Tom Lane - Quetzalcoatl and the Ceremony of the Deified Heart

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🗓️ 25 June 2019

⏱️ 97 minutes

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In this episode, Kyle talks with Tom Lane, author of Sacred Mushroom Rituals: The Search for the Blood of Quetzalcoatl. In the episode, they discuss the history of Quetzalcoatl, the ceremony of the deified heart and sacred mushroom rituals.

3 Key Points:

Quetzalcoatl is a feathered-serpent deity of ancient Mesoamerican culture that can come to you when partaking in the ceremony of the deified heart. Quetzalcoatl teaches how to overcome fear and hatred and bring love.
The ceremony of the deified heart is a sacred mushroom ritual that when methods are combined correctly, can bring about Quetzalcoatl.
In the episode, Tom tells intriguing stories of his experiences with mushroom rituals and experiencing Quetzalcoatl, including a ceremony with Maria Sabina.

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Quetzalcoatl

He was not an Aztec, he originated as a King in the Toltec civilization thousands of years before the Aztecs
As legend has it, where his blood fell is where the sacred mushrooms grew
Some people believe he was a Naga, a combination flow of energy, a male/female serpent
- A winged, jeweled, male/female, serpent
In the ceremony of the deified heart, the serpent will come to you

About Tom

He was building geodesic domes in a remote area in Mexico
He had some of his first mushroom experiences, and it led him to realize that the story of mushrooms was about Quetzalcoatl
His first experience with the mushroom was mild
He said the mushrooms found him, he takes them as a sacrament

Ceremony of the Deified Heart

The legend was that Quetzalcoatl gave cacao to participants as an aphrodisiac and it would help release serotonin
The goal is not to talk a lot
Then, the mushrooms are to be retrieved from the ground, fresh
Before the ceremony, Tom says he likes to put four candles placed in all four directions
The key to eating the mushrooms is eating them totally covered with honey
- You eat them two at a time, as it represents the male and female
- And when you eat the mushrooms, you actually never swallow
- You chew and chew and the mucous membranes of your tongue take the psilocin straight to the brain and spine
He says once it starts to take effect, it feels like there is a snake up your spine (He mentions his friends call this Kundalini)
Then you go out and Quetzalcoatl will come
- When he comes, he is like a rainbow jeweled serpent, an embodiment of pure light, pure energy, pure love
Tom says the next day it feels like you're 10 years younger
Its a pure force of love, an obliteration of the concept of time
Quetzalcoatl created this ceremony to bring about the serpent for healing, for a balance of male and female
This ceremony is best done during the night, with thunderstorms in the mountains

Ceremony with Maria Sabina

One night they went to see Maria Sabina
She agreed to do a ceremony at night
Her house was in the mountains and had a thatched roof with no windows or doors and sometimes clouds would come through her house
During a ceremony a lightning bolt came though the house, in one window and out the other
Maria's daughter gave him truffle like mushrooms and he brought them back with him
Maria's daughter really tried to learn his name, she repeated it a multitude of times until she said it exactly perfectly so she could say it during the ceremony

Quetzalcoatl Messages

God gave us love and pain
We have to learn how to celebrate the pain
God gave us knowledge, and tools of how to heal the pain
Tom's goal is to teach people how to take the sacred mushrooms to meet Quetzalcoatl and find healing, love and peace
"Once you get rid of the ego, you get rid of fear, and then you have love." - Tom
- The only way you can overcome hatred and fear is with love
The body is teaching the mind when consuming the sacred mushroom
It's best to just try to love people and be kind, and it's all acts of kindness and love that makes a person feel good

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Sacred Mushroom Rituals: The Search for the Blood of Quetzalcoatl

About Tom Lane

Tom, Author, has a Bachelors in Forestry from the University of Tennessee and a Masters from the University of Florida in Science Education and Middle School Education. He has worked full time in the Solar Energy field as a Contractor and Trainer and has a background in Mushrooms. Tom spent some time in 1973 living in the jungles of Palenque in Mexico and learn about mushrooms and mushroom ceremony. Tom is the Author of the book, Sacred Mushroom Rituals, The Search for the Blood of Quetzalcoatl.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody. Welcome back to Psychedelics Night, a weekly podcast, exploring the science and culture
0:24.8	of the psychedelic field with your host, Kyle Buller and Joe Moore. So on this episode today,
0:31.2	I get to chat with author Tom Lane. Tom has a bachelor's, an undergrad and forest forestry from the University of Tennessee, and also a
0:40.2	master's from the University of Florida and science education and middle school education.
0:46.3	He's worked full-time in the solar energy field as a contractor and trainer, and he also has this
0:53.8	background in studying mushrooms.
0:57.0	So Tom is the author of the book called Sacred Mushroom Rituals,
1:01.3	The Search for the Blood of Ketsaquado.
1:05.2	Tom spent some time back in 1973 living in the jungles of Palanke, and spent some time in Wahaka,
1:13.7	and yeah, really kind of got to know the mushrooms, learned about mushroom ceremonies down
1:19.4	there, and even got to spend some time and have a ceremony with Maria Sabina and cross-past
1:25.8	with Gordon Watson at one point, and I think exchanged some letters with him.
1:31.0	I first was introduced to Tom at the psychedelic science conference in Oakland, the Maps Conference in 2017.
1:40.6	Forget how he started chatting. I think he was just sitting next to me and he had his book with him and, you know, he was telling me about his travels to Mexico and how he got involved with the mushrooms.
1:53.0	And, you know, I was kind of really interested in his story. And then he ended up reaching back out and said, hey, I remember chatting with you, want to get you
2:03.9	on the show, and learn more about your story. So yeah, glad that we were able to get him on.
2:11.4	Kind of really made me realize how interdisciplinary the psychedelic field is. I mean, there's just
2:17.0	so many angles to learning about
2:18.7	psychedelics, and it almost seems so hard to really cover all the ground and learn everything,
2:25.0	you know, from history to science to the psychology, ethnobotany. I mean, there's just so much to the
2:32.2	field. And this is one area that, you know, I'm not
2:36.2	too, you know, knowledgeable of. Like, I know a little bit about the, you know, the ceremonial
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