After several hours of singing Santo Daime hymns in a brother’s home, his neighbor joined us. The man looked familiar and said that he knew me. I couldn’t remember the context, so he told me in detail. It was his first (and only) experience of ayuaska within the Healing Service, the Cura. He said, “you [...]
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Fear of Intimacy
Posted in entheogens, sacred ceremonies, tagged ayahuasca, Santo Daime tradition on May 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Magic, Mushrooms, and Maria Sabina
Posted in entheogens, Erotic love, Peyote Ceremony, sacred ceremonies, tagged ayahuasca, Coyote, Native American Church on May 7, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Maria Sabina was an amazing ceremonial leader in Oaxaca, Mexico. When I was a graduate student at Pacifica Graduate Institute, I found several old audio tapes in the bookstore. I bought a speech by Rolling Thunder, the Cherokee Medicine Man, an ayuaska ceremonial recording called “Songs the Plants Taught Us”, and a tape of Maria [...]
Let the Healing Light Shine
Posted in Child/Parent Relationship, entheogens, sacred ceremonies, tagged Divine Intelligence, Santo Daime tradition on March 31, 2012 | 4 Comments »
At the end of the meditation phase we call the Concentration in the Santo Daime tradition, I noticed my nephew looked sad and worried. Then we took a break to set up for the next portion, a Dance form. My nephew was passing in front of me, when I reached around him and embraced him. [...]
The Spirits Have Already Arrived
Posted in entheogens, Liberal Catholic Church, Peyote Ceremony, Reincarnation, sacred ceremonies, Spirituality, Synchronicity, Theosophical Society, tagged ayahuasca, Coyote, Dreamwork, Native American Church, trickster on November 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Synchronicity is a way the soul is making meaning of personal experiences. This morning, the first day of Advent in the Liberal Catholic tradition, was focused on Discrimination. The visiting Celebrant scheduled to perform the Liturgy canceled last night and the Rector gave his sermon “from the hip”. He began with a quote from the [...]
Transmodern Rave Shamanism
Posted in entheogens, sacred ceremonies, tagged ayahuasca, Spirituality on October 2, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Having drunk medicine in 2007 with a young man trained by the Shipibo people of Peru, I was surprised to encounter (2011) my first eclectic Ayuaska experience. Described by my grandson as a Shipibo trained shaman, the photo looked like a model from GQ. “How old is this guy?” I asked. “Twenty-six, but he exudes [...]
Song and intent, the channel for spreading love and blessing
Posted in Leadbeater, Liberal Catholic Church, sacred ceremonies, tagged ayahuasca, Divine Intelligence, Native American Church, Santo Daime tradition, Spirituality on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Bishop Charles Leadbeater wrote a lot about his clairvoyant visions. He could see the Angel of the Presence, an agency of the Christ, creating a spiritual temple during the Divine Liturgy. This temple is constructed through the combined energies of the people and the clergy, who provide love and devotion during the service, the building [...]
Coyote’s Christmas
Posted in Dreams, entheogens, sacred ceremonies, Synchronicity, tagged Coyote, Dreamwork, Hermeneutics, trickster on December 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
She apologized with, “my son’s coming with the Christmas tree and should be here any moment, could you help me put this plastic on the carpet?” I hadn’t met her son or his wife and their nine-year-old daughter, but I got to within minutes. While the guy in the brown suede coat got the tree [...]
The Evil Twin
Posted in Mentoring, Psychology, sacred ceremonies, tagged Healing, Men's Movement, Native American Church, Shadow on December 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I met the Otter on the beach. He didn’t talk much, just joined my group doing the Cherokee Dance of Life. It was spontaneous. Hottest day in Seattle on record for May and there were lots of young people on the beach that day. Most were from the Reservation or had Native Blood and they [...]
Living on Cloud Mountain
Posted in Initiation, Peyote Ceremony, sacred ceremonies, tagged Capoeira, Cherokee Nation, Native American Church, Spirituality, Sweat Lodge on November 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Ten years ago my therapist asked me to journey toward my situation in the future. She told me to see myself “10 years from now, where are you? what are your surroundings? what is your space like? the town? the climate?” So I went into a light trance and entered the imaginal world. There I [...]
The Little Green Frog
Posted in entheogens, Peyote, Peyote Ceremony, sacred ceremonies, tagged Coyote, Deer, Grandmothers and Aunties, Native American Church on October 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
My granddaughter had found us seats on the north side of the crescent moon altar. My nephew was tending the blazing fire. The coals were bright orange. I was sitting beside a young man who was new to these ways. His lover was on the other side of me, next to my granddaughter. As we [...]
