February 5, 2018 Hi friends. It's Day 5 of my 9-day stay at Hummingbird Ayahuasca Retreat. Time is sliding by in a dreamy, peaceful fashion. There is a calm, warm, and healing energy here that I've been absolutely soaking up. I love eating fresh jungle fruit every morning, being surrounded by jungle sounds, making friends …
Category: My Healing Journey
Ceremony #2
February 3, 2018 Good morning from Hummingbird Retreat... it's sunny, lightly breezy and extremely pleasant out right now. We're all lazing around and relaxing after our second Ayahuasca ceremony last night. Today is a day off, then tomorrow we'll be back at it. Last night is going to be hard to put into words that …
Meeting Ayahuasca: Ceremony #1
Hello world! I'm back in Iquitos after my 9-day stay at Hummingbird Ayahuasca Retreat. I have some WiFi at a cafe and a getting on a plane in a few hours to come home. Throughout my stay at Hummingbird I wrote about every ceremony we did and what my experience was. I am going to …
Hola from Lima
Hola from South America! I just spent the night and a leisurely morning at a hostel in Lima and about to head back out to the airport for my flight to Iquitos. Tomorrow I meet with the group I'll be with and we'll take our first dose of Ayahuasca tomorrow night. So soon! The transit …
One week out
Hello, from a chilly morning in Durham, where steam billows from my hot cup of tea and morning traffic rolls by on Club Blvd. I'm one week from my first dose of Ayahuasca and it is feeling like as I get closer, my life reflects back to me more and more that it is coming. …
Upcoming: Ayahuasca
Hello world, I'm checking in to share what's going on for me right now. This will be a short piece. I'm warming myself up for more writing in the next few weeks. The news of this writing piece is that in 10 days I'm flying to Peru to do a 9-day Ayahuasca retreat. I'm actually …
Creation, impulse, writing, eating, moving [free write / poetry]
I spend too much time in my head. Every time I am "thinking" I should just write. I think I used to do that, and the habit has been lost from me somehow. Maybe my demons tried to take it from me. ... Time flies by and in some moments I am a swirling mess, …
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Expressions from this side of the here & now 