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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Note to Reader – I did not write the following document. It is not clear who did; however, it does touch on so very many important aspects of Plant Medicine that I was compelled to include it in our blog. Love, Feliz Copyright © 2011 by Anonymous The rights of translation to other languages
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“Tibetan Singing Bowl, Bell, Gong – Music For Meditation & Concentration – Showers Of Silence” Thus far I have presented the Mantra and the Icaro, as used in meditation ceremonies. In this post I introduce the use of healing sounds which are typically generated using ‘singing bowls’, chimes, and bells; although, other devices are
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Shaman Luis Panduro Vasquez of Tamshyacu, situated on the great Amazon river. The singing of Icaros is indigenous to the cultures living in and around the Amazon basin, Peru. The Shipibo are an ancient people who have used plant medicine for 100s (perhaps 1000s) of years. They say that the plants teach them the songs. Icaros,
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