Ayahuasca Talks ayahuascatalks

Lori shares openly about her experiences both before and mostly after Ayahuasca. She talks about her own suicidal thoughts as a result of the challenging situations that she was dealing with post-pandemic and how this led her to the medicine. We discuss the themes/issues that came up during and after her ceremony and how she addressed them. Discussion topics involve harmful thought patterns about self & others, and how this can be addressed through self discovery, self care and self love. Lori discusses her relationship with trees and how trees are great healers and teachers. Lori had trees show up in both her Aya experience as well as her hypnotic journeys. She recalls her childhood experiences with trees, her reconnection with them and how they now play a role in her own practice helping others. We also talk about the growing popularity of psychedelics, how the business sector responded and how we might respectfully consult/include indigenous elders in this new and growing field moving forward to benefit all.

Integration Themes: Trust, Money & Social Acceptance. Doug shares the story of his integration journey beginning with him leaving the corporate financial world and creating organizations that are more aligned with his values and interests. Doug discusses some important themes of his integration path including his relationship with money, his heightened concerns over what others think of him and his empathetic nature. We talk about how his social/professional life since his plant medicine experiences with mushrooms and Ayahuasca have provided him with opportunities to work through these issues. We discuss his hypnotic journeying experiences and how they provided him with insights and support as he navigated these life experiences in new and better ways.

Neil shared openly about his early childhood and about his integration journey so far. He talks about how he has become more open and authentic. He brings up the topic of ‘transactional relationships’ and we discuss this in terms of not only our own social experience but also within the larger psychedelic industry. We talk about making mistakes and how important it is to accept this part of our reality and growth. We talk about how we can respond better to this part of life and this part of the growing psychedelic industry. We share ideas about the industry and how things can be improved as we continue to learn more about ourselves and how to approach our lives and businesses differently.

Tammy shares her experiences integrating Ayahuasca. She shares about how she confronted a dark energy that attached itself while she helped to facilitate a ceremony and what she learned from that. She also discusses some of the figures that showed up during her own Aya experiences and how she began to understand more about them afterwards through hypnotic journeying. Tammy shares how she healed herself by exploring and admitting her feelings and how she healed her relationships by understanding her own reactions and deciding to respond in healthier, more compassionate ways. She effectively embarked on her ancestral healing path by using these techniques to heal her relationship with her mother. She discusses her interaction with spirits, including her own father and spiritual ally, and how they are supporting her through her own unique integration path that is still unfolding. Tammy talks about certain messages that she received during her Ayahuasca journeys – some of which she had to unravel afterwards through hypnotic journeying and decide whether or not it served her to pursue them. She generously shares about the themes of her empowering integration journey including presence, open heartedness, humility, innocence, simplicity and connection with the land, trees, spirits/spirituality and with others.

Ehren talks about his studies of South American Indigenous cultures, the ugly realities of colonization and how this inspired him to explore plant medicines. He shared about his initial post-psychedelic experience of narcissism as a reaction to the overwhelming nature of this profound event in his life and his sense of mission. This led to him making changes motivated by the rejection of those around him. It ultimately taught him about himself and helped him to begin to grow in a more positive direction. We discuss how narcissistic themes are apparent in our society and that recognizing this helps us to grow as well. We talk about darker medicine experiences and different perspectives on these events and their value. Ehren shares about his spiritual ally and we discuss how this experience of guidance can be powerfully supportive in self-discovery and personal growth. Ehren and I talk about parenthood and how we are changing the patterns of parenting that were laid down for generations before us. We reflect on the positive impact this is having in our world because of the growing number of people who are transforming their lives in this way and healing ancestral trauma.

A common inner physical reaction, such as tension, can produce a whole host of unintended effects that we experience as ‘reality’. Becoming conscious of the specific beliefs that cause our inner tension and how they impact the role we play in our lives, can help us reduce/eliminate suffering and create opportunities for positive change.