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 [...]
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A Good Way to Teach
Posted January 7th, 2012 by admin. Comment (1).
Shamanic Adventures in Peru
Posted September 9th, 2011 by admin. Comments (3).
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, [...]
Ayahuasca and the Master Plants: Audio & Text Interview
Posted August 29th, 2011 by admin. Comments (2).
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 [...]
Iboga Interview—in three parts (audio version)
Posted May 11th, 2011 by admin. Comments (4).
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 “the wood.” I found this exciting news since Kanucas, my friend and spiritual elder from [...]
Iboga Interview: text version
Posted May 11th, 2011 by admin. Comments (5).
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 [...]
Iboga: The Holy Wood Which Cares for Us.
Posted April 3rd, 2011 by admin. Comments (4).
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, [...]
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 [...]
Ayahuasca: a Remarkable Healer
Posted September 3rd, 2010 by admin. Comment (0).
Although my main practice is the peyote prayer meetings of the Native American Church, the researcher in me is drawn to periodically explore the teachings of other medicines as well. I have a particular fondness and respect for the ayahuasca medicine. For those unfamiliar with ayahuasca, there is no shortage of information online and in books on [...]
Interview with an Ayahuasca Curandero
Posted June 23rd, 2010 by admin. Comments (6).
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 [...]