About this episode
Millions of people use plant medicine every year under various circumstances. Little focus is often taken on how to integrate and embody these visionary states into everyday life.
It’s my great pleasure to be in this virtual room together with Dr. Katherine D. Coder, who is working in this field for over 10 years.
There’s three main areas of focus that we will touch upon in this episode:
How do we best integrate plant medicine after the ceremony ends?
What role does trauma play in integration?
The intersection of spiritual awakening and social change.
Like always in my podcast series, and handing over to you:
What are the pivotal biographical moments that made you the human being that you are and show up with your purpose in the way you do?
When the Ceremony ends: How do we best integrate plant medicine?
Psychedelics are very seductive! Introducing Visionary Plant Medicine Integration: Power and Pitfalls
How much ceremony is too much ceremony? And, when is ceremony not the best next step?
If your shaman is not from your culture or local to you, what can you do to integrate after a ceremony? Who do you turn to? Especially highlighting the differences in traditional and “western/integrated/neo-shamanic settings”
What do you do when ceremony reveals trauma? How can you find and trust the “right guides” with a trauma informed background.
What kind of support do you need post-ceremony to help yourself fully heal?
How can you ground your work with visionary plants and walk the teachings in your daily life? Especially focus on psycho spiritual discipline and practices.
What role does trauma play in integration?
somatically informed and trained facilitators
bringing the visionary state back into soma to be fully embodied, importance of working with dissociation and gently shifting out of the trauma-based identity
Example – deep sense of something being “wrong” with me
Archetypal death-rebirth cycle
Sharing some of your own healing practice & offerings
The intersection of spiritual awakening and social change
Promotion of Compassionate Action in Premodernity: Indigenous traditions, The Axial Age, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, Indian religious traditions: Hinduism and Buddhism, Ancient Greek traditions
Moving Toward the Interdependence of Social Action and Spirituality & Reconsidering the path of spiritual development
Contemporary Socially Engaged Spirituality
Social action as a spiritual practice
Varieties of socially engaged spirituality
How can we ensure that all these peak experiences people get do not further spiritual narcissism?
