When the war is lost, when you cannot continue to fight, you admit defeat. You surrender. You give up, abandon, forfeit, submit, throw yourself to the mercy of the winner. From this comes the derived meaning of the word surrender in the language of spirituality. In this framework, the winner is divine grace, God, love, universal […]
I am writing this in the hope that some may find it useful in their healing work. Please let me know if you do. Many if not most people suffer from the syndrome known as ‘getting down on yourself’ or ‘being hard on yourself.’ ‘Dont be so hard on yourself’ is always good advice to […]
The willingness to experience anything, anything, is both the key to total healing and to liberation in a reincarnation paradigm like Hinduism. Resisted experiences create permanent solidities made of two opposite forces in standoff: the energy trapped in the experience and the energy of pushing away or running away. These static energy patterns eventually evolve […]
What is proposed here could be called Psychotherapy 2.0 as well as Psychedelics 2.0. Looking at it as psychotherapy, we could eliminate guesswork, stagnation, conceptual wandering (“it’s this, it’s that…”) and the complications of a relationship with a human therapist. With a vegetal therapist, all that is needed to streamline and accelerate personal evolution is […]
This is something I wrote in a forum on microdosing iboga, and I think it connects well with the ideas on the pages here. First, there is this mini-guide, which is thoughtful and well-written, IMO. http://eboka.info/index.php?topic=2482.0 I posted below it with a couple of complements and links. There is one main thing I would add. […]
We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abysses belong to us; are dangers at hand, we must try to love them. And if only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we […]
“The very stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone” 1 Peter 2:7
Duh. This goes without saying, except that I see so many situations in which saying it actually makes a difference. So here goes: If you are dealing with heavy stuff, and if you noticed several interventions that helped you, you should do all of them. Do all of it together. Heavy stuff is heavy. Maybe there […]
Extreme Healing: Working with the Heavy Stuff 