The Sacred Journey Within: Rites of Passage, Plant Medicine, and the Womb Experience
Throughout human history, rites of passage have played a crucial role in marking significant life transitions. From birth to death, these rituals have helped individuals and communities celebrate growth, honor change, and embrace new beginnings. In this exploration, I want to dive a little deep into the ancient wisdom of rites of passage, the power of sacred plant medicines, and the profound connection to our inner technology – particularly the womb experience.
The Significance of Rites of Passage
Rites of passage have been integral to human societies for millennia. These ceremonies mark important life transitions, such as: 
- Naming ceremonies for newborns
- Coming of age rituals for teenagers
- Marriage celebrations
- Spiritual initiations
- Healing ceremonies
- Hunting rituals
These rites serve a dual purpose: they allow us to grieve and celebrate our old self while welcoming a new stage of life. They provide a structured way to process change and growth, both individually and as a community.
Sacred Plant Medicines and Rituals
Many ancestral cultures incorporated powerful plants into their rites of passage. These sacred plant medicines were used to facilitate spiritual experiences, healing, and personal transformation. Some examples include:
Africa: 
- Iboga
- Datura
- Psilocybe Cubensis
- Cannabis Sativa
- Boophone Disticha
- Salvia
- Ubulawu
- African Dream Beans
The Americas:
- Caapi
- Chacruna
- Datura
- Salvia
- Yopo
- Hapé
- Dream Beans
- Sage
These plants (and many other plants) are viewed as sacred technologies. And when working alongside body-based healing practices to reprogram the subconscious mind, promote wholeness, and instill a sense of purpose can be extremely effective for long lasting healing, spiritual awakening and development.
The Inner Sacred Technology
The Inner Sacred Technology
While plant medicines are powerful tools, the most important technology resides within us. Our bodies possess an innate wisdom that guides us back to our life path when we’ve strayed. This inner technology operates on autopilot, signaling when we need to realign with our true selves.
Personal Experience:
After ignoring my body’s signals for over 40 years and battling serious health issues since early childhood, I’ve come to recognize the spirit within our bodies as an integral part of our sacred wisdom. Even our challenges serve to bring us back to balance and integration.
Rites of Passage Across Cultures
Before exploring our inner sacred technology, let’s examine how rites of passage typically unfold in various cultures:
- Initiation: The initiate is separated from family and introduced to communal living, often in a secluded area like a forest or mountain. This symbolizes a death experience, representing the process of dying, existing in the spiritual realm, and being reborn.
- Rebirth: Upon rejoining their family, initiates have acquired new knowledge and wisdom, viewing life through a different lens.
- Introduction to Adulthood or spirit / guarding angel / naming ceremony / baptism / crowning etc: Initiates receive new privileges and responsibilities within their families and communities.
- Holistic Understanding: They are introduced to the interconnected realms of the living, the dead, and the unborn.
- Endurance: Initiates are challenged to learn esoteric knowledge typically reserved for select members of the community.
The individual who emerges from these initiations is fundamentally transformed.
The Programmed Awakening
Our inner sacred technology is designed to guide us towards awakening, even when we resist. This inner drive is part of our sacred self, developed and programmed by previous generations (ancestors both blood and spiritual ancestors as well as Galactic and Earth Collective Ancestral Memories / Imprints) and past lives. If we haven’t found our path by a certain age or number of ‘lives or life experiences’, this inner technology activates, pushing us towards awakening.
This process isn’t random or accidental. It’s a pre-programmed intervention influenced by: 
- Blood ancestors
- Spiritual ancestors
- Celestial guides
- Our soul’s journey
- Collective unconscious ancestral history
This divine intervention aims to reconnect us with our higher self and honor those who came before us as well as our sacred SELF.
The Womb Experience in Healing and Transformation
The womb experience plays a crucial role in our journey of rebirth and healing. During powerful psychedelic experiences or deep healing work, we often revisit the womb if there are unresolved experiences to integrate.
This process can be challenging, as the prenatal environment may have been difficult due to maternal stress, the pain of contractions, or the trauma of birth itself. These experiences can reawaken past lives and open up deep-seated pain and suffering.
For women who have given birth, this experience can merge their own birth with that of their children, creating a higher consciousness of the overall birth experience.
Stan Grof’s Research on Perinatal and Transpersonal Domains
Dr. Stan Grof’s extensive research in psychedelic therapy has identified two important realms beyond our usual biographical experiences:
- The perinatal domain: Related to the trauma of biological birth
- The transpersonal domain: Encompasses experiential identification with other beings and aspects of nature, as well as ancestral, racial, phylogenetic, and karmic memories
These domains play a significant role in our healing and spiritual growth processes.
Recognizing and Integrating Womb Experiences 
It can be challenging for individuals to recognize when they’re experiencing a womb regression, especially if they’re encountering archetypal or mystical imagery. However, understanding this possibility can lead to more intentional healing work.
Key questions to ask during these experiences:
- What in here, do I need to integrate to achieve wholeness and balance?
- What truth am I resisting in this moment?
Personal anecdote: My first womb experience was confusing and soooo magical with amazing imagery and a deep feeling of wow i cant believe this is all real. As it progressed, I felt both the sensation of being in the womb and giving birth simultaneously. The more training I received and the more deep trance experiences I went thru, I was finding myself in the womb over and over. In a 21 Divisions Trance (no medicine, just music and prayer by the way – I found myself also in the womb – integrating pain that I wasnt able to integrated when doing psychedelic work)…the pain was so deep, I was screaming for what seemed to be hours while the Paleros played and song the ancestral music. That night I was so activated that I was convinced I was reborn!
The more work I did in transpersonal realms of consciousness, the more I realized that these experiences represent a rebirth process. Whether through our human mother, an ethereal mother, or Gaia herself, we are experiencing a death and rebirth. Going through a canal that brings us back through their energetic placental canal is key.
The Role of Fragmentation and Archetypes
Childhood trauma, including illnesses, surgeries, physical trauma, emotional wounds, mental distress, or spiritual challenges can lead to soul fragmentation. This fragmentation creates openings for archetypes from the collective unconscious to anchor themselves in our psyche. Archetypal ‘beings’ may also be attracted into our unconscious ocean if the ego has fallen to far off to one of the polarities.
These archetypes can sometimes go rogue, creating chaos in our lives. And from personal experience (a lot with these archetypal beings, i can tell you that they have a mind of their own)….so I wasnt surprised at all to learn that C. Jung just like others had come to the same conclusion. Besides attracting the archetypal beings into our psyche, a soul fragmentation can make us susceptible to astral parasites or disembodied energies even before our astral body is fully anchored. In some cultures, these hive mind can be seem similar to the concept of the Iyamis (Great Mother archetype or Powerful Ones – because IFA is a tonal language, depending on how it’s pronounced it would show emphasis on which aspect the person refers to). When I connect with the energy of the Iyamis I see it as a hive mind of ancestral energies (neither good or bad, positive or negative), but depending on our thoughts and actions we can influence them to turn against us just like when we dishonor and disrespect ancestors, some of them can become a real challenge for the human descendants that wont listen and wont respect and do not understand.
The prenatal stages are particularly vulnerable to these influences, which is why many people encounter archetypal figures, trickster energies, and other challenging experiences during their healing experiences / dreams / trances, etc.
To Conclude:
As we engage with sacred plant medicines, deep meditation, dreams, or other transformative practices, it’s essential to remain open to the possibility of womb experiences. These journeys offer profound opportunities for healing and integration.
The next time you encounter fear or archetypal figures during a psychedelic or sacred plant medicine experience, ask yourself: Could I be inside my mother’s belly? If so, what does my spirit need me to understand or integrate from this experience?
By embracing these inner technologies and honoring the wisdom of ancient rites of passage, we can navigate our personal transformations with greater awareness and intention, ultimately leading to deeper healing and spiritual growth.
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