Javier Regueiro - San Pedro Huachuma: Opening the Pathways of the Heart

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The content of this book is intended for informational purposes only. People wishing to drink San Pedro should consult their medical doctors before engaging with this medicine. The use, possession, and trafficking of San Pedro is at the present moment illegal in many countries, and the author doesnt condone the breaking of the laws of any country.

Dear Reader,

This book is an invitation to explore and reconnect with our inner landscapes with the help of San Pedro, also known in South America as Huachuma. San Pedro ( Echinopsis pachanoi) is a psychoactive cactus native of the Andes, but more importantly its an ancestral medicine that has been used for millennia for healing and ceremonial purposes.

As more and more people who are foreign to this part of the world and its history, culture, and traditions are feeling called to engage with this Plant Teacher, it is only natural that we should face different challenges than Andean natives when engaging in this process, and that the medicine we may need and receive as modern people be different. Our psychic and psychological make-up differs radically from that of Andean people, and our needs as modern people differ just as much from the needs of the ancestors and inhabitants of this land. The challenge then is to bridge such cultural gap in ways that honor the wealth of wisdom gathered through centuries of native studies and experimentation, and at the same time address our present day state of emotional disconnection and spiritual confusion, which are at the root of most physical, emotional, and mental diseases.

In order to explore parts of our inner landscapes that may have long been rejected and deserted, and that as a result may feel completely foreign and inaccessible, it is often helpful to draw on the wisdom of those who have explored those regions before us. In my case I entered the world of plant medicine and shamanism already equipped with tools developed by teachers and masters of various spiritual and psychological traditions that proved to be most helpful in further exploring my consciousness and the ways in which it expressed and manifested itself. Furthermore, I have benefitted from the wisdom and knowledge of several plant medicine people and teachers who have shared over the years and in their unique fashion their healing ways and arts with me. Last but not least, it has been my own personal healing journey with San Pedro and the healing process I have facilitated for my clients since 2006 that have taught me the most about my own inner landscape as well as the unique healing properties of this medicine. With all of this experiential knowledge I have written this book and drawn this map with the hope that it may help others benefit as much as possible from engaging with this medicine.

As you will read over and over in these pages, I believe the spiritual and healing paths are not about what we want, but about exploring and facing what we need to embrace and learn as part of our journey. It is for this reason that much of this book is devoted to topics that are often easily overlooked but nonetheless essential to any meaningful exploration of consciousness. Plant medicine is an organic and logical system that teaches us about the wisdom of plant consciousness for our own growth and development. The most important part of a plant is the root, the part that is most connected with the densest of elements: Earth. And so we begin in Part II by exploring our own landscape in its densest manifestations: the physical body and the challenges of this earthly human experience.

Various spiritual paths and doctrines are essentially transcendental: they mire at a different realm, be it Heaven, Nirvana, or other states not bound by physicality and conventional physics, as the ultimate goal of human experience. Plant medicine may open the door to expanded viewpoints and realities that make 3-D existence seem laughable, but it will always also bring us back into our bodies, no matter how much we may have resisted that purely physical experience in the past. Such reconnection to our bodies, often brought about through physical purging, is an essential part of this process as much information and wisdom is stored in our very cells and organs.

As modern people we suffer deeply not only from not living in our bodies but also from feeling culturally uprooted by living in societies that have forsaken their own traditions and ancestral connections. The themes connected with ancestral healing will be explored in Part IV.

The deepest of our uprooting though may be the spiritual disconnection from our divinity, and this disconnection manifests itself on all levels of our being. We shall therefore continue exploring the ways in which this disconnection manifests on the emotional level in Part III by addressing emotional healing, and the healing of our minds in Part V. The emotional and mental aspects of our lives are the basic modus operandi of our psychological existence, and in todays world they are the levels on which most of us operate in our daily lives. They are also the ways in which we express our spirits, and the way in which our souls continue their journey on this plane of existence. Throughout this book I mention the soul wounds of rejection, abandonment, betrayal, injustice, and humiliation. These wounds are acted out in our psychology and played out most early in our childhood and youth with our immediate relations. The healing of these wounds is what I believe we incarnate in this bodies and planet for, and their healing brings about also a reconciling with our families, which are also a basic aspect of our roots in this world. Our families are not only our roots but also the foundation of our being, therefore addressing our relations and healing the wounds we played out with them is a necessary and important step in our spiritual growth. I believe that our bodies, emotions, minds, and relationships are not nuisances to be avoided at all costs through denial, self-mortification, and other spiritual practices, but the very vehicles through which we express our innermost essence and eventually realize ourselves as integral parts and expression of Divinity, which is why so many pages are devoted to exploring just such aspects of our being.