The teaching plants

For thousands of years, people have used teaching plants to gain perspective and learn old things. The ancestors in the Americas used these plants for healing, expanding their knowledge and energy beyond the their bodies and brains. Today, our governments tell us which plants we can and can't use and what we can and can't know. In most of the United States it is illegal to use teaching plants at all. Here in Brazil they are available to any who might come. It's quite refreshing that on a Saturday afternoon on this island, anyone with $30 dollars and an open mind is welcomed into a safe space to be guided into new understanding by the mother of all the teaching plants, a local shaman and her helpers. Aho!