BundleflowerPower wrote:One thing I've learned over the past year is that a plant didn't need to be "active" to induce visions. Shamans are working in a spiritual sense with energy, and all plants have the potential to teach in this way. An excellent example of this is elder. Elder is a teacher just like ayahuasca is, yet it's not considered "active," but in North America it was used by many native Americans to teach how to work with plants in general, in the same way that aya is used in the Amazon.
Absolutely, I understand what you mean by that potential. It does depend what you're determining to be active, or as a teacher, medicine, tool, whether it's psychedelic or not-etc. Ime, this energy is a realization or perhaps a kind of mapping. Although I cannot think of many plants that didn't enhance/change my life the way entheogens have, upon ingestion or otherwise. Yeah, even Ceder is seen as a specific God-like teacher in my local historical areas but on the other-hand it only really contains thujone as an active molecule. Aspen and Gingko are also seen as teachers.
'What's going to happen?' 'Something wonderful.'
Skip the manual, now, where's the master switch?
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