PlantShaman's Enlightenment Blog

Sitting at the blackjack tables at Treasure Island with two of my very favorite peeps last night, a chill went through my body and a text message landed shortly thereafter. We had lost a friend. He died on Thursday night. My beautiful, vulnerable, always heart-centered angel-friend. We had an eleven year run, harking all the [...]

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We have this saying when someone dies – it happens in threes. Bundled tragedies. Endings, stacked end to end, so similar it’s – poetic. Like all good cliches, this idea came to be because it is, in fact, a little too true. We’re in the middle of a trio of tormented, drug-addicted, famous young + [...]

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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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