☾Dream Arc
A creative impasse is not a block to force. It is a gestation. Hopcke, Jung, and Hillman shed light on why productive stillness precedes every tur…
❦Elixirs & blends
Damask Rose, Hawthorn, ceremonial Cacao, Damiana. An elixir built around a question: what does opening the heart really mean? Not idealized romantic love. The capacity to feel, to stay present, to be touched without being swept away.
☥Alchemy & spagyric
From the Arab alembic of Al-Kindi in the 9th century to the copper stills of today's distilleries, distillation is one of the most universal techniques for transforming plants. It concentrates the volatile spirit — what the alchemists called Mercury — while preserving the plant's olfactory signature and its potency.
❦Le Sentier du Rêve
A composite elixir built around the dream path: verified Blue Lotus, Bobinsana, Calea Zacatechichi, Wild Poppy. A spagyric preparation. For those who seek a sleep that nourishes — not only one that repairs.
☥Ancestral trauma healing
A padlock in the interface protects nothing. Sweeney and Dwork formalized what real protection requires — client-side encryption, zero-knowledge, k-anonymity for mental-health data and personal journals.
❦L'Apprentissage des Plantes-Maîtresses
The vine has claws — not to attack, but to climb. Uncaria tomentosa's curved hooks are the exact image of its teaching: one does not rise alone. 2000 years of Asháninka use, 80 generations of transmission. Modern pharmacology is only confirming what the rainforest already knew.
❦Le Sentier du Rêve
Canavalia rosea. The plant that settles where nothing else grows — bare sand, salt, intense wind. Found in Mazatec tombs from 300 BCE to 900 CE: twelve centuries of continuous funerary presence. Still smoked today on the Gulf coast as a gentle alternative to cannabis. A plant of thresholds, ocean currents, and quiet companions.
❦Le Sentier du Rêve
Cherokee ocoee. In 1610 Emmanuel de Villegas reads the Passion of Christ in her flower — hence the name Passiflora. A European and Native American companion of sleep and of anxiety. The Brazilian trinity with mulungu and chamomile. GABA-A modulation, chrysin, trace harmine.
☥Ancestral history
Twelfth-century Rhineland. A Benedictine abbess receives visions and translates them into a living pharmacopoeia: the Physica, 230 plants classified by their temperament. At the center of it all, viriditas — vital greenness, the green force that binds body, soul and cosmos.
❦L'Apprentissage des Plantes-Maîtresses
In Quechua, he is not named for his beauty, but for what he treats: Chuchuhuasi — the trembling back. In Shipibo-Conibo cosmology, he is the grandfather tree: vast, dark bark, unshakeable, silent.
☥Alchemy & spagyric
Merlin Sheldrake documented the fusion of hyphae — when two strands of mycelium touch, recognise each other, and fuse into a single new being. Sophie Strand wrote that this is exactly what human love does when it does its work. Robin Wall Kimmerer showed that an animist grammar holds the two together. Anne Carson proved that Eros itself obeys this logic. One single grammar — becoming-with.
❦Le Sentier du Rêve
The idea that the dream is a play staged inside your brain for you alone is a civilisational exception, not the norm. For the Iroquois, the dream is a message to the community. For Aboriginal peoples — according to what respectful anthropologists have reported — the Dreaming is a shared substrate. For Seth, it is the common architecture where our lives are built. Three traditions, one same way out of the cerebral enclosure.
❦La Voie des Adaptogènes & Champignons
Inonotus obliquus — not an ordinary mushroom. A parasitic conk that metabolizes for twenty years the defenses of the wounded birch, accumulating betulinic acid, melanin, beta-glucans. Soviet Pharmacopeia 1955. Khanty lineage 12th century, Cree, Ojibwe.
☾Dream Arc
Slowness in contemplative practices is not a slow aesthetic. It is a different physics. Malidoma Somé, Bachelard and the Dagara tradition sh...
❦Le Sentier du Rêve
Hypnagogia is the state of consciousness between waking and sleep. Edison and Dalí used it on purpose. Understanding this state and how to draw on it…
☥Les Plantes-Sorcières
For three centuries, in Europe, the women who knew the plants were killed. It was not a superstition. It was a policy. What the pyres burned was not a rival religion — it was an epistemic commons. Your grandmother, and mine, and hers, did not forget herbalism. They were dispossessed of it.
❦Le Sentier du Rêve
A dream, sometimes, is too big for a single soul. Robert Moss learned this among the Iroquois — who called it the Ondinnonk, the soul's secret wish, which the community was meant to enact. Martin Shaw found it again in the tales of the north — Wood Brothers, Smoke Hole, Wolf Mother. What these two traditions say, two thousand kilometers and two thousand years apart, is the same thing: you never dream alone.
❦L'Apprentissage des Plantes-Maîtresses
For thirty years, quietly, biologists around the world have gathered experimental data that force the conclusion: plants learn, anticipate, communicate, choose. Gagliano in Perth, Mancuso in Florence, Trewavas in Edinburgh, Wohlleben in the Eifel — four laboratories, a single epistemological mutation. And one book that holds them together: Buhner.
☥Ancient civilizations
Mircea Eliade showed that traditional societies did not live in the time that passes — they lived in the time that returns. Bachelard wrote that reverie is the operation by which we leave chronology and enter cosmicity. Tarkovsky filmed this border between the two times seven times over. Set side by side, they write a manual for turning a Tuesday evening into a sanctuary.
☥Ancient civilizations
The word "disenchantment" was coined by Max Weber in 1917. Carolyn Merchant dated the gesture: 1450-1700. Silvia Federici showed who paid the price for it. David Abram described what we lost in phenomenological terms. Morris Berman named the possibility of return. Five voices set side by side trace an honest path toward what we call, for want of a better word, re-enchantment.
☥Ancestral trauma healing
Practitioners, friends, parents: how do you recognise when the person you are accompanying needs a mental-health professional? The key signals, the…
☾Dream Arc
« Between two » is not a crisis. It is a state with its own structure, its own properties, its own way out. Van Gennep, Turner and the theory of rit...
☾Dream Arc
Soul retrieval is a concept present across many shamanic traditions and taken up by Jungian psychology. Understanding soul loss, reintegr...
☥Ancestral trauma healing
Titration, pendulation, the window of tolerance — three concepts from somatic psychology that transform how we design spaces, programmes, and pr…
❦L'Apprentissage des Plantes-Maîtresses
For the Greeks, the pharmakon was both remedy and poison — Derrida spent a whole book on it. But before Derrida, and more precisely, Hildegard of Bingen, Stephen Beyer among the Shipibo, and Dale Pendell among the poet-alchemists each wrote, within their own cosmology, the same theorem: the dose is not enough. The ritual is the dose.
❦Le Sentier du Rêve
If matter is a fold enfolded from a deeper order — as David Bohm holds — then the dream is not a flight out of the real. It is the moment when the order unfolds, briefly, in another grammar. Bohm, Seth, Bachelard: three lines of thought that never crossed paths in life, and that speak of the same thing.
☥Les Plantes-Sorcières
Christopher Alexander spent his life searching for why some places are alive and others dead. Silvia Federici spent hers understanding why modernity burned the women who knew how to inhabit them. Lewis Hyde showed that the gift circulates differently from the commodity. Set at the same table, the three write a manual of dwelling — addressed first of all to those whom history has stripped of the tools.
☥Les Plantes-Sorcières
Mandragora officinarum is one of the most anciently attested plants of the Western pharmacopoeia. From the Bible to Hildegard, a surgical anaesthetic for 1,500 years. Today reduced to a prop in a children's novel. INFUSE refuses that, and restores her depth.
☥Ancestral trauma healing
If your myth doesn't hold up in the friction of a toe stubbed against a chair, your myth doesn't hold. A manifesto of bodily grounding. Van der Kolk, Levine, Strand, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard, Odier. INFUSE refuses the decorative spirituality that never touches ground.
❦Le Sentier du Rêve
Sharing a dream creates intimacy and vulnerability. Concrete protocols: consent, the 'if it were my dream' rule, receiving children's dreams, limits in conflict.
☾Dream Arc
Why this blog does not seek to give you answers about your dreams and your synchronicities — but to grow in you a faculty of perception that no one...
❦Le Sentier du Rêve
Seth's cosmology distinguishes Framework 1 (physical reality) from Framework 2 (the inner space from which events emerge). Master Events take place i…
☥Les Plantes-Sorcières
The herbcraft of Europe's knowing women still lives in plants you can hold — Mugwort, Wild Poppy, Lavender. Belladonna, who bears the name of Atropos, the Fate who cuts the thread, will never be among them: three berries kill a child. INFUSE tells you why — sources and memory.
❦Le Sentier du Rêve
Some dreams are qualitatively different. Kelly Bulkeley and Robert Moss explore Big Dreams — memorable, numinous, with measurable effects — and the ...
❦Le Sentier du Rêve
Two postures for working with a dream: Hopcke's narrative posture (synchronicity and turning point) and Aizenstat's imaginal posture (Dream Tendi...
❦Le Sentier du Rêve
The myth of the lone hero is dead. But the return to the weave is not a comfortable one. To become a Symbiont — to accept that we were never alone — is also to accept what could devour us. Haraway, Margulis, Sheldrake, Tsing, Strand. And Glissant, who keeps opacity as the lock against the fusion-trap.
☥Ancient civilizations
WIE — the graphic fusion of I and WE. The gesture that says: I am a fully unfolded individual AND I am the living fabric. AND, not OR. Act 3 of the I INFUSE Myth. Glissant, Haraway, Eisenstein, Black Elk, Margulis, Kimmerer.
❦Le Sentier du Rêve
We do not awaken by climbing. We awaken by falling apart. The fracture is not the enemy of awakening — it is the door. The first signature pillar of Cosmogony V3.
☥Ancient civilizations
Tussilago farfara pierces the still-frozen earth at the start of spring — yellow flower on bare ground, before any leaf. Hippocrates, Dioscorides, Pliny prescribed it for cough. In the Middle Ages, its flower was the sign of apothecaries. Here is coltsfoot, the plant of the lungs and of the tired courageous.
❦Le Sentier du Rêve
Nymphaea rubra and Nymphaea lotus — two nymphaea sisters, one passionate red, one full-moon white. Plants of Egyptian, Maya, tantric thresholds. Slow medicines for evenings that open in images. Sanskrit Rakta Kamala, Egyptian Seshen, Maya Naab.
☥La Voie des Adaptogènes & Champignons
Shila (rock) + jit (conqueror) — conqueror of mountains. Shilajit is not peaceful: it pushes back what has yielded to fatigue and age. A mineral resin formed over millions of years in the high ranges of the Altai, Himalayas, and Caucasus. Ayurveda's deepest adaptogen.
❦L'Apprentissage des Plantes-Maîtresses
Salvia apiana — Californian white sage is in a crisis of commercial overharvest. The Chumash, Tongva and Cahuilla peoples are asking us to stop. INFUSE declines to sell it and offers Imphepho, Mugwort and Rosemary as traced alternatives.
❦Le Sentier du Rêve
Heimia salicifolia. Plant of Mexican shamans for at least 500 years, perhaps 2000+. Not a plant of visions — a plant that re-opens the old. Users report rediscovering the scent of a grandmother's kitchen, the texture of a blanket, the light of a window — details laid down thirty years earlier. And a marked auditory signature: voices resonate as if from the end of a long stone corridor.
❦Le Sentier du Rêve
Eight sabbats, eight phenological turnings, eight families of plants. Imbolc Mugwort, Ostara Dandelion, Beltane Damiana Rose Yarrow, Litha Chamomile St. John's Wort, Lammas Mullein, Mabon Sage Rosemary, Samhain Yarrow Calendula (no Mandrake), Yule Pine Fir Mistletoe. Plant chronobiology, not folklore.
❦L'Apprentissage des Plantes-Maîtresses
The opening of the heart is worked with lineages able to give — ceremonial cacao of the Kekchi and Tz'utujil Maya of Guatemala, Shipibo Bobinsana, European Mugwort. Hikuri, the peyote of the Wixáritari, takes 10 to 30 years to mature, and its desert is collapsing. INFUSE will never sell it, in any form.
☾Ancient civilizations
Marie-Louise von Franz showed that fairy tales are the purest form of the collective unconscious. Her method of amplification — very different from …
☥La Voie des Adaptogènes & Champignons
Eleutherococcus senticosus -- "Siberian ginseng," though it shares no genus with true ginseng. The foundational adaptogen of the Soviet program, used by Evenki hunters of Siberia for centuries before Brekhman studied it. Eleutherosides. The plant of long endurance, cold resistance, and immune integrity.
⧖Célébrer au Naturel
L-DOPA concentrations in Mucuna pruriens range from 0.5% to 9% depending on the plant, the harvest, the way it is processed. The ratio is 1 to 18, and can reach 1 to 100 in the published HPLC analyses. Which means a gram of Mucuna from one seller can be chemically equal to 18 grams — or 100 grams — from another. An INFUSE article on integrity, to understand what you are really buying.
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