In some of my experiences with Ayahuasca, I’ve discovered that this is, for me, one of the most beautiful and re-weaving aspects of it. It’s that once the physical healing is done and the emotional components are sorted, there’s a very tangible sort of astral melting into this field of being, which is the closest thing I can call it, it’s the web of life.

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There have been pogroms and wars on medicine people across the planet, on witches in the West, on people who healed with herbs and things like that – and they’re still continuing today.

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I went in as a journalist. I was in the Amazon and I was exploring ayahuasca culture. But what I also found was some Western gringos and many, many Westerners partaking of these plant sacraments.

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You look at the mysteries of Elysius and the Greeks and the “Soma” and things like that. And they’ve had to parallel to not upset the apple cart and to not challenge, you know, the dominator culture and the empires of the day and the power structures.

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None of the indigenous medicine people around the world call themselves “shamans” as the Westerners do, because Westerners have had a void or a disconnect from the mythic archetype of the medicine person and the healer has been reduced to doctor in some levels. We split it up just like we have this distance between the mind-body-spirit or this denial of spirit in essence itself, this dichotomy that’s developed in the West over the last few hundred years.

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So we’re shielding ourselves from nature and what nature really is, which is, you know, this alive and intelligent macro creature, this organism. And nature extends into the web of life and beyond the planetary envelope.

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