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Psychedelic Consciousness: Plant Intelligence for Healing Ourselves and Our Fragmented World
An examination of the use of psychedelics for understanding ourselves, connecting with the world around us, and enacting outer change through inner transformation
• Explores sacred tools and technologies to help us reestablish a lost ideology of unity, with a specific focus on natural plant/fungi psychedelics
• Looks at the history of psychedelics and their role in facilitating natural intelligence’s ability to increase itself through ongoing analysis of its own experience
• Provides guidelines for safely using natural plant/fungi psychedelics and integrating them into society to access unified consciousness and restore balance to our world
Our ecological, social, and political issues all stem from the ideologies that drive our collective actions. In contrast to our innate humanity, which is rooted in unity, these ideologies have led us to believe that we are separate from each other, separate from nature, and separate from the results of our actions. Such a worldview encourages individuals to maximize self-interest, which then causes fragmentation, conflict, pollution, and the depletion of natural resources. Offering practical steps that we can take to heal ourselves and our fragmented world, author Daniel Grauer explores the use of sacred tools and technologies, such as natural psychedelics, meditation, and yoga, in order to reestablish an ideology of unity, work in symbiotic harmony with the Earth, and restore our world as a sustainable and prosperous whole.
Grauer explains how individuals--and by extension societies--benefit from safely accessing transcendent states of consciousness, such as those provided by psychedelics. He explores how psychoactive substances have been used throughout history all over the world for healing, personal growth, spiritual development, and revealing hidden truths, such as in the Eleusinian Mysteries, Soma practices in Vedic India, and rituals in several South American indigenous cultures. Drawing on the plant intelligence work of Paul Stamets and Stephen Buhner, Grauer shows that the growth of individual and collective intelligence is hindered by the prohibition of psychedelics, which naturally foster humanity’s capacity for analysis, innovation, and cooperation. In addition to creating a sense of unity with all things, psychedelics offer the mind a new perspective from which to analyze its experience and heighten its awareness. Drawing on his own experience and research, Grauer provides guidelines for how to safely use natural plant/fungi psychedelics in order to access the unified consciousness of our ancestors and induce the states of awareness we need to restore natural harmony to our world.
• Explores sacred tools and technologies to help us reestablish a lost ideology of unity, with a specific focus on natural plant/fungi psychedelics
• Looks at the history of psychedelics and their role in facilitating natural intelligence’s ability to increase itself through ongoing analysis of its own experience
• Provides guidelines for safely using natural plant/fungi psychedelics and integrating them into society to access unified consciousness and restore balance to our world
Our ecological, social, and political issues all stem from the ideologies that drive our collective actions. In contrast to our innate humanity, which is rooted in unity, these ideologies have led us to believe that we are separate from each other, separate from nature, and separate from the results of our actions. Such a worldview encourages individuals to maximize self-interest, which then causes fragmentation, conflict, pollution, and the depletion of natural resources. Offering practical steps that we can take to heal ourselves and our fragmented world, author Daniel Grauer explores the use of sacred tools and technologies, such as natural psychedelics, meditation, and yoga, in order to reestablish an ideology of unity, work in symbiotic harmony with the Earth, and restore our world as a sustainable and prosperous whole.
Grauer explains how individuals--and by extension societies--benefit from safely accessing transcendent states of consciousness, such as those provided by psychedelics. He explores how psychoactive substances have been used throughout history all over the world for healing, personal growth, spiritual development, and revealing hidden truths, such as in the Eleusinian Mysteries, Soma practices in Vedic India, and rituals in several South American indigenous cultures. Drawing on the plant intelligence work of Paul Stamets and Stephen Buhner, Grauer shows that the growth of individual and collective intelligence is hindered by the prohibition of psychedelics, which naturally foster humanity’s capacity for analysis, innovation, and cooperation. In addition to creating a sense of unity with all things, psychedelics offer the mind a new perspective from which to analyze its experience and heighten its awareness. Drawing on his own experience and research, Grauer provides guidelines for how to safely use natural plant/fungi psychedelics in order to access the unified consciousness of our ancestors and induce the states of awareness we need to restore natural harmony to our world.
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224 pages, Paperback
Published July 7, 2020
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Daniel Grauer
1 book2 followersDaniel Grauer is a writer, speaker, and organizer whose work focuses on individual and collective transformation. He is the author of Psychedelic Consciousness: Plant Intelligence for Healing Ourselves and Our Fragmented World and a cofounder of the Hudson Valley Psychedelic Society. He lives in a homesteading community in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains.
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April 20, 2020
This book articulately expresses the benefits of psychedelic plants in an accessible, intelligent way. If you care about the planet, society, humanity, environment, mental health, then it’s worth your while reading this book. Daniel Grauer has done a great job at articulating the benefits of a shift in global consciousness to the psychedelic roots from which we came and which our society ultimately has grown from. It’s time we got back in touch with that.
February 26, 2021
Psychedelic Consciousness is an incredibly well-articulated reflection on why we have lost our connection to ourselves, others, and the natural world and how to recover it through inner transformation for outer change.
Beautifully weaving together the macro (state of our world) and micro (our individual inner struggles), Grauer’s reflections offer an honest but hopeful perspective on the causes of our individual, collective, and planetary suffering, which share their source in misguided ideals of fragmentation and egoistic individualism as opposed to the reality of our unity and connection.
A gifted story-teller, he crafts poignant metaphors and personal anecdotes to share the potential of sacred tools such as meditation and psychedelics to connect us to a sense of meaning and lasting joy that arise from the experiential knowledge that we are part of an awe-inspiring, magnificent interconnected world.
As accessible and practical as it is personalized and filled with depth, this book carves a clear, inspiring, joy-filled path to a more harmonious inner and outer world.
Beautifully weaving together the macro (state of our world) and micro (our individual inner struggles), Grauer’s reflections offer an honest but hopeful perspective on the causes of our individual, collective, and planetary suffering, which share their source in misguided ideals of fragmentation and egoistic individualism as opposed to the reality of our unity and connection.
A gifted story-teller, he crafts poignant metaphors and personal anecdotes to share the potential of sacred tools such as meditation and psychedelics to connect us to a sense of meaning and lasting joy that arise from the experiential knowledge that we are part of an awe-inspiring, magnificent interconnected world.
As accessible and practical as it is personalized and filled with depth, this book carves a clear, inspiring, joy-filled path to a more harmonious inner and outer world.
September 8, 2020
Psychedelic Consciousness reminds us of our deep connection with one another and Mother Earth. Grauer brings us back to our heart and what really matters. His writing is beautiful, powerful, and easy to digest. I’m grateful for this book and its ability to ground me into truth, love, and unity consciousness.
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September 9, 2020I thoroughly enjoyed reading Daniel's book. It provided an insightful and original journey into the world of psychedelics and also explored bigger topics concerning environmental sustainability, social peace, human connection and love. I also found the writing very accessible, engaging and personal. The world needs more books like this! Highly recommended!
November 9, 2020
A fantastic read. Daniel Grauer explains the problems humanity is facing and lays out an optimistic vision of how we may be able to address them. Left me feeling inspired!
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