TESTIMONY
Close to nature since always, Roxy discovered the plant medicine of the Amazon Indians. She says that this medicine allowed her to know who she was inside. Today, she is discovering this medicine around her. At the microphone of "La Libre antenne", on Europe 1, Roxy explains to Olivier Delacroix how this medicine that comes from plants and animals works and what it has brought him on a physical and psychological level.
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I was born into a rather bourgeois family which educated me well. At one point I saturated, because I found that there were a lot of devices. I tried to go and find what was inside, rather than what was outside, what we show to be accepted in a society. I was part of this world of images. Subsequently, I was able to work with certain medicines, travel across the Amazon, live with the Indians, live with people who live for the most part.
" I had to find who I was inside of me "I realized that we were missing a lot of things and that the essential things were there. I have changed a lot thanks to this plant medicine trip, this trip linked to Indians, forests and nature. It has been seven or eight years since I started this route. It brought me a lot. I suffered as well, because there was a cleansing of what I thought I was, of what the school had made of me, of what my parents had given me as an education.
When you are in a society like ours, you live with certain codes of good conduct to gain acceptance. When I started these medicines, it broke it all. I lost my bearings and what I had been taught since I was a child. I lost some friendships that I found completely false. I cried a lot when I started it all. Everything I thought was right in my friendships, in my way of being, I had to rebuild everything and find who I was inside of me.
" I had to get back to basics "For me, it was important to have a good job, a good diploma. In fact, that was not what suited me at all. I had to go back to basics and find my marks and who I was thanks to shamanic work, energy treatments, body psychology, emotions. I was able to learn to understand the signs that were on my way. For example, understanding what a simple angina meant, what my body was trying to tell me and which we mask today with drugs.
All these things that life shows us and that we are not taught in school. When we are small, we are not taught to know our body, our fears, the memories that our parents transmit to us. I think that with the current crisis, we are returning to this essential, we are trying to find out where our well-being and our real needs lie.
" It is a medicine that works on the soul and the body "I have always loved staying with animals and nature. But my work and the western and bourgeois side always called me to order. A lady I knew said to me: 'You should come and see a man who works with plants from the Amazon and certain medicines that purge you. It is not conventional with us. Come see once '. It took me a while to accept going to see this person who allowed me to open all this and go to the Amazon. When I started this process, a lot happened.
Here, when things are not going well, we take an antidepressant or a medicine. We do not realize all that it ruins inside and all that it hides. Indians work with a frog, which is called kambo, a small frog that lives on trees in the Amazon. For them, it is a medicine that works on the soul and the body. It is the vaccine for toddlers. Scientific studies have been done on this. We make you drink two liters of water, then we take a wooden stick to make small burns on the arms for men, the energy at the top, and on the legs for women, the energy at the bottom . Then put the frog's venom on the burns.
It comes to work on our memories and who we are
One cannot dissociate the body from the soul. It takes a lot of courage to become aware of the injuries that we may have experienced while our mother was pregnant or giving birth. These are things that play a lot on our psychology and the way we will live later. It comes to work on our memories and who we are.
There are other plants that I have worked with in the Amazon that are unfortunately not allowed with us. Kambo is a medicine that is not prohibited, but other herbal medicines are prohibited. The natives have always worked with this. As soon as we connect to all of these plants, we realize that we live on earth that is alive, that we eat living things. All of this has an energy. We walk on something that is alive and we forget it.
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My goal is to share this with us, shamanic care, openness of consciousness. Let us communicate with everything around us and all that is alive. Let us be aware of what we eat, of the sacrifice that animals give us to be able to live. More and more people are opening up to all of this. I think that when a large part of the population is open to this, we will no longer live in the current chaos, in need of money and luxury which is useless.
When I see them in the Amazon, they are so happy, they know their children, they know every plant there is in the forest and every utility. They connect with the sun, with the moon, with the ancestors. I think that we have reached such a level of awareness of the earth, that we are all capable of letting go and saying to myself I will do some work on myself and I will see what there is inside of me.