Psychedelic journeys have played a central role in healing, community harmonization, spiritual connection, and earth stewardship since the dawn of human civilization.  Shamanic cave paintings dating back before 9000 BC in the North African Sahara reveal psilocybin mushrooms with anthropomorphic figures in the ceremony.  Psilocybin has also been discovered in pottery dating back to 2000 BC in Xiongnu China and is said to be the main ingredient for the legendary Soma beverage central to the prolific spiritual traditions of Vedic India.  In Ancient Egypt, the Blue River Lily was used as a rites of passage ritual in ceremonies of the underworld, afterlife, and divination.  In Greece, the Kykeon brew was the central sacrament to the Eleusinian and later Dionysian mysteries. A  pilgrimage while fasting to the sacred temples was followed by imbibing on ergotted wine (Ergot being the man fungal ingredient in LSD) hailed by Socrates, Plato, Emperor Marcus Oralius, Sophicles and many of the most enigmatic figures of Hellenistic Greece critical to the upholding the virtue of Athenian culture.  There is evidence suggesting that the earliest Gnostic Christian eucharist was also an entheogenic sacrament.  Indigenous cultures such as the Aboriginee in Australia still commune with the Pituri bush to enter the dream time realm for wisdom and healing.  As the Bwiti tribe in West Africa utilizes the Iboga root, to connect with ancestors, explore their ancient lineage, and release unhealthy attachments. (A use the root is now renowned in contemporary medicine for its prolific capacity to rehabilitate those suffering from major opioid addiction.) 

In the Western hemisphere, the use of psychedelics is no less prominent as it is central to the health, well-being, and cosmology of indigenous communities for thousands of years.  Ayahuasca, the vine of souls, a brew made from the Banisteriopsis caapi and psychotria viridis plants, invokes a powerful connection to the natural kingdom providing perspective to man’s role as guardians and stewards of All life. Peyote and Huachuma (San Pedro) cacti have played a central role in ceremonial indigenous traditions in both North & South America, largely responsible for the preservation of many sacred ceremonial traditions that would have been lost to persecution. And lastly, the Flesh of the Gods or psilocybin mushrooms, the essence of Teonanacatl Xoxipilli (God of Flowers) in the Aztec tradition, and core sacrament in Mayan and the ancient Mazatec tradition, continues to be utilized as a medicinal brew central to the upholding core virtues of the spirit, ancestral connection, healing, and self-realization.