Seeding Consciousness: Plant Medicine, Ancestral Wisdom, and Psychedelic Initiation

Reveals how psychedelics can help us plant new beliefs, awaken latent gifts, and cultivate individual and collective change

- Provides a blueprint for responsible and effective use of psychedelics and plant medicines to transform pain and trauma into profound connections with ourselves, nature, and the spirit world

- Shares exercises to help readers plant the seeds of transformation in their own consciousness, navigate altered states of consciousness and ego death, work with the shadow, and integrate fragmented parts of the self

- Explores ancestral teachings on the interconnectedness of all life, drawing on the author's studies with indigenous elders, including Bwiti initiations with iboga

Presenting a deep dive into the world of psychedelic initiation and ancestral wisdom, Tricia Eastman demonstrates the power of plant medicine and psychedelic journeys for planting new beliefs, healing trauma, and cultivating latent gifts within us--an inner alchemical process she calls the "seeding of consciousness."

Drawing on her studies with indigenous elders, including a decade of iboga initiations with the Bwiti of Gabon, Africa, Eastman provides a blueprint for responsible and effective use of entheogens to transform pain and trauma into profound connections with ourselves, nature, and the spirit world. She explores ancient teachings on the interconnectedness of all life and the forces of nature and shows how colonization and modern culture have disconnected us from our spiritual foundations. She shares exercises to help readers seed their own consciousness, navigate altered states of consciousness and ego death, work with the shadow, and integrate fragmented parts of the self. She also examines how to respectfully engage with these potent transformative substances and ancient traditions, including honoring the wisdom keepers who have safeguarded these traditions across the millennia.

Revealing how to prepare the fertile soil of the mind for mystical experience, this book presents a psychedelic path to awakening that simultaneously facilitates personal transformation and collective societal change.

Author: Tricia Eastman
Publisher: Bear & Company
Published: 11/12/2024
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
ISBN: 9781591435334

About the Author
Tricia Eastman, a lineage-honoring medicine woman and founder of nonprofit Ancestral Heart, bridges worlds rooted in her mestiza ancestry with profound insights from a decade of Bwiti initiations and training. A renowned speaker, artist, and writer, Eastman has been privileged to engage with audiences at Stanford University's d.school and the World Economic Forum and on GAIA TV's Psychedelica. Eastman has curated transformative retreats worldwide with plant medicines as well as facilitated the psychospiritual program with Ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT at Crossroads Treatment Center in Mexico. Her wellness retreat center, Hu Azores, is scheduled to open in 2025.