Okay, so today, we (our Ambil-group) talked about time-travel. I know, I know. This sounds a little crazy, but crazy can save you when the rest of the world has gone off the rails too.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the sacred medicine, Ambil, this is a tobacco-based medicine that’s produced in the Amazon and in some parts of Mexico. It is basically a mixture of wild tobacco (Nicotiana rustica) combined with mineral-salts that break the tobacco down to eventually make a paste. The paste is then administered in tiny quantities against the cheeks or the gums to produce a dizzying effect and a very short “trip”.
Sometimes people puke and feeling a bit of vertigo is actually a goal of Ambil as dizziness is what happens when the Guides are talking. Often, Ambil is a mild experience. It can take some time and practice to find the right dose and the people who are present and their energy with you when you do Ambil matters. But Ambil is one of the gentlest of the sacred medicines. It can help you ward of parasites both in the body and in the energy field.
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The idea of administering Tobacco for healing tends to provoke a strong response in westerners. How can tobacco be used for healing? It’s been implicated in so many situations that cause illness, after all.
Well, let me start by saying that ivermectin is a nicotinic-receptor agonist-drug that kills parasites and that can provoke a healing response in situations involving the nicotinic receptors in the body, but frankly, wild Tobacco is natural and it is superior. But wild Tobacco and ivermectin share some physiological effects…but if you’re still unsure, I understand. It took me over 5 years to work up the courage to give Ambil a try.
I remember the first time that my mentor, Karolina, offered me Ambil. I refused it on the basis that it contained Tobacco. I capitalize the word “Tobacco” when I use it in any context that refers to the spirit of the plant now because the Tobacco spirit is so important to me, by the way. Commercial cigarettes contain toxins and additives and genetically modified forms of tobacco – tobacco that has been “pharmed”. We don’t work with commercial cigarettes or commercial tobacco products that are designed to produce an addiction and eventually, health problems. Rather, Ambil is a Tobacco-medicine, a sacred medicine, that can help prevent severe forms of COVID-19 (among other things). Ambil and other Nicotiana rustica formats of this plant medicine also significantly reduce the risk of thyroid problems and thyroid cancer by exerting a generally protective effect on the thyroid gland.
…this is where we can digress from talking about the thyroid gland as a physical, material endocrine “organ” in the body that needs a lot of support and talk instead about the throat chakra and the use of Tobacco as a medicine that “opens the throat chakra” energetically. Ambil is a medicine that is often used in group, ceremonial settings to open up difficult topics for conversation. Some Native American tribes once used the peace pipe to administer Tobacco as a medicine to heal relationships, including political relationships because Tobacco helps people say what they mean and mean what they say.
In the autonomic nervous system, the nicotinic receptors (so named for their interaction with nicotine as a stabilizing and balancing effect), when blocked by a nicotinic agent like curare, (which is used by Amazonian hunters to paralyze prey), causes a living thing to be unable to move any part of the body even while the consciousness is totally and completely aware. A variety of disease-causing microorganisms like Vibrio cholera also produce toxins with nicotinic effects which gave rise to the production of “Safety Coffins” (the coffins with the little bell that the recently buried could ring if they were, in fact, buried alive), back-in-the-day, because people with cholera would often appear dead, but they would not be dead. Nicotinic receptors play a role in this type of Romeo-and-Juliet problem of appearing dead when you’re not really dead. I go into much greater detail into this idea in regard to Georgie-the-Cat, a beloved outdoor kitty who gave me pause in regard to Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal Theory, the fight-or-flight and play-dead responses, and the body’s nicotinic and muscarinic receptors. The phrase, “blowing smoke up someone’s ass” comes from the fact that certain tribes of Native American people would use hollowed tree branches to blow Tobacco smoke up inside the rectum of someone who had died by drowning to try to revive them using this Lazarus-like nicotinic receptor function in our bodies. Say what you will about how crazy this all seems, but the nauseating-expectorant known as Lobelia inflata / Indian Tobacco has been used both to quit smoking and to revive young children who go into a “play-dead” response as a result of a major childhood illness like diphtheria or dysentery through its interaction with the nicotinic receptors in the body. Doctors once kept Lobelia inflata close at hand when tending to children who were battling fevers on the brink of death before the advent of antibiotics. It had the ability to produce a powerful revival when children were literally starting to die as a result of a disease.
These ideas are challenging. They challenge our views of life and death and consciousness, so we need Tobacco to speak to us and to help us bring these ideas forward and give them words (ideally in a ceremonial group setting). And so it was that today, our family sat down to do Ambil outside in Mexico on our beautiful farm, and we realized that our dreams the night before all pertained to time-travel.
I had a Back-to-the-Future Part III reference while John actually had “time-travel” in his crossword puzzle this morning. Lydian and I both dreamed of trains last night and while I was able to wake up and lay there for a few minutes to realize that the theory of relativity was important in regard to this train-dream, Lydi has a 2 year old, so her morning-time was interrupted before she could get to Einstein and his ideas. The four of us (with Maya playing nearby with her outdoor toys), discussed Mobius loops and the idea, the possibility, that we might be able to stand on one side of the loop, in a static position and be simultaneously on an opposite side of the loop in the past or in the future…the idea that we could be our own ancestor and the practical implications of such an idea in terms of our goals and the trajectory our family would like to take together in regard to…the various problems that we face together.
Memories are modifiable. As humans, we tend to alter our memories over the course of time, always believing, of course, that the memories that we carry are absolute and that they carry the record of Truth. But scientists have proven that we modify our own memories and these adjustments can be healthy in that they can, at least in some cases, help us process our present tense experience and adapt to the challenges we face in our lives with greater aptitude. Memory modification can help us create strength when we lack strength, for example, in terms of family support or in order to create emotional resources that we otherwise lack.
Ambil is an amazing medicine that helps us get around obstacles in our own thinking and in our relationships with other people. Today, our family ended up discussing quantum physics as it applies to our lives at this current moment. We aren’t always this intellectual in our discussions, but we recently returned from three months in Spain, and after we got that initial footing during today’s Ambil ceremony, into the idea that gravity is not a force but rather a landscape (we looked it up to do a quick review of the theory of relativity), and that a piece of us, like hair or a fingernail, can and will vibrate at the same frequency with the DNA embedded in every cell of our bodies (which is known as Spooky Logic), we considered the idea that we have all deposited ourselves, our vibratory imprint, in every country and every locale that we’ve ever visited in the world. The hair under the shelves in John’s and my bedroom in Spain is alive with the vibration of me and him. I have deposited my DNA all over the globe and so, I suppose, my DNA is out there vibrating with some piece of my consciousness attached to it in many places on earth. This idea brings to mind the Salvia divinorum experience that many people describe having with this sacred medicine (which is a powerful treatment for multiple sclerosis and severe gut-problems, by the way) wherein they become, on a Salvia divinorum trip, a piece of gum on the ground as they walk by. We look at ourselves through the lens of inanimate objects with which we interact through the story of our lives. With Salvia divinorum, a kappa-opioid receptor agonist, you might be the gum, with your own saliva in it that you spit on the ground as you walk away. You might be the stack of books that you left sitting beside your chair, unread. Or you might be the note that you scribbled beside your computer with undone list items that nag at you with a dysphoric tenor day-after-day. Salvia divinorum is the spirit of the Virgin Whore and Paradoxes. She teaches us that we are everything and nothing and that awkwardness and dysphoria is a connection to something ugly, but also, perhaps divine.
Ambil is a medicine that challenges us to go beyond the culturally prescribed ways of viewing things (like tobacco among other things) and dig deeper, if we feel compelled to do so. Some people are drawn to this type of path while others are completely repulsed by it, at first. Yes, it’s true that the masses benefit from believing that tobacco-industry products are bad for you, but just because tobacco-industry products are bad does not mean that all tobacco, in all forms, is bad. A number of people have used nicotine patches with some success because nicotine is medicinal when it is used properly. Tobacco is the Father of All Sacred Medicines and in order to understand the other sacred medicines and what they can do for you, Tobacco often requires some attention and dedication.
If you feel called to work with wild Tobacco or to find your way through the eye-of-a-needle to solve a major problem that resists being solved, to work through trauma gently, or to heal a broken relationship Ambil is a secret passage that’s worth finding. Contact us at info@medicinassagradas.com if you’d like to learn how to work with this sacred medicine to solve major issues in your life or to enhance your relationships with others.