Singing to the Plants, Part II

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 product packaging.

Hear the interview at: c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/pla...7_00

Singing to the Plants

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...7_00

The Road and the Wilderness -- Paintings from the Peruvian Amazon

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 religious depictions, and modern symbolic esoterism. (www.davidhewsonart.com)

David is currently living in the Peruvian Amazon. For the past two years, he has been working on a project called The Road and the Wilderness, which pertains to the beauty and the destruction of the Amazon Basin and is part of a traveling exhibit coming to the Collective Works Gallery in Victoria June 6- 18, 2009. (www.collectiveworks.ca/site/e...e.html)

The Road and the Wilderness is a mixed media exposé. Paintings and drawings depict the colourful myths and legends central to local culture and belief, including shamanic healing practices involving medicinal and sacramental plants. Also portrayed are the destructive elements present in the Peruvian Amazon, as conveyed through lectures, films, maps, and photographs. Inherent in this juxtaposition is a critique of the privatization and contamination of the jungle by multinational companies, some Canadian, and the extent of the Peruvian government's concessions of lands to foreign-based timber, petroleum and mining interests.

Over the course of his travels, David has come to know many Canadians and very much admires their openness, progressiveness, and global perspective. He is excited about this opportunity to share information about this region of the world, and to engage in dialogue which may be of benefit to us all, as we contemplate our future and that of our planet.

Altered Traits

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

Maybe Gnosis...

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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

AyasminA Interviews KMO

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

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Ayahuasca Healing Beyond the Amazon

Interview with AyasminA Flores

Please click on the link below to hear the podcast:

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C-Realm: Women are Medicine

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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C-Realm Interview with Roberto Venosa

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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Show notes: kmo.livejournal.com/357340.html

AyasminA can be found at:

www.amazonconvergence.com
people.tribe.net/5ce45b25-...707eef9081
www.soga-del-alma.org/Confere...ers.html

Caught in the Web -- Interview with Martina Hoffmann

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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 busy work.

Show notes: kmo.livejournal.com/355737.html