There’s a lot that’s trending with healing and wellness. Hell, even those words are trending nowadays. Big at the moment is the shift in the Collective’s awareness (and growing interest) in the therapeutic benefits of some plants that have previously been tarnished for their potent abilities to shift our consciousness.
To avoid being cast into the shadows of searchability, I won’t mention their names but I will tell you that many of them grow in the darkness and damp. They are members of the fungi family and they carry with them a very special compound which has been used by medicine people, tribal leaders, visionaries, healers, truth seekers, shamans, ancient Egyptians, sangomas, psychiatrists, psychologists and oncologists.
They have also been enjoyed by festival goers and psychonauts and this cosmopolitan array of loyals has left these mushrooms with a bit of a PR problem. You see, if consumed without intention and care and knowledge and correct dosing, they can be too much for us. And certainly too much for the authorities.
And while I don’t wish to initiate a debate about dosing and whether heroes take journeys, I do wish to pause here to make a quiet and confident case for the Mantra approach: Low and slow. This dosing is considered “micro”.
Rather than pushing performance (and the edges of your psychological arena) this approach encourages balance. Small doses, too micro to have any psychoactive effect but enough to promote neuroplasticity. This means we can literally rewire the brain. And where your attention goes, your energy flows. So when we lay new neural networks, we are able to redirect our energy, our thoughts and our futures. By working subtly with the nervous system, these fantastic fungi help support sustained attention, creativity and a more resilient response to everyday stress.
The global clinical community have their attention on this growing trend too. Just searching for the controversial compound on a medical journal house like PubMed will reveal the groundswell of research they have been conducting in recent years. And the results worldwide are encouraging. Especially in the trials which are exploring how an integrated therapeutic approach to multiple mental health concerns and disorders might just be the safest, least addictive, longest term solution for many, many people all over the world.
As time goes by and the world awakens, this conversation will become even more mainstream. And hopefully I’ll be able to share how I truly feel and all that I have learned and know to be true on the topic. For now, I guess you’ll just have to make up your own mind. And I’ll do my best to share what I can to help you do this.
You are encouraged to learn more here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34063505/
