Reindeer Moss A Meditative Proving of Cladonia Rangiferina

A Meditative Proving of

Reindeer Moss

Cladonia Rangiferina

Conducted by

Misha Norland

at Rawley Lodge, Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada

September 30th, 2000

A proving of Reindeer Moss conducted within the clinical workshop with 3 male and 19 female subjects. The unpotentised moss, gathered from the immediate vicinity, was passed around the group. A period of ten minutes introspection then followed, after which sub-groups discussed their experiences and later reported back their 'findings' to all of us.

Group One

Frontal headaches.

Frontal headaches with eyes watering, nose burning, tingling and running.
Difficulty with breathing, sensation of lack of oxygen, sensation of suffocation, aware of respiration rate.
Strong sensation of heart beat going down one side of the body, especially left side.
Sense of great heaviness both physical and mental.

Distortion of size - felt vast and felt very small. Huge thing to do with size, between an openness and smallness: sometimes positive and vast, or could be desolate and isolated, felt vulnerable and small.

Vulnerable with a sense of strength; vulnerable yet indestructible, that I would survive.

Darkness.

I had a sensation of boredom, or ennui, not tired or lethargy just boredom.

Sense of beauty and openness at the desolation and darkness.

Group Two

Fragility and a sense of strength as well 'I will survive feeling'.

Waves as if of tentacles in the lungs (3 people said that).

Beathing, feeling like wanting to stretch lungs.

Feeling beat of heart throughout body, more in left side.

Tingling legs and hand.

Wanting to grasp and reaching out.

Water, wetness - I had tears flowing the whole time, it felt good cleansing feeling.

Solidity, heaviness on the earth.

Feeling of 'leave me alone'.

Sweet sadness, calmness.

Tightness and tension in the back, and the back side of the lungs. Hard to breathe and get enough air.

Had a burning tingling at opening of the urethra.

Pale blue light, calm feeling

Group Three

Tentacle thing, reaching , searching and clinging, strong and tenacious.

Sense of being under water.

Nausea, a feeling as if it would fill you up and take you over.

Vulnerability.

Peace, warm, content.

Overpowering heaviness.

Eyes itching and burning.

Tingling in the lower legs that later became a crawling sensation.

Breathing quickened and shallow.

Feeling that I would be poisoned.

Group Four

Physical heart beat powerfully, after 7 minutes heartbeat settled.

Pulsation left shoulder, left part of chest.

Upper teeth aching, concomitant with pins and needles in upper left lip.

Fullness in forehead.

Sensation of heaviness (grounded) yet lightness at the same time.

Feeling of isolation.

External hardness, internal softness.

Had persistent cough from deep in the bronchii.

Group Five

Two were feeling very anxious.

Heart pounding.

Eyes burning, nose burning.

Scattered feeling.

Anxiety attack, worse eyes closed.

Strong sense of being disconnected, with anxiety.

Contrary.

Heart beating really strongly.

Feeling of community, feeling absolutely at peace or isolated and separate.

Feeling disconnected and separate; the physical symptoms arose out of that.

J's experience: extremely peaceful, contented, feeling part of the whole. I had an image of a web, of leaf veins meeting at the notocord, rich purple veins, like a wine; sense of being an individual in an very integrated way, as if all things in nature were woven together. Aware of the vast sky and my own smallness. Harmony. A dew drop of water - so special this dew drop on the body of this little leaf. The dew drop was wanting to absorb, to drink it all in, to be part of me yet knowing it wasn't part of me. With time, it was having it roll off and a sadness arose in me, and a wisdom: knowing it would come again, being a ball, a dew drop of God. I became aware of the room - we were all a little leaf web. I felt at peace. I had a ball sensation in the throat, just above my stomach, I had to drink to get it down. Pressure in temples, as if eyes were bulging.

Group Six

Strong heartbeat.

Mouth watering from under the tongue.

Fullness in the temples, pressure extending to the back of the head.

Tingling pressure at vertex, down side, bit of dizziness, lightheaded; goes along with not quite being able to walk - no anxiety with that.

Sensation as if don't know how to walk, stumbling like getting off a boat.

Feeling of pressure left side of chest.

Deep breathing, sighing, needing to get a breath.

Heavy feeling in chest, hard breathing.

Still, quiet.

People were very quiet and serious.

Dry eyes, heavy, burning.

Weakness.

Feeling of being drawn into the water and wanting to be part of the water. To be at one with the water, with nature. Cuddling with the forest.

All had to urinate more than usual.

Group Seven

Throat, raspy, feeling of a crumb from throat.

Persistent sore throat.

Sighing.

Experience of detachment, I felt the differences, each of us is different.

No sense of urgency, detached from things that normally have more impact - initially this was all right, then I felt anxious to be so detached.

Pressure and tingeling at vertex, extending down the sides of head, concomitant with not knowing how to move feet, not knowing how to walk.

Feel uncoordinated.

Feeling of being connected, vs. disconnected.

Upper teeth were aching.

Aching, burning sensation in a wide band across lumbar back.

Aching deep in left ear.

Had tingling at the opening of the nostrils.

I don't know how to make my legs move; had I wanted to run away I wouldn't be able to; later had a feeling of a lot of energy in my thighs.