there’s a quickening, a hundredth monkey, a millionth Buddha. Maybe its you, maybe its me…. Who do you say that I am? I am awake. In unison, I am awake. . . . ...

La Purga
The non-psychoactive purge session aka purging, is a significant part and a common traditional practice in Upper Amazon shamanism of Peru ( as well as other places across the globe) before embarking on a medicinal shamanic dieting or entheogenic aka psychedelic plant...

Historical Trauma
Historical trauma and historical trauma response are concepts that originated in the field of psychology and psychiatry and have been used to try to understand how we deal with the long-lasting mental-emotional effects of collective and intergenerational trauma....

Clearing Mental-Emotional Blockages Creates Acceptance and Non Attachment
Opening oneself and clearing any mental-emotional and energetic blockages can indeed allow the energy of others to flow through one more freely. When one holds onto mental-emotional states and energies or resist them, it can create tension, stress and hinder the...

Ibogaine for the World 2022 presentation on integration
https://youtu.be/QGF1n5HflbE VIDEO...

Divine Madness & Shamanic Trance
Divine madness, known in Ancient Greek as θεία μανία theía manía ( “ lit. “divine fury”), refers to unconventional, outrageous, unexpected, or unpredictable behavior linked to spiritual pursuits. It is usually explained as a manifestation of enlightened behavior by...

Psilomethoxin ~ A novel psychedelic medicine for self-realization and spiritual awakening
Psilomethoxin:4-Hydroxy-5-methoxydimethyltryptamine, also known as 4-HO-5-MeO-DMT or psilomethoxin, is a novel psychedelic drug. It is the 4-hydroxy counterpart of 5-MeO-DMT, or the 5-methoxy counterpart of psilocin. In 1965 Marc Julia’s group at the Pasteur Institute...
Iboga Notes (Deep Dive)
These are some notes I compiled in response to a list of questions asked by a colleague. Not casual reading! This is just meant to be a high level overview of some interesting points for people particularly interested. How does iboga work...

What is Psycho-Spiritual Healing?
Psycho-spiritual is a term used for the integration of the psychological and the spiritual, usually heard in psychology and religion, a supplementation of the two fields. It is commonly used to describe a wide range of therapeutic systems which embrace a spiritual...

What is a Psilocybin Sacred Ceremony?
A psychedelic medicine ceremony is a therapeutic healing experience that provides a release of feelings and resolution of past trauma, it opens up a broader state of consciousness where everything in life makes more sense and life feels in better balance. Psychedelic...

Amanita Muscaria to Treat Benzodiazepine Dependency
Benzo Dependency Benzodiazepines such as Xanax, Klonopin and Valium are potent depressant drugs that interact with the GABA neurotransmitter system and are effective anxiolytics. “Benzos” can be some of the most useful medications at interrupting an acute panic attack...

It All Becomes a Chorus Line or Why We Need a Return to Original Knowledge
Religions, and the traditions and rituals that surround them are the remnants of an inner experience of knowing God such as that offered by moments of extreme suffering or joy, or through the consuming of an entheogenic master plant sacrament like iboga, ayahuasca,...

The Etymology of Healing
THIS Etymology of Healing revolves around the Greek name ‘Jason,’ and an enTheogenic and esoteric explanation of why ‘Jason’ means ‘HEALER.’ ‘EnTheogenic,’ meaning, ‘GENERATING-THE-DIVINE-WITHIN,’ ‘esoteric,’ meaning, ‘SECRET.’ And yet, you read on. There’s a cure in...

YOU are the Medicine (aka the Risk of Psychedelics) by Deus Fortune
Over the last few years psychedelics has gone mainstream and many people are seeking them out with very little understanding of the territory they are stepping into. They’ve often listened to an interesting podcast, watched an insightful Netflix documentary, or...

The Language of Unity: An interview with Jack Cross about Entheogens, Shamanism and the Geometric structure of the English/Latin Alphabet
The compass and square are ‘instruments of measurement,’ to measure the ‘MENT,’ the ‘MIND.’ Interestingly, the compass and square are tools ‘belonging to a carpenter.’ Got wood?
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The Polemics of Jack
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