TWILIGHT

Intuition Attunement Wisdom

Mushrooms, Ceremonial Cacao & Botanicals

Handmade in small batches
Contains 80g

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Our Twilight blend of mushrooms and botanicals soothes and nourishes the nervous system. It nurtures a sense of expansion and increased sensitivity and awareness, allowing us to tap into our deeper sources of intuitive intelligence. This blend helps the body enter a state of harmony, where we can attune to our sentient wisdom and a flow of energetic information not routinely available to us in the contemporary western world.

When supported with meditative practices, Twilight can support a deep transformative journey of self-knowing and spiritual expansion. The ceremonial cacao content in this drink will carry the spark of enthusiasm and fearlessness needed to help surrender to this process.

  • Every serving contains:

    1.5 g Lion’s Mane Extract, 1.5 g Cracked cell wall reishi spores

    With lavender flower, linden flower, betony,oat flowering tops, rosehips, ceremonial grade cacao, palmyra fruit nectar, anchiote, corn maize, tonka beans, nutmeg, vanilla pods, salt

    Naturally vegan and free of gluten, dairy and soy.

    Made in a kitchen that handles nuts

  • The quickest way to prepare it is by adding hot water and blitzing with a hand blender. Otherwise you can gently simmer it on the hob, stirring until it thickens. Myco blends contain ceremonial grade full fat cacao and therefore are not an instant drink.

  • Each blend is clearly suited to particular needs and occasions, where they can enhance or support different experiences, especially if you create a ritual around it. Each serving invites a certain type of energy into your day and the contents of a jar have the potential to transform an area of your life. If you approach a jar with an open heart and intention, ready to see what unfolds, you may notice it doing its magic beyond the days when you directly consumed it. You may also refine your intention with each ritual and at the end of a jar experience a shift towards greater sense of direction and alignment. This cycle of transformation can take different forms for each person and there are many ways to approach this journey. You may intuit to have it every day or once a week, or leave two to three days in between. While there would be no danger associated with daily use, giving it two to three days in between preserves cacao’s blissful effects, which diminish with daily use. This interval also protects against any potentially negative effects that the stimulant action of cacao may have over sensitive adrenals. It is for you to tune into the wisdom of these fungi and plants, and check with yourself what best serves your body and purpose.
    If you would like to combine this with taking mushrooms on a more continual basis to reap their cumulative effects, we offer them in capsules and loose powder. Please reach out if you need extra information or support.

  • The above description of possible effects is the result of a personal relationship to these ingredients, grounded in folk wisdom that has been empirically corroborated by contemporary medical herbalists. It stems from an understanding of medicinal plants’ healing power as deeper and broader than individual constituents’ actions demonstrated in a lab. The way plants and mushrooms will speak to you and how you will feel your body respond to them is unique to you, and every experience is valid. Every journey is different and we are excited to hear about yours!
    The way we like to work with plants and fungi is by allowing them to speak to us through our bodies, and nudge us back into balance by teaching us about ourselves and how to access the healing we need within. They are not here to fix us: they are allies that walk our paths with us.

  • Cacao being a stimulant, we recommend consuming this drink in the morning, but people’s responses vary depending on constitution and habits. If you consume coffee or dark chocolate daily, you may find that having it later in the day does not affect your sleep.

  • Abstaining from coffee (ideally for five days ahead of starting Myco) will enhance your experience and allow for a deeper connection.

    If you have difficulties with that, our cordyceps mushroom extract can act as a substitute.

  • Speak to your healthcare practitioner if you are on any prescribed medication or if you are pregnant.

    Naturally vegan and free of gluten, dairy and soy.
    Made in a kitchen that handles nuts.

About Our Twilight Blend

The Twilight Team

When our nerves are exhausted and depleted, we feel like we’ve lost our sense of direction and connection to our inner core. Reishi restores the adrenals and regulates the autonomic nervous system, easing the fight-or-flight response in order to allow the body to go into repair and regeneration. Known by Taoist priests as the mushroom of immortality and of spiritual potency, reishi was used to attain higher states of consciousness. It protects against stress and strengthens the entire cardiovascular system. In traditional Chinese medicine reishi is understood to integrate the three pillars of life: matter, animating force, and spirit. It is known to balance our internal polarities of yin and yang - that is, the receptive and the active, the creative source and the ability to manifest.

We associate these powerful effects with reishi’s action of strengthening the heart, which bridges the upper and lower chakras. This effect is potentiated by the presence of lavender, a heart harmoniser that also integrates the two brain hemispheres. The information that a harmonious heart is able to pick up on is relayed to the right side of the brain: the intuitive, emotional part that is able to see the bigger picture and apprehend the complexity and interconnectedness of reality. This stream of heart-based information is only successfully assimilated when integrated by the rational left side. Lavender facilitates communication between the two, helping articulate this wisdom into organised action.

A healthy and strong nervous system is the foundation of spiritual development. Lion’s mane encourages the production of nerve growth factor (NFG), a protein required in the development and maintenance of healthy brain and sensorial nerve cells. In addition to that, it nourishes the gut lining, further supporting the gut-brain axis, which contributes to its anti-anxiety and antidepressant actions. Here, its effect is enhanced by oat straw, known by herbalists to increase sensitivity by strengthening the connective tissues of the brain and spinal cord, facilitating our intention to drop deeply into the realm of the body.

When delving deeply into the work with this blend, past experiences stored in the body - as well as parts of ourselves that have been suppressed or neglected - may resurface for processing and releasing or honouring through action. Lime flower makes a valuable contribution to this process. Its joyous aroma masks its  more profound ability to support us in looking at hidden parts of the self. A Germanic myth can also  provide clues to this plant’s power: when Siegfried was bathing in dragon’s blood to make himself invincible, a lime leaf got stuck to his skin, causing a small patch to stain untouched by the blood and remain vulnerable. Lime flowers can support us in looking at hidden aspects of the self and getting in touch with our vulnerability, where great potential lies.

Betony is one of seven sacred Druid plants, believed to protect against evil spirits: a testimony to its great power to keep us grounded to weather external storms as well as to confront internal ghosts. It releases energy trapped in the head, relieving constriction and bringing a sense of expansion, allowing us to see beyond the mind’s traps and limitations. It holds our hand while we take the plunge, so we feel held to surrender and flow. Betony carries a beautiful sense of fortitude.

Herbal wisdom

The above description of possible effects is the result of a personal relationship to these ingredients, grounded in folk wisdom that has been empirically corroborated by contemporary medical herbalists. It stems from an understanding of medicinal plants’ healing power as deeper and broader than individual constituents’ actions demonstrated in a lab. The way plants and mushrooms will speak to you and how you will feel your body respond to them is unique to you, and every experience is valid. Every journey is different and we are excited to hear about yours!

The way we like to work with plants and fungi is by allowing them to speak to us through our bodies, and nudge us back into balance by teaching us about ourselves and how to access the healing we need within. They are not here to fix us: they are allies that walk our paths with us.