28/04/2021
The following feedback on my wild herb detox tincture is much more than just that. It is a top notch essay written by a highly intelligent woman and therefore worth publishing!
Thank you Davina Schmitt from Sunkost Oslo!!!❤🌿❤
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"Feedback on cleansing herbal tincture:
Stinging Nettle, Dandelion and Birch
The first thing worth mentioning about my experience with this tincture, is how unusually fast I noticed its effects. Working within health food, I have experimented with a quite wide range of supplements throughout the last years, including adaptogens, superfoods, amino acids, probiotics, fatty acids and vitamins of different sorts - but can probably count on less than one hand the things that have truly convinced me about their inherent potential, at least for myself.
Despite my curious and open-minded personality, I do at the same time consider myself to be more sceptical than most people when it comes to making assumptions about the relation between any intuitively felt change and its hypothetical cause. In other words, when trying to make sense of my experience, I'm inclined to analyze its components with the mind of a scientist, trying to rule out any potentially misguiding variables, hesitant to draw conclusions about the nature of things based on fleeting subjective perceptions.
I'm therefore even more so pleasantly surprised every time my encounter with something new within the broad realm of supplements transcends the concept of placebo without any doubt, which has clearly been the case when it comes to my symbiosis with this herbal tincture. In mysterious ways, it weaved itself into multiple layers of my being, providing me with intense detox symptoms and deep existential insights, feeding on nothing but bodily and emotional waste leftovers in return.
Fatigue and headaches are among the most common experienced symptoms of any physical detoxifying agents, but I was nevertheless baffled by the impact that just a few drops of a herbal tincture consisting of such 'ordinary' and 'harmless' (as in 'not poisonous') plants apparently could have on my organism. As a result of these symptoms, I was pushed into cultivating more awareness regarding very basic, yet easily neglected needs: Drinking enough water, getting enough sleep, and generally slowing down to a pace that resonated more with my inner motivations.
Besides working, I spent my days doing yoga - which I can wholeheartedly recommend as an ideal synergistic interaction-candidate in this matter - and resting more than usual. And it was during those periods of rest - or shall I say attempted rest - that the really interesting inner processes started to reveal themselves. Several nights in a row, my body slept longer hours than usual while the mind stayed wide awake and present with whatever got pushed to its surface from the vaults of the unconscious. Layers upon layers of patterns of personality and interpersonal dynamics got peeled out of the unknown and presented to me one by one, allowing me to recognize the true causes and motivations behind my interactions with both myself and the rest of the world very clearly.
Although I am used to spending a considerable amount of time on existential rumination, the phenomena I was dealing with here was remarkably distinct from my usual states of indulging in philosophical daydreaming or being purposefully imaginative in any way. It happened completely unprovoked by any sense of active willforce, and with such accelerating intensity and at such a speed that it was quite overwhelming, although in a constructive way. I felt more vulnerable than usual, though strangely stronger at the same time. There was by no doubt something of great symbolical relevance at work.
To be a little less vague without going into too much detail: I was presented different situations from my past, with an emphasis on those involving inner tensions or outer conflict in more or less dramatic ways. It felt like the different operating archetypes or 'driving forces' behind words and actions of myself and others in that mental presentation were intensified in a way that made them easier to identify, and the insights resulting from that included seeing both my own and others' narratives in a new light. I relived how deeply I had been hurt by others in various situations, and - perhaps even worse - realised how I myself had been hurting others without even being aware of it, due to mindless preoccupation with my own inner demons. Summed up, I saw very clearly how lack of awareness is the root cause of so much suffering.
This continued in circular patterns for hours without interruption, craving my full attention. It triggered feelings of sadness, guilt, shame, resentment and anger - the whole repertoire of our collectively disowned shadow sides, ruthlessly exposed at the core of my being. It made me acknowledge on a deeper, more direct-experiential level than what most ordinary waking states allow, the many forces within and surrounding all of us, of which we have so limited control. It was a painful confrontation with unpleasant truths, but equally so an important and transformative one, inspiring a more compassionate, less judgemental attitude towards all living beings, including oneself -
and isn't that really the most noble value anyone can hope to aim for amidst all the chaos of reality?
I can of course not know for sure whether it's really the herbs mentioned, or Marlene's magical intuitive powers that catalyzed these involuntary nocturnal rituals. But after similar experiences when using the tincture again many months later, it seems irrational to not give it proper credit where credit is due. Regardless of the specifics, I'm convinced there's true witchcraft at work here - on some level or another."
