Healing on Water
[The Ayahuasca Monologues] • In the first installment of this RS video series, Adam Elenbaas rebels against his father, a liberal Methodist minister, by becoming a hardcore Evangelical Fundamentalist. He falls into a life of drugs and despair before communing with the spirit vine in the Peruvian Rainforest. During his journey, a buff and humorous Jesus walks on water to grant Adam a powerful lesson about love and forgiveness.
Special thanks to the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors and Souldish for hosting the event with us.
Video filmed by Jon Levin.
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Re: Healing on Water
Very Nice
Propaganda Anonymous
Right On Adam!
Sounded very profound and peaceful
Todo Corazon homie
PEACE
Prop
brillant adam...
moving
wanderlust
God, man.
I'm weeping, adam.
to paraphrase south park, dude, you have blown my fragile little mind.
;-)
there is so much in your story that matters. thank you.
Thank you
Right on!
Thanks
Testimony
Kewl
it's nice to hear/see the whole story Live.
this website is evolving well. new features are easy to use. you guys are on to something.
Preston
I LOVE JESUS 2. . .FOR REAL YO
Hey Adam~
It was interesting to watch you tell that story as I had read it a while back...your so natural live. But as with any true storyteller, that ease comes by way of practice.
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My mother was a storyteller professionally for several years in my youth. She actually got her start in our local Methodist church which we were faithful attendees to since I was about 8. Ironically, we left the church some 4 years later when news of an affair leaked involving the pastor and a women in the congregation.
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My Mom was notorious for embarrassing me at a many school assembly as the educational 'storyteller'. Later of course I realized how cool it was to have a mother who was an honestly loved Myth and learned the practice of telling a tale with such intensity and courage any audience was instantly captivated.
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I used to try my hand at the 'storyteller' role, but found a much easier outlet in creative writing and performance art (namely music and dance).
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~In any case, what I'm now seeing is that we are all capable of telling a story, but first we must chase our bliss, as Joseph Campbell would endorse, and take the Heros Journey.You totally took it, you embarked, fought and ultimately surrendered over all that baggage to attaining CC baby, Christ Consciousness within yourself! Bravo.
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and heres another funny thing, it may be a bit personal but I'm just going to throw it out there.Just today I felt like for one of the first times in my life! I was able to invite in the healing Love of Jesus through a very simple mid-day prayer. I like to acknowledge that perhaps Jesus is the example of our time, our age (that of Pisces) and he shows us bounty (fish) and that in this time, there is always enough.The example Jesus lived was that of Healing Love and Equality. Simple. Jesus was filled to the brim with the good stuff, no wonder he looked so strong to you in your vision! the guy was cut, lean, tan with golden hair and beaming bright eyes! (All this seems real enough to me, that a guy like this lived, even in its staggering cliché)- and perhaps he even enhanced his love by practicing sacred intimacy with Mary Madelyn! Lets be honest, we all want this, were all going for the bona-fide version of us, only problem is that many are not truly living their bliss, being in their bodies, awake and free of negativity and pain.
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So later that day I'm on the machine trying my best to keep up with the political absolute f***ing madness and I think back on that feeling, the presence of Christ within me, and suddenly, it was like a weight was lifted right off the back of my neck and shoulders. and that, is why Jesus was and still is a Divine f***ing healer and miracle worker, for real though Yo.
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Thing is, we all going through this process in different ways, theres no right or wrong, theres only infinite possibilities scaling between dark and light, order and chaos, spirit and matter. Soooo, in closing I would like to extend my gratitude for sharing your story and possibly saving your fathers life, Adam, and remind everyone to become painfully aware of your own story, so much that you can edit in punch lines and twisted humor free of guilt or weirdness. This is our Story, were making it, and technology is engineering it for us, then projecting it into the world.
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Lets make the best of what we've got, besides, we stuck oil in 1712 and since have progressively become the richest most advanced humans to roam planet earth! because
oil=money=technology ...Just so were all clear here.
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Thanks for reading and please visit my blog if you have the time and interest.
LOVE
Agent JensonOver and Out
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Beautiful!
I had a similar opening experience, on LSD rather than Ayahuasca.
As luck would have it my Mother passed away this year. She once went to Manchu Pichu, and had always longed to go back. Fate put me in touch with an Integral Shaman Healing Center in the Sacred Valley, and my brother, and I, are going there next year with some of my Mother's ashes to spread in Manchu Pichu. Thank you for the lovely, lovely video.
- Rev. Travis Eneix
www.traviseneix.com
the power of myth
What if I'm deaf and BLIND! and CAINT SEE???!!!
Well, I can't view the 'video' of this touching scene, but I'll take everyone's word for it that it was touching and deep.
I'll just guess, that 'Jesus' conveyed that Adam was just like him, at bottom line. Right?
Or what?
What's the bottom line? What's the SUM?
What's the big idea behind this? Switch and bait? The leading line is highly tempting. But after arriving, I'm told: you gotta watch the movie. What movie? I CAINT SEE NO MOVIE!
You telling me amongst all you 'smart' folk, not one, including Adam, can write this experience out in long hand for us blind?
Fiorina, probably, will think I'm 'dissing' RS when, in fact, I'm just saying: I can't watch this big video using what I'm using. Or is that too much to imagine?
Can you envision that? And, before you start to berate me for being 'lazy' and unwilling to go to my 'local' library to 'watch': maybe you might also envision the possibility that someone like me shouldn't HAVE to do that to be a 'relevant' commentator. Or what? You telling me that NOBODY, Adam Elenblas not excepted, can WRITE?
So, I'm relying here, now, on Fiorina to mock me and tell me where I can go and read an actual account in WORDS, not VIDEO or mpeg or what have you. Don't give me any blankety blank about being 'lazy'. You don't know what I do every day or how I live or anything about my 'lifestyle'. For all you know, the only contact I have with the outside world is by a machine. And not by any personal preference.
And whomever will say "Rogerscott" is not participatory in the 'party' and is 'late' coming into the 'kitchen' and is an ass for wanting to know: 'what's goin' on?', what's everybody talkin' and laughin' 'bout?
That's okay. Maybe I AM an ass.
I think I was there. I'm not such an egoist that I think I have to be called forth by my preferred name to feel acknowledged. 'Ass' will do.
Only, don't tell me or the others of us 'blind'-folk: what's wrong with you?
You got a program or some 'code' that translates visual information into words? Or you got some program or code that translates video-with-sound into only printed words? You know of some 'library' that does that?
What's wrong with me? What's wrong with you? What if there are both deaf and blind who use Brail printers to get this drift? Imagine how slow this uptake is.
What's your justification of shutting me or anyone off? Wise gal!
Right, Fiorina?
Roger that
Roger, As for this particular article, I believe if you use the search bar and look for "Myth of a Christian Nation" on this website you'll find what you're looking for. Apparently Adam has put this to text in the past. peace
completely unsolicited
Kevin, Thanks for your
Kevin, Thanks for your feedback. The moment I capture in this story was the very first moment of finding my father. In that brief moment there was no time for panic and fear.
In that moment things were timeless, and this is why I constructed a story inbetween, basically, heartbeats in that first moment of what was a much longer scene/event in my and my father's life.
There was more that came afterwards, practical things, but those are not important to the nature of "my" story or what "my" intentions were for the Monologues.
Also I think that my own hypocrisy was implied in my voice and my calm presence as a storyteller, and I think that was emphasized more so than my function as a "redeemer."
But I understand your point. It's a delicate line to walk, and I was nervous to tell the story for this, among many other, reason(s). It was a beautiful thing to be an instrument in my father's healing.
But the journey continues, and "redemption" is never for anything but here and now. There are no "once and for alls" or "contracts" when it comes to these kinds of experiences, in my opinion.
Redemption is a choice we have to learn to make again and again (it's kind of like a skill, really). So while I might have helped my father choose redemption in one moment----there will be plenty of opportunities for failure. ;-)
To Rogerscott--I'm sorry to hear that you weren't able to see the video. Could you hear the audio? We should definitely think about alternatives for people who can't see OR hear.
In the meantime I would encourage you to find easiness in your response. It felt very critical, edgy, a little harsh, and a little over the top, for me personally.
I know that I have a hard time responding thoughtfully or even wanting to respond thoughtfully when it feels like someone is being aggressive with me, or very intolerant or impatient.
Afterall, our whole RS staff is working very hard, all the time, to share and evolve our message and our website.
But regardless, thanks for the good feedback!
And to everyone else whose left me love and kindness on this post, or emailed me personally---thank you so much for the affirmations!
I look forward to maybe meeting some of you someday and talking/sharing all of our stories around some kind of sweet bonfire or event!!
much love
Adam Elenbaas
so loved your story
Shalom
Adam, It was great to hear your story. I can't imagine how disillusioning and hurtful it must have been to witness your father's infidelity as well as seeing a person you are supposed to look up to in a position of utter brokenness. I am glad that you were able to offer him love and understanding in that moment. I pray that he would find peace, rest, and stability. How are your mother and sister doing these days?
Shalom
AP
hi arthur
Hi Arthur,
Thanks for your kind affirmation. My family is doing great! Much healing and growth for all of us.
If you wouldn't mind keeping personal correspondences to my email--it's listed in my profile!
Or look me up on Facebook or myspace!
Hard to exchange without knowing who you are, exactly, and also doesn't feel appropriate for a public forum.
If I remember you also left a more personal note for me on the Exorcising Christ from Christianity piece--and referenced a favorite song of mine from freshman year of college!
Hope to hear from you via email...
Adam Elenbaas
Adam, This is a great
Adam,
This is a great story and beautifully told. I enjoyed it thoroughly. You are a great story teller.
Towards the end you told the story of how Jesus said to you that his father is the only one in a position to judge and he doesn't.
I have been a visitor to the same ayahuasca center in Peru to which you went and I have heard on several occasions the master shaman there recounting an almost identical story that happened to him in an ayahuasca ceremony. I am certain that you will have heard him tell the same story.
My question is whether this really happened to you, or whether you incorporated his experience into your own story to enhance it? It seems to me quite a coincidence.
Regards
John