Initially I found it cumbersome to focus on what exactly I desired to research within my Clinical & Counseling specialization, the field being so very broad with a multitude of avenues. Also being the fact that my particular interest may be somewhat controversial, yet still very much within the realm of neuroscience, I conjured up the courage to begin exploring this field at this opportunity.
For some reason, the topic of Psychedelic Healing resonates with me. Coming from a background of psychiatrists and psychologists, since I was very young, I had a distasteful reaction to the idea of pharmaceutical medicines and healing methods that were divorced from nature, or sought to divorce man’s relationship with the divine. It seemed typical that the field of psychology saw “God” or “Spiritual Phenomena” lending themselves to pathological neurotic states of mind. However necessary, contributing and rewarding the field of science has been to enhance human life, I found them removed and missing of one very important aspect indeed, and that is the human need for spiritual existence, the soul, the irrational realm of spirit and religious experience that undeniably betters and enhances ones personal well-being, motivating acts of prosocial behavior, keeping families and communities together, relieving stress, anxiety and addiction disorders, and ultimately warmly preparing ones way entering the inevitable gates of death.
As I grew older I walked down many streets of different faiths and cults, seeking the common truth within all of them that burns at relieving man’s existential crisis. The religious experience was common to all of them, but the language in which to express or explain these experiences vastly differed, to the point of intolerance, threat and ultimate excommunication. The cult conscience that separated them all was as common as their identical mystical experience that embraced them all together. Lost in translating their epic personal experiences within the context of their limited culturally and politically bound physical life, they all resorted to the devices of guilt to keep or own their magical experiences unique to themselves, pure only in the context of their own language. Yet, the experience was one and the same amongst all the difference languages, religions and cults. The divine experience revealing basically that an ecstatic life comes from doing what’s good, and abstaining from what is bad. Just that alone gets too easily lost in translation among people struggling to define these moral dilemmas. But as humanity moves forward toward ultimate realization, the One beyond time will certainly reveal to us through trial and error, individually, together, just what these actions are that bring us to ecstasy and what those actions are that redeem us from our personal misery and hell.
Interestingly enough, some people simply are not endowed with an ability to explore irrational spiritual realms naturally, but rather they are gifted with delineating and refining the understanding of the properties and mechanics of the physical world, its governing laws, conducting their behavior in such a way that will yield tangible, positive results. For them religion or its accompanying experiences poses a threat to the, rightly so, importance of their concrete, rational minds. Having being naturally endowed with such qualities, that are in themselves divine, only nature itself has the ability to relate to them the existence of other unseen realms that they themselves cannot in their own natures easily access. And that alone brings me to the subject of the grand importance of natures gifts in delivering to humanity the knowledge of worlds unseen through the living chemistry embodied in psychedelic plants, really the medicine to heal and pave the way back to the deep love and humanity that is the root of every single human being.
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