Tom Walker

Shock to Awe is a moving, gritty, intensely personal and important story. The principal characters struggle with profoundly wounded spirits due to their experiences as military combatants in Afghanistan and Iraq. Upon returning home they find settling into daily life tragically, even suicidally, impossible. The film Shock to Awe follows their quest to return their lives to normalcy. Conventional approaches to PTSD treatment had been useless and the pharmacopoeia they'd been enduring was staggering for its toxicity and overwhelming volume. What will come as a surprise to some is that they found smoking marijuana could replace all of the conventional drugs they were taking to far more salutary effect. Although the benefits were life-savingly transformative, they were temporary - like a band-aid. Their journey in search of more complete spiritual wholeness ultimately led them to hallucinogenic therapy, therapy administered by experienced, loving guides in the practice. That turn of events, over time, became their path to long term, restorative salvation and the experience of wholeness.