Seeding Consciousness

Seeding Consciousness reveals how psychedelics can help us plant new beliefs, awaken latent gifts, and cultivate individual and collective change.

This book provides a blueprint for the responsible and effective use of psychedelics and plant medicines to transform pain and trauma into profound connections with ourselves, nature, and the spirit world. It shares exercises to help readers plant the seeds of transformation in their own consciousness, navigate altered states of consciousness and ego death, work with the shadow, and integrate fragmented parts of the self.

Tricia Eastman explores ancestral teachings on the interconnectedness of all life, drawing on her studies with indigenous elders, including Bwiti initiations with iboga. Presenting a deep dive into the world of psychedelic initiation and ancestral wisdom, she demonstrates the power of plant medicine and psychedelic journeys for cultivating new beliefs, healing trauma, and accessing latent gifts within us—an inner alchemical process she calls “seeding consciousness.”

Drawing on her studies with Indigenous elders, including two decades of iboga initiations with the Bwiti of Gabon, Africa, and training with the Kogi Kággaba of Colombia, Eastman provides a blueprint for responsible and effective use of entheogens. She explores ancient teachings on the interconnectedness of all life and the forces of nature and shows how colonisation and modern culture have disconnected us from our spiritual foundations.

Eastman shares exercises to help readers seed their own consciousness, navigate altered states of consciousness and ego death, work with the shadow, and integrate fragmented parts of the self. She also examines how to respectfully engage with these potent transformative plants, substances, and ancient traditions, thereby honouring the wisdom keepers who have safeguarded these traditions across the millennia.

Revealing how to prepare the fertile soil of the mind for mystical experience, Seeding Consciousness presents a psychedelic path to awakening that simultaneously facilitates personal transformation and collective societal change.