You need to understand plant chemistry, be inured to discomfort and awesomely flexible. When something breaks down-the plane, the boat, you just have to roll with it.
Chris KilhamPowerful people come from all walks of life and leave their mark upon the world in a variety of ways. But one thing is common to them all. They move through the world with pure vitality. It is as though all their switches have been turned on.
Chris KilhamIf you or I want to be healthy (whether it's our digestion, our reproduction, our skin, or anything) we have to assume greater responsibility for our wellness. One of the best ways to do that is to be familiar with and to use on a regular basis, plant medicines.
Chris KilhamWe are destroying the world's greatest pharmacy. It is very important that we protect the rainforest in everything that we do.
Chris KilhamI love the Amazon. I just wanna to cry every time I go there both for the majestic beauty and for the fact that it's going to be a museum exhibit in a couple of decades if we don't stop the deforestation.
Chris KilhamYou don't have to do something exotic to enjoy the benefits of natural healing agents. So many things in your kitchen - common spices, common herbs and foods - have powerful healing agents as well.
Chris KilhamFire walking is an act of faith. I don't know why it works. I don't know why people don't die doing it. I found it very exhilarating.
Chris KilhamMistletoe, the same plant you kiss under at holiday time, may be an effective aid against certain types of cancer.
Chris KilhamWhile there are a great many agents in nature which boost libido and enhance sexual function, chocolate alone actually promotes the brain chemistry of being in love.
Chris KilhamFoods of the Godsโ) - โAfter water, cocoa is the single healthiest substance you can put in your mouth. It can easily replace a number of psychiatric drugs for mood, plus it produces the same chemistry in the brain that occurs when we fall in love.
Chris KilhamHot Plants enhance sexual experience. They increase sensitivity and make sex more urgent. Men get better erections. Women benefit, too. Your orgasms are like Chinese New Year fireworks.
Chris KilhamI feel badly for the people who suffer from the side effects and consequences of hazardous pharmaceuticals. It's antithetical to the Hippocratic Oath. I want to see people use safe, practical medicines.
Chris KilhamOn the other side of the spirit veil, I spend more than a little bit of time researching the hallucinogens. I personally believe ayahuasca is also the greatest natural healing agent, period.
Chris KilhamFor a product to really be sustainable, it's really got to deliver the goods for the end user. That drives the whole rest of the equation.
Chris KilhamA number of holistic and complementary medical doctors in the US, from general practitioners to psychiatrists, are using maca with a variety of patients. Both men and women report a significant boost in libido. And a number of men who have suffered from erectile dysfunction have improved, as a result of taking maca.
Chris KilhamNone of us find yoga. We are not that smart. Yoga finds us. We are taken up by it. It is nothing more than pure grace. We donโt make this happen. We are the very fortunate recipients of this divine largesse.
Chris KilhamAs state and local laws mutate and change in favor of greater tolerance, perhaps cannabis will find it's proper place in the home medicine chest.
Chris KilhamMaca boosts sex drive like crazy. And if there's any side effect, some people just have to stop taking it because they get so sexually stimulated... Kind of makes you feel a little like a superhero.
Chris KilhamIn other parts of the world where I go, people are worried about, Jeez, you know, I really wanted to buy my kids shoes this year.
Chris KilhamYou know the expression, "It's not personal; it's business." We sneer at such rot. All business is personal, all the time.
Chris KilhamA man doesn't need a study to know if he's feeling amorous. There is no such thing as a placebo erection.
Chris KilhamPeople in the U.S. are more cranked up on pharmaceutical drugs than any other culture in the world today. I want people using safer medicine. And that means plant medicine.
Chris KilhamOver the course of four rough, ego-shattering hours, the ayahuasca shows me that opening myself to love of Zoe and all others is the sure way to tap my deepest and most vital energetic reserves. The lesson is vivid, technicolor, indelibly imprinted on my psyche.
Chris Kilham