KMO plays the second half of AyasminA’s interview with Dr. Stephan V. Beyer, author of Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon. Steve details the importance of the auditory aspect of the Ayahuasca experience, and then the conversation turns to the paternalism and condescension of First World defenders of indigenous peoples. Later in the episode, KMO plays a clip from the It’s Not Us It’s You podcast about the totalitarian aesthetic of Wal*Mart’s new generic p... read more

KMO plays the first half of a conversation between AyasminA and Dr. Stephan V. Beyer. Steve is the author of Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon. In the conversation, Steve details his lifelong odyssey into the deep regions of consciousness and spirituality which include fifteen years spent in the upper Amazon with the Mestizo keepers of the Ayahuasca tradition.


Hear the interview at: c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/pla..._... read more

David Hewson is an artist who learned the ancient technique of water gilding from studying and working for many years in the restoration of paintings and churches in Italy and Switzerland. In composing his pieces, he uses a combination of gold, platinum and silver mixed with oil paint on wood panels with hand-carved, custom-designed frames. He also has a wide assortment of drawings which he regularly displays alongside his paintings, and which include portraits, still lives, classical reli... read more

Hear the conclusion of AyasminA's interview with Dr. Tom Pinkson as they discuss the practical purpose of shamanism, giving our negative judgments to the fire, the importance of death and decay and the five steps to attitudinal healing on the topic of the end of life.

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Painting courtesy of Pablo Amaringo: Pachamama Healing the Earth

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KMO welcomes Erik Davis back to the program to talk about Gnosticism as the underlying stream of Western esoteric experience as well as its modern manifestation in pop culture. Next AyasminA speaks with Dr. Tom Pinkson about life as a series of initiations and the real-life people and experiences that shaped the literary character of Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan.

Show notes: kmo.livejournal.com/397288.html

C-Realm Correspondent AyasminA interviews its founder, podcaster KMO, on politics, plants, and bionanotechnology:

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Interview with AyasminA Flores

Please click on the link below to hear the podcast:

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In this final podcast in the series of Friday shows meant to raise awareness of the 4th Annual International Amazonian Shamanism Conference, AyasminA talks with heterogeneous curandera, Wendy Luckey, about the path, about not fitting in, and about the role of women in humanity's collective healing.


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Episode 107: Truth & Fear

AyasminA returns with an interview with visionary artist, Roberto Venosa. In addition to delving into his personal history and development as a visionary artist, Ayasmina and Roberto explore the dark side and ask whether evil exists as a thing in and of itself. They also examine the question of the reality of the subject matter of visionary art. Enjoy!

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AyasminA returns with another Ayahuasca-themed interview. This time she connects with visionary artist, Martina Hoffmann to talk about the connection between the visionary states induced by ayahuasca and the visions on canvas that they leave in their wake. Other topics include honoring the divine feminine and finding a balance between living in direct connection with nature and losing ourselves in a haze of techno-mediated... read more

Episode 101: Pyramid Consciousness

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C-Realm correspondent AyasminA returns with a new interview. Julian Haynes is building an ayahuasca-inspired, floating, wooden, Egyptian-style pyramid in Iquitos, Peru. AyasminA asks him how and why and then returns to the question of whether interest in ayahuasca shamanism harms the indigenous cultures that spiritual seekers think they're honoring.

Show notes: kmo.livejournal.com/353472.html

Expanding consciousness, one quantum leap at a time
with Host Dr. Martin Ball

"May I have some more Ayahuasca, please?"

In this week's episode, we enjoy a few more clips from the audio documentary, "In Search of the Divine Vegetal," along with some selected readings from Ralph Metzner's book, "Ayahuasca: Hallucinogens, Consciousness, and the Spirit of Nature".

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Shaking Shamans and Ayahuasca
with host Martin Ball, Ph.D.

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This week I read a few selections from Bradford Keeney's book, "Bushman Shaman," and preview excerpts from the new audio documentary about Ayahuasca entitled "In Search of the Divine Vegetal", created by Tom McKinnon, Leonard Cler-Cunningham, and AyasminA.

"In Search of the Divine Vegetal" explores the nexus of Western and Indigenous cosmologies in relation to plant intelligence and aspires... read more

The Cosmic Serpent

In this episode, former guest AyasminA turns C-Realm correspondent to interview artist David "Slocum" Hewson who makes Iquitos, Peru his base of operations and where he is contributing to the construction of Pyramid Peru project. AyasminA and Slocum discuss the role of Ayahuasca and other visionary pl... read more

Legislators in Peru chew Coca to defy UN
Reuters
Published: Friday, March 14, 2008
LIMA -- Lawmakers defiantly chewed Coca in Peru's Congress Thursday while
criticizing a UN recommendation to criminalize traditional uses of the
plant.
The Coca leaf, the raw ingredient of cocaine, is used by millions of people
to stave off hunger and fight altitude sickness. It is also used in teas, cooking and by fortune tellers.
"The Coca leaf has existed for thousands and thousands of years. It's pa... read more

IN SEARCH OF THE DIVINE VEGETAL

Tom McKinnon is an established visual artist with over 25 years of experience as a sculptor, painter, and media and performance artist. His work explores the role of narrative structure in cognition, identity, and belief. He has exhibited multi-media performance works at venues nationally and internationally, notably at The Kitchen in New York in 1990 and at PS 1 in New York in 1992.

Tom earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Art History from t... read more

Episode 89: Ayahuasca, Alcohol and Marijuana
Show notes: kmo.livejournal.com/345551.html

You can also tune in to Episodes #95, #67, #51 and #41 of this podcast, hosted by consciousness-caster KMO, to hear interviews on Amazonian shamanism and its impact on law, liberty, ecology and spirituality here in North America and across the globe.

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AyasminA is a professional interpreter, translator, legal advocate, and documentarian fluent in six languages, whose lifelong passion for people and travel is dovetailed with her longstanding interest in spirit medicine from around the world.

AyasminA's multicultural heritage and capacity for communication across societal and ethnic boundaries has convinced her that there is a common basis of understanding which can unite all people and things. She feels that tapping into this awareness i... read more

Well, yet another year has passed and I'm off to Peru in a matter of weeks to resume psychotropic investigations...

Check out the Conferences I'll be working at this summer: www.soga-del-alma.org/Confere...ers.html

and www.amazonconvergence.com

Hope to see you there!

It is what it is...or is it?

I wonder...

Was that just a dream or a dream that was not? The delectable remains of the feast still dance about on my palate, coaxing my appetite toward greener pastures...

No. I must focus. But my focus is elsewhere. I go through the motions and I'm sure no one suspects that I am already long gone.

My attention is drawn....away. Intention is quietly formulating itself. Identity is fragmenting into fractal pattens of uncontrolled thought emblazoni... read more

This evening i donned my lasso of Truth and sailed that invisible plane to Amazonia, Isle of Wonder. There i communed with my sisters.

They told me of an ancient scroll lying embedded at the bottom of the river, where the current could not move it. It was said to contain the wisdom of the ages. It was said to hold the secret of our creation, the word made flesh.

They told me this knowledge had been scattered upon the fluid surface of the earth, like so many seeds cast to the Fates. Th... read more

Dawn of a New Day

In the wake of a tempestuous Medicine session, i struggle to put my world back together. Built upon an epicentre of my own devising, my house of cards has collapsed. Suddenly exposed, i am vulnerable to the vagaries of the elements. They toy with me, tossing me this way and that. I am ravaged, my tattered remains strewn all over the map. In the midst of this major upheaval i am polarized; by turns elated and desolate, connected and isolated... read more

She is awakened.

From an evanescent dream emerges a grim prophecy. Deep within: bubbling unrest. Strained and compromised, she will be contained no more. She rises up, awesome, the apogee of passion and power.

Embodiment of paradox! She is both resplendent and obscure, sanctified and profaned. She has the capacity to give with compassion or claim without relent.

Monstrous her divinity, dreadful her magnificence, she is the perfect synthesis of all that is most ... read more

dear friends,

heartiest greetings from peru, where the kids and i have been having the trip of a lifetime (yes! another one!). our 6 weeks here have simply flown by, and yet have been loaded with information, impressions, and experiences which we will no doubt be many months in the unraveling.

we have been so blessed to have enjoyed the best of health and spirits the entire way through. this is the main thing. but beyond that -- well, there's just so much to share -- where to begin? ... read more

[We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you the following special presentation.]

Calling all Intergalactic Delegates! Would Passengers and Crew kindly report to the Launching Pad for an important pre-departure Announcement:

GREETINGS FROM THE COMMANDER & CREW OF THE S.S. CHRYSALIS!

SAFETY FIRST

May we please have your attention for the following safety demonstration. In preparation for Take-Off, please ensure that your Luminous Fibres are securely fastened ... read more