January 28, 2023
I first turned conscious of this episode’s podcast visitor, Hamilton Souther, after I heard him interviewed by Aubrey Marcus in an enchanting dialogue about “sorcery vs. drugs.”
Hamilton was later launched to me by a mutual pal, and though we have spoken a number of occasions previously, I’ve by no means had the chance to interview him on my podcast.
Because the information and founder at Blue Morpho, Hamilton is not any bizarre “shaman.” Slightly, he’s a grasp Ayahuasca Shaman who moved from the US to Peru in his early 20s to seek out out if there was any fact behind mysticism and Shamanism, then ended up changing into one of many few non-native males to ever be initiated into the normal methods of Ayahuasca Shamanism.
Hamilton now operates the therapeutic middle Blue Morpho, primarily based in Iquitos, Peru, the place he hosts visitors from all around the world and in our on-line world. Blue Morpho provides complete on-line retreats, programs, merchandise, and reserving providers to help people of their private transformation journey.
By Shamanic Dieta, an historical expertise that appears to medicinal vegetation from the rainforest, Blue Morpho restores stability, concord, and life-force vitality to your physique. On-line ceremonies with skilled shamans are held in cooperation with physique practices lessons, aiming to construct bodily energy whereas recharging each thoughts and spirit for fulfilling life targets and intentions.
Throughout our dialogue, you may uncover:
-Who’s Hamilton Souther?…06:39
- Ayahuasca shaman
- Turning into a grasp Ayahuasca shaman
- Eager about mysticism and medicinal vegetation
- Studied anthropology and heard tales about extraordinary actuality
- Spontaneous awakening and shift in consciousness
- Extraordinary experiences
- Prophetic desires or deep interior realizing or callings
- Spontaneous awakening led him to Peru
- Began after giving his life to spirit
- Interior voice calling to Peru got here by way of meditation
- Got here from a western medical household and full science background
-Coming to Peru and experiencing the Ayahuasca ceremony…13:44
- Backpacking and searching for mystics and religious guides
- First Ayahuasca ceremony in Amazon forests
- Clear imaginative and prescient to remain, reside, and study there
- Shaman is an imported time period
- Folks within the forest with an attention-grabbing perception round drugs; spirit is interconnected and intra-linked with drugs
- Medical doctors of the forest are known as medico vegetalistas or plant docs
- Finding out tribal information concerning the plant drugs
- A whole bunch of vegetation in use for various diseases
- Diagnostic processes and coverings
- Ayahuasca is used to deal with the spirit
- Additionally treating gastrointestinal points
- How is Ayahuasca administered?
- As a tea, it is a mixture of a wide range of vegetation that when mixed kind ayahuasca
- It is mainly the mix of those two vegetation collectively that’s the base of ayahuasca
- Pharmacologically, ayahuasca comprises harmaline which permits DMT to be absorbed and trigger visions
- Administered in a ceremony by a medico vegetalista or shaman
- Shamans information visionary and therapeutic experiences
- Microdosing is one thing that has been created within the west and is not actually shared within the conventional cultures
- Tribal makes use of transcend medical
-Is the observe of Ayahuasca amongst a wider inhabitants a brand new phenomenon?…23:14
- In conventional cultures solely shamans use Ayahuasca repeatedly
- Altered states of consciousness present medical info
- After analysis, they prescribe plant drugs
- Hamilton’s private expertise on diagnosing with Ayahuasca
- Speculation on how diagnosing happens
-Interacting with the religious world and different entities…30:20
- It’s a shared area with other forms of beings
- Many critical unanswered questions on them
- Hamilton’s expertise with spirits
-Shamanic battles…36:48
- Shamanic warriorship within the Amazon
- Life and dying fights in altered states with no guidelines, no referees
- Conflicts between completely different teams and other people
- Hamilton’s expertise with shamanic battles
- Helped folks to heal from these battles
- You are in an altered actuality you’ll be able to’t get out of; you hear it, odor it, see it, sense it
- There’s finally no method out of it aside from to struggle your method out by way of to the opposite facet
- The shortest battles we had been ever in may have lasted 5 to 10 minutes
- The longest ones, 10 to fifteen hours at a time, went on for a lot of, a few years
- Many visionary fields open up on the similar time
- You see entities and shamans you struggle in opposition to
- You see what’s going on round you
- Together with your eyes open or closed, you see precisely the identical factor
- Hamilton’s first assault – very intense expertise
- Imaginative and prescient of varied predatory animals
- Imaginative and prescient of an individual that has attacked
- Lasted 4 hours
- Misplaced and ended up very sick
- In search of individuals who healed him of that after which they finally began to coach him
-Is there a threat for people who find themselves coming to expertise plant drugs?…45:17
- There’s at all times a threat related to it anytime folks use these substances or these vegetation
- Want to seek out credible and accountable folks to host these experiences
- The influence of the rising reputation of these items
- Optimistic – preserving the tradition
- Destructive – unregulated trade with an incredible variety of untrained shamans or charlatans
- 10-20 years of studying course of is required to get to the very best stage
- The true function is therapeutic which requires a talented chief to take an individual from sickness to therapeutic
-Music and chants with plant drugs…49:50
- The ikaros or chants related to the practices are each handed down technology after technology and have been confirmed to work and have a really particular function
- Understanding how and when to make use of completely different sorts of ikaros and ceremonies takes years and is a real artwork kind in its personal proper
- Digital recording lacks vitality and actual presence
-The malpractice of shamanism and tips on how to be secure…51:59
- Some folks report a sense of being possessed after their expertise with a shaman
- It’s potential and represents malpractice of shamanism
- Much like a western physician doing one thing unethical that might make them lose their license
- The right way to keep spiritually secure in that area
- The primary safety is your coronary heart and love; your coronary heart is a middle of affection and large energy
- Ask vegetation for his or her safety
- An important is connection to supply – your true religion and perception
-Hamilton’s religious observe on each day foundation…57:24
- Very busy each day life
- Makes use of brief moments to affirm the connection
- Categorical love and gratitude
- Ben’s story about his expertise with a healer
- Sustaining a relationship with God
- Intense devotional time 12-15 occasions a month
- Hamilton’s observe relies in absolute unconditional love for Divinity
- Podcast with Issam Nemeh:
- Miracles Each Day by Maura Poston Zagrans
-The place is the way forward for plant drugs?…1:02:05
- Area Journey Well being
- Science and plant drugs coming collectively
- Scientific research of therapeutic capacities
- Hybridization
- Artificial vs pure plant drugs
- The priority is what you lose with synthetics
- Synthetics are much less religious
-Closing phrases…1:07:40
-And way more…
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