Sacred Plants II

After watching the final Sacred Plant documentary series that focuses on our military service men and women, I became very angry!  As individual humans we tolerate abuse and exploitation by the hand of others until we reach a breaking point, then we snap!  Bullying is a form of control we learn in our early childhood development that than transforms into something for more sinister and dangerous as we become adults. Corporate industrial institutions are essentially comprised of individual human beings creating stuff and/or services for you and me, the consumer.  Unfortunately, some industries or institutions have become monolithic economic, political or religious bullies.  Being a United States Army Retired Veteran, I’m all too aware of the debilitating effects traumatic experiences can have on a person and is called, PTSD or (Post traumatic Stress Disorder).  It’s not just happening to our Military Service members, it’s happening to us all.  We’re experiencing a catastrophic mental and physical health epidemic on a global scale, resulting in increased violence, mass shootings, depression, anxiety, suicide and the list goes on and on.  The standard treatment has been countless types of therapies, counseling and heavy doses of medications resulting in numerous devastating mental and physical side effects with very little in the form of healing and sustainable integration back into society.  What if there was another way of treating these illnesses?  What if there is a safer, more effective treatment that is being silenced by the powerful pharmaceutical industry out of fear of losing profits from their dangerous medications?  I’m not demonizing nor down-playing the miraculous results and cures we experience daily from clinically designed and engineered pharmaceuticals.  I only ask, does it not benefit “All” when free choice is an option?  Would you like to have the choice of a Natural healing path woven within the miraculous modern-day inventions we humans have conceived, researched and developed?  After watching countless testimonials from scientists, doctors, and everyday people that are witness too and/or experiencing miraculous results from the Sacred Plant, I became inspired to share my thoughts around this controversial subject.  And then for X-mas, Josie purchased us a book called, “How to Change Your Mind, What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence”, by Michael Pollan. And so, I placed my anger temporarily on the back burner allowing it to simmer, while I devoured this amazing scientific and insightful information.  After my retirement from the US Army in 2003, my mind was changed, or what I often refer to as (blown away), while sitting in Nature.  And now I was reading scientifically how this might possibly have happened to me, but without the use of mushrooms or any other Psychedelic substances.  Instead of a psychedelic trip, I’ve had and continue to have extreme serendipitous trips, mixed with some pretty strange physical and psychological phenomenon.  While this book may not answer all the questions as to the hell is happening to us, it does offer some scientific possibilities.  Within the pages of Michael’s book are passionate, extremely intelligent people, often atheists, in pursuit of answers and understandings of how our minds work and whom inadvertently connect with the source we collectively call Love, while fearlessly embracing the unknown.   Whether you’re currently on, or just contemplating joining our G.A.S. Adventure, I highly recommend this read!  It could possibly change your mind, or perhaps at the very least, crack it open and allow a little light to shine on this dark and mysterious thing we call, the brain. x>