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About Medicine Work
If you are considering a journey involving plant-based medicine for the first time, you are wise to be both cautious and curious. The resources on this page are recommended as sources of inquiry and wisdom, and we highly recommend, and sometimes require, a personal conversation with founder Matthew Blau to explore the impulse behind your interest. We are here for each participant in a deeply personal and committed way, from the initial inquiry and all the way through the integration phase afterward.
A Note about Safety and Support:
The only way for you to have a meaningful, transcendent and productive journey is when not even one percent of your consciousness needs to focus on your own safety or the safety of the group. You need to feel confident that you are held in a completely safe and impenetrable container, to really travel to the places you need and want to go. Your facilitators and retreat hosts have been doing this for many years and are committed to keeping the integrity of that container and to giving you the attention you need to feel safe, supported and protected throughout the entire experience.
Contraindications:
We will ask you to fill out a medical history form, but in general, any unmanaged serious heart conditions, epilepsy, and certain other conditions and/or medications may be contraindicated to this work. We will discuss any relevant medical history with participants individually.
Read Matt's Insights About the Medicines
Recommended Readings
The Power of Now, by Ekhart Tolle
This is the first book I recommend to everyone I work with. It is a practical instruction manual on how to stay present in the moment and not live through the veil of a narrative or self story. In my opinion, this is the book that should live in your knapsack or purse.
Psychology of the Future and The Cosmic Game, by Stanislav Grof
Stan Grof is the father of experiential psychology in so many ways, and someone I have worked with personally over many years. His insight into how early trauma, including birth trauma, affects our lives and into healing through non-ordinary states of consciousness, is critical in our understanding of ourselves and what holds us back from living our love.
The Cosmic Serpent, By Jeremy Narby
This is a very powerful and insightful book about one man’s journey in the amazon. A very worthwhile read for anyone interested in sacred medicine work.
How to Change Your Mind, by Michael Pollan
This is a very good and well-written overview of a very skilled journalist’s experience with psychedelic healing. It may be the best book around, if you’re looking for a broad understanding of what you might expect from a psychedelic journey and the potentials in healing these medicines possess.
The Three Halves of Ino Moxo, by César Calvo
This book is itself a mystical journey through the South American jungle. You will lose yourself in this amazing book. There were many times while reading it that I felt like I was back in a sacred medicine ceremony myself.
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