Peganam Harmala: Creating the Space which Chacruna Illuminates

Yoga is a process of refinement. Working with plant medicine such as the Soma is the same. It invites us to carefully dial up or dial down the two separate levers of the process, the masculine and feminine aspects, and understanding this balance is ultimately allows us to wake up in this reality.

The Goddess Chacruna

A silhouette in the shadows
Shimmering with ecstasy
Dancing in the darkness
Of the unconscious…

Tantric Maps for Working with Plant Medicine

Awakening is the movement of consciousness becoming conscious of itself. Psychedelics and plant medicines do not offer a path for awakening but they can serve as powerful accelerators along the journey. This article examines the path to awakening as described by Dzogchen, Mahamudra, and Shaiva Shakta Tantra and the role that plant medicines can play in it all.

#014: Talking Psychedelics with Dennis McKenna, PhD

The professional and personal interests of Dennis McKenna, Ph.D are centered on the interdisciplinary study of ethnopharmacology and plant hallucinogens. This podcast episode discusses ayahuasca, comparative consideration of psychedelics and their respective benefits and challenges, scientific knowledge and its limitations, the difference between Eastern and Western modes of thought, organized religion, and more…