Psychedelics are the most potent medicine we have for remembering what it is to be human upon the earth. Many ancestral communities integrated plant and fungal healing ceremony into every age and stage of embodiment (and disembodiment). At this turning point in history, let us call upon our entheogenic allies to unlock our truest, most deeply human, individual and collective genetic expression.
Ancestor stewardship & the DNA codes through which plant medicines speak to us
Death and the composting and regenerating of souls
Psilocybin, the underworld, soil, decomposition, and the dark feminine
Happiness above sanitation
Mycelial networks of consciousness and generosity
We have uteruses to thank for the discovery of LSD
How motherhood and indigenous wisdom brought psychedelics deeper into Mikaela’s life
Making entheogenic medicines as common as chamomile tea
Hot new take on the Stoned Ape Theory
The interplay of psilocybin and serotonin in conception and pregnancy
In the overculture we are raised to lose our creativity
We can’t understand the brilliance of our ancestors if we never get ourselves into their expanded mindset
The mushrooms are the ancient ones
The disruption that happens when we separate women from land and mothers from babies
Heal ancestral trauma by returning to ancestral ways
Practicing ancestral languages in the presence of psilocybin
It is through language and vibration and sound that life keeps a record of itself
Mending the broken bones of who our ancestors thought they had to be in order to survive
Psilocybin as an aid to recode our relationship with language in order to draw our ancestors closer
Percussion and rhythm vibrate the water within our bodies
A matriarchal, grass roots, regional model of community medicine mushwomb healing circles
The solo journey: from the alone into the alone
Addressing tendencies toward abuse when uneven power dynamics are present in psychedelic healing communities
Entheogenic healing for the whole family system
SSRIs, psilocybin, and depression, eating disorders, addiction, and more
My recent experience with Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and kambo
Further explorations into descent medicine: excrement and other expressed bodily fluids as a vital sign
Psychedelics and pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding
Going out like a G- mushrooms teach us how to die
Living people eat dead mushrooms, and living mushrooms eat dead people
The Red Road and honoring indigenous communities’ ancestral relationships with sacred plant medicines
Legality v humanity: the flow of life is stronger than the forces against it
Beauty healing: the masks we wear and bringing our attention inward to the divinity of who we are
Mikaela’s website/offerings/services Mystic Jasper
Mikaela’s ebook Entheogenic Earth Medicine Assisted Motherhood
Mikaela’s wonderful Instagram
Mental Health, Magic Mushrooms, and Pregnancy and Teen Mental Health books on Kickstarter
Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)
My website MythicMedicine.love
Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz
Video of Ayana Iyi: Entheogens and Enhancing the Magik in You
Mikaela and Ayana will be speaking at the Rising Consciousness Entheogenic Conference 3/22
Grounded by Erin Yu-Juin McMorrow
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America by Ivan Van Sertima
Medicine Stories Facebook group
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
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