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Amazon Ayahuasca Journey
May 5 - 12, 2012
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Ayahuasca Visions
Once again I found myself in the Amazon Jungle, having traversed land, air and river to arrive in the midst of a paradisiacal world of flowers and birds indistinguishable in color, river water the color of a latte'. Pink dolphins swim about us as egrets stand, one-legged, in the shallows, awaiting dinner to swim past its long-necked beak. Shipibo villages, plantations of banana, mango, papaya, corn, rice and coca slip past as we glide through the waters. Shipibo Indians, embroidered and painted with the visionary patterns of the sacred vine of the Soul, Ayahuasca, await us at the river's edge. Entering the village, surrounded by children and grandchildren, we are embraced, we North Americans, as their own family, as undistinguishable from their own families as the colors of the birds and flowers are from one another. I am home.
Evening falls swiftly in the jungle, and comes alive with the buzz of insects and the strange-to-our-ears sounds of birds, monkeys and unknown exotic wildlife. A meal is offered, fish and rice and beans and bananas. Those of us about to partake in the night’s ceremony refrain from eating, choosing to keep our systems available for the sacred brew we are about to drink.
As the Ayahuasca takes affect I feel a shivering, not of cold, but of life-force swimming through my body. Amidst all the splendor and transformations and realizations that naturally come with an Ayahuasca experience – experiences that highlighted the measures necessary for me to release old patterns in relationships, and the on-the-spot transmutation of these old patterns of behavior – deep and meaningful insights into the further direction of fulfilling my Spirit’s Calling were revealed, and implemented.
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