Emotional rawness in AMBI

Occasionally, we run away. From emotions, from feelings, from authenticity, from rawness, from ourselves. The escape seemingly is meant to protect us from pain, grief, sadness, fear. And in doing so, it brings us temporary relief, a numbing of our persona, and a hideout in the course of life. But that same runaway pathway takes …

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“We are always together…”

Ayahuasca whispered it to me on an early January morning in Amazonia. I was facing a sumptuous fire next to a calm swamp filled with sleeping ducks swirling across the water. Various unknow exotic insects were playing their own inner songs creating a symphony of mysterious tones dominated by hidden frogs in heat in the …

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“La era del amor ha llegado” – “The Era of Love has Landed”

Putumayo, the land of coca mass production, us evangelism, high incursions (read neo-colonization), and the spiritual home of ancient indigenous communities and millennial long healing practices. Not to mention the incredible landscapes at the start of the Colombian Amazonian forests. While I did not dwell much on the cocaine making side (abounding in the region …

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