Entheogens and Sacred Plant Medicines

Entheogens are a class of psychoactive substances that are used in religious, spiritual, or shamanic contexts to induce altered states of consciousness and spiritual experiences. The term “entheogen” comes from the Greek words “entheos” (meaning “having the divine within”) and “genesthai” (meaning “to generate” or “to bring forth”).   Therefore the word also points to the intention of the person taking such medicine – holding the goal of having a spiritual experience, such as illumination of mind, light-filled visions, intuitive downloads, a sense of connection with body, mind and spirit, a sense of belonging to everything and everywhere.

Entheogens include a variety of natural and synthetic substances, such as psilocybin mushrooms, LSD, ayahuasca, peyote, iboga, and DMT. These substances have been used for centuries by indigenous cultures in religious and spiritual ceremonies, and are increasingly being studied for their potential therapeutic benefits in treating mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, and PTSD.

With the de-criminalization process moving along, healers such as myself are able to come out to the public, offering education and support for those who wish to journey with macro or micro amounts of entheogens.

The word “entheogen” It also refers to the intention of the person taking such medicine – holding the goal of having a spiritual experience, such as illumination of mind, intuitive downloads, a sense of connection with body, mind and spirit, a sense of belonging to everything and everywhere.

Whether it is microdosing psychedelics that you are interested in or it is preparation or integration of a sacred plant medicine journey – I have a wealth of information to share with you.

With several decades on the path, I have amassed a lot of knowledge and wisdom both cognitively, experientially and intuitively.   

At the moment I am offering the following services. Please feel free to click on the colored lines to open a new page and dive deeper into the subject:

• Sacred Plant Medicine Journey Preparation
• Sacred Plant Medicine Journey Integration
• Sacred Ceremony
• Microdosing Psychedelics Education
• Sacred Ceremonial Music Services
• Sacred Ceremonial Song Teaching

My story

After I “woke up” at age 19 to spiritual consciousness, my whole life started revolving around gaining more knowledge and experience that realm.  As an artist and a musician, my artistic expression started reflecting this.  Since I grew up in a very sterile environment in Communist Hungary, I only started dabbling into smoking Cannabis later in life when I was 23 years old and lived in Spain for a while.  Once I emigrated to the United States, Cannabis was widely available to me but instead I chose a “purist” path of yoga and meditation.  For a while I was strongly under the influence of a beautiful set of teachings called the Essene path – and because of that I chose not to use anything at all that could alter my consciousness.  However, eventually, playing sacred music at transformational festivals put me in an environment where the use of entheogens was the norm.  I was still only rarely partaking in anything mind-altering, but eventually I got an invitation to share my music at an Ayahuasca ceremony in Oregon and my life forever changed.

When I first heard about Ayahuasca, I instantly knew that it was something for me and that I would have a life-long relationship with it.  I was studying different healing modalities at the time and I was fascinated by the idea that a sacred plant medicine could be used to heal the root cause of a disease – changing the negative emotional programming that creates stress in the first place.

My first Ayahuasca ceremony was a very strong experience.  I thought it was incredibly beautiful and it was incredibly intense too at the same time.  I ended up moving to California from Oregon and the group that invited me was no longer accessible to me.  A few years went by and I got invited to play music for another ceremonial group in California.  This time Mother Ayahuasca gave me profound but less intense experiences, ones that felt like life-changing transformational processes that were continuing to shape me into a better version of myself.  These ceremonies were deeply spiritual experiences that were also very enjoyable.  I loved everything about them – the community connections that came with them, the musical inspiration, the spiritual depths I was introduced to and the slow but steady healing of old emotional wounds.

I was often searching on-line for new medicine songs to learn and that is how I found Alonso Del Rio’s music.  Because I speak Spanish, I was able to learn his sometimes involved songs and share them in ceremonies.   Eventually I found a way to travel to Peru and meet with Alonso. We immediately became friends and we continue nurturing our connection to this day.  

Back in California I was invited to more ceremonial groups to share music with.  These gave me the opportunity to experience a wide variety of different ceremonial traditions and leadership styles.  I also opened up to try other entheogenic medicines, including synthetic ones.  Through the years I became adapt at using these as my allies and I learned to navigate the psychedelic realms with the intention and end result of reaching higher states of consciousness and spiritual communion experiences.  I also figured out how to best use entheogenic medicines for enjoying music, dancing, nature and for connecting with other humans.  

Through the years various healing modalities have been calling me and keeping me on the path of the healer, insatiably soaking up new knowledge with every opportunity to learn. More recently – in the past two years – I have been experimenting and studying microdosing psychedelics as a healing modality.  I am happy to offer my accumulated wisdom in this area now to people who are interested in engaging with entheogenic substances in a serious, intentional manner.

To this day I continue living a life inspired by, nurtured by and guided by Mother Ayahuasca.  While she remains my main connection to the world of entheogens, through her I also opened up to various other sacred plant medicines and found that they are all valuable and powerful allies on the path of healing and evolution of consciousness.   I am super excited to see more and more people having access to them now that decriminalization is well on its way.  I see my role as an elder with a wealth of knowledge and experience, willing and ready to guide people toward the most conscious and spiritually aligned ways to use entheogenic medicines.  

Below please view a talk show I was a presenter at, titled “The Awakening World” – “Awakening Through Plant Medicine & Microdosing”. 

TESTIMONIALS 

“Thank you for your help supporting me through a 2-months long microdosing protocol. I used to microdose before but never in such a regimented way.  I feel totally reborn.  My mood is stable and I was able to give up some really bad addictive habits that I could not beat before.  So grateful.”

Denise