Rise of Psychedelic Shamanism

Currently, there is still a heavy, state and private organization biased push towards natural substances either becoming or remaining illegal while pharmaceutical drugs being fully accepted and legal in the USA, even as new evidence mounts to the efficacy of pure plant medicine from Nature.

Much of American culture, including the medical establishment, is focused primarily on death and perhaps there many people who know more about this than I. You can see the outcome of our collective suicidal tendency everyday, in the way we work, in the way we go about life and the decisions made, with results rarely for the good of the whole in the long run, but just for a select chosen few and for a short amount of time.

I might argue our society actually died some time ago and we are now just living on the fermentation before the rise of AI government, as we long for the memories of the "good old days" before “the Matrix” and geoengineering took hold. In time, the Earth will breakdown and digest the culture of death that surrounds us.

I feel called back into the arms of Nature now.  I welcome everyone, as a community, to break the laws of a dead civilization, that was never meant to work for us from the beginning, as it obviously harms us and the Earth.

The first steps for the creation of personal liberty, revolution, sovereignty and self-determination from within a dead society includes taking substances found in Nature to alleviate pain and stimulate growth instead of the force-fed drugs and chemicals from the medical industrial complex.

For example, Mushrooms both magic and medicinal, Cactus such as Peyote, Salvia Divinorum, Marijuana, Kratom, Kava and a whole lot more plants and minerals can transform your life from the government or society, the rulership of fear into the place of independence and empowerment, purpose and authentic joy.

Now is the time to uprise and embody your whole, healthy self. I am vegan, completed deep cleanses and currently teach astrology/tarot classes in Las Vegas, all stemming from the recent visions I received while journeying with magic cactus. I saw we could no longer defend the corpse of our nation or fight amongst ourselves for the bones.

I have shared articles and conversations about microdosing with mushrooms for anxiety and depression so that people can see how to cope with regular work and "adulting" daily. Relationship and childhood trauma breakthroughs become possible with these natural therapies, transforming unhealthly mental, emotional, spiritual and physical patterns.

Everyone benefits when we are open about our usage and communion with natural substances. Having a practitioner of shamanism or spiritual counseling who understands the process "sit" with you while you journey can have profound impacts on your healing experience. At mushroomshaman.com we welcome these conversations and the experience where we sit with you during the journey or we can recommend a safe practitioner. While we can't yet provide these entheogens for you, you can find them in your own way. When you do, we are ready to hear from you. Here’s to your awakening!

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Salvia Divinorum Speaks, I Listen

For a brief moment last spring and winter, I was working for an excellent intention-ed start-up company called Takedo Panacea LLC as the prime formulator of a patented salvia chewing gum product. For several weeks in May 2013, I was surrounded by the various implements to generate a new recipe for the world in the realm of psycho-spiritual development. As a chemist and a magician in my personal life and a walker of shamanic paths and priesthood, I felt very empowered and very much in struggle with my employment.

I may have been hired because of my organizational skills and my dedication to EntheoRadio as an education tool but the work of creating a suitable capsule for the spirit of the Shepherdess was a truly shamanic challenge and vision quest all on its own. The first lesson was that she (Salvia Divinorum, Ska Maria, La Pastora, The Shepherdess) was really real and very much alive in every form of salvia from the chemical extracts to the leaves and the living plants. In the past, I've had my doubts, especially about Salvia (because of the weirdness factor) and with previous experiences I mainly oral dosed by chewing her foliage.

Whatever the task and the next encounter, I knew that my relationship with her had always be good. Honestly, I can say she's always shown me good visions and even when I smoked I had great trips including many images and sounds of Christmas time or things related to Santa Claus. Then and now, I'm still very perplexed when someone swears off of her because of a bad trip.

On the first week, I received a message while chewing gum with salvia in it and attempting not to swallow my spit (because salvinorum A is only orally active through the saliva glands in the mouth or via smoking) for about twenty minutes (effects only last one hour). The magical procedure and my personal ritual (which took place at home in my bedroom) was to wait until I was ready for bed at night after brushing my teeth and gums with a toothbrush, turn out the lights, and chew the gum in darkness with eyes shut, usually while siting up so my saliva didn't run down my throat.

Salvia, Sally, Ska Maria or someone with a feminine voice or rather "feminine way of communicating" telepathically shocked me with the message: "Westerners are rape me by smoking me." So many concepts flooded my awareness with that simply psychic message. I realized that she was having a relationship with me and that when I chewed her leaves or extractions that we were having a conscious sexual intercourse. Psychic vibrations rattled through my head and my body hairs stood up. I realized that even though she, Sally, didn't have a body, she was a real WOMAN. It was almost as embarrassing as being drunk, picking up a woman at a social gathering, taking her home, and waking up next to her confused about what happened and how we ended up in bed the next morning. (By the way, I've never been drunk on alcohol and rarely ever go to bars or drink fire-water for that matter.)

Raping plants, spirits or spiritual beings and the earth's consciousness? I asked myself if I truly believed in this before considering it in the way my salvia trip evoked. That night, I recorded a couple paragraphs in my notes and moved on to bed where I dreamed intense Lucid Dreams as Salvia Divinorum has been shown to produce. At this point, I wasn't sure Ska Maria would let us make a gum product of her for day trippers and recreational stress relief, but I knew that as a dreaming herb she showed vast promise. Would the world be ready for a dream enhancing gum?

To be continued in "Making Love to Ska Maria Pastora"

Sincerely,

Hugh T Alkemi
EntheoRadio@gmail.com

Salvia tinctures are being produced in personalized batches in Arizona by this author and available at Happy Healthy High Horney Herbs in Tempe AZ or if you email to make personal arrangements. Find me online and ask about my alchemical and astrological methods of medicine production.

 

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Ska Maria Pastora Entheogen Ritual

Salvia, Ska Maria Pastora Entheogenic Ritual Group 

Ska Maria Pastora, the Shepherdess or Salvia Divinorum is a sacred entheogenic plant of the peoples of Mexico in the mint family. It was used long ago, mostly likely, by the Maya, Zapotec, Aztec and Omec. Many modern Indigenous groups still use Salvia Divinorum through a process of chewing rolled leaves at night time for healing and divination. Modern descendants of the Maya and Zapotec as well as Mixtec and Oaxacan peoples still utilize this plant today. Most often we hear that they use it as a substitute for the Magic Mushrooms (Psilocybe Cubensis and Psilocybe species) during the seasons when the mushrooms are not fruiting. 

Salvia Divinorum is an easy plant to cultivate and can be very sustainable and rewarding to the Shamanic Herbal enthusiast. It is primarily probagated through cuttings but lately the plants that many of my friends keep are sprouting flowers and eventually seeds. These are sensitive plants and, I believe, need lots of loving care. If provided a safe and compassionate living space with the right conditions (humid, shaded and warm) your very own Ska Maria Pastora will offer you stronger medicine that you can find at most stores where these are sold. Usually they are sold at Smoke Shops or Smart Shops but check your local laws because sometimes the Shepherdess is restricted in your area. 

There are many ways to experience the visions of the mint and while smoking it might be popular and "what you have heard of," it's a very INTENSE experience and should only be done if you are experienced with the Plants of the Gods and other smoking herbs of the world. I've been meaning to assemble a few of the stories (aka Trip Reports) from my friends whom I've "sat" for. The smoking experience usually yields one of two things: something vastly profound and edging on incomprehensible OR nothing worth doing again (too weird or just doesn't work).

I find it very helpful to talk to the spirit of the plant (and of all things I eat for that matter) and ask that it guide me to the intention that I have set. Salvia and Mushrooms to the tribal peoples of Mexico were there to help them see. Think of this herb as being on par with something a witchdoctor in a hut would hand you if you visited and asked him what the meaning of your life was. 

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Digression is one of those things that I enjoy doing in my writing and now is one of those times where "I digress." Today I am writing to invite you to Salvia ceremonies in your area. Classes and groups are run through a community of teachers within our organization, Sacred Spiral. Groups tend to be more in the US and around the Southwest but our group and reach is expanding more and more and hopefully if you have an interest in this medicine, the Great Spirit will bring her to your area.

In Arizona during the month of August 2012, we have a ceremony prepared that you can RSVP for on Facebook. Here are the details: 

Spiritual and Healing space will be held for a small group of journey-men and women with the Shepherdess of the Salvia Divinorum plant. Ska Maria Pastora ceremonies are done on an empty stomach in the dark with whole leaves of the sacred mint. She does not prefer that we smoke her, instead it is more appropriate to chew this sacred teacher. 

Seating is limited. Donations requested (~30 to 50) or Trade. Ceremony is about 90 min with about 40 minutes in the vision space. You will be sober at the end of the night. This is a legal and welcome entheogen within the Arizona state limits.

RSVP or call for the location. 619-663-4844

Hugh T Alchemy