91. Healing a Life Threatening Autoimmune Disease with Ayahuasca with Mee Ok Icaro

Can plant medicines catalyze both profound spiritual awakenings and physical healing from chronic illnesses? On this episode, Michaela Carlin welcomes Mee Ok Icaro, a writer and sacred medicine advisor with an incredible story of healing a life-threatening autoimmune disease – and the sexual trauma that it was rooted in – through a spiritual and physical purification process guided by ayahuasca. Mee Ok shares the challenges of her initial solo ayahuasca ceremonies, her deep work dieting various master plants from both Amazonian and North American traditions, and her exploration of ancestral healing through Korean shamanism. Michaela and Mee Ok also discuss the challenges of Western medicine's limited perspective on healing; the potential of earth medicines in modern medical practices; and the remarkable power of plant intelligences to meet people across dimensions of mind, body and spirit.