30/06/2025
Healing Childhood Wounds That Echo Into Adulthood - Plant Medicines & The Sacred Expansion of the Nervous System
First the science.
What is DNA Energy ?
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is the biological blueprint of life. It’s a long, double-helix molecule found in nearly every cell of the body, carrying the genetic instructions required for growth, development, and reproduction. DNA is organized into genes, and each person inherits half of their DNA from their mother and half from their father. Beyond coding for traits like eye color or blood type, DNA contains regulatory regions that control when and how genes are expressed. This process, called gene expression, determines which genes are activated or silenced at any given time.
How We Inherit “Energetic” Trauma from Our Ancestors
Modern research in the field of epigenetics has shown that DNA doesn’t just encode physical traits — it can also carry information about an ancestor’s environment and experiences, including trauma. Through mechanisms like DNA methylation and histone modification, certain genes can be “marked” or “switched” on and off in response to stress, adversity, or trauma. These epigenetic changes can be passed down through generations, making it possible for the descendants of traumatized individuals to inherit altered physiological and psychological stress responses. In this way, the pain, fear, or resilience of prior generations can live on in cellular memory, shaping how we relate to ourselves, others, and the world around us — a phenomenon increasingly supported by scientific studies in trauma and epigenetics.
As we begin to understand trauma not just as a personal event, but as a multi-layered inheritance carried in the body and energy system, many are turning to sacred plant medicines—particularly psilocybin—for deeper healing. These medicines don’t just help us process what’s happened in this lifetime; they also touch what lives beneath it—ancestral wounds, spiritual disconnection, and energetic blockages that conventional approaches often struggle to reach.
Psilocybin & Trauma Healing
Psilocybin, the active compound in many species of “magic” mushrooms, works by quieting the default mode network—the brain’s tightly patterned ego structure—and opening up new neural pathways. In a supported setting, this allows trauma loops to soften, suppressed memories to surface, and emotional experiences to be felt with a new kind of compassion and clarity. The window of tolerance doesn’t just expand—it reshapes itself around new possibilities.
Unlike purely cognitive methods, psilocybin invites the felt sense of healing. Emotions long buried in the body can rise like waves and move through. Inner child parts, ancestral presences, or soul fragments may appear with messages. We don’t just remember our pain—we meet it, sometimes with tears, sometimes with awe, and sometimes with a deep, wordless knowing that something has shifted.
Ancestral & Spiritual Dimensions
What’s especially powerful about psilocybin is that it often takes us beyond the personal, into realms where ancestral trauma, archetypal energies, or karmic patterns can emerge. Many report visions or encounters with ancestors, spiritual guides, or deeply rooted family dynamics that make more sense in the medicine space than they ever did in talk therapy.
These experiences can offer:
• Insight into inherited emotional burdens
• Forgiveness for ancestors or self
• Energetic release of patterns held for generations
• Reconnection to lost cultural or spiritual lineages
For those working with trauma, plant medicines can act as catalysts, making these practices more vivid, embodied, and transformative. They don’t replace the work—they deepen it. They show us the terrain more clearly, sometimes intensely, and ask us to return with reverence and integration.
Safety & Integration
This is not a one-size-fits-all path. The container matters—intention, guidance, preparation, and integration are everything. These medicines are not shortcuts. They’re openings—to truth, to grief, to soul, and to reconnection. And when held well, they can help expand our window of tolerance not only in the nervous system, but in the heart and spirit—allowing us to hold more life, more love, and more mystery.
The Sacredness of Mushrooms: Medicine, Not a Recreational Escape
Psilocybin mushrooms are not just “trippy fungi” or a psychedelic thrill. They are ancient teachers—sacred allies that have been revered by indigenous cultures for millennia. Known in some traditions as “the flesh of the gods,” these mushrooms open doorways to the unseen realms.
