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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.

Here are some quotes from this episode, and a photo from the eco-lodge resort where our Brazil Ayahuasca workshops take place:

"We can see that we are destroying life on the earth. We have to create more life and acts of life for our children and their children. This is one of the purposes we have when drinking this plant: to know in which moment of our lives we find ourselves, and what we can do to improve it."

- Warinei Wanare

"The master lesson of nature, the master lesson on your life is about letting go. 'Letting go' as far as I have been able to determine it is exactly equivalent to another phrase: 'Waking up'."

- Ralph Miller

"Maybe its not about getting something from the plant. Maybe it is about approaching the plant with how can I help, what can I do? There is a sort of flip that occurs when you have that realization because maybe the plant wants you to do something that you don't necessarily want to do or like to do or feel comfortable doing. But you do it anyway."

- Peter Richardson

"I love Heart of the Initiate's experiential program. It is marvelous! I have never seen anything quite so well-orchestrated to get the maximum effect from Ayahuasca."

- Bill Blake