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Namah What is Real ?

heal. Today, patients return to recount consider her an inanimate object to dominate,
experiences of ego-dissolution, non-dual use and abuse for our pleasure and gain?
being, interconnection, joy, peace, love. In a
time when egotism, bullying and arrogance Will we be open to re-imagining a future
are widespread globally, is perhaps the ‘Becoming’?
return of the use of sacred entheogens a self-
regulating planetary impulse necessary to These I believe, are the questions that must
restore balance towards a more humane and burn at the heart of each of us until they
enlightened world? spark a flame that blazes a wild fire of
concern, passion and action, lighting a torch
If the hypothesis that our choices do make within each of us that will fuel our collective
a difference resonates with our deeper Becoming.
gnosis, that our actions have consequences,
both personally and collectively, that they References
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Here,we might turn and ask the questions: 3. Ibid.

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