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Mambe and Ambil: The Green Word of the Forest
Mambe is another sacred medicine of the Amazon, and like Hapé, it should not be approached casually. It is not a party substance, not a novelty, and not something to be pulled from its cultural roots and used without reverence.…
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From Corporate Burnout to Ayahuasca Magic with Kayla Ewing
What happens when you spend a decade burning the candle at both ends in the corporate world, only for your body to finally scream “stop”? In this episode of Cura Medicina, Derek sits down with holistic health practitioner Kayla Ewing…
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Curandera
Travel into the jungle with us near Pucallpa, Peru, to meet Tatiana’s Ashaninka teacher, Juan Flores. Experience the magical boiling river of the Amazon, the largest boiling river on the planet, where Tatiana’s journey of self-discovery, spiritual awakening, and healing…
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Goddess Traditions and the Cosmology of the Amazon
Lately, I’ve been living in a kind of luminous overlap. On one side, I’ve been studying the Goddess traditions—through Josh’s work at The Emerald—where animism isn’t a concept, it’s a way of walking. Respect for land. Respect for ritual. Respect…
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From Skeptic to Seer: How Plant Medicine Opened Me to the Spirit World
Five years ago, if you had told me spirits were real, I would have laughed. Today, my ancestors visit me often. I spent most of my life trapped in the scientific worldview that we are material beings and that we…
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Embracing Change: From Pain to Purpose
I did all the things that were expected of me while growing up—mostly. I ended up with my father’s parents at the age of five and spent the next few decades doing what young men typically do in American culture.
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Noya Rao Diet: Experience Plant Spirit Communion
I hosted this beautiful tree in a month-long Noya Rao plant diet. A plant diet is a commitment to ingesting a plant or tree for a period of time to get to know the spirit of our plant friends. These…
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What is Unconditional Love?
These two words are an oxymoron—love has no condition, and thus the question is: what is love? If love is a spirit, what qualities are imbued in love or requested by love? Love is a recognition that I am not…
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How Long Does Ayahuasca Last? (And Why You Might Still Be Hugging a Tree Days Later)
So you've heard the whispers in the jungle, or maybe just read a Reddit thread at 2am, and you're wondering: How long does ayahuasca last? Buckle up, cosmic cowboy, and let's answer that call from the jungle.
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Psychedelics Are Not Enough
I had just had my mind blown after two nights of ayahuasca. It wasn’t my first dance with this medicine, but it might as well have been because I had taken a twelve-year break from working with this powerful plant…
