In Search of the Philosopher's Stone
Description:
This is a presentation that narrates a personal healing process through the use of entheogenic agents. These agents provided the transcendent space that allowed inner wounds to be reconfigured into a more manageable and workable form, releasing the soul from inner/outer conflict.
Experiences with three different entheogenic agents enabled me to access states of consciousness that fostered healing in my familial relationships by re-framing conflicts, through form of visions and wider understandings, in pictorial, mythological, and transcendent narratives. These experiences in the Other Worlds have been translated into substantial and concrete shifts in the Ordinary World.
This journey through the ‘immaterial' considers entheogenic agents as psychological/emotional catalysts for transformation and growth. The Jungian framework of alchemy and individuation has been central in filtering my transformational process and the focus is on its relevance to integrating psychedelic explorations.