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’ll take a little mind ride with me here and consider the existence of a leaf for a few [...]
Posts tagged ‘prayer,’
Never Separated
Posted January 7th, 2012 by admin. Comment (1).
A Good Way to Teach
Posted January 7th, 2012 by admin. Comment (0).
If you’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’ve had a lot of interaction with him.
Returning to Sacred World makes [...]
Stephen Gray interviewed by Robert Phoenix
Posted September 29th, 2010 by admin. Comment (0).
Returning To Sacred World With Stephen Gray – 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 [...]
Principles of the Paradigm Revolution
Posted August 23rd, 2010 by admin. Comment (0).
I suspect that if you’ve found your way here it’s abundantly clear to you that the juggernaut of the current dominant paradigm is not going much further on this planet. That conceptual framework has at its core the belief that the material realm is all there is and that we are no more than separate [...]
Interview with an Ayahuasca Curandero
Posted June 23rd, 2010 by admin. Comments (4).
Interview with an Ayahuasca Curandero
Ronin, or Ronin Niwe, is one of what might be described as the new breed of ayahuasca curanderos. These are mainly people who are not native to the Amazonian region of South America and who have undertaken apprenticeships, often under the tutelage of ayahuasca shamans trained in the traditional way. This [...]
Interview with an Ayahuasca Curandero – text version
Posted June 23rd, 2010 by admin. Comments (2).
This post contains the text version of Interview with an Ayahuasca Curandero. It’s almost identical to the audio version, as is the fairly brief introduction below.
Ronin, or Ronin Niwe, is one of what might be described as the new breed of ayahuasca curanderos. These are mainly people who are not native to the Amazonian region [...]
An Interview With God
Posted February 8th, 2010 by admin. Comment (0).
Don’t worry, I’m not turning into a megalomaniac or a fire-and-brimstone preacher claiming to have a direct line to a personal God. What follows is a somewhat playful but nonetheless sincere attempt to imagine what such a conversation might entail on issues of planetary and personal consciousness transformation. It contains direct and indirect references to [...]
Visionary Quotes
Posted November 5th, 2009 by admin. Comment (0).
Note: I’ll be adding quotes here on an ongoing basis. Some may include commentary, like the article ”On Service and Cannabis,” which you can see by scrolling down a little farther on this page.
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and go and do that. Because what the [...]
The Benefits of Low-Dose Psilocybin Mushrooms [updated]
Posted November 1st, 2009 by admin. Comments (10).
Not everyone knows how to ask for medicine or how to receive it, they [the indigenous healers] tell me, but there is no one in the world who does not need medicine in their lives.1 Kathleen Harrison
Note: The essay below was added to the site over two years ago as I sit here tonight in [...]
When Prayer Meets Medicine
Posted October 25th, 2009 by admin. Comment (0).
Like many of us in the western world, I grew up in a family that went to church on Sunday mornings. In my particular family it was the Anglican Church in central Canada. Prayer was a core principle of the teachings that came down to me as a child and a significant part of [...]