The ego will also adapt and commodify anything that comes at it, including the ancient art of shamanism and the plant and earth medicines – the entheogens – which have now returned into the Western mind frame in the last few decades.
Our spiritual disconnect has culminated over the long course of his-story in contributing to the ecological apocalypse. And yet, like many indigenous cultures with legends of world ages and catastrophe pray, there can be hope.
The old ways are breaking down and a new paradigm is emerging in the post-industrial, information era. This new world age that we’re coming into is a fresh start, which needs a new mythology (which is also developing rapidly around us).
All through history people have reported having spontaneous “mystical experiences” naturally and through the aid of external catalysts like shamanic plant and earth medicines. Our consciousness is always changing and, like our DNA, adapting to the circumstances of our environment.
Ayahuasca is a visionary medicine used by the indigenous tribes of the Amazon who share a mythopoetic cosmovision or an understanding of the world as an alive and intelligent organism.
Even modern science has seen that the ego-dissolving effect of psychedelics engenders what could be called a ‘mystical experience’ which facilitates healing.
