Guardians and Protectors!

A warning about reconnecting with ‘wholeness’ and animism. TLDR: take care, it’s not all good. “Because nature, in many, many, many traditional visions, includes devouring forces, parasitic forces, obsessive forces, hungry forces, sticky forces, disruptive forces. Jealous spirits that would like nothing more than to see us fail, and proud spirits that feed off zealotry, and wailing ghosts seeking to pounce on porous hippies at grief rituals and use their melancholia to gain a somatic foothold in the material realm.” Challenging increasingly popular narratives around the need to ‘return to nature’, we’re warned that jumping straight into the deep end with things like intensive plant medicine experiences, eschewing long-developed and hard-earned accompanying guardianship practices, is dangerous. We’re encouraged to reflect that we might “need to shed a little of the high performance wellness discourse, and walk with our head bowed, and say aloud to the powers: ‘help us guardians, for I can’t do it all on my own.’”