Tag: meditation
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Ayahuasca Again (Oct’23) Part2
(Contd.) 3 Aya ceremonies I took part in, in Oct’2023 and the aftermath: SHARING THE GIFT OF MY STORY & ART WITH FELLOW SEEKERS: One evening, I managed to have all my fellow seekers at the retreat gathered in one place, after we had had a short little hike as a group. I nervously spoke…
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Ayahuasca Again (Oct’2023) Part1
An account of the second time I got to sit in Ayahuasca ceremonies (October’ 2023): In mid 2023, it seemed like I would be getting another chance at sitting with the Ayahuasca energy, with the same shaman and team that I sat with in 2020. I was excited. This time things were vastly different from…
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Me, MaryJane & I
A Story of my budding relationship with MaryJane: Ever since I have come in touch with plant medicine, a journey that began with Ayahuasca, I speak to a Higher Power – usually I refer to Her as Mumma (Mumma Aya) and ask her for help when I need it, ask her for advice or answers…
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Mind on Magic Mushrooms (2)
More Lessons from Magic Mushrooms: There was this one time when I took 1g mushrooms (in capsule form), at evening time, in Kanpur. I had my privacy and would remain undisturbed. But I made a few key mistakes on this occasion and suffered the well-deserved consequences. Firstly, I had not fasted for 8 hours like…
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L.S.D. Love, Sensuality & Desire:
That time I experimented with LSD: One day I became rather lucky, in that I received a first opportunity to try LSD. No need to get into the details of how and when. And who. Let’s just say that ever since I decided to unlearn and go forth into the Unknown, the Gods, angels and…
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Post-Ceremony Process (6) – Talking to Her
One thing that became a regular part of my routine life, after ingesting Ayahuasca, is The Conversation with Her. Yes, I frequently speak with Her, to Her, at Her. And after this many years (FOUR!), I do believe and understand it in my bones – SHE IS LISTENING and RESPONDING. All the time. In the…
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Post Ceremony Process (4)… The Art
Before I begin with this crucial piece of my journey with Ayahuasca, I must briefly describe/ re-iterate a pivotal event from my childhood. The memory lacks details like my exact age, or the before and after of the event. It’s like my brain blocked it out to survive. Don’t know. I was a little girl…
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Post-ceremony ‘Process’ (2)
One of the big missteps I took back then, right after coming back from my first Ayahuasca retreat was to stay in the mind, not grounding myself to this reality. All I wished to do was to escape. To escape back into the DMT world, with its dark tunnels of snake skin, with its dimly…
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3rd ceremony (2020) – part 3
For everyone else in the circle, the ceremony and the retreat had come to a satisfying close, but not for me. At least not yet. While everyone was dispersing, chatting, giggling, high-fiving, I was lying down sideways on my mattress, feeling & looking zonked. I could see everyone around me jubilating, making plans for the…
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3rd Ayahuasca Ceremony (2020) – Part 2
(continued from before…) As I wrote in the earlier post about the Third Ceremony, I felt as if Mamma Aya wasn’t talking to me at all that day. She kept dodging me, confusing me, spinning me around, putting me behind stranger’s eyes. I struggled to remember who I was (Anjuri, a woman, 36 years old,…
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Ayahuasca Calling – Part 1
I happened to be one of the few incredibly fortunate Indian people who got to sit in Ayahuasca ceremonies just before Covid-19 lockdowns began in India (March 2020). I signed up for the ceremonies (without knowing anything at all about the medicine and her process) in Jan’2020, after saying a nonchallant ‘No’ a few times.…
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