How we remember with sacred mushrooms

The sacredness of the mushrooms

Before the Western world began researching psilocybin for mental health treatment, it was used as a sacrament by ancient civilizations and indigenous peoples  - to connect to the divine, for healing, and higher guidance.

Archaeological artifacts dating as far back as 9,000 years teach us about psilocybin's ancient and sacred use. Cave murals and clay and rock art and carvings depict ceremonial and ritual scenes with mushrooms associated with deities.

The Aztecs called them "flesh of the gods". The Mazatecs called them "little precious things", "little saints". They believed the sacred mushrooms carry us into alternate dimensions to commune with spirits and receive sacred messages. These messages helped form social and technological structures as much as they offered divine connection and healing.

They understood the mycelium network connects us to all life  -  it's the physical and neural roots of Mother Earth, bridging us to the spiritual world.

Forgetting through fear-based conditioning

The Aztecs were colonized by the Spanish, wiped of their spiritual practices. Through suppression and erasure, they were conditioned in fear and conformed to survive.

All humans have experienced systemic conditioning and traumatic events. 

Over time, this greatly affected our limbic system  - responsible for thinking and discerning, and processing emotions and memories - and our autonomic nervous system - responsible for our sense of safety, regulating heart rate, breathing, and digestion.

We’ve evolved with counterproductive emotional, cognitive, and behavioral changes. 

We’ve lost touch with our emotions and discernment. 

We have heightened and dysregulated stress responses, even in non-threatening situations.

This has caused dis-ease in our minds and bodies and disconnection from sovereignty and safety.

We’ve been separated from our true nature - worthy, whole, empowered - and interconnected to nature and Spirit.

Our ancestral and generational experiences and memories are interwoven in our genes. 

Unconsciously perpetuating fear-based living blocks our discernment & authenticity

We inherited fear-based programming. It evolves with our individual conditioning and trauma.

We no longer need to run past generations' survival programming. Unaware, we automatically react or repress our way through life.

Every human - regardless of privilege - acts from fear in unrecognizable ways because it’s so deeply ingrained.

True privilege is awareness. That’s where we break cycles and make genuine change.

Automatic, fear-based living perpetuates the programming and diminishes freedom. It robs us of knowing our true essence and inner wisdom. It blocks us of living a joyful, abundant life, in our power and purpose.

We are inherently whole & don't need fixing. How do we remember?

We may think we are "broken". Yet, we are inherently worthy and whole - sovereign and interconnected. No part of us is broken - only parts forgotten.

So, how do we remember who we are beyond conditioning and trauma?

Our sovereign and interconnected nature 

Our unique soul blueprints - our divine purposes 

Our courage to follow our hearts and not live from fear

Our inherent essence as eternal souls in a human body - that bliss and ecstasy are our birthright and we are meant to experience them everyday!!!

Healing, reprogramming, & remembering with the mushrooms

As ancient civilizations believed - and many lineages continued to practice - when we take the mushrooms, we commune with the divine for sacred messages. May we learn from and honor those who remember.

With a grateful heart, a willingness to go within, an openness to see the truth, and surrendering to the insights, we can begin to remember.

The mushrooms take us deep within our psyche where our subconscious and unconscious minds convene with our higher-self and Spirit to help us reconnect all our parts.

This often entails a piercing look at our glimmers - our radiance and uniqueness - and our shadows - the unseen parts of us, particularly ways we act from the programming and fear, and correlating memories and feelings - and our divine nature.

Simple awareness, fully meeting and receiving insights can lead to epiphany, healing and fresh perspective.

Other times, it takes integration - meeting and feeling repressed emotions and reprograming (unlearning, deconditioning, or rewiring) fear-based patterns and creating new, empowering ones.

As we become more aware, we heal. Awareness and healing unlock wisdom and remembrance in the mind and body.

We reclaim lost parts and remember our inherent essence and divine purposes. 

Striving and stagnation ceases, flowing begins. Fear lessens, courage expands. What no longer resonates falls away, magnetizing the fresh and new for realignment. Our radiant self-expression shines brighter and guides us on our path. We grant ourselves permission to be as we are.

We begin to remember our sovereignty and how we fit as an intrinsic whole, connected to one another, Mother Earth, and Spirit - with the freedom to embrace whatever that means to each of us.

It can be hard, and it can be freeing and empowering

It can be hard, and it can be freeing and empowering.

The sacred mushrooms have compassionately guided me through feeling and transmuting not just my grief and trauma but that of my lineage's. They've reminded me of my unique purpose and that I can have bliss and joy everyday. They’ve showed me how I am interwoven into the fabrics of all life - and what magic that is!

They've taught me how to embrace life's harsh experiences and suffering as a teacher, the seed of my wisdom and remembrance. I can now identify fear and not act from it but live open-heartedly with radical optimism and faith. 

I hope to carry these experiences and teachings to support others in similar ways.

Supporting you in your remembrance, journeying with the sacred mushrooms

Many of us have lived in an environment or experienced traumatic events where we had to hide or shut down our emotions. We may not be aware of this or how to access our intentions and emotions. I hope to create an environment where you feel safe and courageous to discover and express your inner world. And, find gratifying insight of your outer world - realizing they’re a mirror.

As you journey with the mushrooms, may you wholeheartedly connect with your intention and receive sacred messages... to remember.

With gratitude and love to serve,

Kate