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Exploring the experiential realms of the medicine and working with it in life-positive ways

Soul, Spirit and Right Relationship: A Conversation with Steve Beyer
Posted by Morgan Maher • Category: Spirit & Healing

Morgan Maher
Steve Beyer’s Singing to the Plants, writes Morgan Maher, is “a wild ride out and across the jungles of mestizo shamanism. The book, and its wonderful cast of characters, curanderos, animals, plants, spirits and stories presents honest, accurate, respectful, levelheaded and, at times, outrageously marvelous descriptions of the environments and climates of mestizo shamanism in the Upper Amazon.” Morgan interviews the author.

Tags: amazon, Ayahuasca, cultural appropriation, dieta, Healing, history, mestizo, scholar readings, Shamanism
Kambô, The Spirit of the Shaman
Posted by admin • Category: Primordial Culture, Spirit & Healing

Marcelo Bolshaw Gomes
“Kambô circulates in the heart. Our shaman said that when we take Kambô it makes the heart move accurately, so that things flow, bringing good things to the person. It is as if there was a cloud on the person, preventing the good things to come, then, when it takes the Kambô; it comes a ‘green light’ which opens its ways, making things easier.”

Tags: frog, kambo, venom
Ayahuasca and Mental Health Among the Shuar
Posted by Steve Beyer • Category: Science, Spirit & Healing

Steve Beyer
We have talked before about the Grob, McKenna, Callaway, et al., psychiatric study on the long-term effects of drinking ayahuasca in the ceremonies of the União do Vegetal church. I noted that the study had not clearly disentangled any bias that might have resulted from the fact that the ayahuasca drinkers — but not controls — had been preselected for their orderly churchgoing habits. Here is a study that may shed some light on that question.

Tags: health, mental health, sanity
Our Story as Gaia
Posted by admin • Category: Mythos

Lunaya Shekinah
Taking this opportunity to think about the more-than-human world from a more-than-human perspective : if you are open to a little ego dissolution this will lead you through a shamanistic visualization sequence. The intention is to prime our creative imaginations, and explore a path of evolutionary remembering, mourning, honoring the extinct and taking responsibility as steward-healers of the biosphere.

Tags: deep ecology, gaia, meditation
Ayahuasca and Kabbalah
Posted by admin • Category: Spirit & Healing

Jay Michaelson
The ayahuasca trip is not especially unitive: indeed, one of its hallmarks is the sense of communication with other life forms or consciousnesses. And while a sense of “all is One” is sometimes reported in the midst of the ayahuasca experience, it’s more common to read reports of visions of phenomena – manifestation, not essence.
Ayahuasca, Neurogenesis and Depression
Posted by Daniel Mirante • Category: Neurosciences, Spirit & Healing

Daniel Mirante
A hypothesis suggesting Ayahuasca may be growing healthier brains…

Tags: brain, depression, Healing, neurogenesis
Hyperdimensional Consciousness
Posted by Daniel Mirante • Category: Experiences

A true light pierces the encrustations around the heart and this is the beginning of a turing, a deep reorientation, from someone who looks at the past and regrets, to a reborn one who faces the future and the light.
Spirit Vine
Posted by Daniel Mirante • Category: Mythos

By Daniel Mirante
A personal overview of Ayahuasca covering some indigenous traditions and phenomenological aspects.
Plants and Spirits
Posted by Steve Beyer • Category: Primordial Culture, Spirit & Healing

By Steve Beyer
The plants, in addition to being real medicines, contain madres or genios, the beings who teach. A cure is not caused by the ingestion or topical application of an herbal medicine; rather it results from the benevolent intervention of the mother through the intermediation of the plant. Amazonian shamans sing to the plants, charge them, cure them, call the spirits that invest themselves in the healing process.
Shamanism primer, from my experience
Posted by admin • Category: Primordial Culture, Spirit & Healing

By Peter Gorman
Among the flora of the world as we know it, several plants are not just allies, they are considered Master Plant Teachers. You might extend that to read: Master Plant Teachers of Man. These plants might be considered gate keepers. These plants are the plants that allow us, we humans, to slow down enough to communicate with the mountains; to speed up enough to communicate with a hummingbird, to visit the other realms past and present and simultaneous that are here but that we don’t ordinarily see or hear within the band widths of our senses.

Tags: dieta, plant teachers, Shamanism
What is a dieta?
Posted by Ayahuasca dot com • Category: Mythos, Primordial Culture

Morgan Brent
Dieta describes behavioral regimens that allow one to move most safely and effectively into working relationships with such plants. These relationships can bring about profound transformations, and the dietas are designed to best facilitate them.

Tags: diet, dieta, Shamanism
Ayahuasca, Religion and Nature
Posted by admin • Category: Mythos, Overviews, Primordial Culture, Syncretic Movements & Ayahuasca Religions

By Morgan Brent
In ayahuasca, dialogue is deepened to include all manner of elemental, plant, animal, ancestor, and deity. These then appear less as an “other,” and more as participants in the metabolisms of yet larger bodies, such as regional ecosystems, or the earth itself.

Tags: deep ecology, morgan brent, santo daime
What Are Spirits?
Posted by Steve Beyer • Category: Mythos, Primordial Culture

By Steve Beyer
Each species of teaching plant has what mestizo shamans call a madre, mother, or genio, genius, or espíritu, spirit. Informally, we generally translate all these terms simply as the spirit of the plant, as if the meaning of the term “spirit” was perfectly clear. So: what do we know about these spirits?

Tags: Healing, plant, plant teacher, spirits
A New World
Posted by Daniel Mirante • Category: Experiences

I came to one of the dominions of ‘lost angels’ – Los Angeles… my spirit particulated into several eminations and I descended into crack houses, to abide with the poor spirits there, in the sorrow and disorientation. I gave my love within this Hell, and gave thanks to the vine that lets me do this work.
Thoughts and Knowledges About Women in Indian Universe and Life
Posted by Sachahambi • Category: Mythos, Primordial Culture

This story gives a sense of what “Pachamama” means (the feminine universe) and also gives a sense of the Andean conception of gender roles.

Tags: creation myth, indigenous
Ayahuasca and Human Destiny
Posted by Dennis McKenna • Category: Mythos, Overviews

Dennis McKenna
One of the most profound and humbling lessons that ayahuasca teaches – one that we thick-headed humans have the hardest time grasping – is the realization that “you monkeys only think you’re running things.”

Tags: amazon, conservation, deep ecology, McKenna
Mermaids
Posted by Steve Beyer • Category: Mythos, Primordial Culture

Steve Beyer
They travel on boas. Indeed, sometimes they turn into boas; if the woman sleeping next to you turns into a boa during the night, that is a good sign that you have been seduced by a mermaid.

Tags: mermaids, sirens
The Consciousness of the Shaman and the “Miração”
Posted by admin • Category: Spirit & Healing

Within the subtle levels of the astral world, the truthful attracts the truthful. The human being as a manifestation of truth is the raw material of creation. The more we live within the truth, the more we can perceive through the “miração” what we must become, and God uses each one of us as pieces of a divine puzzle. He imbues us with love and gives us partnership in His masterpiece.

Tags: consciousness, miracao, santo daime
Safety for the Solitary Drinker
Posted by admin • Category: Spirit & Healing

Introduction
Since the 1980’s, Ayahuasca has become increasing popular in the west. As its popularity grows, it has come under increasing scrutiny from legal and medical authorities. This thread is intended to give tips and suggestions for a safe experience to people who are new to Ayahuasca and drink alone.
Please note that Ayahuasca mixed with the [...]

Tags: safety, solitary drinker, solo journey
What foods and drugs need to be avoided?
Posted by admin • Category: Overviews, Science, Spirit & Healing

Foods and medications to be avoided with Ayahuasca

Tags: beta-carbolines, diet, food, interactions, MAO, MAOI, medications, tyramine

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Spirit & Healing

Soul, Spirit and Right Relationship: A Conversation with Steve Beyer

Kambô, The Spirit of the Shaman

Ayahuasca and Mental Health Among the Shuar

Our Story as Gaia

Ayahuasca and Kabbalah

Ayahuasca, Neurogenesis and Depression

Hyperdimensional Consciousness

Spirit Vine

Plants and Spirits

Shamanism primer, from my experience

What is a dieta?

Ayahuasca, Religion and Nature

What Are Spirits?

A New World

Thoughts and Knowledges About Women in Indian Universe and Life

Ayahuasca and Human Destiny

Mermaids

The Consciousness of the Shaman and the “Miração”

Safety for the Solitary Drinker

What foods and drugs need to be avoided?

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