Mexico is the land of dreams. This class explores the native Mexican plants that have been used by indigenous peoples here for stimulating and amplifying human dreams. There is a very fine line between dreams while sleeping and dreams while in an awakened or semi-awakened state (often called hallucinations). We’ll explore some of the contradictions and confusion concerning the validity of these states.
The plants discussed will be
“Dreams are Necessary to life” — Anais Nin
Everyone who signs up for this class will be given samples of two of these plants (Heimia salicifolia and Calea zacatechichi) to take home with them to experiment with.
Detailed ethnobotanical information will be given to participants for preparation, along with cultivation information.
And we will discuss the role(s) of dreams in life.
The cost of the class is 100 pesos.
The place is the XPlantation.
You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book or you take a trip and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might generate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken. — Anais Nin
FURTHER READING
– The Dream Robbers