SACRED OAK DIETS

DIVINITY // INTEGRITY // POWER // ABUNDANCE

FATHER OAK

Throughout the old European world, Oak has a principled reputation as the king of trees. But this ancient and pervasive attribution does not stop there. Greeks, Romans, Celts, Slavs, Germanics, Luwians, Hittites, Hurrians, Jews & Vedics all considered Oak to be an altar of the Sky Father: what we in the West call God. Indra, Thor, Zeus, Perun, Jupiter, YHWH and Taranis were all thought to “inhabit” the oak. Even the Sioux peoples of South Dakota have legends of a Thunder God within the Oak. As a keystone species supporting over 500 other creatures, Oak is a teacher of what it means to embody divinity, integrity, power and responsibility, in service of community.

Oak is an altar of the old way, of primal electrical force. The oak awakens the center of the self and calls us towards radical self-ownership—even in the most trying of situations.

“…the first prophecies were the words of an oak.” -Plato, Phaedrus

The Sanskrit word, ‘Duir’, gave rise both to the word for oak and the English word ‘door’, which suggests that this tree stands as an entryway into the otherworld itself. Combined with the Indo-European root ‘wid’: to know, ‘Druid’ likely referred to those with ‘knowledge of the oak’.

There are many reasons we might seek the council of the Oak tree: Healing, Empowerment, Direction, Learning, Prayer. When we diet the Oak in a good way, the essence of the tree begins to cultivate within us and continues to strengthen with time, lending us the great one’s qualities.

THE PROTOCOL

STUDYING LEGAL SACRED PLANTS, WITHOUT PSYCHEDELICS

Deep study with plants connects us to the wisdom of the natural world in a way that is grounded and real. The most powerful way to engage this work is through sober, focused containers, while sitting in shamanic meditations with our plant teachers. To facilitate this enduring and traditional form of study, we turn to the ancient technology of tobacco.

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1. Open the body with Shamanic Tobacco.

2. Connect to the spirit of our Master Tree.

3. Meditate, cultivate, weave in.

Three complimentary forms of tobacco work together to balance us while we connect to our Master Tree in shamanic meditations. Tobacco Tea is snorted into the sinuses like a neti pot and represents Water, working to purify and open the body. Tobacco Paste is swallowed into the stomach like a food and represents Earth, grounding and nourishing the medicine process. The Tobacco Pipe creates smoke, which acts as a bridge to our Master Tree, helping us discern the teachings, and represents Fire and Air.

1L of Oak Tea is consumed each day. The medicine slowly builds inside the body, cleansing the liver and nourishing the digestive organs, electrifying the mind and strengthening connective tissue.

Through our shamanic meditations with tobacco we weave the medicine of Oak into our being and awaken to the teachings of the plants.

WHAT TO EXPECT

THE VIBES OF A TREE DIET

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Sacred Tree Diets are spaces for quiet remembrance. Processes are private, individual, inward, gentle and spacious. Medicine is served twice per day and an afternoon meditation divides breakfast and lunch.

Noble silence will be observed in common areas throughout the day. Each night, we will sit by a fire and process; weather permitting. The land is spacious and accommodates for daily sunbathing, yoga, and journaling while contemplating the sunset over moorlands. All meals are traditional plant diet preparations and are hand prepared, clean and simple: saltless oatmeal and boiled green plantain in the morning and vegetable soup in the late afternoon.

Medicine processes are typically very gentle but can include physical purging (vomiting), the processing of strong emotions, and the onset of physiological changes. Our space will be cared for by highly adept space holders. Safety, privacy and cleanliness are the highest priorities.

This diet can also be undertaken as a complete fast, without food.

The following restrictions will be held with strict discipline: Sex, masturbation, drugs, alcohol & other medicines, phones & screens, cosmetics & scents, soap & toothpaste, salt, meat, sugar, oil, spice and talking (outside of sharing circles.)

SCHEDULE

DAY 1

1 - 4pm - Check-in

5pm - Medicine Harvest

6pm - Medicine Cook

7pm - Opening Tobacco Ceremony

DAY 2-8

7am - Tobacco Prayer

10am - Breakfast

1pm - Meditation

4pm - Dinner

7pm - Fire & Tobacco Prayer

DAY 9