enthogenica

A breath, a sense, a sound, a sight. What is there to improve or disapprove of?..

To have an ego and to be sexual are as distinct as being a person and having sex.
Any person who has a belly bottom also has an ego... Instinctual, emotional and intellectual, the ego is “the organizing mental apparatus that is the sum of the integrated central nervous system”... To deny, despise or decry having an ego is to battle with the ego and, as such, be in conflict with what is: the given condition of being human in kind...

As the expression of desire, I am sensory-perpetual.
Being moved by desire, I am erotic... Interdependent rather than monogamous, to relate to the erotic as a pronoun or the locked property of me, my, mine, causes a healthy cell to turn cancerous. Doing so is analogous with defending peace through warfare...

What causes I am to be alive is none other than relationship. The bond of all relating is empathy — not blood and bones, or egg and sperm, or ashes and dust... Empathy is the essence of connection. Relationship is made of empathy, just as the essence of aliveness is relationship... Connection is made where empathy is — not by relating for the sake of sex, or to outrun death, or to realize the pure land of nirvana...

I interact because I am an integral fractal, fulcrum and fountainhead of consciousness, without being sealed up within myself... Any interaction reaches across the gap between outward and inward and, as such, is equally exogenic and endogenic—in other words, entheogenic... Interaction is surrendering to the entheogenic nature of I am. By embracing the given conditions of what and who I am, I interact...

To face and embrace oneself in the here and now is psychoactive, not celestial nor terrestrial. It is sonic, not light nor dark; it is affirmative, not positive nor negative; it is interdependent, not predetermined nor random... To face and embrace oneself in the here and now is what enthogenica does up close and personal...

Enthogenica is not a how-to self-improvement, it does not absolve the problems with the same kind of thinking through which they are generated... Rather, enthogenica takes to the ingestion of psychoactive catalysts to bring that which is blended and blotted out into awareness... Thus, the continuous emergence from inherited stereotypes, shames and safeguards comes about...

When kindness is lost the egoic turns into possessiveness, the erotic into power, the empathic into profit and the entheogenic into prestige. Then compassion — the root of kindness—cannot blossom on the horizon of consciousness...

When kindness is lost the egoic turns into possessiveness, the erotic into power, the empathic into profit and the entheogenic into prestige. Then compassion — the root of kindness — cannot blossom on the horizon of consciousness... When kindness is lost, being human is freeze framed in imagination and vacuum sealed in the postdated mausoleum of confabulated memory... Hence the hopeless, hounded and humbled are trampled over in pursuit of reaching some higher ground or realizing some deeper cause than what anyone already is by being human in kind: conscious, empathic, reflective, aware...

• To be conscious denotes none other than relating to what matters: integrity...
• To be empathic denotes none other than embracing what matters: vulnerability...
• To be reflective denotes none other than beholding what matters: intimacy...
• To be aware denotes none other than surrendering to what matters: clarity...

The listening-response-ability of being human is conscious, empathic, reflective and aware... Everything from sex to sense and sound to silence is integrity, vulnerability, intimacy and clarity... When present, it is all here and now..

Born and raised in Switzerland, Christoph has been a psychologist in the U.S. and China. Prior to that professional history, was a decade long engagement with Zen Buddhism and contemplative Sufism...

A native of Ukraine, Tetiana worked as a photographer and art director before becoming a facilitator of psychoactive encounters. Her experiences in the wilderness, extensive travels around the world, and deep journeys in South America inform her work today... Whereas Tetiana is like the water bearer who finds a hidden spring, Christoph provides the perspective, like clouds moving across the sky...

A native of Ukraine, Tetiana worked as a photographer and art director before becoming a facilitator of psychoactive encounters...

Enthogenica is sourced in the awareness of insight that dwells between polarities and is beheld between the ever-present origin and the here and now. It is as collaborative as the catalytic psychoactive encounters that Tetiana & Christoph facilitate. What comes from insight is grace, grit and gratitude, much like awe, ave, and art come from awareness...

Her experiences in the wilderness, extensive travels around the world, and deep journeys in South America inform her work today... Whereas Tetiana is like the water bearer who finds a hidden spring, Christoph provides the perspective, like clouds moving across the sky...