Teachings, Poems, and Transmissions
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What Do I Do with Power from the Medicine?
Question: The medicine gave me an overwhelming sense of power. I feel it in every cell of my body. It is like wild horses running through my veins, and I feel I can move mountains. I don't want to get ahead of myself, as you say. What do I do with all this power?
Effects of the Soplado
Question: I have a question about what you did with my head [during the ceremony], because I have thoughts about what happened, but I really don't know what it was. The effect was very unexpected to me.
Medicine Songs in English
For those of us whose first language is English, there's probably going to be a part that feels cheesy with that, and more exotic and mysterious with a different language. The other side of the reality is that our own dialect hits home. It hits the heartstrings in a different way. It resonates and registers with a different part of our brain.
Lineage and Syncretism
I appreciate all of the pathways that wind around the forest. I've been exposed to many different leaders, great ayahuasqueros, curanderos, onanyas, kurakas, pajés, madrinhas, padrinhos, and I want to be something of a translator. Sometimes, my role is to be a bridge between this world and that world, this world and the other.
An Interspiritual Approach
When we look at the human tradition, we want to see spirituality as an indivisible whole and find an inherent and universal mysticism as the underlying movement of all the great religious leaders—whatever path they followed, whatever path they carved, whichever direction they led. And we want to appreciate the perennial, self-propagating wisdom that continues to sprout through pastures, forests, deserts, mountains, and cities all over the globe.
Study and Not Knowing
How can you “study” without “seeking”? How can you want to learn something, while also embracing the Great Mystery?
Spiritual Bypassing
Spiritual bypassing is like painting over rust: it may look fine on the surface, but the corrosion continues underneath. True spirituality isn't an escape route from life's challenges or a licence to neglect responsibilities. It's a deep engagement with reality, in all its messiness.
Non-Attachment in Love and Grieving
In the end, practising non-attachment connects us to something greater than ourselves. It is freedom from the chains that we hold. It sounds terrifying because we only know what it is we hold on to. We only know the known. When we let go, however, we embrace the great unknown.
Understanding Through Sensation
Engage in the observation of sensations in the body without elaboration, without preference, without resistance or identification. Let them come and go with presence.