Deepening Relationships with Nature and Mother Earth
One of the major lessons from the indigenous worldview is to always be present to how we are in right relationship.
What We PERCEIVE is NOT Always Real. What We THINK is Not Always Real. What We Think WE ARE is Not Always Real
“We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.” Anaïs Nin Most of us understand and are aware that on many levels we do not, as Anaïs Nin suggests, see reality as it is. Our personal perception clouds the way we interpret reality, how we interpret others’...
Ayahuasca and Madness
Sometimes it feels as if we are literally going mad—going crazy, losing all sense of “self” as we know it. Yet sometimes we really do need to come apart before we can come back together again. While there is a context for madness within art—an acceptance that losing...
The “Fetishization” of Ayahuasca Traditions
Over time, there seems to be an ever-increasing popularity in ayahuasca, and as a result an increase in the numbers of people who seem to fetishize ayahuasca culture and ayahuasca ceremonies. By fetishization, I am referring to people posting pictures of themselves...
Working With Our Emotional Bodies and Challenging Emotions
Working with our emotional bodies is an important part of the ayahuasca and other plant medicine healing processes. Where we get stuck is when we suppress our emotions and avoid facing the feelings that are deep within us. And ayahuasca has a way of bringing these emotions to the surface.