Life is the ceremony

You could attend many ceremonies. Some are harder than others, and some involve the consumption of plants.

These ceremonies can become challenging. They can involve “getting well,” otherwise known as vomiting, or more extreme physical and psychological states. People who use “traditional medicines” see these effects of the plants as “healing.”

They are internal work and not entertainment.

Most of the time, the challenges and “teachings” that come through these ceremonies reveal what is already inside us that we have avoided and don’t want to see because it’s uncomfortable and more accessible than eating some chocolate, watching a movie, or being constantly busy to avoid ourselves.

In these ceremonies, many people get agitated and can’t help but move around, make noise, and attract the group's attention. Others speak aloud.

These things need to come out, but they generally don’t in “normal” life.

We can’t see them; we don’t dare look at them and release them.

Some people release them after years of therapy. Plant ceremonies generally release them fast, but it all depends; some people will need tens or even a hundred of these to get to the garbage they need to offload from their minds and bodies. We accumulated that garbage over generations.

Believe it or not, it’s a deep cleaning not only of our issues but also those that were transferred to us by our parents when we grew up. Our issues are mostly our mother and father’s issues. We carry generations of issues. They explain our behavior and challenges and need to be cleared.

When done correctly, these ceremonies are not entertainment. They magnify our behavior and what we need to solve in “regular” life.

What we learn during these ceremonies is present all the time. We don’t see it or are not aware of it.

The first trap is to take these ceremonies as entertainment.

The second trap is to “do the work” during the ceremonies, but the next day, drink that comforting alcohol again, eat junk food, gossip and swear, be angry, misbehave, and return to “normal” life.

The real work is in the present, every minute.

The ceremonies are an opportunity to see our “higher selves,” but then we need to become that permanently, which is the actual work.