Tagged with ayahuasca

You can visit a psychic shop in any big city and be told about your past lives: you were famous, you lost someone you loved. But the best past life regressions are like very sobering parables; they leave us with a feeling of freedom and of the multi-dimensionality of time and space. My first happened almost a year ago. (more)

I was visiting a classroom of undergraduate Philosophy and Religion students talking about ayahuasca shamanism this past November. The question was posed to me, “Is ayahuasca a new religion?” (more)

Sync is the experience of the relaxation and dissolution of the boundaries between ourselves and the thing-events of the world. The more we allow ourselves to notice sync, the less barriers there are and the more our depth of perception will grow, allowing us to penetrate deeper into a world which starts to feel inseparable from what we consider ourselves. (more)

[RS Retreat] • Come on an unforgettable adventure of self-discovery and wellness with the Secoya elders. Explore sacred rainforest traditions in the heart of Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula, also known as "The Little Amazon by the Ocean," which National Geographic called "the most biologically intense place on Earth." Two sessions this January.  (more)

At Blue Morpho you do a "tour" that may be five ceremonies, or even ten, adequate time, we hoped, for true healing to take place. For if Blue Morpho offers anything, it's real, deep healing through traditional ayahuasca ceremonies. (more)

“Had you told me a few years ago that I’d be here in Austin tonight talking with all of you about Jesus, aliens, and ayahuasca, I would have laughed my ass off.  As a cynical secular materialist, I scoffed at anything mystical.  I thought only direct political action made any real change in the world.  As you may have guessed, that perspective has been turned on its head.”  (more)

Starting on October 9th, join host Jeremy Narby and his all-star guest line-up for part 2 of the pathbreaking Intensives course that explores the mysteries of ayahuasca in a series of live, interactive video webinars.  (more)

Throughout Christianity's history, visionaries have pursued direct communion with Spirit rather than blind obedience to dogma. Even visionary heretical sects evolve to embody the same qualities of dogmatic control that they originally rebelled against. The impulse to seek direct communion with God spurred me to be a heretic against my family and Church. (more)

Ron Wheelock trained for many years with indigenous curanderos in Peru. In many ways he epitomises the new breed of Western shamans following indigenous wisdom. Here Ron discusses how he got involved with ayahuasca and was called on the path of shamanism, his experiences with DMT and the spirit world, and treating Western ayahuasca seekers. (more)

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[The Ayahuasca Monologues]• I had always wanted to believe there was more to life than I experienced in my daily reality. I had heard friends talk of energy and spirits, but I thought it was hippie bullshit. Even so, something compelled me to investigate.  (more)

In 2010 I suffered from two intense 3-day fevers. One came at the Summer Solstice eclipse, during the time of the Cardinal Grand Cross, and the other just this past week at the Winter Solstice eclipse. Looking back at these events and their painful but ultimately beautiful effect on my life and the lives of my clients, friends and family, I feel well prepared for the Astrology of 2011. (more)

In my eyes, Rolf came to represent a now rarely practiced, but time-honored approach to healing: that of the vision quest, where the "goal is to get back inside nature to hear her original medical voice." (more)

In the words of Dennis McKenna, Peter Gorman has "been way, way beyond the chrysanthemum on many a dark jungle night." Gorman's long awaited book Ayahuasca in My Blood: 25 Years of Medicine Dreaming tells the story of his long, deep relationship with ayahuasca. This book review, and an interview with the author, sets up camp to explore the edges of an astonishing journey. (more)

[The Ayahuasca Monologues] • I started running down this hill, full speed ahead. Actually, I wasn't running; my legs were doing their own thing. I was having an uncontrollable, semi-out-of-body experience while awake and alive. (more)