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In this podcast, we invite you to listen to a variety show with segments from various lectures from our March 2007 Brazil Ayahuasca Workshops. (read more)
Alex Grey, visionary artist, talks about an ayahuasca experience he had in Brazil. He shares the dichotomy of touching his own true Buddha nature and confronting his own shortcomings as a human being. His style is very personable, down to earth, and he invites the viewer to simply accept all aspects of who they are.
"I think ayahuasca can show us how beautiful we are inside; and what kinds of possibilities we have for love and for actions of kindness. What better way to root ourselves back into the web of nature and a compassion for this web of life, than through the plants themselves. The plants are talking to us; we need to listen." - Alex Grey
Drinking ayahuasca medicine is an encounter with the deepest sacredness that exists within each of us. One of the master lessons of the plant is to let go and allow the plant to enter into us. We embrace this intelligence of nature and allow it to help us to heal our humanity, reconnecting back to the primal force in all things.
This music video by Alex Grey and Eamon Barling graphically demonstrates the rewiring and reconnecting process of the human soul back to the universal web of nature, where all things are connected as one.
Watch this engaging interview with Graham Hancock speak on the mystery of human origins, sacred plants, and the shamanic realms beyond this world.
"The original inspiration [to drink ayahuasca] in my case was an intention to explore the mystery of human origins. As I started to investigate this material I found that most of the story is incredibly dull. Our early ancestors behaved for millions and millions of years in an incredibly dull and uninteresting manner with no creativity, no symbolism, no evidence whatsoever of a spiritual life.
The brain was there but it wasn't being used. Something happened that led to it being used. I believe that the evidence is compelling that our ancestors discovered altered states of consciousness. They may have come across hallucinogenic plants by chance; they may have thought they were food items. Then when they consumed them it brought about a radical transformation in the way that they looked at the world. It changed everything about being human." - Graham Hancock
With stunning photos and stories, National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world's indigenous cultures, which are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate. Wade Davis has been described as "a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet, and passionate defender of all of life's diversity." His talk covers a wide range of indigenous cultures from the Kogi indians of northern Colombia to the ayahuasca traditions of the Cofan in Amazonia.
"Together the myriad cultures of the world make up a web of spiritual life, and cultural life, that envelopes the planet. It is as important to the wellbeing of the planet as is indeed the biological web of life. This cultural web of life is the ethnosphere, the sum total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations and intuitions brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness. The ethnosphere is humanity's great legacy." - Wade Davis
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.
Watch this selection of videos from the web! We think are engaging, interesting and help to share more about the ayahuasca experience.
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."
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.
lecture by Warinei Wanare in Brazil on April 2nd, 2007
Recorded live from our last workshop in Brazil, listen to a lecture by Shaman Warinei Wanare about being grateful from our hearts. In this talk, Warinei reminds us that when we point our finger at others, three of our fingers are pointing at ourselves.
Always be grateful from you heart. It is one thing to be grateful from words, but it is another thing to be grateful from our hearts. To be grateful from our hearts we have to have a clean heart. We have to review our mistakes to remove them so the ancestral word can be born from this space, the world that comes from the origin.
"We are all here in a desire to explore a shamanic path, an experience with shamanism. By shamanism, specifically in a shamanic ceremony, we will be ingesting a shamanic plant medicine that has been used for thousands of years in indigenous cultures to bring us to a place of consciousness beyond what our normal daily awake experience is...."
"In a way that defies cause and effect, there is an intelligence in this plant that on some level, while we think we are deciding to come and drink the plant, on another level the plant is choosing us to come here so that she can drink of us. This has to do with the idea of a plant-human intervention..."
"Everything is a shamanic act. The plants, like the elders say, are the key that allow us to know ourselves a little more. When we are taking this plant into ourselves we are opening this key so we can have access to other dimensions to learn how to act in this one, and to act in this reality to put into practice what we have learned from these plants. It doesn't make any sense to go and visit other realities if we don't put into practice in this dimension what we have learned..."
(Recorded live from our March 2007 workshops in Brazil)
Pulling Back the Curtain
Lecture by Ralph Miller (June 23rd, 2006)
Recorded live from our June 2006 workshops in Brazil, listen to Ralph Miller talk about the movement of westerners seeking alternatives to today's ego based society in the ancient wisdom of the plants.
"The absolutely astounding thing of the ayahuasca medicine is that it presents to you a brand new perception."
Implanted
Lecture by Ralph Miller (February 11th, 2006)
The only thing that the plants would want us to do is just to stop and listen. To actually show up for our lives. Your life changes after experiencing these sacred plants because you have turned on a brain function, you've turned on a perception that you didn't have before. There is a biological switch that is flipped.
Recorded live from our September 2005 workshops in Brazil, listen to Ralph Miller talk about how the ayahuasca medicine connects us back to nature and back to ourselves.
Ayahuasca Music recorded live during our workshops
We would like to share with you some music from our good friend and shaman Warinei Wanare. Over the course of this last year he has spent a great deal of time with his own mentors of the Sikuani tribe in the eastern Orinoquia region of Colombia. This region is legendary for its wealth of healing and psychoactive plant medicines. There are more sacred plants here than anywhere else in the world.
The Sikuani have ancient healing traditions that use sacred words or prayers. During the ayahuasca ceremony these prayers are sung over the people and invoke healing. The language is sacred and comes from a place in the spiritual worlds. Warinei continues to bring forth their knowledge and healing traditions to share with people from all over the world.
Listen to Warinei's music recently recorded during the ayahuasca ceremonies this past September. Many of you have asked for longer versions so we have posted about 60 minutes of music.
Recorded live from our June 2006 workshops in Brazil.
Part of the magic and mystery of the ayahuasca ceremony is in the music that is played during the journey with the plants. It is the shaman's tool for moving energy and directing the experience. Music becomes the conduit or vehicle for the healing energies that are called into the ceremonial space. It is through the music that a bridge is built between two worlds.
As the night progresses the shaman plays his music to guide the experience. With the intensity of the drum he can raise the energy and open the visionary space. Or soften it with his harmonica, creating stillness and serenity.
Listening to music carries an emotional memory which we immediately connect with. When you listen to the music from the ayahuasca ceremony, a part of you connects with that healing experience and draws you closer to the plants.
We invite you to be a part of this and hope you enjoy the shaman's visionary music:
* The waira sacha is a leaf fan used for clearing energy and keeping rhythm during song. The name means 'brush of the wind' in the Quichua language.
Music of the Plants
Music by Warinei Wanare (March 20th, 2006)
Recorded live from our March 2006 workshops in Brazil.
It is said that the shaman sings the sickness away. The shaman's world is a world of subtle communication with the natural forces that operate behind our physical world. When we listen to the shaman's song we remember a time when we too knew how to access these forces within ourselves.
When the ayahuasca plants are cooked they are made into a medicine; a medicine for the soul. This medicine is cooked for several days with great attention, dedication and love, all the while the shaman sings his songs into the medicine. The songs, shaman and medicine carry the same energy.
When you partake in an ayahuasca ceremony you drink this plant into your body and your energy merges with it. When you listen to the shaman's song, you feel the singing come from within. You feel the full power of the medicine move through your own body as it carries the sickness away, creating space for healing.
"The origin of the sacred plant of ayahuasca: A song which carries the story from when absolutely nothing existed. With the energy of the great grandmother cosmos "Yewa Velo" the great maloca of quartz - the ancestral universe, the cosmos, the earth - was formed.
The great ancestral shaman, made of smoke of tobacco, in his encounter with the ancestral shaman of quartz, made the sacred ayahuasca plant, the umbilical cord of the cosmos, come from the earth.
This is the first song, the song of consecration of this plant. It is the song of the ancestral ayahuasca."
Step into a tradition where the shaman will lead you to his world of the supernatural. Initiated by the legendary Kogi Indians of Northern Colombia, Kajuyali Tsamani will host an interactive ayahuasca experience with drumming, singing, dancing and movement. Watch and listen to Kajuyali's ceremony and music:
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We would like to share with you some music from our good friend and shaman Warinei Wanare. Over the course of this last year he has spent a great deal of time with his own mentors of the Sikuani tribe in the eastern Orinoquia region of Colombia. This region is legendary for its wealth of healing and psychoactive plant medicines. There are more sacred plants here than anywhere else in the world.
