Entheogenic Alchemy: Integration Meditation & Expanding Conciousness
Allowing humor to be your gateway to holistic healing
Humor, Integration Meditation, and Spiritual Alchemy
What Is Entheogenic Alchemy?
Entheogenic alchemy is a type of integration meditation that symbolizes using the 7 stages of spiritual alchemy for inspiration when meditating before or after a psychedelic experience.
The Alchemical Journey
Spiritual alchemy is an ancient philosophy that uses the metaphor of turning metals into gold to achieve spiritual enlightenment. It's a process of transformation that involves breaking down ego, self-doubt, and other limiting beliefs to reconnect with one's natural state. This is where we draw our inspiration from before or after an entheogenic experience.
The spiritual alchemy process described in 7 stages:
- 1. Calcination: A purifying fire that breaks down ego and other limiting beliefs
- 2. Dissolution: Observing oneself, both positive and negative qualities.
- 3. Separation: Separating authentic thoughts and emotions from conditioned ones
- 4. Conjunction: Allowing unconscious thoughts to surface for conscious awareness
- 5. Fermentation: A stage of rebirth that involves the death of old thoughts and beliefs, and the birth of a higher self
- 6. Distillation: A stage of purification that involves looking for inner peace in daily life
7. Coagulation: A state where the universe is no longer separate from the inner mind, but rather a reflection of it
The Power of Humor
Laughter is truly a powerful medicine. It activates both frontal lobes, integrating the brain's hemispheres and boosting creative problem-solving. It also triggers a release of beneficial neurochemicals, acting as a natural mood booster and stress reducer.
Humor in the context of Entheogenic Alchemy acts as a:
- Liberator: Freeing us from the shackles of rigid thinking and egoic identification.
- Transmuter: Facilitating the transformation of heavy, dense energies into lighter, more refined states.
- Catalyst: Speeding up the process of insight and understanding.
- Coating: Smoothing the often-challenging journey of self-discovery.
How Did I Get Here?
Several years ago, I used to live a completely different life. A life full of relentless alcohol and drug abuse. Too many close calls with police. Severe depression. Rampant addiction. Self destruction. Undiagnosed disabilities. Reaching rock bottom. Going deeper than rock bottom. Climbing back up. Getting knocked back down. Holding on. Letting go. Doubting. Believing. Falling off the path. Getting back on the path. Forgetting and remembering.
There's no doubt, profound awareness can be initiated and cultivated from our entheogenic journeys. The most lasting impact however, is using this lens of consciousness to cultivate meditation, mindfulness, shadow work, integration, creativity, playfulness, unity & love into what I call Entheogenic Alchemy.
Entheogenic Alchemy 10 Week Live Course
$2,000.00
Over 10 weeks we will take a much deeper dive into the 7 stages of inner alchemy from a playful approach of psychedelic integration. At the end of 10 weeks, you will be able to maintain your own personalized integration practice that mainly involves listening to your truest inner self and knowing when to appropriately apply humor in your life. There is no requirement to share any stories, but it is encouraged as a vehicle for healing in a group setting. Ultimately go with what feels right and what you feel called to share.
Similar to a dharma talk, these sessions are intended to offer wisdom and guidance for anyone seeking spiritual practice by discussing philosophy, ethics, and the integration of our psychedelic experiences and the principle of nonviolence into daily life.
10 week live course on Zoom. No recorded sessions. Everything will take place in a live format on Zoom over 10 weeks. 1 weekly class is structured with a 45 minute presentation followed by 90 minutes of discussion. The final class is a celebratory ceremony where we all laugh and share stores and heal as a group.