Tagged with plant medicine

I recently corresponded with Robert Tindall, now located in the cacophonous mestizo wilds of the Peruvian Amazon, about his new book, The Shamanic Odyssey: Homer, Tolkien, and the Visionary Experience.  (more)

The Secoya elders, plant masters from the Upper Napo Region of the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest, will be present at Guaria de Osa Ecolodge, gathering in Council and offering teachings this Winter (Dec 2012 - Jan 2013) to facilitate boundless healing, personal transformation and renewal. (more)

The market for medicinal cannabis was estimated to be $1.7 billion in 2011. Like health food and hip-hop, cannabis was going corporate. As a wave of newbies began to challenge the old guard, movement veterans recalled the days before Proposition 215. "A lot of people want to cash in but they don't have an appreciation of what it took to get here. They don't know the history." (more)

Last week while working on my new book in Costa Rica I was creatively awakened by a 7.6 level earthquake and several days of significant aftershocks. The awesome quake spoke a language of its own, not unlike that of plant medicine. (more)

Approximately 7,500 years ago agricultural communities began to develop along the Danube basin. Within two centuries they had spread from Belgium to Ukraine. Unlike their hunter-gatherer ancestors, they planted crops, using seeds from the Near East. Amid all those eastern plants was one that came from the southwest -- Papaver somniferum. (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)

[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)