"We recently received an article entitled 'Why we inevitably all become Ralph!' from our friend Piers. The title of this article is deceiving which seems to be the very point he was making in writing the article. And certainly was not encouraged by Ralph himself who has said to me so many times over the years 'This work with ayahuasca is not about you, or me or any of us.'

This article describes a realization that we are ultimately responsible for every choice we make and it is our choice alone to encounter this sacred medicine. No matter what we do, or what we think we know, we are not prepared for this experience. Even if you have drank ayahuasca before you still remain unprepared. Ralph is pretty good at getting that message across with humor."

-Peter

The path to enlightenment is a path to be walked alone. This may seem something we would not choose, as we are all addicted to the comfort zone of our companions. If we are to take the essential lesson of self-responsibility we will see that we are only able to walk through the door alone. Our companions may well be either side of the threshold, either beckoning for us to walk through, or encouraging us to make the journey. But the walk is one we must do alone. I point out at this moment that I believe that alone is missing a letter. The word should actually denote All-one.

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New Live Lecture by Ralph Miller!

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Recorded live on March 16th, 2008 during our workshops in Brazil, listen to Ralph Miller lecture about the intelligence of nature and the origins of language.

"Ayahuasca activates the language centers in human consciousness. There is an ancient mystical Greek philosophy called the Logos. The Logos was 'the word'. Through the Logos, all things that came into being were made. The Greek mystics felt that there was a language that existed beyond three dimensional, temporal human language. That it would be a four or five dimensional language that can call into existence all that is."

"It is important to have an awareness that this is a sentient intelligence. It is the port that human beings can plug into to interface with the intelligence of nature."

"It's quite likely that in the early stages into our lives we were existing in a state where our brains and our neurochemistry were bathed in these transcendent molecules. I am fascinated with some of the writing and studies that a Swiss psychologist names Jean Piaget did on infant brain development. Just after childbirth, everything that is happening for the baby is experienced as its world and it has not made a differentiation between itself and something other than itself."

"Aluna is another world that is a part of our world that we don't have a perspective with. It exists outside of temporal time and the reality that we experience. Events that are happening in the past, events that are happening now and events that are in the future are all existing simultaneously."

We wanted to let everyone know that we have just announced the new May/June 2008 dates for our Brazil Ayahuasca Workshops!

For this trip there will be these two dates only. Here are the dates:

Find out more about our Brazil Ayahuasca Workshops.

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Welcome back!

In this podcast, we invite you to listen to a variety show with segments from various lectures from our March 2007 Brazil Ayahuasca Workshops.

Lectures by Shaman Warinei Wanare (translated by his assistant Sara Ñusta), Ralph Miller and Peter Richardson, with music by Chapman.

The final ten minutes of the podcast consists of a testimonial by Professor Bill Blake who was with us for several weeks in March of this year. Bill does a great job of relating his thoughts and feelings after an intensive Heart of the Initiate workshop experience.

The podcast closes with a few final words from Ralph.

Please have a look at our most recent changes, articles and upcoming events.

New Articles

Emanant Ego Collapse by Ralph Miller (September 22nd, 2007)

When we experience a big loss of control it makes us feel insecure and vulnerable. There is a letdown and perhaps we experience ourselves as being a little more genuinely human. Our collective ideas about ourselves form an assembly of self-importance or ego. This letdown is the collapse of those ideas. We are humbled.

The 2012 Problem by Ralph Miller (September 11th, 2006)

We live according to the structures of time, but we really have little understanding of what it actually is. There is a forgotten inner landscape wherein we can perceive our connection to everything. That reconnection will bring an end to time as we have known, and will forever change who we are as human beings.

The Natural World by Ralph Miller (May 6th, 2006)

We are taught in school that human beings are the superior species in nature. The idea that we are superior is only an assumption that lies within our collective forgetfulness. In order to truly "remember who we are", we must also come into harmony and balance with the world we live in.

New Media & Press

Peter on News for the Soul

Join us to hear more about our workshops, how we came to take people from all over the world to this sacred medicine, and ideas about how this medicine helps people to understand who they really are. They key question in approaching this sacred work is "why"?

Ayahuasca: Nature's Teacher article by Ralph Miller published in this month's edition of Four Corners Magazine (August 1st, 2006)

Many people hope that humanity is at the very doorstep of an extraordinary shift. This 'shift' is really about the return of the feminine and healing is coming to humanity from nature; from mother-earth; from Gaia. Nature is working towards healing herself. Ayahuasca is nature's teacher.

Heart of the Initiate eBrochure

Download and read our eBrochure to learn more about these experiential workshops. Please feel free to send these by email to your friends, family and anyone who may be interested.

New Audio

Logos: The Living WordNew Live Lecture by Ralph Miller!

Recorded live on March 16th, 2008 during our workshops in Brazil, listen to Ralph Miller lecture about the intelligence of nature and the origins of language.

"Ayahuasca activates the language centers in human consciousness. There is an ancient mystical Greek philosophy called the Logos. The Logos was 'the word'. Through the Logos, all things that came into being were made. The Greek mystics felt that there was a language that existed beyond three dimensional, temporal human language. That it would be a four or five dimensional language that can call into existence all that is."

DestinyNew Live Lecture by Ralph Miller!

Recorded live on September 2nd, 2007 during our workshops in Brazil, listen to a lecture by Ralph Miller about approaching our own individual Destiny.

Each of us look at the circumstances that brought us here and the desire to approach our own individual destiny. We agree to put one foot in front of the other towards something that we are completely ill prepared for. Our destiny is unavoidable. Our egos take great comfort in the belief that we have choice in the decisions that we make. But free will is ultimately not reconcilable with Destiny. Destiny is a place and a point where you will be without option. It is because of your own design and your own desire that you create your Destiny.

Heart of the Initiate Podcast - Episode 2 Episode 2 of our Online Radio Show

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In this podcast, we invite you to listen to a variety show with snippets from various lectures from our March 2007 Brazil Ayahuasca Workshops.

New Video

6 New Videos from the Web! We have added a selection of videos from the web which we think are interesting and appropriate for the site.

Here is a list of what has been added:

• Terence McKenna: Culture is not Your Friend
• Stanislav Grof on Holotropic Breathing
• Terence McKenna on the Purpose of Psychedelics
• David Bohm on Fragmentation Theory
• Alex Grey on His Work
• Terence McKenna: Reclaim Your Mind

A Closer Look

We invite you to have 'A Closer Look' at the Heart of the Initiate ayahuasca workshops in Brazil. We'll take you on an experiential journey with the sacred plants to have a deeper understanding of who you really are. In the stunning natural beauty of our location, we'll explore the vast inner worlds of this visionary medicine.

Consciousness and the Spirits of Nature

Week-long Ayahuasca Workshops in Brazil
May/June 2008

For thousands of years the shamans of the Amazonian rainforest have used a sacred plant brew, known as ayahuasca or yahé, for healing and spiritual awakening. This ancient medicine, also known as "el remedio" or "the medicine", is a very powerful visionary tool to awaken the inner sight.

We offer one and two week workshops in an extraordinarily beautiful setting along the coast of Bahia, located approximately 700 miles north of Rio de Janeiro. We will spend the week exploring and opening the subtle doorway through the heart energy and into the inner trans-dimentional worlds long forgotten by mankind. This is the path back to remembering your true divinity and awakening of the true self. As we work through our old, limiting patterns, we begin to heal and reclaim our lost power.

Update! Learn about the integrative healing of superfoods, bodywork and natural environment that we have incorporated into our workshops. Read more...

Mayan Mystique: Exploring the Heart of the Ancient Maya

Sacred Sites Workshop in Chiapas, Mexico
Coming Soon 2008

Throughout the world exists the remnants of ancient civilizations long forgotten in our modern lives. These Sacred Sites are doorways to a spiritual wisdom that these people possessed and held open for us to discover. The walls between our world and their world are thin in these locations, allowing us to walk between them and thus remember these sacred ways.

We invite you to turn back time 1500 years into Mexico's ancient past. Long before the first European set foot on this land were the indigenous cultures of the Mayan civilizations throughout the Yucatan peninsula. There existed civilizations of hundreds of thousands with entire cities lost in the rainforest until unearthed this last century. These people were masters of astronomy and cycles of the natural world, sacred geometry and had a metaphysical awareness far beyond even today's greatest understanding. Read more...

Upcoming Workshops

Egypt Winter 2008

Take a metaphysical tour of the ancient lands of Egypt. Enter the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid and see what mysteries this hidden doorway holds.

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