As I pray, I can feel the acidic sludge churning in my stomach, like a snake, writhing it’s way down, deeper and deeper into my intestines… Unexpectedly, and without the consultation of my rational mind, my prayer morphs into a new intention:

Please Mother Ayahuasca, help me heal my gut.

Later in the evening, I would learn exactly why this shift occurred.

I stare down into the dark brown brew, but see no reflection in the glinting sludge. I grasp it with both hands and hold it next to my heart, silently praying my intention…

Integration is the single-most important—and most frequently bypassed—aspect of psychedelic therapy. It is most often thought of as a period of processing after a psychedelic journey… And it is. But I believe integration begins before the psychedelic experience itself.

This is especially important to remember as we step into this moment of global transformation. “Sorry” represents the past, the events that got us here, to a global pandemic, systemic racism, police brutality, oceans full of plastic, the loss of a species every twenty minutes, and utterly ineffectual leadership. Now is not the time for sorry. Now is the time for action and change.

In my efforts to heal from depression, suicidal ideations, and IBS, I no longer feel I am in a battle against these afflictions, but rather on a path away from them, and toward something else entirely: wholeness... My inward journey, and specifically the experience of ego dissolution, completely changed my relationship to the world...

In this moment, fully immersed in its presence, I wanted nothing. For the first time in my life, I felt completely accepted for who I was… All of my worries, anxieties, ambitions, needs simply melted away, and I became one with the light.

I started doing Transcendental Meditation (TM for short) a year ago, and it’s the only meditation practice I’ve been able to implement and stick with on a regular basis. In this video, I show you some techniques I used to get started with, and then build upon, my TM practice.

Purging is a hallmark of Ayahuasca — a reality of the plant medicine‘s physiological effects, and an avenue by which an individual begins to rid his or herself of demons, or “that which no longer serves”

“If your life was a book, would anyone want to read it?” A piece of wisdom — or perhaps foolishness — I latched on to at a young age…