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Articles about Ayahuasca (0-50 of 56)
- The Hummingbird Retreat Centre, Spain
By: ross heaven | - When Spanish explorers first encountered hummingbirds in Peru, they called them joyas voladoras: "flying jewels." The hummingbird was revered as a sacred healer, a guardian of plants, the spirit, and those who needed healing or were training as healers themselves.
That is why the hummingbird is the symbol for The Hummingbird Retreat Centre. Located in one of the most peaceful and unspoiled parts of rural Spain, it offers a relaxing and invigorating space where you can escape from ...
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- The Ayahuasca Experience: An Hallucinogenic Brew
By: Thomas C Carroll | - The Ayahuasca experience is used widely used throughout the Amazon for healing and spiritual exploration. Meaning "vine of the soul," Ayahuasca is the name given to the central ingredient of the psychoactive potion mixture, the jungle vine Banisteriopsis caapi, and the leaves of a plant called Chacruna (Psychotria viridis), or a similar plant. The ingredients are boiled together and consumed in a ritual ceremony with an Ayahuasquero (an ayahuasca shaman) to see the spirit world, for guidance, an ...
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- San Pedro, The "miracle Healer"
By: ross heaven | - SAN PEDRO, THE MIRACLE HEALER
AN INTERVIEW WITH AN ANDEAN HUACHUMERA (SAN PEDRO HEALER)
By Ross Heaven
San Pedro (Trichocereus pachanoi), the sacred cactus and visionary teacher plant of the South Americas, is especially associated with the shamans and healers (curanderos) of the Peruvian Andes. It has other names among these healers as well; including El Remedio: The Remedy, which refers to its healing and visionary powers which, they say, can help us t ...
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- Iquitos And Cusco
By: ross heaven | - Iquitos is the largest city in the Peruvian rainforest, with a population of around 400,000, and is generally regarded as the most populous city in the world that cannot be reached by road. The only way in is by aeroplane or river boat.
In the 19th the city century was the centre of the rubber industry, but by the early 20th century the trade had moved to the Far East, and the city had fallen into neglect and disrepair. It is now a place without an apparent purpose, still decked ...
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- Interview With Shipibo Ayahuasca Shaman Enrique Lopez In The Amazon Rainforest Of Peru - Part 2
By: Howard G Charing | - The second part of an interview with Shipibo Shaman Enrique Lopez. Interviewed at Mishana, Amazon Rainforest Peru, November 2007. Enrique discusses his early years in the indigenous Shipibo community in the Ucayali region of the Amazon Rainforest in Peru.
Enrique talks about the Shipibo views on Ayahuasca and medicinal plants.
Tell us about the use of Tobacco.
Tobacco is very necessary for a shaman's work. Smoke protects against enemies and badne ...
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- Interview With Shipibo Ayahuasca Shaman Enrique Lopez In The Amazon Rainforest Of Peru - Part 1
By: Howard G Charing | - The first part of an interview with Shipibo Shaman Enrique Lopez. Interviewed at Mishana, Amazon Rainforest Peru, November 2007. Enrique discusses his early years in the indigenous Shipibo community in the Ucayali region of the Amazon Rainforest in Peru.
Enrique talks about the Shipibo views on Ayahuasca and medicinal plants;
I was born in a Shipibo community called Roaboya which is on the River Ucayali about 10 hours downstream from Pucallpa. Roaboya means ...
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- Andean And Amazon (ayahuasca) Yoga Rainforest Retreats 2008
By: Howard G Charing | - A dedicated programmes in the Andes and the Amazon rainforest, which is focussed on an inner and deep self-exploration and encounter with the spiritual power of the land. This is an adventure into the magical world of the Andes, the Rainforest, and a transformative experience of the ancient mystical rituals of the plant spirit medicines.
The Amazon (Ayahuasca) section of this programme will take place in the Mishana Private Retreat Centre where we have 57 Hectares (140 acres) of l ...
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- Ayahuasca & Plant Spirit Shamanism - Amazon Rainforest Spiritual Retreat Peru
By: Howard G Charing | - Ayahuasca & Plant Spirit Shamanism - Amazon Retreat
November 10th - 24th 2007 Optional Extension Week - November 25th - December 1st 2007
A dedicated programme in the Amazon rainforest, which is focussed on an inner and deep self-exploration and encounter with the power of the rainforest. This is an adventure into the magical world of the rainforest, and a transformative experience of the ancient mystical rituals of the plant spirit medicines. This programme will t ...
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- The Spiritual Traditions Of The Andes, An Interview With Doris Rivera Lenz - Part 2
By: Howard G Charing | - Are people who come to you for coca divination often unwell?
If you ask me if people are unwell, the majority are unwell, in their spirit or mind, there are lots of problems today. They are particularly afflicted in the stomach, the solar plexus, and the belly button. It's the place of emotional pain, and also where we are joined to life. This is what ayahuasca is, the rope that connects us to life.
What about people who sense that their bad luck is caused by s ...
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- The Spiritual Traditions Of The Andes; An Interview With Doris Rivera Lenz - Part 1
By: Howard G Charing | - A look at the rich and powerful spiritual legacy of the Andean civilization which is only now being properly recognised after 500 years of obscurity. This interview of Doris Rivera Lenz, was conducted by Howard G. Charing & Peter Cloudsley. This interview appeared in Sacred Hoop Magazine Issue 57, and the book Plant Spirit Shamanism (Destiny Books USA).
Doris has lived in Cusco for many years conducting ofrendas and reading coca leaves for dozens of people every week - both local ...
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- Plant Spirit Shamanism In France
By: ross heaven | - This French Plant Spirit Shamanism medicine retreat is about discovering who we are, what we want from life, and where we are going - and finding plant allies that can help us in this. There will also be time to explore the beautiful countryside of the Pyrenees.
We attune ourselves to and diet the plants each day in order to develop our connection to them and learn how they can assist in our spiritual work. We also undertake meditative practices, quiet time, and time spent in vis ...
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- Plant Spirit Shamanism: San Pedro
By: ross heaven | - In the shamanic traditions of Northern Peru, the san pedro cactus (Trichocereus pachanoi), or cactus of vision', opens the doorway to expanded awareness and acts as mediator between man and the gods.
San pedro grows on the dry eastern slopes of the Andes, between 2,000 - 3,000 metres above sea level, and commonly reaches six metres or more in height. It is also grown by local shamans in their herb gardens and has been used since ancient times, with a tradition in Per ...
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- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Shamanic Plant Healing
By: ross heaven | - Shamanic healing with plants is hardly ever and certainly never solely about administering medicine' in a form that a Western doctor might understand the term. Instead, it may include divination, the receipt of spirit blessings, magical potions to change luck', or the healing of the soul through the energy of the plants, and not their physical attributes at all.
The aim of a plant shaman, in fact, is not even to cure a condition', but to remo ...
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- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Plant Communication
By: ross heaven | - How is it possible as shamans contend - that plants can affect human beings, situations, circumstances, and life energies remotely, as it were? That is, without being used as a form of curative for a specific medical problem, but more as a means of magical attractant, harmoniser, or conduit for spirit, energy, or luck'?
Let's ask Cleve Backster, a scientist working in the unlikely field of lie detection and interrogation techniques, whose job was to teach policem ...
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- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Pusanga An Interview With Perfumeros
By: ross heaven | - Fragrance has long been associated with the arts of love. In Japan, Geisha girls priced their services according to the number of incense sticks consumed during love-making, while in Indian tantric rituals, men were anointed with sandalwood, and women with jasmine, patchouli, amber, musk, and with Saffron crushed and smeared beneath their feet. In Europe in the 17 and 1800s, the use of eau de Cologne became a widespread and fashionable trend, where the morning ritual in many homes began with its ...
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- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Hoodoo Plant Magic
By: ross heaven | - The hoodoo tradition of the American South is another that works with plant energy while often not requiring a patient to take' a medicine to experience healing.
The word hoodoo' has African origins, and is used to describe various forms of magic, folk healing, and hexing', using roots and herbs. Nowadays, the hoodoo practitioner is often referred to as root doctor' or juju man'. These quaint terms belie the power of the ...
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- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Pablo Amaringo The Vision Of The Plants:
By: ross heaven | - The great visionary artist, Pablo Amaringo, was born in 1943 in Puerto Libertad, in the Peruvian Amazon. He was 10 years old when he first took ayahuasca - a visionary brew used in shamanism - to help him overcome a severe heart disease. The magical cure of this ailment via the plants themselves led Pablo toward the life of a shaman, which he pursued successfully for many years, healing himself and others from the age of ten.
In 1977, he gave up his healing work to become a full- ...
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- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Floral Baths
By: ross heaven | - In Peru, floral baths known as banos florales (flower baths') are a staple of shamanic healing from the high Andes to the Amazon basin, where they are used to wash away unhelpful spirits so that blockages are removed and the energy of the universe can flood in to correct the imbalance.
Shipibo shaman, Artidoro, describes the process in Peru.
How are these baths taken?
The bath is most often taken on the morning after ayahuasca ceremonies so that ...
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- Plant Spirit Shamanism: Ayahuasca The Medicine Of Love
By: ross heaven | - Shamanic healing often employs plants to good effect, though it is rarely about herbalism, per se. Indeed, most shamans are explicit that the pharmacological properties of the plants they employ are of far less importance than the spirit which is held by the plant. It is the spirit which heals, while the plant itself is secondary, acting only as the home of the plant-spirit.
The point is illustrated by Amazonian shaman, Javier Arevalo, who works with the visionary jungle vine, aya ...
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- Plant Spirit Shamanism: The Magical Earth
By: ross heaven | - We are delighted to announce a new, dedicated programme enabling you to experience authentic Plant Spirit Shamanism and Ayahuasca Ceremonies in the hauntingly beautiful Peruvian Rainforest.
This event is focussed on healing and self-exploration, and offers a transformative encounter with the magical powers of Nature through the ancient rituals of the Amazonian plant shaman.
On this journey we provide the orientation, conditions, and support for you to experience au ...
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- Shipibo Ayahuasca Shaman, Benjamin Ochavano Interviewed In The Amazon Rainforest In Peru.
By: Howard G Charing | - Conversation with Benjamn Ochavano, Peru 2002
Howard G Charing & Peter Cloudsley interviewed Shipibo Ayahuasca Shaman Benjamin Ochavano in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru, who is in his mid seventies to discuss how Ayahuasca can help those Westerners who are seeking personal growth and who have embarked on the great journey of self discovery and exploration.
The uses of powerful hallucinogenic plants such as Ayahuasca have been developed by indigenous peoples and ...
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- Ayahuasca Shaman Javier Arevalo Interviewed In The Amazon Rainforest Peru.
By: Howard G Charing | - Spirituality is at the centre of the Ayahuasca experience. Purification and cleansing of body, mind, and spirit in a shamanic ceremony can be the beginning of a process of profound personal and spiritual discovery. This process can continue indefinitely even if one never drinks Ayahuasca again. We believe that by seriously looking at the way Ayahuasca is used we can improve our life experience and benefit more from this medicine. This article is extracted from the original interview by Howard G ...
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- Ayahuasca Shaman And Peruvian Mystic, Alonso Del Rio Interviewed
By: Howard G Charing | - Alonso del Rio is a powerful maestro who interweaves Shipibo and other icaros with sacred music of his own to lead you on your journey; he is both a talented musician and an inspiring communicator of the Amazonian shamanic world. He first came into contact with ayahuasca in 1979 after spending three years working with huachuma (San Pedro). This was when he met Don Benito Arevalo, a grand Shipibo shaman with whom he developed a long relationship, and who gave him his first teachings in ayahuasca ...
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- Ayahuasca, The Visionary Paintings, And Inspirational Words Of Pablo Amaringo.
By: Howard G Charing | - Pablo Amaringo is one of the world's greatest visionary artists, and is renowned for his highly complex, colourful and intricate paintings of his visions from drinking the Ayahuasca brew. Pablo wrote the foreword, a spiritual and ecological message as the foreword for my book 'Plant Spirit Shamanism', published by Destiny Books (USA).
Pablo Amaringo trained as a curandero in the Amazon, healing himself and others from the age of ten, but gave this up in 1977 to become a full-time ...
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- The Ayahuasca Visions Of Pablo Amaringo - An Interview With The Great Visionary Artist
By: Howard G Charing | - Pablo Amaringo is one of the world's greatest visionary artists, and is renowned for his highly complex, colourful and intricate paintings of his visions from drinking the Ayahuasca brew.
Pablo Amaringo trained as a curandero in the Amazon, healing himself and others from the age of ten, but gave this up in 1977 to become a full-time painter and art teacher at his Usko-Ayar school. His book, Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman, co-authored with Luis ...
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- Icaros, The Magical Chants Of The Ayahuasca Shamans.
By: Howard G Charing | - I recall one night time Ayahuasca ceremony, held in a small clearing in the Amazon rainforest. It was a beautiful clear night, there was no moon, and the sky was filled with hundreds of thousands of glistening stars; just looking up at the sky made my head swim. We were surrounded by trees and bushes, but could only discern their shapes and silhouettes. It felt as if I was in nature's primordial theatre. When I had drank the Ayahuasca, the shaman started to chant his Icaros, and within a few min ...
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- The Power Of Attraction Secrets From The Amazon: The Pusanga
By: Howard G Charing | - My experience working with shamans in preparing Pusangas (which normally is prepared away from their clients so it was a privilege to be invited to participate in the preparation) showed me that far from interfering with the freedom of other individuals or putting a number' on them, we were altering something within ourselves, which was brought out by the ingredients, the magic of the plants. Whatever it was, it felt wholesome and good. It is what is in oneself one's own magic. Asking Javier ...
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- Sacred Chants, Icaros, And Music - Shamans Of Peru
By: Howard G Charing | - The Shamans of Peru - Ceremonial Chants, Icaros, and Music
This unique set of recordings documents a collection of ceremonial chants and Ayahuasca icaros on CD.
Tracks 1-3 San Pedro ceremony held in Puruchucu, at the head of the Rimac valley. The ruins of this sacred site or huaca date back to pre-Inca times and have been accurately reconstructed. Setting the scene for the ceremony, three musicians play replicas of pre-Hispanic instruments. Alonso del Rio says: w ...
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- The Attributes Of Plants, And The Spirit Of Life - A Shaman's Perspective.
By: Howard G Charing | - The shamans work with the power of the plants in many ways, the colours of the flowers, the perfume, their shape, form, and associations. This although does not play a role in modern medicine, this understanding has a long history most notably introduced by the 16th century alchemist and philosopher Paracelsus, who in his famous Doctrine of Signatures treatise proposes his premises which are based upon the view that Nature itself is a living organism which must be considered as an expression ...
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- Natural Plant Medicines And The Shamans Of The Amazon Rainforest Part 2
By: Howard G Charing | - Howard G Charing, and Peter Cloudsley join Amazonian Shamans, Javier Arevalo and Artidoro in discussions about the medicinal & spirit healing plants and their use.
Rosa Sisa
These are a kind of Marigold, and they are used in baths particularly for children with mal aire'. This malady occurs when a family member dies and leaves the child unhappy and sleepless. The spirit of the dead grandfather - or whoever it was - lingers and makes the child sick. The spirit is s ...
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- Natural Plant Medicines And The Shamans Of The Amazon Rainforest Part 1
By: Howard G Charing | - Howard G Charing, and Peter Cloudsley join Amazonian Shamans, Javier Arevalo and Artidoro in discussions about the medicinal & spirit healing plants and their use.
Chullachaqui Caspi: Brysonima christianeae
The name refers to the Amazonian folktale about a gnome which lives in the jungle. Your friend is out of sight for a moment and reappears but, unknown to you, he is in fact the mischievous Chullachaqui. He leads you deep into the forest until you are lost and th ...
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- Shipibo Ayahuasca Shaman Leoncio Garcia Interviewed
By: Howard G Charing | - We interviewed Shipibo maestro Leoncio Garcia, a man in his mid seventies but with the appearance of a man twenty years younger. Again a testimonial to the youth giving qualities of Ayahuasca and the plant medicines of the Amazon Rainforest.
Interviewed at Mishana Private Retreat Centre, Amazon Rainforest with Peter Cloudsley August 2005.
Leoncio Garcia
I didn't become a shaman until I was 50, I am now 74. I was always so busy working in the chacra, ...
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- Ayahuasca: Miracle Or Madness?
By: John Balla | - It was 4:00 AM as I walked down the truck mounted passenger stairs and onto the runway. The air was thick with dew, and the runway lights lent a golden hue, creating a silent and poetic ambience to the likes of "Casablanca." Those were oddly my first thoughts as I landed in Lima, Peru. But there was no gin joint, no Bacal. Just Peruvian customs, and a desire to stay in the moment, to prevent the critic from gaining audience in mind. The critic who would point out the absurdity of quiting a great ...
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- Ayahuasca Retreats In The Amazon Rainforest
By: Howard G Charing | - Ayahuasca Retreat
We are pleased to present a dedicated programme in the Amazon rainforest, which is focussed on an inner and deep self-exploration and encounter with the power of the rainforest. This is an adventure into the magical world of the rainforest, and a transformative experience of the ancient mystical rituals of the plant spirit medicines.
This programme will take place in the Mishana Private Retreat Centre. We have 57 Hectares (140 acres) of land with a ...
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- Ayahuasca & Visionary Plants - Companions To The Soul
By: Howard G Charing | - I decided to write from my own personal perspective from my years of work and research in the Amazon Rainforest with the shamans and curanderos who drink the visionary plant brew called Ayahuasca. I use the term shaman' as a convenience as this title has only been imported' from the West into the Amazon quite recently in the past thirty years or so. A more appropriate general term could be vegatilista' or a seer and healer who work with plants from not only the physical or medicinal aspec ...
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- Ayahuasca Retreats Interview With An Amazonian Shaman
By: Howard G Charing | - After being virtually ignored by Western civilization for centuries, there has been a huge surge of interest in Ayahuasca recently. There is a growing belief that it is a kind of medicine for our times', giving hope to people with incurable' diseases like cancer and HIV, drug addictions and inspiring answers to the big ecological problems of modern civilization.
Ayahuasca is not a drug, it is regarded as a gateway to another reality, a reality which co-exists with our physica ...
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- Ayahuasca, Sacred Medicine For The Soul Part 2
By: Howard G Charing | - I discovered that Ayahuasca is a medicine, so unlike the Western understanding, a medicine which works on every level, on the physical and non-physical beings, our consciousness, our emotions, and our spirit. It is as if you are drinking not just a liquid brew but imbibing an other' intelligence which knows exactly what is needed to help you. This is a communion in the true sense of the word, an intense experience of euphoria and ecstasy. A journey of deep and profoundly meaningful personal an ...
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- Ayahuasca, Sacred Medicine For The Soul Part 1
By: Howard G Charing | - We humans have a special relationship and dependence on plants. Since our beginnings, they have been the source both directly and indirectly of our food, our shelter, our medicines, our fuel, our clothing, and of course the very oxygen that we breathe. This is common knowledge and in general we take if for granted. Yet we view plants in our Western culture as semi-inanimate, lacking the animating force labelled soul, mind, or spirit. Many people ridicule and regard as eccentric those who speak u ...
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- The Shaman's Path - A Journey Into Timeless Worlds
By: H G Charing | - Shamanism is not a system of belief or faith, it is a system of knowledge, and is directly experienced first hand by the senses. Shamanism has always been a way for living as humans on our planet Earth, both in balance within ourselves and the world of which we are part.
An underlying facet of shamanism is access to the Spirit Worlds, the place of causality, the energetic matrix or source of the physical world. These worlds which have been most eloquently described by Black E ...
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- Herbal Medicine, Homeopathy,and Plant Spirit Shamanism,
By: Howard G Charing | - Listening to the Plants Nature is Talking to us.
The shamans say that plants connect us with nature because they take their nourishment directly from the earth, as well as the sun's rays, the air, and water. They allow us to know and recognize ourselves. A shaman must know this and must love his people to heal them. Here are just a few of the plant healers.
Jergon Sacha (Dracontium peruviuanum)
My first exposure to this plant came about quite acciden ...
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- The Worlds Of The Shaman - An Exploration Of Reality
By: H G Charing | - Shamanism is not a system of belief or faith, it is a system of knowledge, and is directly experienced first hand by the senses. The world that Shamans work in is not a consensus reality, i.e. what we have agreed is reality. The Shaman sees i.e. experiences with all the senses. The Shaman is the mediator between the ordinary world and an alternate reality.
Shamanism offers a way for people to wake up to their potential, and begin to explore their spiritual relationship to the univ ...
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- Soul Loss - How Shamanic Healing Can Restore Your Life Force
By: H G Charing | - Many of us have heard about Soul Retrieval, which is the return of lost soul fragments (or lost parts) of ourselves. Soul Retrieval is a classical shamanic practice, and in some communities it was the primary method of maintaining health or power. The word soul equates to our life-force, and in shamanic terms we are a composite of souls', or life-force, and this explains why we can become fragmented. The Shipibo - Conibio Indians of the Upper Amazon Rainforest, for example regard every part of ...
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- Communion With The Infinite - The Visual Music Of The Shipibo Tribe Of The Amazon
By: Howard G Charing | - The Magical Art of the Shipibo People of the Upper Amazon
Underlying the intricate geometric patterns of great complexity displayed in the art of the Shipibo people is a concept of an all pervading magical reality which can challenge the Western linguistic heritage and rational mind.
These patterns are more than an expression of the one-ness of creation, the inter-changeability of light and sound, the union or fusion of perceived opposites, it is an ongoing dialogue ...
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- Shamanism And Yoga - Shamanic Trance Postures
By: Howard G Charing | - Shamanism offers a way for people to become aware of their potential, and begin to explore their spiritual relationship to the universe, to other forms of life, and to each other. The experiences which come from shamanism help a person to evolve a deeper bond and respect for all of creation, and from this perspective you are likely to lead a life which is vibrant and full in harmony and balance, and which encourages understanding and optimism. The Shamanic path is a way to experience this expand ...
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- The Cactus Of Vision - San Pedro And The Shamanic Tradition Of Northern Peru.
By: H G Charing | - The hallucinogenic San Pedro cactus has been used since ancient times, and in Peru the tradition has been unbroken for over 3,000 years. The earliest depiction of the cactus is a carving showing a mythological being holding a San Pedro, and dates from about 1300 bc. It comes from the Chavn culture (c.1400-400 bce) and was found in a temple at Chavn de Huantar, in the northern highlands of Peru. Later, the Mochica culture, (c.500 ce) used the cactus in their iconography. Even in present d ...
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- Plant Spirit Shamanism - Developing Your Relationship With The Plant Spirits
By: H G Charing | - Every tree, every plant, has a spirit. People may say that the plant has no mind. I tell them that the plant is alive & conscious. A plant may not talk, but there is a spirit in it that is conscious, that sees everything, which is the soul of the plant, its essence, what makes it alive. The channels through which the water & sap move are the veins of the spirit.
Pablo Amaringo, Ayahuasca Visions
The first and possibly the most important key in developing you ...
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- The Visionary World Of Ayahuasca - Plant Spirit Shamanism In The Amazon
By: H G Charing | - Ayahuasca - Plant Spirit Medicine of the Amazon
We are not talking about passive agents of transformation, we are talking about an intelligence, a consciousness, an alive and other mind, a spirit, which of course we have no place in our society. Nature is alive and is talking to us. This is not a metaphor.
Terrance McKenna
From earliest times it has been recognized that knowledge goes beyond sensory awareness or the rational way of understanding t ...
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- An Encounter With An Extraordinary Healer From The Philippines.
By: H G Charing | - Over the years there has been much controversy about the so-called miracle healers of the Philippines. Their ability to open peoples bodies and perform operations without the use of any surgical equipment i.e their bare hands or with rusty hunting knives, in the absence of any anaesthetics and the skin of their patient re-seals without any noticeable marking or scars defies not only conventional medical knowledge but also flies in the face of what we consensually call reality. How can a human bo ...
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- Plant Spirit Shamanism - The Medicinal Plants Of The Amazon Rainforest
By: H G Charing | - Working with teacher plants is known as the shaman's diet'. The purpose of the diet is to prepare the body and nervous system for the powerful knowledge and expansion of consciousness given by teacher plants.
In everyday life, the mind creates the illusion that we are separate from reality, and thus protects us, like a veil, from experiencing the vastness of the universe. Access to the truth without preparation could be a radical shock to the system.
It offers a ...
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- Soul Retrieval - Shamanism And Healing
By: H G Charing | - Soul Retrieval - Shamanism and Healing.
The recapitulation of life force is the body of work, which restores or recapitulates lost life force. Soul Retrieval is one of the most well-known and effective practices to this end.
To understand how recapitulation practices work, we need to look at the multidimensional nature of reality and move away from a linear sequential perspective. From this expanded perspective, 'anything which has ever happened to anybody, anywhere ...
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