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		<title>Never Separated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was hiking through a forest last summer and delighting in the beauty surrounding me. At one point my attention focused in on the leaves on the trees and a few thoughts came to mind. Perhaps you&#8217;ll take a little mind ride with me here and consider the existence of a leaf for a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephengrayvision.com/2012/01/07/never-separated/</link>
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		<title>Meeting Iboga</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ceremony was held at a secluded location on British Columbia&#8217;s Sunshine Coast on the weekend of Nov. 18 to 20, 2011. It was organized by a young man from our west coast region and led by two experienced iboga ceremony leaders from Britain, Sean and Steve. There&#8217;s a lengthy interview with them from last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephengrayvision.com/2012/01/07/meeting-iboga/</link>
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		<title>A Good Way to Teach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve read Returning to Sacred World you probably recall a number of references to and quotes from Kanucas, a spiritual elder in the Native American Church (NAC). Kanucas was my first contact with the NAC in 2003 and in the years since I&#8217;ve had a lot of interaction with him.
Returning to Sacred World makes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephengrayvision.com/2012/01/07/a-good-way-to-teach/</link>
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		<title>Shamanic Adventures in Peru</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tucked into the extreme northeast corner of Peru, the city of Iquitos has a population of about four hundred thousand, making it the largest city in the world inaccessible by road. If you only saw the area around the central Plaza de Armas you’d never know it was that large though. The downtown business district, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephengrayvision.com/2011/09/09/shamanic-adventures-in-peru/</link>
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		<title>Ayahuasca and the Master Plants: Audio &amp; Text Interview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past July (2011) I was in Iquitos—the ayahuasca hub on the Amazon River in the far reaches of northeastern Peru—as a conference speaker and eager medicine journeyer. I had heard and read a few pieces of information here and there about the master plants— plants other than ayahuasca that more serious students and shamans-in-training [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephengrayvision.com/2011/08/29/ayahuasca-and-the-master-plants/</link>
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		<title>Iboga Interview—in three parts (audio version)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago (Mar. 2011,) I received an email informing me that two iboga ceremony leaders, Steve and Sean from Britain, would be coming to my area to lead a three-day healing ceremony with the iboga root, sometimes called &#8220;the wood.&#8221; I found this exciting news since Kanucas, my friend and spiritual elder from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephengrayvision.com/2011/05/11/iboga-interview-in-three-parts/</link>
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		<title>Iboga Interview: text version</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a near-vertabim transcript [cleaned up a few ums, aws, and unnecessary repetitions] of the three part audio interview I conducted with the two iboga ceremony leaders from Britain. As well as the introduction to the audio interviews, you might want to read my article, also at this site, Iboga: The Holy Wood Which Cares for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephengrayvision.com/2011/05/11/iboga-interview-text-version/</link>
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		<title>Iboga: The Holy Wood Which Cares for Us.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We were sitting on the porch one morning after a meeting when Kanucas, my friend and a spiritual elder in the Native American Church, began speaking about a recent journey he’d made connecting him to leaders from other indigenous spirit-medicine traditions. He told us that a shared vision is arising from these cross-cultural wisdom keepers, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephengrayvision.com/2011/04/03/iboga-the-holy-wood-which-cares-for-us/</link>
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		<title>Updates on the Emerging Reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spend a fair amount of time maintaining vigilance on the planetary journey on numerous levels. I try to stay somewhat cognizant of new developments in spiritual work, economic conditions, new social forms, visionary ideas, climatic changes and so on. I particularly watch for indications that, as the title of my book says, we are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephengrayvision.com/2011/02/09/updates-on-the-emerging-reality/</link>
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		<title>Stephen Gray interviewed by Robert Phoenix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Returning To Sacred World With Stephen Gray &#8211; Sep 27,2010
On the evening of Sunday, September 27, I answered the telephone to begin a long and winding conversation with Robert Phoenix on the cultural paradigm shift and in particular the role of sacred plants in this journey of awakening and healing. Listeners may find some very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephengrayvision.com/2010/09/29/stephen-gray-interviewed-by-robert-phoenix/</link>
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