Natural therapies offer extremely effective solutions for drug recovery and repair, however, an important aspect of this work that is not often addressed is the influence of the ‘invisible worlds’ on both people who have taken recreational drugs and those who are in contact with them. This is particularly relevant for therapists who use energetic or spiritual techniques which can open up their energy fields to ‘invasion’. I have been working in energy medicine for twenty years and I have had my share of other-worldly experiences, both positive and negative. On the positive side, I often have an overpowering sensation that my work is being guided by benign or loving beings, but I have also had incredibly negative experiences, of feeling as if I have been attacked by negative forces or dark energies that are released from the patient’s energy field during intense energy work. I never know when this will happen but I have observed that it is much more frequent when treating patients who have drug related conditions. Continue reading ‘THE INVISIBLE WORLDS by Jost Sauer’
There was an article in the newspaper recently stating that ‘retro’ drugs such as LSD and magic mushrooms were back. This is an interesting development because the psychedelic drugs are traditionally less popular than the stimulant / party drugs but they also have very different effects. The term ‘psychedelic’ is made up of psyche - meaning ‘mind’ and delos – meaning ‘clear’, so psychedelic could be interpreted as ‘manifesting a clear mind’. This makes sense to me as in all of my psychedelic experiences, on everything from mushrooms to mescaline, I felt absolute clarity about where I was and what I was doing regardless of how bizarre things actually were. Afterwards however, instead of clarity I had years of confusion and symptoms from flashbacks to permanently altered optics. Later still, once I had understood that you need to work with a drug past, I found some clarity again but of a different sort. I realized that those drugs made me understand that there is more to the world than what we see, that it is only the inner journey in life that is important and that there is definitely a spiritual aspect to existence. Continue reading ‘PSYCHEDELIC PSYCHIATRY’
