“I am so stressed; I am unable to relax,” my wife said to me when I came home after my trip to Britannia. “OK, let’s go for a walk in the park,” I responded. “As you walk look around for some twigs, leaves, and perhaps a small stone. We will gather these in […]
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Dawn: “I felt my legs and my feet and I could feel that they were rough, like the bark of a tree or a vine (banisteriopsis Caapi?).” Me: I was amazed. “It is as though you connected on some kind of physical level with the vine. ‘She’ became you and you ‘her’. You were
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In the Village of Tamshiyacu, on the way to the shaman house we ran into 3 of the group i met at the jungle lodge. They were from Australia (they had paid $3000 each to fly to Peru) and had been at Shaman Luis retreat for several days. As well, there was a French man
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Thank you so much, Feliz. Thank you for your braveness to take the responsibility and provide shamanic healing. Everything was so perfect and well done. I never had have participated in such an event, but I felt so safe and in good hand, I felt that I’m in surrounding of friends and very competent leader.
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I yet have words to express my journey. I do however want to wish my deepest gratitude to Feliz and Aleyona and all that participated with me. I felt and still feel connected, trusted, uninhibited, loved. Each beat of the drum, each sound of the flute, each shake of the bells and moroccon and each
From Wikipedia . . . “Set and Setting describes the context for psychoactive and particularly psychedelic experiences: one’s mindset (shortened to ‘set’) and the physical and social environment (the setting) in which the user has the experience. This is especially relevant for psychedelic experiences in either a therapeutic or recreational context. The term was coined by
“ur…. ur… I am … I am … it’s amazing… Gack… hurl… blarg(h)…” “ROLL DOWN THE WINDOW!!” retch… blarg(h)… sploosh …. “Oh man! ROLL DOWN THE WINDOWS!!” blarg(h)… sploosh… retch… hurlllll… bleagh “Oh man!” We had made it to Delta; it was just after 2am on Saturday morning and by all accounts we were 5
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AKA ‘How to Prepare for Ceremony’ Please let me begin by saying that Ayahuasca is not a panacea. It is not a cure or even a silver bullet for anything that ails you. Such a wonder drug does not exist. Ayahuasca is simply one step on a path of physical, psychological, emotional. and spiritual
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Forward by Feliz – This description of ‘A Ceremony in Washington’ is an example of how NOT to facilitate a traditional plant medicine meditation ceremony. Of all the ceremonies I have attended this was, by far, the most disrespectful to the gentle and well meaning spirits who attended. You will see that holding such
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Taking any Psychedelic Medicine comes with significant unique risks. The Psychedelic experience places the participant in a very vulnerable state of mind, which is completely open to suggestion. Set and Setting The term referred to most often when discussing safety in psychedelics is ‘Set and Setting’; originally coined by Al Hubbard in the ’50s.
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