TEONANÁCATL CEREMONIES

With WAKE COLLECTIVE

Mycelias children are calling

The Lions gate is open.

Do you hear the call?

THEONANACATL

A powerful plant teacher that have been with us since the dawning of time. Used in ancient religious rituals and ceremonies and found depicted in rock art in Africa and Europe throughout the millenias, but are most famously represented in the Pre-Columbian sculptures and glyphs seen throughout Central and South America, showing us that mankind started to connect with the spirit realm through these master plant teachers, long before we started building houses and churches.
We believe in the deep healing potential of these sacraments, that have been here on Earth since life began, and modern science is showing great promise in their potential.

This particular plant medicine can be found in many corners of the planet, and the psycho-active components has been detected in more than 200 different species across various genera (Many of them here in Europe), and the molecular structure closely resembles the neurotransmitter serotonin, playing a huge role in our experience of reality.

GUIDES

Our medicine is served and guided by a team of therapists and musicians. Skills and wisdom acquired over continents and decades.
Channeling vibrations from beyond what is comprehensible. Medicine songs from our own hearts and from the global medicine families.
We use different tools from multiple traditions. Tools of technology and modern psychology. Tools of Shamans, Vikings, brahmins and magicians.

We work with prayers and consent, and we are part of the Global circles working within the Code Of Ethics for Psychedelic Therapists, and constantly aim to grow and adapt, both as individuals and as a group.
We have psychologists, psychotherapists, doctors, nurses and many more attached to our circle, to make sure of your safety, as well as our own. Our intention is to be of service and do the best we can, and constantly investigate our own light and shadow, so we can grow and do our work in best way possible.

MUSIC

We share vibrations through our voices and instruments.
Throughout all time music and vibration has bound humans together, for soothing, healing and liberation of emotions. We work with songs, sounds and silence from different medicine traditions around the world and both follow our intuition as well as "tradition".

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Prehistoric usages

Teonanácatl have been used since the birth of civilization 12,000 years ago, and possibly were even used before then.
The earliest evidence of Teonanácatl use is a mural that was found in Northern Australia which depicts mushrooms and psychedelic illustrations. Archeologists have dated it back to 10,000 BCE. Rock paintings in Spain suggest magic mushrooms were around prehistoric people in Europe in 4,000 BCE.
Some scientists argue that it can be assumed humans have been consuming psilocybin since our brains developed and we became evolutionary distinct. This is in part because other species, like dolphins, reindeer, and jaguars, seek out and consume psychedelic substances. Also, psilocybe mushrooms are not only available but common, on every continent.
Ethnobotanist and psychonaut Terence McKenna even argued that shrooms may have expedited human evolution, by creating a state of hyperconnectivity between brain networks, doubling the size of human brains, enabling technological innovations, and sparking ideas like religion and language.

A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE MEDICINAL & RITUAL USE OF PSILOCYBIN.

The ancient civilizations that most famously used psilocybin were in Central America. There is a lot of indigenous artworks in Central America that depicts mushrooms as a means of communicating with the gods.

In the Nahuatl language, which was used by Mayan and Aztec people, magic mushrooms were called Teonanácatl, which translates to “flesh of the gods.” Aztec Mayan and Toltec religious myths frequently mention mushrooms, stating that they were given to their ancestors by the serpent god who created all life.

Because of this, psilocybin was used in religious and spiritual ceremonies for divination, healing, anesthetizing pain, and celebrations. Their use can be traced as far back as 1,500 BCE.

It wasn’t just psilocybin that Central Americans used for these rituals though. They also used peyote, morning glory seeds, and Salvia divinorum for sacred rituals.

When the Spanish brutally conquered indigenous American people they outlawed rituals involving psychedelic materials, labeling them barbaric and against the Catholic church.

Because of this, sacred rituals that involved magic mushrooms had to become an underground practice.

Indigenous tribes in Siberia used hallucinogenic mushrooms called Amanita Muscaria which, funnily enough, reindeer also commonly consume. These cultures still are known to collect and drink the psychoactive urine of said reindeer.
Siberians used the altered state created by these mushrooms to push themselves physically, enduring freezing cold temperatures through the dissociative effects.
In Ancient Greece, infamous ritual ceremonies that worshipped the goddess Demeter called the Eleusinian Mysteries, drank a psychoactive concoction that contained a mix of psychedelic mushrooms. The ceremonies were so secret that if you revealed details gained from them you could get the death penalty. Famous figures like Plato, Homer, and Aristotle attended them.
Ancient Egyptians created numerous pieces of artwork that depict magic mushrooms. They dubbed them the “food of gods” and believed they were placed on the earth by the god Osiris. Because of how special they were, they were only consumed for religious reasons by priests and by the upper class.

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