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Beauty: darkness and light

Namaste, hola, good day, bien amor, good vibrations and honoring light and joy in each one of us.

I’d like to feel you all more potently with my own sense of today.

As I awaken in my room, I embrace the quiet of this space and the returning of the early dawn. I see what I have left unappreciated and untended to,on my own feasting plate of Life.

When Life is seen and understood as nutritive, graced by its existence and generous in its design…..then a deep…. ahhhhh….is felt.

Why, you may ask has my inspiration led me to this place of reflection?

Out of the depths of my shadow self, I must deepen my own appreciation of the beauty before me and especially within me.

My own darkness has called me forth to move my daily life out of this small room, it is mostly dim and not adequately private.

Now I am called to a new room, full of light, full of life’s pulsings to and fro and yet exquisitely private. I now begin a new journey of allowing a deeper reflection to become visible, one into the vulnerability of seeing the remaining shadows. A paradox of relaities that Life has laid on the feasting table before me.

The awareness of that awakening is humbling and penetrating to my core.

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Acceptance:inevitable results

Acceptance is an open-minded, understanding that brings the serenity of knowing that every individual, situation, or difficulty is unique and valuable in some way.

It is a mode of respect for differences, of seeing beyond faults or disappointments and reaching contentment.

Acceptance is freedom from the need to retain preconceived notions, control of others, or the anxiety that can come when the unexpected occurs.

It is more than tolerance, though resisting the urge to react to the choices of others is a large part of the process.

It is a patience and gentleness that extends outward, beginning in one’s own soul and extending to other people and the world at large.

Sometimes the process works in reverse because accepting others can be easier than accepting oneself, though the latter is the inevitable result of true acceptance.

altered states of awareness, self realization, shamanism, spirituality

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Ayahuasca Tea: a marriage of power and light

While traveling throughout South America I have found the use of spirit plant medicines to be benefitial when healing the body, mind and soul. As a medicine maker I seek out information on brewing these herbal mixtures and the effects the brew has on my awareness.

The use of Ayahuasca may well be primordial, its use extending back to the earliest indigenous inhabitants of this region.

Some ethnographer believe that abstract liminal patterns such as zigzags, serrated lines and geometric forms found on traditional textiles, pottery and body art of various tribes represent the perceptual threshold between everyday and transpersonal realms of consciousness.

These relics, combined with an abundance of myths describing the origin of Ayahuasca as deeply intertwined cosmologically with the creation of the universe, earth, and tribal people, indicate a long history of human use.

Banisteriopsis caapi, often refered to as Yage, constitutes the common base ingredient of Ayahuasca tea. B.caapi contains beta-carbolines that exhibit sedative, hypnotic, anti-depressant, monoamine oxidase inhibiting, and occassionally entheogenic activity .

The vine is traditionally married with another plant – Ayahuasca is a synergystic potion. Typically it is mixed with a tryptamine carrying plant. The foliage of Psychotria viridis (Chacruna) is the principle admixture of Ayahuasca potions employed throughout Peru and Brazil.

While I was in Columbia and Amazonian Ecuador, the plant Diplopterys cabrerana (Chaliponga) is often used instead. The combination of Yage vine with Chacruna or Chaliponga is sometimes known as a marriage of power and light .

This marriage is necessary to unlock the shamanic mareacion and its visionary mythological vistas. Without marriage, the Yage vine alone is a purifier, a purgative, a physical medicine and anti-depressant but generally not a visionary catalyst.

I have rewired my thinking through the use of spirit plant medicines and this marriage of light and power continues to raise my awareness. I better understand the possibilities I can embrace by living in peace and harmony, through opening the heart with love.

altered states of awareness, ayahuasca, self realization, shamanism, spirituality

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Divine Mother: angelic power of beauty

The Mid-Life Women’s Prayer

Divine Mother,

As I step into this new era of my life, I am becoming more and more aware that you are with me, and that you express yourself through me.

When I open my heart to your great power, I feel you reminding me of how beautiful I am.
I feel you guiding me to embrace my creative talents.

I feel your support as I make a deeper commitment to my purpose.

I begin to experience all the abundance that you so amply supply, and I hear you reminding me that you will supply all that I will ever need.

I ask you to remind me each day that I must honor my soul with meditation and my body with healthful food.

When it seems too dark to see the light, I know that you are always guiding me, I know that you are beside me when I stumble, as I attempt to step out into the world to express my own true feminine power.

Help me to move more and more into my heart and realize that judgment is not mine, and that arrogance will trip me up every time.

I welcome your powerful spirit into my life, as I endeavor to become the most loving and creative partner and leader that I can possibly be.

Freedom is my goal. Love is my path. Commitment is my promise.

I feel your love always, and I feel blessed to be a woman.

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Oldest Spiritual Practice: traveling to invisible worlds

Shamanism is the oldest spiritual practice known to humankind. A core shamanic practice is the shamanic journey, a method for traveling to the “invisible worlds” beyond ordinary reality.

Using the shamanic journey www.concentricrings.org we can meet up with our own helping spirits who can help us unlock answers to difficult personal questions and mobilize energy for reaching goals in everyday life.

The world around us is changing rapidly, and it is important to learn how to stay centered amidst all the changes and how to find inner peace and live from a place of harmony.