The Ayahuasca Experience - A Hallucinogenic Brew By: Thomas 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 ... Tags:the ayahuasca experience, ayahuasca, iquitos peru, lone wolf adventure
Healing With Ayahuasca By: ross heaven | - Ayahuasca is a magical rainforest medicine made from ayahuasca vine (Banisteriopsis caapi) and the leaves of the chacruna plant (Psychotria viridis).
The mixture is prepared by cleaning specially-chosen vines and adding them and the leaves to water. This is then boiled and reduced for several hours, attended by shamans who blow their intentions and good wishes (soplada) into it, make prayers to their spirits for good healings and singing icaros (sacred healing songs) into the brew ... Tags:ayahuasca, healing, ayahuasca retreats, ayahuasca ceremonies
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 ... Tags:the ayahuasca experience, ayahuasca, iquitos peru, peru vacation packages, peru vacation package
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.
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 ... Tags:ayahuasca, amazon rainforest, javier arevalo, plant spirit shamanism, shamanism, shaman, plant medicines
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 ... Tags:Plant spirit shamanism, perfume, aromatherapy, scent, incense, shamanism, shamans, healing, herbs, herbalism, love, pusanga, relationships, ayahuasca,
Plant Spirit Shamanism: Icaros, The Sacred Songs By: ross heaven | - Integral to any ayahausca ceremony are sacred chants sung by the shamans to call the protective jungle spirits, summon the essence of nature, and to provoke the mareacion or effects of the ayahuasca by making a plea to the spirit of the vine. In the words of Javier Aravelo, quoted in my book, Plant Spirit Shamanism, icaros render the mind susceptible for visions; then the curtains can open for the start of the theatre.
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.
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.
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 ... Tags:ayahuasca, amazon rainforest, javier arevalo, plant spirit shamanism, shamanism, shaman, plant medicines
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 ... Tags:shaman, ayahuasca, shamanism, ayahuasca retreats, healing, icaros, sacred chants, amazon rainforest, pablo amaringo, plant spirit shamanism
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 painter and art teacher at his Usko-Ayar school. His book, Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman, co-authored with Luis ... Tags:shaman, ayahuasca, shamanism, ayahuasca retreats, healing, icaros, sacred chants, amazon rainforest, pablo amaringo, plant spirit shamanism
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 ... Tags:shaman, ayahuasca, shamanism, ayahuasca retreats, healing, icaros, sacred chants, amazon rainforest
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 ... Tags:shaman, icaros, ayahuasca, yage, san pedro, chants, medicine plants, plant spirit shamanism, shipibo
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.
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.
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 ... Tags:shaman, plant spirit shamanism, ayahuasca, retreats, workshops, peru, shipibo, herbs, herbal healing, herbal medicine, san pedro, healing, amazon rainforest, phil
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
Medicine For The Soul - The Plant Spirit Medicines Of The Amazon Rainforest By: H G Charing | - 'Whether the plant is to heal the body or the spirit or
whether it is part of an apprenticeship, what makes it work
is your good intention towards the plant. They are beings,
which have their own forms or they can be like human beings
with faces and bodies. When the spirit accepts the person,
and the person has the will, the spirit grants them energy.
The path to knowledge opens, and the healing takes place'
