PlantShaman's Enlightenment Blog

So, we had climbed Fire Mountain, and I finally found the bottom; after loads of drama. And one amazing hug. I waited at the end of the trail for the others to find their way, watching the darkness settled in. I started to worry about my crew; what if they were meeting the same panicked [...]

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My first Huachuma ceremony took place in January, after my second Ayahuasca cycle. I had already experienced 5 doses of Ayahuasca on that trip, and spent a few extra days to sample this companion medicine I had heard so much about. The experience administered in the jungle is called The Serpent Mesa, because the spirit [...]

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Hi all – sorry for the recent absence. Life gets in the way of blogging sometimes – how rude. Where Ayahuasca is internal, feminine, healing, somewhat fragile and based in the jungle (the lower world), Huachuma is external, profoundly powerful, wisdom-filled, masculine and based in the middle world (it grows in higher elevations in the [...]

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This is the last installment for the most recent Amazon trip. The last play by play, but certainly not the last revelation. I have taken my second cup of Huachuma, along with just a few other seekers, and I am not *in* the world anymore, I am the world. I look at my hands and [...]

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So this breathing thing – it tastes like honey. I am alive and that’s the focus. I feel electrified and driven, but still walled up inside, guarded by demons in case the phone rings and death answers again. I haven’t yet let myself miss daddy, but I did get lost in the Hollywood Hills this [...]

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