18 posts tagged “the amazon”
Plant Spirit Shamanism 2009 Ayahuasca and San Pedro Journeys to the Amazon and Andes of Peru – New Dates and Discounts
I am pleased to announce the new 2009 dates for our Magical Earth and Cactus of Vision programmes to the ayahuasceros and San Pedro shamans and healers of Peru.
The Magical Earth Amazon Adventure and Ayahuasca Programme
(Off Iquitos, Peru)
There are two opportunities to take this adventure in 2009:
May 30 – June 12 and
October 30 – November 12.
I am also pleased to announce that we have been able to reduce the price this year – while expanding the programme and enlisting the services of new Master Shamans! Our ayahuasca programme gives you an authentic experience of real jungle medicine, shamanic healing, and plant spirit medicines – and is now almost 30% less expensive than comparable events run by ‘ayahuasca tour’ companies.
The Cactus of Vision Programme
(Cusco, Peru)
November 14 – 20 2009
We also now offer two-trip discounts for people who book both the Magical Earth and Cactus of Vision programmes, giving you a further 5% saving on prices.
For a FREE Information Pack on either or both of these courses, email ross@thefourgates.com or visit www.thefourgates.com
i have been running sacred journeys to the Amazon rainforests of Peru for several years to work with the ayahuasca shamans and introduce participants to this jungle healing, magic and medicine (i also run similar trips to the Andes for participants to work with the san pedro shamans) and have personally witnessed many healing miracles through participants' involvement with ayahuasca. These include physical, mental, emotional, spiritual (and what i can only describe as 'miraculous') healings.
An example of the latter would be a female participant on my 2007 Magical Earth ayahuasca journey to the Amazon who longed for a baby but had been diagnosed with polycystic ovaries which makes pregnancy highly unlikely (she was also on the pill - which is 98% effective against pregnancy - to help regulate her condition).
She asked ayahuasca to help in her desire for a child - and less than a month after her return to England (notwithstanding her medical condition and her use of the contraceptive pill) she was pregnant! Her son was born less than a week ago.
How ayahuasca can work like this is a mystery that has defied Western science since scientists first started studying it, but experiences like these show that it does work (it has also been shown as effective in helping people off addictions and there are reported cases of cancer cures, the healing of deafness, and overcoming anxiety and emotional problems, amongst other things).
i believe it is a great sadness that the Western world is so ready to ban this miracle brew as a 'drug' - especially when their own legal drugs (alcohol, tobacco) and 'medicines' kill so many people each year according to their own official figures. Ayahuasca is a great sacrament and medicine - but soon the only place we will be able to freely take it is in the more enlightened environment and culture of the rainforest.
Visit http://www.thefourgates.com for details of ayahuasca journeys.
Participants preparing ayahuasca during our 2007 Magical Earth Amazon Adventure to work with the ayahuasca shamans.
A number of people email me to ask if the ayahuasca healing experience, such as that offered on the Magical Earth trips (http://www.thefourgates.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=39) i run to Peru can "cure" various infirmities, illnesses, and diseases.
Of course, no-one can offer guarantees of any cure, or even tell you what a "typical" ayahuasca experience might be, because so much depends on other factors: the nature of your illness, your personality, your relationship to spirit, the shamans you work with, the amount of ayahuasca you take, the number of sessions, how the ayahuasca was prepared.... and much else besides.
i did, however, recently come across this personal account of cancer healing with ayahuasca. Again, it offers no guarantee to cure all cancer sufferers or people with any other condition, but it may be interesting in itself:
