Yoga, Ayahuasca, and a Course in Miracles: Notes on the Ongoing Revelation
Yoga helped bring me to ayahuasca, and ayahuasca brought me to A Course in Miracles (ACIM). To me, ACIM is the Master Teacher that has elucidated both yoga and ayahuasca. Ayahuasca takes you down the rabbit hole to give you the experiences towards which the Course is pointing.
Chasing Demons In The Night
As ayahuasca ceremonies go, it is one of the stranger ones, a night of ferocity, shrieking, madness, gallons of water splashed all over the place, exhausted helpers having performed yeoman’s duty, the rest of us relieved when Yuri’s screams have subsided and the storm around him has died down.
Music Is Medicine: Ben Lee, Ayahuasca and the Gnostic Pop Movement
Gnostic-pop musician Ben Lee has found God–or maybe the Goddess–and to the consternation of many cultural guardians, he’s found her at the bottom of a cup of ayahuasca.
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.
Reflections on ESC & the Psychedelic Renaissance
ESC is a nonprofit launched in late 2013 and dedicated to “assuring the sustainability and safe use of traditional plants,” of which ayahuasca has been the clear priority thus far. All in all, ESC seems well-intentioned. So what are 17 experts (now 62) from Canada, Brazil, the UK, Australia, Costa Rica, Mexico, the US, and Colombia up in arms about?
The Spirit of the Stratocaster: Talking Wolves and Ayahuasca with John Sheldon
After ayahuasca taught him to connect with divine energy, guitarist John Sheldon found a scintillating focus for his life’s work, writing songs that tell a new story about wolves in North America—and how we can save them from extinction.
Snake Medicine: How Shamanism Heals
Animistic perspectives, which hold the cosmos as “a being to whom prayers and offerings are made, who is endowed with understanding, agency and sentience, and responds to the actions of humans,” are often dismissed as primitive, yet this account of a healing within the shamanic traditions of the Native American Church and the vegetalistas of the Peruvian Amazon reminds us of how profound healing can be when it arises from indigenous perception of a sentient, living cosmos.
Flashback, Pucallpa 2000: Mystic Terror
I look forward to each of my trips there. I look forward to this specific moment, the greatest adventure I’ve ever been able to experience, and yet, as soon as this adventure happens, fear enters into the dance. Fear mounts from night to night, in step with new invisible encounters. It turns into terror the last few days, and on the last night I end up making my way through it.
A Review of Andrew Dawson’s Santo Daime: A New World Religion
What is it that draws modern middle class individuals to a highly ecstatic and mystic religious culture in light of the increasing presence of scientific rationalism and reductionism? Andrew Dawson’s book has led me closer to finding the answer.
ESC: The Ayahuasca Dialogues
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