Shamanism

Importance of women in the psychedelic space: A conversation-with the co-founder of Women on Psychedelics, Jessika Lagarde

It’s Women’s History Month and Women’s day. Today, we celebrate by mentioning the eternal importance of women in the Psychedelic world. To do so, we spoke to Jessika Lagarde, a Trauma-informed Psychedelic Practitioner, Educator, and co-founder of Women on Psychedelics (WOOP). Join us in a conversation about adversities entering the space as a South American BIPOC woman. Her admiration and inspiration for other women in the field, the reasoning and the goals behind WOOP, how you support and become a part of this project. We discuss the F.E.M. approach the group uses in retreats to help people connect with themselves and others. How might Women’s unique experiences with trauma, mental health, and resilience shape their perspectives on the therapeutic potential of psychedelics and advice to women who want to make a difference in this field? What kind of legacy she hopes women in the psychedelic space leave for future generations and much more!

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Unveiling the War on Consciousness

In the unfolding tapestry of human existence, there lies an unseen battle. Graham Hancock coined this battle as the War on Consciousness. His theory was that certain institutions have deliberately sought to suppress the human capacity for expanded consciousness by demonizing ancient shamanic practices, outlawing psychedelics, and labeling spiritual exploration as ‘Dangerous.’

Ultimately, the War on Consciousness is not just a theoretical concept but a lived reality. We are all engaged in it, whether we are consciously aware of it or not.

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Origins of Ethnopharmacology

Aspirin, Digoxin, and Morphine aren’t the first thing that comes to our minds once we hear the word Plant Medicine. Regardless of their seemingly distant origin, all those compounds once had a plant origin. To this, we name ethnopharmacology. Using the word of Juerg Gertsch: “Ethnopharmacology tries to understand the pharmacological basis of culturally important plants.”

Today, ethnopharmacology has an equally important role, as we are using plants that have been used for centuries by natives. Plants such as Peyote, Ayahuasca, Iboga, Kava Kava, and Psilocybe aid us with the current mental illness epidemic. Thus, Indigenous communities are once again furnishing us and aiding us with their ancient knowledge, this being said it would only be unfair not to feature such communities in Psychedelic and Ethnobotanical conferences, giving them their due credit, and teaching us about how much these plants mean to their culture, and most importantly how we should respect and protect indigenous rights.

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Morning Glory, the ancient LSA experience

Since the pre-Hispanic times, tribes such as the Zapotecs, Chinantecs, Mazatecs, and Mixtecs used Morning glory seeds (Ololiuqui), despite the hallucinatory and vasoconstriction effects, E.T Brady Jr from the Ross General Hospital believes the effects can be reversed using chlorpromazine in addition to psychiatric consultation to aid mental health building a bridge between ancient shamanism and modern psychopharmacology.

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