Author: Guillermo Guillén

Healing Substance Abuse or Drug Addiction with Entheogens and Master Plants

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Substance Abuse or “Drug Addiction” is considered a chronic disease by the Western world, which makes people labeled with this condition castrated from hope of real healing. The idea of an incurable disease becomes a type of curse, chaining people to the belief of the need to depend on sponsors, group therapies and legal drugs for the rest of their lives. The common solution towards drug addiction is either to replace an illegal drug by a legal one or to suppress their use through the social pressure coming from support groups and loved ones. The problem with these “solutions” is that they are not addressing the root of the problem from where the need to abuse substances stems. They are dealing only with the symptoms while aiming to offer a manageable life inside the framework accepted by culture and society. The cycle of addiction begins when the established health system creates dependency on drugs by prescribing them over a period… Read more »

Removing Trauma from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

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The condition of post-traumatic stress disorder has been known to exist at least since the times of ancient Greece. In the American wars, this condition received many names such as “soldier’s heart”, “shell shock”, “war neurosis” and many soldiers were labelled as having “combat fatigue” or “combat stress reaction.” It wasn’t until 1980´s that it became known as post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD. This condition is classified as a mental illness that originates through having lived a terrifying event or traumatic experiences that are prompting nightmares, episodes of anxiety, depression and panic attacks among others. These symptoms can appear the same day, months or even years after the traumatic event. Usually these are events that cause a very deep impact on the psyche of the person and these recur in the unconscious to be detonated by triggers that are directly or indirectly related to the trauma. PTSD is a natural response to overwhelming danger and the instinctive reaction is to protect… Read more »