23rd May 2024. What a powerful, deep night we had meeting and journeying with Elder.
It's hard to explain what happens during these nights as we get into swift relationship with each other and with a plant Spirit, around an outdoor open fire.
Jeni Cairns_Journey with Elder
Some theme's that arose form the journeys: Elder brought the ancestors and 'night' - there was awareness of being in the dark but still being able to fully see, there was a lot of 'letting go' and going down fast, there was the hollow straight root of elder, going down. She brought us soul fragments from other timelines and dimensions (one participant had to dust off a very dried up part of self and try to get it back to life). A wise old crone, a Baba Yaga character with a bird face (for Jeni) she showed us beyond the veil. After the drumming there was a quietness about the group, a down low-ness - we had travelled deep and the insights will maybe come later, the integrations be ongoing. Thank you Elder.
It wasn't a night for photos but to give you an idea of what it's like to work with the Spirit of Elder, here are some notes I took From Emma Farrell's book Journeys with plant spirits_Chapter 18 "Dying consciously with the Spirit of Elder" to give you some of the vibe of Elder. I paraphrase and add words in, a lot.
There’s been a flooding of the western psyche with psychedelic teacher plants over the last 20 years and some of the human teachers we listen to : Pam Montgomery, Elliot Cowan and Emma Farrell - believe these free-thinking plant beings are coming to us stronger and more directly offering their help to bring us back into balance, they are stepping up because of the chronic imbalance we’ve got ourselves into - within ourselves and with nature.
We in the West have forgotten our connection with spirit and with earth. So these psychoactive or master plants are offering a direct experience of the non-physical realms -opening the doors of perception to the unity consciousness that lies behind this layer of existence. All plants are teacher plants, all plants are direct conduits to source - to the origins of life and can lead us to the deeper meaning of our own life.
But we have all been affected by a ‘war on consciousness’ - the State doesn’t keep workers subservient by allowing us to awaken to meaning and wholeness and connection in life
Indeed the persecution of the witches in Europe in the 15th to 17th century can be viewed as a rooting out by the church of the remaining pagan plant rituals and uses
But what these plants actually do is teach us how to die.
Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew, recognised as Mother Ayahuasca, she is a very self reflective teacher and shows us how to die. The combination of plants within the brew means that we can experience the DMT and experience other levels of reality in a self reflective way hence experience what it might be like to die. It's a shame that New Age thinking has compounded our Christian conditioning by promoting transcendental experiences and cosmic realities and concepts - before we even learn how to live in our earthly body.
In the native understanding of the British isles , the land of our ancestors is located in the other world and the native trees and plants of our own land can be just as powerfully healing
The plant in the British Isles which is very similar in its teachings to Ayahuasca is the Elder tree, the elements of air and earth can be seen in the physical structure of Elder with its flowerhead and branches facing the sky and it’s deep red berries reminding us of our earthly bodies. Traditionally, the flowers and berries are associated with medicine of elder. And her vast treasure chest of healing gifts is well documented in healing books. Everyone knows that she heals a common cold, but her powerful gifts are vast. Elder possesses truly magical powers.
Her affinity with blood is well known we are the blood of our ancestors and when elder purifies blood she is healing ancestral wounds traumas and imbalances. Often when people start working with Elder deep rooted generational traumas can be activated from generations back. A healing crisis where old issues are brought to the surface and flushed out can be highly uncomfortable. Sometimes an issue can get worse when working with Elder and it’s common to feel concerned when we don’t really know the cause of what’s coming up. But it’s important to stick with the medicine of Elder until she has finished her cleaning job because if we stop taking a medicine, the issue will still be there. So it’s best to allow the plant to finish what it started. The spirit of Elder is often seen as a wise crone she allows us to take a step back see problems from wiser and more objective angle she allows us to see where self sabotage and victim thinking comes in.
She teaches that we are enough, and that everything we already need is already within us. Both Ayahuasca and Elder teach us about our karmic life cycles. They can lift the veil to our disease and blockages wherever they exist whether it be in another timeline or dimension or lifetime. Both medicines initiate us into the spirit world where we can experience what life will be like for us after death. Which soul fragments do we still need to retrieve to leave this earthly realm whole? Which shadow parts do we need to integrate to die consciously? We can consciously direct our post life inter-dimensional travels if we arrive at the point where we leave our body in a state of consciousness.
The powerful experiences and consciousness raising that can happen through the use of Ayahuasca and Elder can allow us to drop any fear of death. Stepping into realisation of one’s eternal being. And show us that upon death - if we make a 90° turn we can avoid the reincarnation loop. Dying consciously is seen as the most important aspect of most spiritual wisdom practices. There’s a 90° angle between the Earth and air elements on the medicine wheel and elder holds this angle within her form and so she holds this connection in her structure. We have forgotten how to die in the West and Elder is a very brilliant ally in assisting with the death of others and with preparing for your own death. Elder has forever been used in Celtic death rights, Elder prepares us and knows the way back to the spirit realm of our ancestors
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