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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…
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Dying is Absolutely Safe – Awareness Beyond Death
I had a friend who recently lost his father, and he said this article helped him process his father’s death. In this article, Ram Dass writes about how his attitude towards death has changed with his spiritual growth and that…
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Meditation, Medicine, and Mysticism: My Journey Toward Liberation
I want to be free. As my journey deepens along the spiritual path, I continue to get pulled toward practices that explore drawing the heart into the mind. I study teachings and practice techniques that cultivate meditative peace and harmony,…
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Amazon Ayahuasca Retreat – Study with the Brazilian Tribes
Would you like to go on an ayahuasca retreat in the Amazon? Deep within the heart of the Amazon rainforest, ancient cultures have thrived for centuries, living in harmony with their lush surroundings. Among their most remarkable traditions is the…
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What is Hapé Medicine (aka Rapé)- Sacred Snuff Tobacco Plant of the Amazon
What is Hapé? Hapé (pronounced ha-pe), also known as hapeh or rapé, is a sacred tobacco plant used by indigenous healers in the Amazon rainforest for thousands of years—also known as hape medicine.
