For private ceremony in your own home please contact us at BearEagleMedicine
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Ceremony is the vessel in which we heal and pray. It is the container fo the safe use of very high doses. This is a process of coming home to your body and your life. The collective healing of the group is amplified. The medicine flows through us all. The form of this ceremony is simple but the effects are deep and complex. 

We will pray in four rounds, drinking medicine in the first two. Every member of the circle will be offered two or three cups of medicine with which to pray. The size of the cup (from the bear cup to the hummingbird cup) is up to your intuition, although the last dose is served around 10 pm. This flexibility allows each person to gauge their own tolerance so as to be self-responsible. 

The first round is for intention. After this round we take a break to explore the landscape of our thinking and feeling while moving our bodies so that our soul can come home. 

The second round is the healing round and lasts nearly all night. Each member of the circle gets individualized attention from the presiding shaman. This work includes energetic, soul and spirit medicine. 

We will then take a journey to the underworld to revive blessings and resources. Some people nap as the medicine can be quite strong but works whether we are conscious or not. You may have access to other timelines and other universes as well.

The third round is a smoke blessing and occurs deep in the night when everyone is in the realm of dreams. It signals the end of the healing round and an open period of rest.

In the morning we break fast together and join in circle for a gratitude round. Everyone has the opportunity to name the gifts they have received and what they are bringing back with them into their communities. This is a true act of shamanism and completes the hero’s journey.

Participants in ceremony can expect to experience hypnotic trance, dream like understanding, a radical sense of being at home in your own skin, improved boundaries, relief from pain and anxiety, and many people experience both out of body travel through time and space and hear the voice of the forest and the ancestors. David Samas and Wulf Trachta will be providing one-on-one shamanic healing and blessings throughout the evening while the drumming continues. 

We often begin in the afternoon with a low dose gestalt circle, blending forms of somatic therapy, partner and group practices, and states of awareness. The dose will be noticeable and facilitate our capacity to witness and own our own shadows. We also explore boundary work and the signal value of emotions. This work prepares us for ceremony by opening up the feeling and thinking layers of our subtle bodies before working in the spiritual realms.

If you are used to ceremony with other plant medicine please understand that amanita is nothing like any other compounds you’ve used. It does not travel in or effect the serotonin receptors but it is a combination of a glutamate agonist (upper) and a gaba agonist (analgesic dissociative). The primary compounds free us from chronic pain (sometimes permanently) and reverse the effects of stress in the nervous system, radically detriggering us. The most common hallucination is to feel “fine“ or “normal“ even when this is not generally how we are experiencing life. Some people do experience time loops, space warpage, regression and lucid dreaming/dreamwalking. This is not a sensory hallucinogen (like psilocybin or ayahuasca) and looks very different in ceremony from any other plant medicine. 

Breakfast (and dinner if you attend both the circle and ceremony) will be provided.

If you are currently taking benzodiazepine for anxiety or sleep, antipsychotics, or use alcohol or marijuana daily please contact us for further information before purchasing tickets. While daily marijuana users may have a less intense experience in their awareness on Amanita, we believe the bio-chemical and neurological benefits are still profound. For best effect please avoid alcohol and marijuana for two weeks prior to ceremony.

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Please contact us if you have any serious medical conditions, or use prescription GABA agonists like benzodiazepine or lorazepam. This extends to sleeping pills and ketamine. This mushroom is still perfectly safe but we would like to consult with you. This medicine is less appropriate for people with chronic alcoholism and those who use marijuana daily may find the effects are largely neurological since their mood is already significantly altered.