After the Ceremony Ends: A Companion Guide to Help You Integrate Visionary Plant Medicine Experiences

by Katherine E. Coder

Have you ever had any of these
How much ceremony is too much ceremony?
When is ceremony not the best next step?
If your shaman is not from your culture or local to you,
what can you do to integrate after a ceremony?
What do you do when ceremony reveals trauma?
How can you ground your work with visionary plants
and "walk the teachings" in your daily life?

After the Ceremony Ends helps you understand how you can embrace your work
with visionary plants much more fully so that you can heal more profoundly and
grow from the place of your deepest authenticity.

Genres: Nonfiction

112 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 8, 2017

About the author

Dr. Katherine Coder is an awakener of evolutionary potential and a guide to remember one’s birthright and soul essence. She weaves the ancient wisdom into the now, serving as a vessel for the Divine Feminine in modern times. She holds the form and the formless, facilitating the integration of the known with the unknown.

Her transformative work connects Body, Mind, Heart and Soul and seeks to meet each person as and where they are in the journey of life. Her stance is to recognize the fundamental Truth in each person, honor them as that Truth, and begin the work that needs to be done to bring a person to this essential nature.

Her specialties include trauma resolution, attachment challenges, codependency, childhood and family wounding, women’s work, and motherhood. From a transpersonal perspective she helps her clients with deeper awakenings and integrations. She brings together Western clinical psychology, Eastern spiritual teachings, indigenous, earth-based wisdom, Sufi/God-led healing, and the continuous cultivation of the deep feminine in the world.

​She has taught lunar wisdom, elemental wisdom, herbal plant wisdom, elements of ceremony, and facilitated women’s work, council circles, workshops, retreats, and year-long women’s feminine spirituality schools.

Reviews

[Nicholas]

This admirably concise and practicable guide to post-psychedelic integration, particularly regarding traditional plant medicines like ayahuasca and ibogaine, is also one of the most even-headed resources I’ve encountered when it comes to translating one’s experience across cultural and cosmological frames. Coder spells out where seekers from the Global North may have different assumptions and healing goals from those of people from Indigenous backgrounds; astutely remarks the risks of idealizing a “tribal culture” not one’s own; and explores a range of integrative practices that can help one to navigate the “power and pitfalls” of visionary plant medicine.

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are only 3 ideas here, repeated over and over:
1) Meditate
2) Speak to someone (psycho-therapist or loved one) after your experience in order to help integrate the experience and make any meaningful growth lasting
3) Relax on the day after taking the substance

[Will Adolphy · Rating 5 out of 5]

An incredibly taut and profound overview of integration work that may as well be a must read for any person in a 12 Step Programme.

Thank you!

[Lew Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

A worthwhile read

[Heidie Rothschild · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good overall book but very dated material. It needs to be more current.

[Ashley Thiesen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Should be a prerequisite for anyone experiencing plant medicine of any type, in particular ayahuasca. Very comprehensive and well-rounded approach to ceremony but most importantly integration … Where the real work begins.