Consciousness Medicine | Free Book
Psychedelic medicines also known as entheogens are entering the mainstream. And it’s no wonder: despite having access to the latest wellness trends and advances in technology, we’re no healthier, happier, or more meaningfully connected. Psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca, and LSD—as well as other time-tested techniques with the power to shift consciousness such as drumming, meditation, and vision quests—are now being recognized as potent catalysts for change and healing. But how do we ensure that we’re approaching them effectively?
Françoise Bourzat—a counselor and experienced guide with sanctioned training in the Mazatec and other indigenous traditions—and healer Kristina Hunter introduce a holistic model focusing on the threefold process of preparation, journey, and integration. Drawing from more than thirty years of experience, Bourzat’s skillful and heartfelt approach presents the therapeutic application of expanded states, without divorcing them from their traditional contexts. Consciousness Medicine delivers a coherent map for navigating nonordinary states of consciousness, offering an invaluable contribution to the field of healing and transformation.
In The Press
"Consciousness Medicine is an insightful and inspiring
introduction to expanded states of consciousness. Françoise Bourzat
combines an intimate personal account with the most comprehensive and
practical guide I have seen to transpersonal experience and shamanic
work, emphasizing the three cornerstones of preparation, journeying
and—of essential importance—integration."
—Gabor Maté MD, author
of In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction
“A lovely reading experience and immensely informative, this
book should be on the bookshelf of everyone interested in the
subject of consciousness change and spiritual growth.”
—Ann Shulgin, coauthor of PiHKAL and TiHKAL
"It is a pleasure to recommend Francoise
Bourzat’s Consciousness Medicine. Ms. Bourzat has an
extensive background as a teacher and facilitator of altered states of
consciousness, utilizing a variety of techniques including meditation,
vision quests, sweat lodges, and entheogens. Regarding entheogens,
also known as psychedelics and hallucinogens, Ms. Bourzat has done
considerable fieldwork among the indigenous Mazatec people of Mexico,
who have a vast history and knowledge of the spiritual and healing
properties of psilocybin mushrooms and other psychotropic plants.
Having worked closely for many years with these native healers, Ms.
Bourzat has acquired considerable insight into these ancient practices
that she has transmitted to the many contemporary students and seekers
whom she has worked with over the past thirty-five years. Given the
increasing interest in the range of effects and applications of
psychedelic plants in the modern era, Ms. Bourzat’s knowledge holds
great relevance to today’s world. As such, this book will make a
valuable contribution to our growing knowledge base and appreciation
of the salutary potential these compounds possess."
—Charles S.
Grob, MD, professor of psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine
"Françoise
is uniquely qualified to write this book. She not only has the
multicultural training and a deep and real connection with indigenous
traditional healing techniques, but she has for decades applied,
tested, and extended these techniques, specifically for the training
of Western therapists. Her own Western training was first class, and
perhaps because of that, she is not caught up in idolizing or
fantasizing the value of either Western psychodynamic therapies and
research or these older systems of indigenous healing. Her work blends
both in a blend appropriate for this time and this culture. She has no
ideological ax to grind, but only to press for effective practice for
the healer and for their clients."
—James Fadiman, PhD, author of
The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic and Sacred
Journeys
"Francoise Bouzat is courageously and profoundly
dedicated to helping others grow and heal to their full potential
using the most effective tools of which she is aware. Her commitment
to her clients has been forged in the context of the global drug war,
which has criminalized psychedelics and has tempered her like steel as
she has continued to explore the healing potential of these substances
revered in most cultures but demonized in ours. Fortunately for us
all, there's a global renaissance in psychedelic research and the
therapeutic and spiritual use of psychedelics. Francoise is a
visionary pioneer whose life's work is making a major contribution to
the process of transforming psychedelics into legal tools for healing
and spirituality."
—Rick Doblin, founder and executive director
of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
(MAPS)
"Francoise has been a student and friend of
mine for over thirty years.… When I met Francoise, she was
soft-spoken, alert, respectful, and very observant. She was at home.
Our Native American way of life is not a religion, it is a "Way of
Life." When I met Francoise, she was living this way of life, living
in the mountains, living in nature and teaching her students they are
one with nature. Francoise was already connected to our Mother Earth
and our Way of Life was not a mystery or difficult for her to connect
to."
—Marilyn Youngbird, Chief Woman among Chiefs, Arikara
Nation
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