So the topic has come up clearly amongst my students and friends whose interested around psychedelics and altered states has finally peaked into practice:
Is vomiting good for you? Is it healthy to throw up?
Do the medicines considered Purgatives, have negative effects that throw the body off to the point of dysfunction? Do magic mushrooms have negative/toxifying effects when compared to someone else's so called cleaning medicines (ayahuasca and peyote)?
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My teacher and I went round and round today in speculation of herbs and healing as it relates to the body's psychoactive breakthroughs and potential healings.
As he spoke, so many memories reminded me of how my primary medicinal study had been with mushroom medicine as it was originally involved with yoga, the rig veda, Christianity, the garden of Eden, and Aryan or Brahman Shamanism (not just psychoactive shrooms but all fungi). We talked about the mellow and medicinal effect of magic mushrooms versus the stimulating effects of Mescalito (Peyote and San Pedro) and purgative effects Ayahuasca.
So the answer seems to be a matter of conflicting research and traditional belief systems. And yes, my teacher replied that too much throwing up is bad for your body and sometimes too little or NO VOMITING is bad for your body.
The story related to me was one of his experience with fighting the "throwing up" urges with Cannibus, only to be met with advice (from Native American Medicine People) that one must allow the purge to occur as part of the healing. At this time, I brought up a question that one of my students posed about, Ayahuasca being more pure and healing to the body than mushrooms. At this, my teacher reminded me that mushrooms rarely create an irresistible urge to throw up and contain an immune system stimulating constituents that help fight off cold and virus.
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In the next 60 days, Sacred Spiral and the human Trevahr (me) are going through some testing phases as the organizational body and I "take on" the Ayahuasca and Peyote herbs (always under religious and ceremonial and legal circumstances)in order to better experience and discover the answers to this question and to fully reveal these experiences as a healing path for the community.
I personally feel that my body is going to vomit and that it needs to in order to heal pain, gallbladder and other internal organs.
As I hold faith and step into my power with these medicines and move to create organization in the Sacred Spiral church for this sort of journey work, I am excited but fearful because of stories about being unable to throw up and warnings that I could lose my sanity in this substance.
From the Herbalist standpoint that my teacher and I hold...there is no normal reason why anyone would have to take the Ayahuasca medicine in high doses for several days a week for months or more...this may be where the danger lies...although this statement is opinion.
Weird and unwelcome reflections of shamanism have come out of urban society and San Diego. Nonetheless, I shall walk through the mirror into full "presence and power" and completely heal myself of these physical and emotional pains this year!
In the meantime, my practice, with friends and other healers, deepens into weekly sessions and discipline of time and monetary resources such that I make it to the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Sciences Conference in April as well as create abundant funding for our non-profit lawyer fees.
As a weekly mushroom hunter and American of Mexican descent, I am most intrigued with something else that my teacher spoke about today: Magic Mushrooms as Mazatec (ie Maria Sabina) religious sacrament.
I feel that Mushrooms as healing medicine and faith enhancers runs in my blood...or rather my mother's blood.... And may be one of the best manifest destiny paths that I have to offer the world for the next 5 to 10 years(especially the United States).
Theoretically and probably, our church can pioneer a sacred path of religious legal protection and use of Magic Mushrooms through Mazatec customs and traditions (wow what a concept!).
This kind of healing and safe relationship is long overdue in the United States because of some non-sense about mushrooms being a narcotic schedule 1 offense because of their psilocybin content and are therefore expressed in legal language as a drug containing substance or a container that transports narcotics.
Under the same clarity created over Ayahuasca/Santo Daime vs. the Supreme Court, we may create understanding at Mushrooms are "God Given Natural Sacraments" and medicines for faithful healing especially within the religions of the Mexican peoples in the regions of my great grandparents...Zacatecas and the Sierra Madre.
I am a faithful healer, ordained minister, community organizer, and dutiful teacher/researcher and I believe in Earth Wisdom as well as Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and many others. My agenda extends deeper into human freedom, rights, and education...
If one takes a long and loving look at history and human anthropology, he or she will certainly discover that altered states (ie. Shamanism) occurs in every faith/religion and in every human life...thus I call you to legalize Nature...not just the Earth and the plants but LEGALIZE HUMAN NATURE...as it is human nature to have shifts of perception and consciousness...and furthermore it's healthy.
Keep Practicing Your Yoga,
Rev. T Hughes
Alchemical Priest
Me@trevahr.com
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