Ayahuasca as Antidote

Ayahuasca is a powerful tool for transformation. As with most adventures on this planet, the ayahuasca experience comes with risks and opportunities.

Female Shamans of Ancient Europe

The prehistoric foundations of our species’ shamanic activity is filled with evidence that women have been important and active participants in those practices.

The All-Star Shaman Ayahuasca Massacree

I am in the psychedelic dark land, deep grave of dreams and memories, embodied in exquisite discomfort, ragged and hyper-amplified.

The Many Lives of Mongolian Shamanism

For thousands of years, Mongolia has been a nexus of Eurasian shamanisms that competed, mixed, and meshed across our planet’s largest continent.

20 Safety Suggestions for Participating in Ceremonies That Use Psychoactive Substances

Once-secretive rituals involving Ayahuasca have recently become more accessible. While these experiences can offer profound spiritual revelations, members of our community have become increasingly concerned about reports of ceremonial leaders sexually assaulting female participants.

Shamanic Initiations: Stepping Into My Power

In traditional shamanic societies, healers undergo a rite of passage. Some shamans may experience direct initiation by spirit in forms of intense messages and visions in dreamtime. In 1998, I had a vision that prompted Don José Joaquin Pineda to ask me to become his apprentice.

Magic and Shamanism: The Proto Religion

Much of what we know about the right hand path in New Age circles also stems from our unrequited love of non-dualism, itself a powerful connecting philosophy to magical practice.

The Genius in the Bottle: Bioregional Animism and the Viridis Genii

The plant magician seeks congress with a living embodied spirit of a green feral kind, with an intelligence that brings the gifts of healing, divination, wisdom and growth, as well as darker needs and power.

Shamanic Healing for Body, Mind, and Soul

In shamanic healing work there’s a difference between what you truly need versus what you think you need or want. Surrender to your helping spirits; let them assist you in the way that is best for your healing process.

Plant Remedy for The Soul – Plant Dieting and Communion

Find healing with any plant! This article explores how to adopt the Amazonian practice of dieta and vegitalismo, a plant remedy for the soul.