by Justin Craig | Sep 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
Failing to measure up to those shiny images trapped under glass could be the catalyst to integrate both light and dark and make neither our master.
by Justin Craig | Jul 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
Knot Knot asks us not to try and break self-defeating patterns with reason or effort. the description The Knot card The Knot represents a longstanding issue resistant to unraveling. The threads are bound tight. It seems to have dark magic and power, a...
by Justin Craig | May 9, 2019 | Cards, Uncategorized
This is the first of my exploration of individual cards from the 78-card divination deck I created to assist people in the spiritual awakening process and to facilitate the integration of plant-spirit experiences, such as with ayahuasca or iboga. The first card is...
by Justin Craig | Aug 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
The medieval Spanish mystic John of the Cross could never have guessed that, over 400 years after he coined the phrase Dark Night of the Soul, it would come to represent an awakening rite of passage in a modern world scarcely recognisable from his own. The medieval...
by Justin Craig | Aug 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
“Can black ayahuasca be healing? I would suggest it’s for the things most profoundly rooted, covered over by layers and layers of wild growth; where what is most dense, humid and cloying can outlast time, or at least a parent’s bones. Black ayahuasca is...
by Justin Craig | Jun 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
Perhaps this joke is old, but it still strikes me as an acute observation. When does ‘medicine’ become co-opted to merely reinforce pre-existing identities and beliefs? When does the use of medicine turn into mis-use or even abuse? When does healing itself become a...