Writing
Medicine Wisdom
Essays on expanded states, plant medicine, masculine and feminine healing, consciousness, and the work of living a changed life.
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Entering the Cave of Your Deepest Potential…
What lives in the cave of your deepest potential? Michael Tierno explores the inner journey of expanded states work and why facing the unknown is essential to transformation.
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There will be a last time for everything we do...
A mindfulness exercise on impermanence and presence. Michael Tierno reflects on how awareness of life's last times can deepen gratitude and transform how we experience each moment.
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Psychedelic Guides: What to Look for…
Learn what to look for when choosing a psychedelic guide. Michael Tierno covers qualifications, ethics, and key questions to ask before your expanded states journey.
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Non-duality and 5meo-DMT
Michael Tierno explores how 5-MeO-DMT dissolves the boundary between self and reality, offering a visceral encounter with non-dual consciousness and the depths of expanded states experience.
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Shame and the Divine Feminine
Shame is the single most damaging emotion blocking the divine feminine. Michael Tierno explores how healing shame unlocks authentic expression and radiance in both men and women.
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The Test of Resolve: Post-Psychedelic Integration and the Universe's Challenges
Integration is where the real work begins. Michael Tierno explores how the universe tests your resolve after a psychedelic retreat and how to anchor expanded-state insights into lasting change.
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Dancing with the Divine Masculine & Divine Feminine
Michael Tierno shares a personal story illustrating the divine dance of masculine and feminine energies, and how holding authentic space transforms both healing and human connection.
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Layers of Self: Unraveling the Intrinsic and Conditioned Ego
Michael Tierno demystifies the ego, exploring the difference between the intrinsic ego, an essential part of being, and the conditioned ego shaped by life experience and social programming.
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The Folly of Time Travel and Regret
Would you go back in time if you could? Michael Tierno reflects on the wisdom of accepting your past and why the present moment, not regret, is the true seat of transformation.
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Authenticity and the True Power of Vulnerability
True authenticity requires risk. Michael Tierno explores how vulnerability, willingly putting your heart on the line, is the foundation of genuine connection and conscious living.
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The Dual Paths to Enlightenment: Shattered Glass vs. Gradual Awareness
Michael Tierno explores two distinct paths to awakening, the sudden shattering of illusion and the slow dawning of awareness, and how expanded states work can catalyze both.
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“How do our perceptions correspond with base level reality?” PART 2
Part 2 of Michael Tierno's deep dive into perception and reality. Explores the transformative metaphysical implications of understanding how consciousness constructs our experience of the world.
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“How do our perceptions correspond with base level reality?” PART 1
Part 1 of Michael Tierno's philosophical exploration of perception and reality. How does consciousness shape what we experience? A foundational inquiry for anyone on the path of expanded awareness.
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Consciousness, from a philosophical and scientific point of view…
Michael Tierno bridges philosophy and science to explore the nature of consciousness: what it is, how it arises, and why understanding it is central to any serious expanded states practice.
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End of year offering to the Universe…
A reflective year-end ritual to close the past and welcome the new. Michael Tierno offers a simple but powerful practice of releasing and offering gratitude to the universe as the year turns.
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Say “Yes” to what life has to offer, and expand your edge.
A call to expand your edge and embrace what life presents. Michael Tierno shares why saying yes to growth, challenge, and discomfort is essential to living a fully conscious life.
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Here are things to tell yourself if you grew up emotionally neglected.
If you grew up with emotional neglect, these ten affirmations can help begin the healing process. Michael Tierno offers compassionate reminders for reclaiming your worth and inner voice.
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I learned how my patterns get in the way of my moving forward.
Michael Tierno shares a personal insight into how unconscious behavioral patterns keep us stuck. A reflective piece on identifying and releasing the cycles that block growth and authentic living.
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I am not my thoughts and my thoughts can’t hurt me.
A foundational mindfulness teaching from Michael Tierno: separating identity from thought. Discover why you are not your thoughts and how this insight frees you from anxiety and reactive patterns.
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Six things I learned from drinking plant medicine.
Michael Tierno shares six profound lessons learned through plant medicine: on happiness, simplicity, responsibility, impermanence, presence, and authentic self-expression.
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Five more things I learned from plant medicine.
Five additional insights from Michael Tierno's plant medicine journey: on thoughts, forgiveness, projection, self-comparison, and the power of sacred space in everyday life.
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I realized how important it is to have a life of purpose and meaning.
Michael Tierno reflects on a powerful realization: that a life without purpose and meaning leaves us hollow. A personal essay on finding direction through plant medicine and inner work.
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I no longer need external validation from others to feel good about myself.
A breakthrough reflection from Michael Tierno: releasing the need for external approval. How plant medicine and inner work helped him find validation from within rather than from others.