If we were to consider our conscious awareness of the world to be as big as the point of a pin, then the work of sacred plants would be to show us nuances present in and around that pin.

To belittle reality, consciousness, awareness, and altered states of perception is not what I am doing here. That’s not my job. Bringing a semblance of what we are actually facing, that is my job.

Who put us on this pin? Well, we did, of course. Why?

You know, it has been 60 years since I entered this pin and I still don’t know why we chose such a thing. However, I can tell you that for a while there, I thought the pin was the entire Universe, all of reality, and that humans in this section of the pintop were the only intelligently sentient beings that existed.

As I was trying to put words to my thoughts, Larry played a song on his computer. He played it very, very loud, and it was a country song he had “made for me” using an AI.

I am not unaware enough to think that this was a “coincidence”. Sometimes, no, all the time, the human collective will steer and dictate where and what is shared about the nature of reality. So, although I had planned to write an in-depth and thorough exploration of the true nature of reality and what sacred plants' role is within our human experience, I will instead “stay on point” and talk about why a person from our modern society decides he or she might become a plant worker. These plant workers call themselves lots of things - “curandero,” “ritualist,” “shaman,” “plant shaman,” etc.

But what they call themselves is not that important apart from the nuances of what the label expresses to their clients.

In my experience, I have seen plants have a very good grasp of what is not only on the tip of the pin but also on the entirety of the pin. They then go out and find people - workers - who will take them into the world and allow them to touch as many people as possible - the clients.

The worker was usually, but not always, a client of a different worker at some point. And the plant is the one that recruits, not the different worker, to whom it will assign the work of bringing a larger viewpoint of reality to the masses.

I am always curious as to what makes a person follow the path of the sacred plant. And I am also curious as to what makes a person drop that path altogether, or drop the particular plant that had recruited him or her in the first place, in choice of another.

In our podcast, DrivingToTheRez.com, we have an interview with one such person. His insights and reasons for the work are unique to himself, of course, but they are still interesting as a journey of expansion of awareness within the world he moves and experiences life. The interview is in the Wisdom Keeper Hour, so if you want to hear it, do subscribe to it.

In the first hour, Larry and I discuss some of the details behind the decision to become a plant worker or reject the invitation wholeheartedly.

Larry has the skills, the lineage, the intuition, and the connection to become a plant worker, but he turned it down. Tune in to find out why. 🙂

Inelia

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