The subtle high, and the heeling brews

Some times slight effects is all that is needed, was the thought that came to me just now. I have been thinking about why we sometimes or even most of the time do massive amounts of mind altering substances. I have had a huge intake of coffee, as is customary in Norway, over one liter every day some times close to two. But by working with visionary plants, and some medical problems, I have reduced my intake to one cup when really needed. And it have done wonders. like wise I have learned by cutting my teethes on some nasty plant based experiences, to measure my intake of medicines to when they are called for and necessary.

But something keeps calling me back to the fringes and the mysteries of the mind and body, the magic that the plants bring us. I now see one more meaning with it all, the healing aspect of the sacred plants. How many here is aware that Mimosa Tenuiflora/hostilis and its close relatives is a really important medical plant to treat wounds and other skin aliments in south America? It have proven it's powers and is used in big disasters by the professional doctors. of course it is easily available and cheep there, but it really is a great medicine. So I ask my self how many of our entheogenic plants have claims of being really good healing plants, by actually healing bodily aliments as well as the mind. And I realize that all the illegal plants and many of the tabu but legal plants have effects that make them, when used in certain manners and amounts, effective against a huge amount of diseases and ailments, some are great sources for food also. I understand that many claims about these plants have not been scientifically proven, but most have not been disproved either. But the facts is that these plants contain substances that have been proven and have suspected effects, sometimes hugely better than the pharmaceutical counterparts. Is this the reason that mind altering plants are banned, that if wee had knowledge and access to medical preparations or even home brewed preparations of the entheogens. wee would bee healing our selves from most diseases and live to long.

Are wee therefor prosecuted for eating from the tree of knowledge and the tree of life, to heal our selves?
Should we not instead be learning how to best use these gifts from our earth?

I hope that you too, are working with these plants and extracts, with the intention to heal your selves and your surroundings. And I see lots of encouraging signs around the forum here and other places, that indicate that we are starting to become more informed and serious about our practices with the sacred plants. The one thing we lack is for our work to be legal to practice. And the habit of educating the users of entheogens in proper use and preparation of our medicines and sacraments, can be started. The world would flourish and heal, and millennia of suffering would be stopped.

When every one is allowed to be whom ewer they want to bee, and we can be satisfied with what we got. What would be better than that, to work just as much as is needed to get trough the years, and no more slavery fore the sake of distant war lords and corporations. As the natives do, have a siesta whenever we can and a party whenever we find a reason to celebrate. And feel the need to help each other take care of our world, and our needs, not to have it all to our selves to horde.

I dream I know, but it could be real if every one just relaxed and took some more time to enjoy it all........

(ps. hope I make some sense )