A lecture by Ralph Miller from the second week of our March 2007 Ayahuasca workshops in Brazil.

"On some level, many of us may make the choice to come to this plant as a conscious choice that has to do with our own life path, to be awake rather than asleep, to disengage from a repetitious life and come into a fuller expression of who we are. It may be an individual agenda to enhance our own life. There may be others of us who come to a place in our lives where this medicine is a sort of last resort to be of service to ourselves and humans and serve a higher consciousness in the collective.

In the illusionary scheme of things, our decision to come to this plant has much to do with ourselves and little to do with the plant. People think, "I am going to go to Brazil and I am going to take this plant". However, many of you may have also experienced what I am about to say through some sort of strange synchronicities that you may have chalked up to be just "coincidences". But 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..."

A lecture by Shaman Warinei Wanare from our March 2007 Ayahuasca workshops in Brazil.

The only way to learn is to be awake in every moment of your life. In every decision that you make, watch to see if you are actively living in that very moment. This will be your guard from the 'sicknesses' that you face as you walk on the shamanic path.

The lecture mentions these sicknesses, and how to avoid being affected by them.

"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.

The most important this is to have an impeccable attitude. The heart of the human being is so vulnerable that we need these plants to know how to act. They allow us to be awake. If we are really awake, we are experiencing life in every moment. But if we just get lost in the daily life, a lot of problems start and we start to struggle in our outlook on life and the path we are walking."

News for the Soul Live Radio Interview (February 14th, 2007)

Listen to our second live interview with News for the Soul radio. Show host Nicole Whitney speaks with Peter Richardson about the ayahuasca medicine experience but takes us in a different direction from our original interview 4 years ago. When we speak during our Brazil ayahuasca workshops the talks are always dynamic and spontaneous, about connecting with the present moment. So in Nicole's words "let's just talk and see where it goes!"

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 journey is to ask yourself "why"?

News for the Soul radio show is host to the largest free life changing media resource on the world wide web. Hosted by Nichole Whitney, their Vancouver based radio is an internationally syndicated radio and internet broadcasting show.

Peter will be on News for the Soul radio show this Wednesday, February 14th, at 9PM PST and invite you to join us to learn more about the Ayahuasca medicine and it's healing properties. Nicole Whitney will be hosting this show and has put us on the first position so be sure to tune in right at 9pm PST!

When we speak during our Brazil Ayahuasca workshops the talks are always dynamic and spontaneous, about the energy in the moment. So in Nicole's words "let's just talk and see where it goes!"

The show will air by internet radio broadcast and will require you to have Real Player installed on your computer. Be sure to do this before the interview so you don't miss any of it. Visit the News for the Soul website a few minutes before and you will see the live audio button. The show will be archived in our own Audio Library and on their website for anyone who cannot tune in for the live broadcast.

We are excited to offer the first episode of our podcast!

In this podcast, we invite you to listen to a lecture given by Ralph Miller on the sacred plant medicine Ayahuasca. Making the assumption that listeners know nothing about this ancient plant teacher, Ralph talks about what Ayahuasca is and tells the story of how it is moving out of the jungle and into the Western consciousness, helping humans create a bridge back to our ancient past, a reconnection to the sacred primal force within us all. In the process, he explains the distinction between what we call "drugs" and the Ayahuasca plant medicine. Ralph also touches on some of the biological and chemical aspects of our brain's inherent connection with the active ingredient in the Ayahuascsa brew, dimethytriptamine (DMT), through our pineal gland.

Throughout the podcast, Peter and Chapman pause the lecture to clarify some questions that might come up for the listeners.

We are very happy to offer this new technology to everyone interested in our workshops.

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.

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.

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.

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.