Working with your shadow is about working with your unconscious and blindspots, with what you cannot see or what you haven’t known about yourself. It is a process that requires the confrontation of strangeness and otherness. It is a process that invites you to integrate disowned and rejected parts of yourself that are necessary for your growth, the strengthening of your character, and the expansion of your awareness and consciousness.

Knowing one self, or the multitudes that live within, can become a pilgrimage; a journey. Every journey begins with an inner calling, a curiosity, a need, a heartbreak or a sense that there’s a different way to walk, a different way to live and a capacious way to allow life in.

The dreaming mind thinks in networks, connections and associations. It's not subject to the constrictions of time nor the fixed stability of space. In the dynamic narratives that come alive while we dream, what we’ve experienced and has meaning to us, along with what we continuously absorb from the world, and what is yet to happen coexist in a creative way. Our past becomes present again, what we feel far away becomes close, and what we feel as impossible comes into being.

Beyond the Psychedelic Renaissance and the current research on the use of psychedelics to improve mental health and relieve anxiety, depression, PTSD, etc. Psilocybin mushrooms have been a sacred medicine for indigenous communities around the world for thousands of years. There is a rich history of traditional ceremonial use, particularly in the Mazatec tradition of Oaxaca, Mexico.