RITES OF PASSAGE: SACRED MUSHROOM INITIATION

2410 Southeast 10th Avenue,Portland OR 97214

21 May, 2022

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Join Sacred Medicine Facilitator and educator Buki Fadipe for a deep dive into the history of rites of passage and sacred medicine rituals. RITES OF PASSAGE: SACRED MUSHROOM INITIATION: Ancestral & Spiritual Wisdom for Healing, Growth, Self Liberation & Integration.In this unique workshop you will learn how to work with sacred mushrooms with reverence for the spirit of the fungi, in a sacred context. This is a learning journey for those wanting to connect with the indeginous roots of sacred medicine and ritual.You will learn how to harness your inner healing wisdom, learn to tap into your inner compass and build a nature based ritual practise that will assist you in cultivating and nurturing your relationship with nature, the spirit of sacred mushrooms and your most authentic self. This course will take you on a spiritual journey, back to the roots of ritual, sacred ceremony, initiation rites, which have been the centre of human inquiry for millennia. We will look at how indigenous peoples of the world harnessed traditions that incorporated earth based rituals and entheogens (psychedelic medicine) into their animistic belief systems and cosmologies as processes to assist the path of self-actualisation, for healing and to unify with the spirits of the ancestors, elements, animals, land and community. This course will guide you through historical facts and insights, rituals, tools and frame-works that will inspire and guide you in developing your unique spiritual framework that will anchor and support you in bringing your physical, emotional and spiritual self into greater alignment. Which will deepen and anchor your sacred mushroom/medicine ceremonial healing work. Focusing on understanding the significance of seeing life through an animistic lens, one which understands that all things are imbued with spirit, understanding the significance of ritual, rites of passage & sacred ceremony. Understanding how returning to our ancestors rituals and wisdom can support us in this deep inner work. In learning to lean on spiritual allies, tools and practises for support and guidance in our integration process, we will create a compassionate roadmap for conscious, purposeful & liberated living. 🍄 BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & other Persons of color) attendees use code MUSHROOM for $25 off your ticket price 🍄THE ROOT & FOUNDATIONS Why return to the ancient and wisdom traditions of our ancestors? The significance of Indigenous Wisdom: The Inca prophecy of the eagle and the condor. Indigenous animistic belief systems: What is Asé, Life force, Anima mundi, The Great Spirit? A historical overview of Animist cosmologies: Yoruba, Native American, Celtic and Mesoamerican epistemologies. 🍄MAKING HUMAN BEINGS, LEARNING FROM TRADITIONAL INDIGENOUS RITES OF PASSAGE Initiation: An indigenous cultural overview Rites of passage: The three stages Shamanism & Entheogens: Exploring spiritual traditions, rituals & ceremony, Illness from a shamanic perspective. 🍄CONNECTING TO THE SACRED: PREPARING FOR CEREMONY Cultivating your inner guidance system: Exploring Spiritual tools & allies (moon rituals, intention setting) Attuning to your guides/ animals/ nature spirits Earth Based Rituals of ceremony preparation: Creating a four-element / ancestor altar. Preparing for the ceremony: Cleansing and purification of the mind, body, & environment, making offerings 🍄SHAPING CHANGE The Heroes Journey: Understanding your calling, Intention & Wounding Holistic Integration: Embodied transformation