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The Ayahuasca Diaries

Author : Caspar Greeff
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781770097612

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A lively travelogue, this book follows the author's psycho-spiritual odyssey in search of ayahuasca--a dark, psychedelic brew known as "the vine of the dead." Trekking through the rain forests of Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, and Ecuador in search of enclaves where ayahuasca is taken in the dark of night at ceremonies presided over by shamans, the author shares his experiences with otherworldly songs that are both magical and healing and ignite in him a new enchantment with life and a burgeoning sense of connection with the natural world.

The Toé / Datura Diaries

Author : Javier Regueiro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1950367304

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The Toé / Datura Diaries by Javier Regueiro Pdf

The First Ever Account of Dieting the Revered Shamanic Plant Brugmansia aka Toé / Datura A personal account of the use of the Brugmansia plant commonly known as "Toé," is revealed. The plant is native of the Peruvian Amazon and the Andes, where it's highly revered among shamans. Despite its popularity, the ingestion of this plant is surrounded by many justified taboos due to its toxicity and many dangers. Javier Regueiro worked and studied intensively with this unique Plant Teacher in 2005 for five months, deep in the Amazon, and again in 2019. These experiences have been essential in his shamanic apprenticeship, as well as a profound personal healing and spiritual process. In The Toé / Datura Diaries these experiences are shared in great detail through journal entries from both shamanic dietas - or diet regimen in Spanish, - as well as extensive commentary on those experiences. Following his first Toé dieta in 2005, Javier Regueiro began working as a plant medicine person and created the Ayaruna Center in Pisac, Peru. Over the last 10+ years he has been offering healing retreats with Ayahuasca and San Pedro / Huachuma plant medicines, both of which he has published books on. While this book is not intended as a DIY manual for ingesting either the Toé or any other potentially risky plants, it does provide a very detailed overview and intimate glimpse into both the traditional practice of dieting medicinal plants. The commentary and insights provided are designed to avoid common pitfalls and maximize the time and effort invested in the profound healing process plant medicines provide. This captivating tale presents an honest and vulnerable journey into the wisdom and medicines of the Amazon jungle. The many challenges faced by the author along the way ultimately led to a profound healing and expansion from engaging with this powerful Plant Teacher.

The Oshun Diaries

Author : Diane Esguerra
Publisher : Eye Books (US&CA)
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781785631481

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The Oshun Diaries by Diane Esguerra Pdf

High priestesses are few and far between, white ones in Africa even more so.When Diane Esguerra hears of a mysterious Austrian woman worshipping the Ifa river goddess Oshun in Nigeria her curiosity is aroused. It is the start of an extraordinary friendship that sustains Diane through the death of her son and leads to a quest to take part in Oshun rituals. Prevented by Boko Haram from returning to Nigeria, she finds herself at Ifa shrines in Florida amid vultures, snakes, goats' heads, machetes, torrential rain and a cigar-smoking god. Her quest steps up a gear when Beyonce channels Oshun at the Grammys and the goddess goes global.

The Acid Diaries

Author : Christopher Gray
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-24
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781594778889

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An exploration of the personal and spiritual truths revealed through LSD • Reveals that LSD visions weave an ongoing story from trip to trip • Shows that trips progress through three stages: personal issues and pre-birth consciousness, ego-loss, and on to the sacred • Explores psychedelic use throughout history, including the mass hallucinations common in the Middle Ages and the early therapeutic use of LSD Toward the end of his fifties, Christopher Gray took, for the first time in years, a 100-microgram acid trip. So extraordinary, and to his surprise so enjoyable, were the effects that he began to take the same dose in the same way--quietly and on his own--once every two to three weeks. In The Acid Diaries, Gray details his experimentation with LSD over a period of three years and shares the startling realization that his visions were weaving an ongoing story from trip to trip, revealing an underlying reality of personal and spiritual truths. Following the theories of Stanislav Grof and offering quotes from others’ experiences that parallel his own--including those of Aldous Huxley, Albert Hofmann, and Gordon Wasson--he shows that trips progress through three stages: the first dealing with personal issues and pre-birth consciousness; the second with ego-loss, often with supernatural overtones; and the third with sacred, spiritual, and even apocalyptic themes. Pairing his experiences with an exploration of psychedelic use throughout history, including the ergot-spawned mass hallucinations that were common through the Middle Ages and the early use of LSD for therapeutic purposes, Gray offers readers a greater understanding and appreciation for the potential value of LSD not merely for transpersonal growth but also for spiritual development.

Ayahuasca Journal

Author : Urban Shaman
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1795606851

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150 Blank Pages 8.5 x 11 Inches (21.59 X 27.94 cm), similar to A4 size (slightly larger). Make notes about Ayahuasca / DMT your ceremony or vacation, or just use as a general journal or diary / notebook Just a simple blank journal / diary with lines, one page at the front to write your name The one image inside the pages of the journal is an aztec depiction of the mother goddess Great looking portable journal for all people interested in indigenous culture and medicine Helps boost your creativity, healing, gain insights, write about any shamanic ceremonies, before you forget / something else happens Useful tool in the transformational process, allows you to think more about your experiences, aids with depression / anxiety or insight and breakthroughs Shipped and created by amazon, no waiting Fits easily on a book case or in a backpack Book industry perfect binding Use fountain pen, biro or pencil Also in other designs, and A5 sizes.

Ayahuasca Journal

Author : Urban Shaman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1795526041

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150 Blank Pages 6 x 9 Inches (15.24 X 22.86 cm), similar to A5 size (slightly larger). Make notes about Ayahuasca / DMT your ceremony or vacation, or just use as a general journal or diary / notebook Just a simple blank journal / diary with lines, one page at the front to write your name The one image inside the pages of the journal is an aztec depiction of the mother goddess Great looking portable journal for all people interested in indigenous cultures and medicine Helps boost your creativity, healing, gain insights, write about any shamanic ceremonies, before you forget / something else happens Useful tool in the transformational process, allows you to think more about your experiences, aids with depression / anxiety or insight and breakthroughs Shipped and created by amazon, no waiting Fits easily on a book case or in a backpack Book industry perfect binding Use fountain pen, biro or pencil Also in other designs, and A4 sizes.

Fishers of Men

Author : Adam Elenbaas
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781101456378

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In the tradition of memoirs like Daniel Pinchbeck's 2012 and Jim Carroll's The Basketball Diaries, Adam Elenbaas's Fishers of Men chronicles his journey from intense self-destruction and crippling depression to self-acceptance, inner awareness, and spiritual understanding, through participation in mindexpanding-and healing ayahuasca ceremonies in South America and beyond. From his troubled and rebellious youth as a Methodist minister's son in Minnesota, to his sex and substance abuse-fueled downward spiral in Chicago and New York, culminating in a depressive breakdown, Elenbaas is plagued by a feeling of emptiness and a desperate search for meaning for most of his young life. After hitting rock bottom at his grandfather's house in rural Michigan, a chance experience with psychedelic mushrooms convinces him that he must change his ways to achieve the sense of peace that he has always desired. Several subsequent psychedelic experiences inspire him to embark on a quest to South America and take part in a shamanic ceremony, where he consumes ayahuasca, a jungle vine revered for its spiritual properties. Over the course of nearly forty ayahuasca ceremonies during four years, Elenbaas discovers the truth about his own life and past, and begins to mend himself from the inside out. Fishers of Men is the gripping, heartbreaking, and yet ultimately uplifting story of the power to transcend one's past.

The Hedgehog Diaries

Author : Sarah Sands
Publisher : New River
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781915780034

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A beautifully written story about the end of life, in which hedgehogs become a metaphor for hope It is the Winter Solstice and Sarah Sands is sitting by her father's bedside, bracing herself for loss. What her father needs to do, she thinks, is conserve his energy - to hibernate like a hedgehog. When the hedgehog curls up in its bed of leaves, its heart rate slows, its body temperature drops and for months there it remains, hardly breathing at all. A few days earlier, Sarah and her grandson had found a poorly hedgehog in the garden and taken it to the local hedgehog sanctuary. They named her Peggy, and her fate had become a matter of pressing concern. When death looms, it's easier to talk about hedgehogs. There is something about these homely and yet mysterious creatures - prickly and defenceless, wild and tame - that, as Ted Hughes put it, makes us feel deeply sympathetic towards them. Hedgehogs have captured the imagination of poets and philosophers for centuries. They have managed to outlive roads, dogs, strimmers and pesticides, but now they are an endangered species. For Sarah Sands, our failure to protect them is a symptom of our alienation from the living world. But all is not yet lost. In this charming, idiosyncratic book, she explores the meaning and morals of hedgehogs, and finds, in hedgehog world, a source of deep solace and wisdom.

My Ayahuasca Nightmare

Author : Tracy Ruth Waters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1773027468

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Tracy Waters first wrote this book under the title 'From Rape to Forgiveness and the Journey home'. The book was taken from diaries and memoirs written over a period of ten years while trying to heal from a painful divorce, and a long recovery from a car accident. The failing of western medicine found her down in Peru looking for alternative methods to heal from a diagnosis of brain damage. From there she takes you on an often-terrifying journey of holistic healing through shamanism and Ayahuasca. The administrators of this very divine plant were discovered to be very inappropriate shamans residing down in Peru in the Amazon rain forest. These shamans and their North American apprentices had nothing but their own greed and interests in mind. Risking her life and health, Ms. Waters shares her journey as she discovers that dark energies (black magic) sent to her kept her suicidal and a previous gang rape kept her constantly internalizing pain. In the unfolding of the story Waters exposes the many people that carry very dark hearts as they pass themselves off as healers with intentions of taking money and the manipulating the souls of the ones they were hired to heal. As she considered shelfing the first publication her conscious got the better of her, and she decided to release the book under a far more suitable title for the circumstances that followed and the years of torment she went through after trusting the shamans of Peru. Her belief is nobody should ever again go through what she went through, and it has been proven that the many stories being spoken out loud have slowed down the black magic, and the seductions that for years were coming out of the jungle daily! If you have a story to tell that could save just one life, it must be told! This is Tracy's story.

The South American Diaries

Author : John Hopkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780857736659

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While writing a novel set in South America, John Hopkins travelled back there to "reacquaint himself with the scene". In 1972-3, he travelled by train, bus and boat from Mexico City to the centre of the continent, through Belize, Guatemala and Nicaragua and on to Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina. Hopkins travelled slowly, deliberately, savouring every experience along the way. But the journey was fraught with his angst-ridden strivings to write his novel and with the troubled love he had for Madeleine, his travelling companion. In these heat-scorched, tequila-infused pages, Hopkins paints a sultry, exquisite portrait of South America and in so doing masters an art that he believed would forever elude him.

Music and Consciousness

Author : David Clarke,Eric Clarke
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780191625589

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What is consciousness? Why and when do we have it? Where does it come from, and how does it relate to the lump of squishy grey matter in our heads, or to our material and social worlds? While neuroscientists, philosophers, psychologists, historians, and cultural theorists offer widely different perspectives on these fundamental questions concerning what it is like to be human, most agree that consciousness represents a 'hard problem'. The emergence of consciousness studies as a multidisciplinary discourse addressing these issues has often been associated with rapid advances in neuroscience-perhaps giving the impression that the arts and humanities have arrived late at the debating table. The longer historical view suggests otherwise, but it is probably true that music has been under-represented in accounts of consciousness. Music and Consciousness aims to redress the balance: its twenty essays offer a timely and multi-faceted contribution to consciousness studies, critically examining some of the existing debates and raising new questions. The collection makes it clear that to understand consciousness we need to do much more than just look at brains: studying music demonstrates that consciousness is as much to do with minds, bodies, culture, and history. Incorporating several chapters that move outside Western philosophical traditions, Music and Consciousness corrects any perception that the study of consciousness is a purely occidental preoccupation. And in addition to what it says about consciousness the volume also presents a distinctive and thought-provoking configuration of new writings about music.

Diary of a Holy Fool

Author : Vincent Parmentola
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781468533248

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Higher consciousness is our birthright from the universe. We realize that by transcending the ordinary mind to experience an elevated state of awareness through the practice of meditation. In doing so, we release the ego's perception as being separate from others and begin to recognize a broader or 'cosmic' perception. Once we achieve a higher level of consciousness, we embrace the truth of our spiritual natures. Our mission in life becomes maximizing the potential of our consciousness, seeing that birth and deaths are indispensable to the creative process and adapting to the interconnectedness of all life. I welcome you to the most exciting adventure of my life, recorded in the 'Diary of a Holy Fool'.

The Ayahuasca Dialogues

Author : Brian Francis Culkin,Ricardo Amaringo
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1097792439

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The Ayahuasca Dialogues is a transcribed collection of conversations between Ricardo Amaringo and Brian Francis Culkin. This dynamic and compelling discussion engages topics diverse as Shipibo cosmology, the structure of contemporary capitalism, digital technologies, trauma, globalization, and the future of humanity. Why are psychedelic culture and plant- based medicines like ayahuasca having a revival in the second decade of the 21st century? Why are educated westerners suddenly trekking into the Amazon Jungle in search of healing and meaning to their lives? How are the new forms of networked technologies radically transforming human consciousness in the present day? Why is ayahuasca so effective in treating PTSD, depression, and addiction? These are just some of the questions that this dialogue wrestles with. From familiar themes in shamanism to the pressing sociocultural issues of our now interconnected planetary society, these talks between a revered shaman of the Upper Peruvian Amazon and a young American writer provide a unique insight into the state of the contemporary world. The Ayahuasca Dialogues is a riveting and thought-provoking conversation that explores the emergent relationship between the powerful plant medicine of ayahuasca, Amazonian shamanism, and a rapidly globalizing world.

Ayahuasca Notebook

Author : Urban Shaman
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1795813962

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150 Blank Pages 8.5 x 11 Inches (21.59 X 27.94 cm), similar to A4 size (slightly larger). Make notes about Ayahuasca / DMT your ceremony or vacation, or just use as a general notebook or diary / journal Just a simple blank notebook / diary with lines, one page at the front to write your name The image inside the pages of the notebook is an aztec depiction of the mother goddess Great looking portable notebook for all people interested in indigenous culture and medicine Helps boost your creativity, healing, gain insights, write about any shamanic ceremonies, before you forget / something else happens Useful tool in the transformational process, allows you to think more about your experiences, aids with depression / anxiety or insight and breakthroughs Shipped and created by amazon, no waiting Fits easily on a book case or in a backpack Book industry perfect binding Use fountain pen, biro or pencil Also in other designs, and A5 sizes.

Ayahuasca

Author : Joan Parisi Wilcox
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781594775642

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A comprehensive autobiographical account of the transforming experiences possible with ayahuasca • Reveals the protocols of a traditional ayahuasca retreat and the importance of its ritual diet, isolation, and sacred songs • Relates an extensive personal account of the traditional indigenous use of ayahuasca for healing and revelation Ayahuasca: The Visionary and Healing Powers of the Vine of the Soul is an autobiographical account of the author’s work with ayahuasca, a potent and sacred plant brew of the Amazon region that is known for its extraordinary visionary and healing powers. As she learned from her experience, with the help of ayahuasca we are able to grasp our paradoxical nature, the first step to acceptance of ourselves in both our glorious and dark aspects. Ayahuasca teaches us how to release the illusions we hold about ourselves and makes it possible to integrate our many diverse aspects to acquire our true power. This book reveals the ritual protocols that must be followed prior to partaking of ayahuasca, including the traditional preparatory “diet”--which requires enduring austere conditions, isolation, and only small amounts of bland food before receiving the powers of the plant spirit from an ayahuasquero, a healing master--and the sacred songs, icaros, that are sung when imbibing the substance. Although the use of ayahuasca is growing among “underground” spiritual seekers and through the burgeoning ayahuasca tourism trade in South America, few of its seekers understand how it is used traditionally and the importance of the rituals the indigenous people follow. With this book, the author hopes to restore the importance of these indigenous practices so that we may truly understand all the gifts of ayahuasca.