listen to omar rodriguez-lopez and lydia lunches album
i think you might like it.

"we gotta get back to the goddess"

that's all I have to say for now.

rebecca,
I've always loved to travel and see Earth landscapes, especially loving the land. I've also always loved trees - especially pine forests - and they have always seemed alive to me.
When I went to the Amazon, though, it was the first time I had a sense of being surrounded by this truly immense mass of living matter, stretching literally hundreds, even thousands of miles in every direction. DNA encoded, living life forms, green and in constant motion, growing and dying.

When I took Ayahuasca, I was introduced to the Female Spirit of that plant, and perhaps of all plants. She was certainly a powerful being. She was certainly in control in her own realm. She was also, amazingly!, interested, even passionate about my personal wellbeing, my growth, my understanding as a single human being. As I am not qualified in any way to be singled out by such a being for such attentions, I make the deduction that She is Interested in ALL of us and would guide, teach, re-assure, correct, and even love us all. I'm not trying to sound religious here, just making an observation of what I experienced (the essence of shamanic endeavor).

Does that imply that She is making efforts beyond the various personal experiences of her within the context of Ayahuasca ceremonies? I can't say, but I do know that the ceremony and actual ingestion of the entheogen is only the first stage of the Ayahuasca experience as it continues to echo and influence us in our lives afterwards.

If that is true for one person, then perhaps it is true that the Spirit of Ayahuasca can reach out into the natural world in its entire scale and effect some influence for change. I can only hope that She can and does.

i can't even come up with words for how big of a role she plays!!! archetypal matriarchal and patriarchal energies are up so strongly right now. and the mother gaia is healing us as much as we are healing her...it's so beautifully interconnected. i am both excited and overwhelmed by the work ahead in iquitos!