Psychedelic healing in all directions of time—ancestral, future and alien
1. Ayahuasca changes your DNA
A six-month naturalistic study of ayahuasca ceremonies in the Peruvian Amazon found:
Rapid, lasting mental health improvements: Marked decreases in depression, anxiety, and distress, sustained at six months post-ceremony.
Deep psychological effects: Participants reported greater self-compassion and reduced negativity in autobiographical memories.
Epigenetic changes: Preliminary evidence suggested changes in DNA methylation (notably at the SIGMAR1 gene, implicated in stress response), hinting at biological mechanisms behind the psychological impact.
Significance: This research underscores how traditional, ceremonial psychedelic use can produce persistent and measurable benefits for mental well-being.
2. Psilocybin delays cellular aging
A groundbreaking experimental study explored the biological effects of psilocybin and its metabolite, psilocin, on cellular and animal models:
Extended cellular lifespan: In human cell cultures, psilocin delayed cellular aging and preserved telomere length.
Increased survival in aged mice: Aged mice treated with psilocybin had higher survival rates and signs of improved vitality compared to controls.
Molecular mechanisms: The researchers observed upregulation of SIRT1 (a regulator of aging and stress resilience) and reduced oxidative stress, supporting the idea that psychedelics may promote cellular repair and longevity.
Broader implication: Psilocybin may provide systemic, whole-body benefits—extending far beyond its psychological effects—by influencing fundamental processes of aging and healing.
3. DMT enables contact with Alien Consciousness Species
In his new book and interview, neurobiologist Andrew Gallimore challenges mainstream views on DMT's effects:
A portal to non-ordinary realities: Gallimore argues that DMT transports users into “entirely nonhuman worlds,” populated by seemingly autonomous, intelligent entities—a phenomenon that is difficult to explain with current neuroscience.
Radical implications: He suggests that DMT may allow for real interaction with unknown forms of intelligence, compelling us to question the nature of consciousness and reality itself.
Therapeutic mystery: Even if the nature of these realms is still speculative, clinical research is finding that such profound and bizarre experiences can still have lasting, positive healing effects—such as alleviating depression.
Gallimore's caution: He acknowledges that these experiences are challenging and not fully understood, but insists the enigma should be embraced as an essential part of advancing psychedelic science.
The Meaning for the Future of Psychedelics and Healing
Based on these findings and perspectives, the future of psychedelics points toward:
Profound, rapid, and sustained healing: Both large-scale and individual-use studies report significant improvements in mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, PTSD, and distress—even where standard treatments have failed.
Mind-body integration: Evidence suggests that psychedelics not only promote psychological healing but may also act on gene expression, cellular aging, and fundamental biological processes—potentially extending lifespan and healthspan.
Paradigm shifts in consciousness studies: Classic psychedelics like DMT challenge basic scientific and philosophical assumptions about consciousness, reality, and what it means to "heal"—inviting radical curiosity about the universe and mind.
Personalized and holistic approaches: Modern psychedelic therapy is evolving toward blended models—combining psychotherapy, ceremony or ritual, and biological markers to optimize outcomes and support lasting change.
Societal and cultural transformation: As regulatory and scientific landscapes shift, psychedelics are poised to move from the fringes to the mainstream, potentially transforming the fields of mental health, spiritual exploration, and even aging—provided safety, respect, and meaningful integration are prioritized.
In essence, these studies suggest the future of psychedelics may not just be about symptom relief, but about opening new frontiers of healing, meaning, and understanding—both for individuals and society at large.
Mother Earth, Cell Turnover and Grounding
DREAM, JUNE 26, 2025 @ 12:53AM:
I wake up happily exclaiming: I know what’s happening! (I’m referring to my shamanic dreams where I channel Mother Earth and shapeshift into animals.) In these dreams Mother Earth is healing me and it is an energetic form of “cell turnover.” Similar to cell regeneration, but she wants me to use the term, cell turnover, because I could physically feel it happening in my body. This is similar to the way that nights with the goddesses feel like light exchanges—shapeshifting dreams and Mother Earth channeling is real alchemical healing.
Perplexity Research:
Grounding, also known as earthing, is the practice of connecting directly with the Earth's natural electrical charge through bare skin contact, allowing free electrons to flow into your body and support cellular renewal. According to research from the Journal of Environmental and Public Health, this simple yet powerful practice can reduce inflammation, improve sleep quality, and enhance the body's natural healing processes by neutralizing harmful free radicals and restoring electrical balance within our tissues.
The concept of "cell turnover" in relation to grounding refers to the body's natural process of replacing old or damaged cells with new, healthy ones. When you make direct contact with the Earth, free electrons flow into your body, acting as potent antioxidants that help neutralize harmful free radicals and reduce oxidative stress at the cellular level.12 These electrons support mitochondrial function—the powerhouses of cells—enhancing ATP production and protein synthesis, which are essential for cellular repair and regeneration.3
Without regular grounding, this renewal process can be disrupted by accumulated electrical imbalances and inflammation. As Dr. Laura Koniver explains, "Since tissues and organs are in a constant state of self-renewal, optimal health depends on a fresh, continuous flow of healing potential... When we aren't grounded, that fresh flow is interrupted."4 Similar to how skin cells naturally cycle every 28-40 days, grounding helps maintain this regenerative rhythm throughout the body by providing the electrical foundation needed for optimal cellular function.5
For optimal cell turnover benefits, aim to ground yourself for 30-60 minutes daily. This timeframe allows electrons from the Earth to penetrate deep into your cells, stabilizing conductivity and enhancing cellular function.12 Even short sessions of 10-20 minutes provide value, especially when done consistently.34 Those with chronic pain or inflammation may benefit from extended sessions of 1-2 hours or using grounding products overnight.3
The timing of your practice can be tailored to specific needs: morning grounding energizes and improves focus, afternoon sessions provide a midday reset from indoor activities, while evening grounding promotes relaxation and better sleep.4 Multiple short sessions throughout the day can be as effective as one longer session, making it easier to incorporate into busy schedules.4 Consistency is key—regular daily contact with the Earth yields more sustainable benefits than occasional lengthy sessions for supporting your body's natural renewal processes.35
Direct skin-to-earth contact is essential for effective grounding, with bare feet being particularly effective due to the approximately 7,000 nerve endings they contain that correspond to specific areas throughout the body.1 These nerve endings connect through fascial networks that surround muscles and organs, allowing electrons from the Earth to nourish the entire body through even a small area of contact.1 The K1 acupressure point (Yongquan) on the sole of the foot is especially significant in traditional Chinese medicine as an entry point for Earth's energy.1
Shoes with synthetic or rubber soles block this vital electron transfer, effectively insulating you from the Earth's healing energy.23 While barefoot shoes may improve sensory feedback and natural foot movement, they don't facilitate the direct electron exchange that occurs when unclothed skin touches natural surfaces like grass, soil, sand, or even concrete.24 For those unable to go outdoors regularly, indoor grounding products can provide similar benefits by creating a conductive pathway to the Earth.1
Scientific research has documented several measurable physiological changes that occur during grounding. Studies show that within 30 minutes of Earth contact, inflammation begins to subside as measured by infrared imaging, while metabolic activity increases through elevated oxygen consumption, pulse rate, and respiratory rate.1 Grounding has been found to improve blood viscosity and flow by increasing the negative charge (zeta potential) on red blood cells, which prevents clumping and allows for better circulation throughout the body.2 This improved blood flow supports faster wound healing and tissue repair.1
Additional research reveals that grounding normalizes cortisol secretion, regulating circadian rhythms and improving sleep quality.34 In a controlled trial at The Chopra Center for Well-Being, massage therapists experienced significant increases in physical function and energy with corresponding decreases in fatigue, pain, and depressed mood during a four-week grounding period.4 Cardiovascular benefits include reduced blood pressure and improved heart rate variability, which is associated with better overall health and reduced risk of sudden cardiac events.56 These effects make grounding a simple yet powerful complementary practice for supporting overall wellbeing and cellular health.
Six rules for knowing higher worlds
Below are six foundational principles to master before communicating with higher realms. Inspired and paraphrased from “How to Know Higher Worlds” by Rudolf Steiner.
Create a chain of “true” thoughts and harmonious actions.
Correct all illogical and out of sync thinking and actions.
Stay true your values: Divine Love, Beauty, Truth, Humor, Play
Cultivate follow through and perseverance.
Do not withdraw your light from the darkness — seek to understand it.
Practice openness and impartiality toward all the phenomena of life. Banish timidity and have fail in your goal of understanding the shadows.
“Hold the neutrality stick.”
"All fear is useless. I must not let it take hold of me. I must think only of what is to be done." In fact, we must reach a point, in situations that earlier would have caused us to be afraid, in which the very idea of fear and lack of courage become things impossible for us to conceive in the core of our soul." — Rudolf Steiner, How to Know Higher Worlds
Unraveling the Scarcity Mindset & The Soul of Money
Unraveling the “scarcity mindset” installed in me as a child was something I decided to tackle a couple months ago when I was mistakenly billed for a medical procedure. For a moment I thought I had to pay a thousand dollars, and even though I have the money, and more importantly, the ability to earn that money, I had a small anxiety attack that teleported me back to life before my 30s, when I had no money. I knew that if I didn’t deal with my “insufficiency” wiring that no matter how secure or stable I am in life I would never be as free and happy as I deserve to be. As we all deserve to be.
Below is a short poem I wrote — a glimpse into my childhood. After that are excerpts from a book that helped me complete this “soul work” of unraveling the scarcity mindset. Before this book has been a lot of other work: talk therapy, journaling, cutting cords, prayer and stillness. I learned to create a world of abundance and sufficiency. I am more mindful of the flow of money. I am grateful every day for food, a home and a warm bed. If you ever need someone to talk about this, you can email me at claudia@claudiadawson.blog.
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but spiritual beings having a human experience.”
At one point, a womb was enough. Then came birth and all my parents’ fears and failings and flails became mine. I was drowning too. Underneath poorness and not enough. Money came and went like a river in drought. Roofs came and went. Shelter lines came and went. A free loaf of bread and a peanut butter jar could last us all week. Saltines for dinner sometimes. A cup of noodles in tap water warming on a window sill. This had to be enough sometimes. At one point, a womb was enough. Another new school, another first day, I’m 10 and wearing an XL men’s t-shirt down to my knees. I try to make friends, try to be bigger than my circumstances. I carve out a safe space inside of me, follow my intuition. Keep my head above water. At one point, a womb was enough. Then I’m born and scarcity began to build a grave for me.
“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.”
Once we define our world as deficient, the total of our life energy, everything we think, everything we say, and everything we do—particularly with money—becomes an expression of an effort to overcome this sense of lack and the fear of losing to others or being left out.
The toxic myth is that “more is better”. More of anything is better than what we have. It’s the logical response if you fear there’s not enough, but more is better drives a competitive culture of accumulation, acquisition, and greed that only heightens fears and quickens the pace of the race.
More is better misguides us in a deeper way. It leads us to define ourselves by financial success and external achievements. We judge others based on what they have and how much they have, and miss the immeasurable inner gifts they bring to life. All the great spiritual teachings tell us to look inside to find the wholeness we crave, but the scarcity chase allows no time or psychic space for that kind of introspection.
When we believe that more is better, and equate having more with being more—more smart or more able—then people on the short end of that resource stick are assumed to be less smart, less able, even less valuable, as human beings. We feel we have permission to discount them.
This mind-set of scarcity is not something we intentionally created or have any conscious intention to bring into our life. It was here before us and it will likely persist beyond us, perpetuated in the myths and language of our money culture. We do, however, have a choice about whether or not to buy into it and whether or not to let it rule our lives.
By sufficiency, I don’t mean a quantity of anything. Sufficiency isn’t two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn’t a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency isn’t an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough, and that we are enough.
Sufficiency resides inside of each of us, and we can call it forward. It is a consciousness, an attention, an intentional choosing of the way we think about our circumstances. Sufficiency is a context we bring forth from within that reminds us that if we look around us and within ourselves, we will find what we need. There is always enough.
So often we think of “abundance” as the point at which we’ll know we’ve really arrived, but abundance continues to be elusive if we think we’ll find it in some excessive amount of something. True abundance does exist; it flows from sufficiency, in an experience of the beauty and wholeness of what is. Abundance is a fact of nature. It is a fundamental law of nature, that there is enough and it is finite. Its finiteness is no threat; it creates a more accurate relationship that commands respect, reverence, and managing those resources with the knowledge that they are precious and in ways that do the most good for the most people.
Money is a current, a carrier, a conduit for our intentions. Money carries the imprimatur of our soul.
If your attention is on the problems and breakdowns with money, or scarcity thinking that says there isn’t enough, more is better or that’s just the way it is, then that is where your consciousness resides. Those thoughts and fears grow from the attention you give them and can take over your life. No matter how much money you have, it won’t be enough. No amount of money will buy you genuine peace of mind. You expand the presence and the power of scarcity and tighten its grip on your world.
When we let go of trying to get more of what we don’t really need, we free up an enormous amount of energy that has been tied up in the chase. We can refocus and reallocate that energy and attention toward appreciating what we already have, what’s already there, and making a difference with that. Not just noticing it, but making a difference with what we already have. When you make a difference with what you have, it expands.
We think we live in the world. We think we live in a set of circumstances, but we don’t. We live in our conversation about the world and our conversation about the circumstances. When we’re in a conversation about fear and terror, about revenge and anger and retribution, jealousy and envy and comparison, then that is the world we inhabit. If we’re in a conversation about possibility, a conversation about gratitude and appreciation for the things in front of us, then that’s the world we inhabit.
Scarcity speaks in terms of never enough, emptiness, fear, mistrust, envy, greed, hoarding, competition, fragmentation, separateness, judgment, striving, entitlement, control, busy, survival, outer riches. In the conversation for scarcity we judge, compare, and criticize; we label winners and losers. We celebrate increasing quantity and excess. We center ourselves in yearning, expectation, and dissatisfaction. We define ourselves as better-than or worse-than. We let money define us, rather than defining ourselves in a deeper way and expressing that quality through our money.
Sufficiency speaks in terms of gratitude, fulfillment, love, trust, respect, contributing, faith, compassion, integration, wholeness, commitment, acceptance, partnership, responsibility, resilience, and inner riches. In the conversation for sufficiency we acknowledge what is, appreciate its value, and envision how to make a difference with it. We recognize, affirm, and embrace. We celebrate quality over quantity. We center ourselves in integrity, possibility, and resourcefulness. We define our money with our energy and intention.
If you look back on the experience of freedom in your life chances are that it wasn’t when you were measuring the options against one another, or making sure you weren’t getting stuck with a decision. It was when you were fully expressed, playing full out. It was when you chose fully and completely, when you knew you were in the place you were meant to be in, when perhaps you even felt a sense of destiny. That’s when we’re free and self-expressed, and joyful or at peace with circumstances—when we choose them. We bring that freedom to our relationship with money when we center ourselves in sufficiency, choose to appreciate the resources that are there, feel their flow through our life, and use them to make a difference.
Additional Reading:
How to feel like you have enough by Christine Garvey