From this section you will be able to identify what to expect or may occur during and after your session. Identify the red flags that should be avoided.

This webinar is not intended to pronounce about how a spiritual or clinical practice should be or not, but to safeguard the wellbeing of the final users of the Toad Medicine. When we are new to something, we usually trust in our guide and becomes harder to question in the moment any method applied. It is important to notice that if you participate in a Toad Ceremony, you will put yourself into a vulnerable situation and should prepare accordingly.

Consequently, these are some recommendations to be used as a framework to notice if something is out of place while participating in a Toad Ceremony and help you to let yourself surrender into the experience safely.

Toad Medicine Session starts when you meet your facilitator until you are ready to go back home. I used the term Ceremony to describe the session a in a context of Spiritual Practice, rather than a Therapy, that would be described as a Clinical Practice. Nonetheless in both practices, should be observed this framework to follow during the Toad Immersion, that is while your body is under the effects of the Toad Medicine.

- Opening and asking for permission

When you are about to start, it is important to set yourself ready, but also whoever is attending your session, including the spirits should be welcomed –If you are not into spiritual, metaphysical or supernatural matters, you could feel repulsed, but believe me when I said it is not a fantastical or cult-alike practice, but shortly you will understand--. The point is that an opening is needed to set the beginning of the session.

The Toad Medicine is enough to have a full process, but additional elements could be suggested by each practitioner. During this moment, if you are not informed, you should ask for such information and give any explicit consensus if there are any other elements that could be considered, like allowing the use of other substances, the attendance of any other person, physical interaction, the dose that is willing to receive, or any other agreement different than receiving the Toad Medicine.

Other precautions also should be double checked, like your true will to receive the Toad Medicine and the explicit declaration that you have not consumed any contraindicated substance. Some practitioners will ask you to sign a release of any legal liabilities.

Having a trusted third person is recommended, to help in case it is needed, but also to witness the practice of your facilitator and the interaction with you while you are at the immersion.

If you are feeling nervous or in a state of fear, that is normal, but always be confident on your intuition, it will tell you to get out of any dangerous situation. Do not feel shame for saying no to something, even when you trust your facilitator.

- Ingesting of the Toad Medicine

The Toad Medicine usually is insufflated in a glass pipe. As any other substance, in a Clinical Practice could be administer by other means, but the inhalation of the smoke of the medicine will give you the full experience and is the most common and easiest way to ingest it. The duration of your session will last as long the body finishes to consume the substance, when it is inhaled usually last around 10 minutes, but there are some anecdotical testimonies that report lasting more than a half an hour.

When the Toad Medicine hits your system, you will not have any doubt whatsoever. The effect of the medicine in your body will be felt immediately. If not, you are probably ready to receive a little more –More of this topic in the next section--.

While you inhale the Toad Medicine, do it calmed and slowly, allow your lungs to fill as much medicine that you can, and try to keep it as long as you can. After you exhale the medicine, recover your breath, and if you are still aware of any thoughts, just focus on your intention. Surrender! Whatever you may feel, it will pass in a few minutes, immerse into the Toad realm while you can.

From the outside it might look like someone being on an altered, disassociated or psychotic state, you may lose the control of your body, but the best scenario is when you just close your eyes and feel the experience, as if sleeping and having a vivid dream.

- Physical interaction

I recommend you set the rule of not having physical contact during the Immersion, except in the case of an emergency, like to stop you from any physical harm, seizures, to accommodate your body to breath or avoid choking.

Some practitioners may have skills to provide massages or similar interactions, if so, take the time to receive their services before or after, but let your process be taken by your own, specially when you are dealing with sexual trauma.

- Other external elements

During a Toad session you could expect smelling other scents, like sage or insiensce, hear prayers or songs, musical instruments, someone might cover you with a blanket or sweep with feathers or similar artefacts. All these elements have a reason to be used.

But taking rape, kambo, water, or any other powerful tools should be put into hold for another moment. Investigate if your facilitator uses some kind of these artefacts, some are known of using artifacts like stunning guns, among other violent methods, do not tolerate them, you are suppose to get rid of your traumas, not getting new ones.

Sometimes practitioners have so much demand that many people could be receiving the Toad Medicine at the same time and place. There are testimonies of people inside the Toad Immersion interfering into other people process. If you are preparing for a Toad Session, book the time of the facilitator to take one-to-one session. Remember is about you, give yourself the opportunity to make it a very special moment, trust on this one, you do not want to be interfere by other people energy.

- Closing the session

Whenever there is a beginning will come an end. Everything that was opened should be closed. It is hard to explain things that can’t be perceived all the time, but during your session your spiritual could unfold and expand, portals may be opened, spirits may be invoked, and the energy certainly will be moved around and sometimes it must be contained, cleaned and closed. Your practitioner should be able to deal with these circumstances. If not you will shortly notice that something is out of place, if so, ask for help.

Every practitioner should know how to close the session and help you to integrate. This could mean many things, but I have already mentioned key points that should not be overlooked.

At the end of your ceremony, you could feel overwhelmed by the information you just have received, take your time to process it. The integration therapy will help you to download all the insights. Do not leave until you feel complete fine and sober, your physical body should be able to continue like on a regular basis or even better.

It depends on each person and how it is delivered, but the safe way to know is to start on low doses. I will refer when you receive it by smoking the Toad Medicine in a glass pipe.

A low dose is usually called handshake, it will allow you to tune into your session, but it is not the Toad Immersion. A medium dose, you could be able to notice some effects, but if you are still aware of the environment where you are at, of the people in the session or about your own thoughts. If you smoked the Toad Medicine and you have any doubts about its effect is that you have not reach the full potential. The Toad Immersion is when you reach the full release of the medicine, you will be certain that you reached.

Sometimes reaching the full release causes a strong catharsis on the user, which leads to express and release a lot of somatic trauma and feel all the collection of feelings available in the human experience, from sorrow to happiness. The user might experience the cleansing of spiritual energies, that can manifest through very different ways. Purges like spitting, sweating, cold, screams, should be expected. It is part of the healing journey, let it be as it comes. But most of the times, by following this framework the user will experience a peaceful full release.

Everything that you should care about is what happened within yourself. Some facilitators might recommend you experiencing your session standing or watching something with eyes wide open and receiving instructions. My personal recommendation is to smoke your dose and lay on the floor facing up with eyes closed. A full release in the Toad Immersion may look as if you were having a vivid dream.

Each person is different, as well as their approach to the medicine, some will need a slow beginning to earn some confidence on the process, and other might prefer immediately the full release. This means that when you are seated with your facilitator, you can expect to receive several hits by each time increasing the dose or just having one shot to receive the whole dose at once.

Once the substance is in your body it consumes very rapidly, so you could receive many handshakes and still might not feel the full release. But if you receive a large dose and still not feel the full release, could be a reason to quit the process. It is not common to happened but there are many reasons, until you determine which was the reason it is safe to stop trying. If you think that the Toad Medicine did not make you blink an eye, certainly it means that your body is not consuming the substances and it might be located on your system and could interfere with your metabolism and other functions on neurotransmitters. We are not certain why it happens but 1 out of 10 reports this situation.

Around 15 milligrams is when people start reporting having a full experience. It is common that the facilitator will not have a balance to measure the dose, but it is a very small dose. Around 3 seconds inhaling the Toad Medicine.

Most people will need around 40 milligrams (6 to 7 seconds inhaling), but there are some facilitators that will provide more than 70 milligrams in one seating, that is more than 10 seconds inhaling the Toad Medicine.

A large dose does not mean a better journey. If you look for people tripping on Toad Medicine on Youtube, you might find a lot of them with spasms, shouting, spitting or at dissociated psychotics states. Does states are usually caused by large doses of Toad Medicine, but they do not report better results compared as to smaller doses. Be careful when you ingest more than 100 milligrams on one inhale. Check on the Risks sections other side effects that the Toad Medicine might cause.

There are some risks associated to the consumption of the Toad Medicine.

This is not a recreational substance that can be taken lightly. This framework may help you to obtain the best result in the safest way possible. This course is to inform and layout the main topics but expertise is needed to deliver the Toad Medicine and should not be taken as a medical advice, each case should be reviewed by a professional. Following you will find the most common problems on this regard.