And I often start my presentations with an apology, specifically I apologize for the lies of past drug educators including myself.
We can see at least four communities cultures today that have woven the psychedelic experience into the fabric of their culture. Does the curanderos use of
psilocybin mushrooms the ayahuasca used in the Amazon basin there’s the whole use of peyote and the shamanic use of Amanita muscaria in Siberia. Now on the surface how the container of safety is created with these cultures with this psychedelic experience is all different, but if you look at how the experience is integrated into the culture.
They’re used for healing everything from psychological to physical issues they’re used for celebration of transitions everything from seasonal changes to puberty rites and they’re used for spirituality to connect the individuals and the culture to the cosmos as a whole.
