Having researched Medicinal and Healing Plants for much of my life, has allowed me to observe how different cultures see and use plants for medicines, foods and religious purposes. I have a particular interest in psychoactive plants – those plants that have actions on the nervous system and affect how we think, feel and act. […]
If the depression is mild and early one can turn to psilocybin mushroom microdosing, San Pedro or Ayahuasca and nutrient therapies: Fresh wholefoods and fruit rich in enzymatic energy (pineapple, apples, berries, papaya etc), Omega 3 oils good in any stage, Vit B’s-essential, Vit C, Zinc and Magnesium-essential. Sceletium, and St Johns Wort can help […]
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BioSemiotics: The Interconnected Matrix of Informational Exchange. The idea that plant molecules serve as chemical messengers between multiple levels of being is very interesting. We tend in Western culture to think only between the body and brain complex-severing off the myriad relationships between body and environment however far that extends to the universe in whole, […]
Having apprenticed and spent over a decade with a African (Northern Sotho) Traditional Healer I came to understand the importance of psychoactive shamanic plant medicine in the learning process traditional healers undergo-very similar to that of South America Curandero healers and shamans. I also learnt and experienced as part of the African traditional medicine initiation […]
The Major Visionary Psychoactive Plants Dear students Welcome to the Third Course unit: The Major Visionary Psychoactive Plants. Getting to Know your Plants, & FAQ’s. In this very informative and practical guidance course: Jean-Francois Sobiecki, phytoalchemist and healer takes his students through the major strong acting psychoactive visionary plants/fungi: Ayahuasca, San Pedro, Peyote, Psilocybe mushrooms, Ubulawu: Silene undulata (dream […]
The Healing Power Of Psychoactive Plants Dear students Welcome to the Second Course unit: The Healing Power Of Psychoactive Plants. In this course we will explore how specific psychoactive plants affect behavior and mood through their action on the neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin, and how visionary plants such as ayahuasca-DMT produce visions and heal through heightened emotional receptivity […]
As much as one prepares for plant journeys one needs to observe post ceremony social isolation or minimal social contact at least for 2 to 3 days if not a week AFTER a ceremony. This was standard in Mexican traditional Velada ceremonies for good reason-one is open after the experience and can sponge-absorb others or […]
Jean-Francois Sobiecki* Khanyisa Healing Gardens Organization, Johannesburg, South Africa *Corresponding author: Jean-Francois Sobiecki, Khanyisa Healing Garden NPO, Johannesburg, South Africa. E-Mail: phytoalchemist@gmail.com Abstract Much has been written on how Ayahuasca heals and its role in shamanic healing. Yet, there appears to be a broad lack of attention in the West to the role of […]
The use of psychoactive plants in southern African traditional medicine has been a neglected area of ethnobotanical research. However, recent reviews have demonstrated the significance of psychoactive plant medicines in the healing practices of the southern African traditional healers, and ethnopharmacological studies indicate numerous species of southern African plants with psychotro- pic activity for treating […]