By Dylan Charles
I find it easy to imagine a better world, one in which
compassion and brotherhood reign supreme. Where greed has been dethroned and
truth is respected and revered. A world where our resources are applied
creatively, where technology liberates people instead of killing them, and
where the natural world is as precious as the human body.
On and on it goes. It’s a beautiful vision.
It’s simple to imagine, because it resonates so deeply with
what we know to be true about humans: at our root, we are beings of love.
What’s difficult, though, seemingly impossible at times, is to envision the
transition from today’s world to this high vision.
What is the missing link? What is the secret? Must we
overthrow something or someone? Is a revolution in order? Against whom,
precisely? Or do we just start building amid the chaos, division and decay
surrounding us? How do we get there from here?
If you follow the thread of scientific reason on human
consciousness all the way to its essence, you eventually arrive at the revelation
that we create reality, and that the world at large is a macrocosmic
representation of the experiences of the individual. Everything conscious and
unconscious that lives and breathes within the self, is mirrored as fractals in
our collective experience. In this way we share each other’s pain, and in this
way we contribute to each other’s greatness.
Observation of the world in this light is a diagnosis of the
individual. The sicknesses manifest in our shared reality are to be found
within the mind and spirit of all people. When we grasp this as the true nature
of reality, the path to a better world suddenly appears. The healing of the one
is the healing of the whole. The way is clear now.
False Cures and Phony Pharmaceuticals
We live in the age of phony solutions, misplaced hopes and
false cures. Shallow is the new deep. Substance is nothing in the company of
style. Medicines don’t heal, they harm by making themselves necessary. Cures
now perpetuate disease, and the root is rarely unearthed, the source rarely
revealed.
The disease that keeps us on the path of self-destruction is
a spiritual one, for, each and every human being is a container for personal
and collective history, trial and trauma. The contents of our past help to
color our future. Suffering buried within creates disharmony without. This is
one of the fundamental truths about the spiritual essence of human beings. We
carry our past with us, never thinking to let go of that which no longer serves
us well.
Our heritage as beings of nature includes the medicines
which can release us suffering. These are mother nature’s spiritual medicines
which serve as tools for personal, community and planetary renewal. Medicines
to explore consciousness and one’s truest nature, but deemed illegal in the matrix,
and now only available to those who seek them out. For those that do, a glimpse
of the deepest areas of the self is possible, bringing extraordinary
understanding of the value and meaning in life.
“You find peace
not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are
at the deepest level.” ~Eckhart Tolle
lFirst Let Go, Then Receive, Then Integrate
My personal experience with shamanic plant medicines in
their proper ceremonial context has led me to the understanding that to be
happy one must be free. And to be free, one must be unencumbered and unaffected
by fear. To be unaffected by fear, one must have looked intently into the
darkest regions of oneself, thereby expanding the range of the possible, so
that a rebound can occur allowing for a unfathomably grand new vision of the
self.
I have a good friend who works to preserve the culture and
medicine traditions of an Amazonian tribe who is being driven into extinction
by our consumeristic way of life. I’ve seen firsthand how their sacred plant
medicine tradition can positively and permanently change someone’s life,
rescuing them from victimhood, and releasing them to their true purpose and
greatness.
Another friend of mine, a shaman whose work with a powerful
plant medicine tradition from the African rainforest, works everyday providing
an opportunity for people like you and I to explore the vast depths of
consciousness and memory, Creating a space that allows us to hold communion
with our very own souls and letting us see the full depth, richness and
vividness of contents stored in the subconscious mind.
These sacred healing traditions are mostly unknown and
widely misunderstood in the culture of contemporary consciousness. These are
the spiritual medicines and experiences outlawed by the matrix. Verboten
because they have the power to free us from the death grip of self-destruction.
The core message of these plant medicines, as I’ve come to
see it, is three-fold: let go, receive, integrate.
First you are called to let go of that which weighs you
down, of the fear which prevents you from accepting truth, and of the
expectation of having control.
Then to receive. Receive knowledge of self, both sacred and
profane. Receive knowledge of the natural world, without which we are nothing.
And receive knowledge of the infinitely complexity, and inspiration inherent in
the cosmos within.
Then we must integrate these lessons or they are
meaningless. We have to walk with these teachings and these revelations,
carrying them with each day, in each interaction with others, forever forward
as our lives grow more rich. We must actively rise to the challenge of creating
the highest versions of ourselves.
Final Thoughts
This is the age of chaos, division and decay, when the
sickness within colors darkly the world without.
Culture has worked itself into a destructive and frustrating
loop, and as the pattern of stress repeats itself, it leads us ever further
away from our true nature. Largely cut off from spiritual medicine and deep
spiritual experience, we don’t know which direction to turn for inspiration and
strength, and are unable to see the way towards that great vision of our
future. Yet, to dig ourselves out of the current trap of destruction the
individual must be healed.
About the Author
Dylan Charles is a student and teacher of Shaolin Kung Fu,
Tai Chi and Qi Gong, a practitioner of Yoga and Taoist arts, and an activist
and idealist passionately engaged in the struggle for a more sustainable and
just world for future generations. He is the editor of WakingTimes.com, the
proprietor of OffgridOutpost.com, a grateful father and a man who seeks to
enlighten others with the power of inspiring information and action. He may be
contacted at wakingtimes@gmail.com.
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