Stuck In Customs

Saw the other day that the Astronaut who took the amazing photo “Earthrise” has died. Absolutely epic photo and you can read a bit about how it was captured over here.

If you missed it on Friday, please do take a little trip over to my latest long form blog post about my plant therapy adventure in Costa Rica!

Here’s the movie trailer…

Let’s embark on a thrilling and transformative four-night journey with Ayahuasca at Rythmia in Costa Rica! This thing has got it all. From the grueling challenges of purging deep-seated traumas and dark echoes on Night One to the ecstatic connection with tentacled-Octopus surgery, followed by a second surgery by multi-dimensional hyper-intelligent aliens on Night Two.

Nobody expects the Alien Inquisition!

Each night unfolds a unique adventure. And then I experienced the gentle, feminine energy of Ladies’ Night, complete with profound blessings and humorous insights. I dived into the intense final night with Colombian shamans, where purges, divine interventions, and surreal visions merge into a cathartic and enlightening climax. I don’t know if I can communicate the emotional and spiritual rollercoaster filled with healing, humor, and otherworldly encounters that I found quite transcendent, but I will try.

Night #1 – Monday – The Night of a Thousand Tortured Souls in One

This was probably the hardest night I’ve ever had on Ayahuasca. I’ve had three ceremonies with the medicine before this, so while I am hardly the most experienced person in the world, I thought in my naivety it would be a bit easier this time because of my prior medicine adventures. It was a foolish thought indeed.

On my very first night ever, many years ago, I was only able to take one cup the entire night. I couldn’t even bring myself to crawl over to get another. Here at Rythmia, they encouraged us in the classwork to have as many cups of the medicine as we like. In fact, they said in moments of doubt, just go ahead and have more medicine. Sometimes you can get caught in your own head, analyzing what is happening. At those times, they suggest, don’t think. Drink.

It’s kind of like going to a wine-tasting, but instead of delightful varieties of wines to suit a delicate palette and a light buzz of relaxation, there is like one variety of mud mixed with a slurry of insects tinged with a rotten smell of something wet you forgot you left in a bag that doesn’t breathe. Also, it has none of the early “nice” effects of alcohol in that you feel miserable right away. Each sip reminds you of every time you have ever vomited in your life.

In advance I had a few conferences with my higher self, soul council, soul advisor, and intuition (all of which I believe are different facets of the same jewel of me), and I determined throughout the night that my number of cups would be seven. It’s a nice prime number. Smooth. I always see prime numbers as smooth.

For the uninitiated, it is indeed called medicine rather than a drug. Most people don’t get this. Or, they throw it into the same category as all “drugs” and might even think it has addictive qualities. It doesn’t. Addictive molecules have two major aspects that Ayahuasca does not. For one thing, you don’t need “more and more” of it each time to achieve the same “state.” In fact, you need less and less. The other significant aspect is that you don’t suffer any withdrawal after you stop taking it.

And just to touch on one more silly piece of feedback that I notice from the muggles out there – they often question, “Hey Trey, why are you looking for this stuff ‘outside’ of yourself.” It’s as if they think it’s some kind of escape or reaching for something outside of me to satisfy something inside of me. It’s quite the opposite. Ayahuasca is a medicine and tool that gives you full, unfettered access to yourself. It’s a medicine for going inside, not outside.

Before we go on, I fully know that many people that read everything below will be rather dismissive and think, “Oh Trey was just on drugs and was hallucinating.” It always feels great to be immediately invalidated after something like this, he said sarcastically. 😉 However when sharing these stories with the other 35 people here and hearing their own experiences, it’s clear that there is something more profound going on. It is something that is really hard to explain to others. Nevertheless, I’ll try to describe what happened for those who are curious… just be aware things will get quite graphic. Quickly!

Continue with the full post here.

Saw this report in the news today talking about how a remote tribe in the amazon got internet for their village and now just 8months later they have issues with people being stuck on their phones all the time. The result being struggling for people to do the hunting and other tasks the village rely upon to survive. Quite crazy it was so quick to eat into their way of life (the report does note some benefits like they can now get quicker help for snake bites, etc but there was a bunch of quite negative aspects overall). Still, worth a look.

Daily Photo – Breaking a Society

This is not the amazon, but it felt suitably amazony…

Breaking a Society

Photo Information

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• Date Taken2018-04-02 11:05:10
• CameraFC220
• Camera MakeDJI
• Exposure Time1/1250
• Aperture2.2
• ISO100
• Focal Length4.7 mm
• FlashNo flash function
• Exposure ProgramProgram AE
• Exposure Bias-0.656