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In less than a month, I will be down in Ecuador with the Amazon Mycorenewal Project. We are an international interspecies alliance working to heal the oil-polluted rainforest with the power of mushrooms. As explained in a previous post this is a one-of-a-kind ground-healing effort to apply recent advances in mushroom science (mycology) to break down and remove environmental toxins.

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Mushrooms can help save the world! With YOUR help I can work with mushrooms (and other amazing humans) this summer to help clean up oil pollution in Ecuador. I'm trying to raise $1000 to support this solution in the Amazon. Please read on to learn more. Any amount of support is helpful.

After I related most of my experience with the ancestors to my wife, she said, “You must have been visiting the Akashic records.”

Last fall, I got sick for several weeks (it was a bad cold). One day I fell sleep while having symptoms of fever and severe body aches.

I’m doing this segment backwards, probably because I’m a terrible messenger.

After finding the courage to write and getting an amazing support from my wife, family and friends (also great feedback from the online community), I was able to came out with the words to describe a series of various accounts from my first yagé (ayaguasca) experience in Colombia last year in August.

The Book of Forgiveness
Drinking yagé during daylight was an overwhelming experience. I became one with Mother Nature. I can see the air. I became one with my surrounding environment.

A sense of peacefulness invaded my soul and body, but something was off, as I take a closer look into the experience. I had to face some personal unfinished issues that I had avoided for quite a long time.

The Book of Prosperity
It was dawn. As the sun rose, the new book came to being in a form of a city made of gold.

I was still sitting in front of the firepit. The ancestors guided me over the golden city. As we moved along, I could see the streets and plazas, the buildings and bridges. It was such an amazing place, and I knew the ancestor could feel I was about to blast him with questions.

The Book of Love
Taita Hugo came to make sure I was feeling better and asked, “Do you want to try yagé now?” After a short pause, I nodded my head accepting his offer.

The Book of Patience.
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My chest was burning like a torch. After a bout of very intense vomiting. I passed out for some time. When I opened my eyes, Taita Hugo was next to me whispering some words to me – “Embrace it, be strong, don’t give up.”

I wanted to share my most potent of psychedelic experiences, those I encountered with ayahuasca and dmt.

http://www.neip.info/downloads/Fotiou_Ayahuasca_2010.pdf

By Fotiou, Evgenia.
From Medicine Men to Day Trippers: Shamanic Tourism in Iquitos, Peru. PhD Dissertation in Anthropology. University of Wisconsin, 2010.

Summary:

August 18, Tarapoto

It is no mystery that what we place in our body has a great and profound relationship with our external world. Just like all living beings, our physical bodies require air, food, and water; it is the quality of these staples that determine our state of health and vitality, as well of course, as our mental state of well-being.

Synchronicity is a concept that I continually struggle with. Sometimes, I'm annoyed by how obsessively certain people seek them out, grasping at any little numerological coincidence that allows their confirmation bias to match their selection bias.