Early Medicine Encounters The following is a partial account of three ceremonies that occurred within a few months of each other in the mid-1990’s. They set the template of much to come . . . I first drank ayahuasca by a very beautiful, isolated, coastal lake...
Ayahuasca, Religion, and Nature Ayahuasca, is a word from the Quechua linguistic family of Andean-Equatorial South America. It means “vine of the soul” and refers both to a large forest liana (Banisteriopsis caapi), and a strong infusion (tea) made from its...
What is a Dieta? Dieta is a Spanish word that means – simply enough – diet. However, when used in Amazonian herbalist traditions that deal with the more powerful and often reality-altering and visionary varieties of plants known as plantas maestras or...
Ruminations on Appropriating Culture and Ayahuasca Tourism Sit, be still, and listen, because you’re drunk and we’re at the edge of the roof. ~ Rumi The idea that the earth is alive, aware, and on a teleological (purposeful) journey of evolution...
Ayahuasca and the Sunshine of Love The following is an overview of the direction I see the great serpentine river that is ayahuasca moving in the times we are living in. Though this river has wound back and forth thru both fertile and blighted landscapes in...
