Sacred Communion
Plant Medicine and the Human Soul
Talk and Discussion
Mark Seelig PhD

Some headlines of the talk that we’ll discuss:

- Evolutionary explosion of the human neocortex:
Issues of accountability and integrity
- Institutionalized religions:
The dis-empowerment of individual spirituality
- The church:
Sacred rituals declared heretic
- The conquer-and-exploit mentality of industrial societies:
Colonization and oppression
- Mainstream medicine and pharmaceutical drugs:
A schizophrenic distortion of the nature of the human soul
- Terminology ~ ‘Drugs’ vs. ‘Medicines’:
Long term health issues of ingestion
- Psychopathological labels and diagnoses:
The deluded and superstitious narrative of reductionists
- Big pharma:
The money driven mafia
- Ideology vs. natural alignment and common sense:
The natural hierarchy of heart and mind
- The history of humanistic and transpersonal psychology:
From ‘disease model’ to ‘health model’.
- Trauma, depression, addiction:
The tweaked quest for communion
- Indigenous wisdom and sacred plants:
An honest look at the oldest spiritual insights of humanity
- An outlook for this planet’s inhabitants:
The purpose of this life and this universe

Mark Seelig
Happy husband and stepfather
Musician
Student of Indigenous wisdom traditions
Protestant Minister
Clinical Psychologist
Professor of Psychology
Lead Therapist Trainer, Usona Institute, Madison, WI