Tag: ayahuasca

  • Death For Newbies: Part 2

    Death For Newbies: Part 2

    As I revealed in my last shamanic blog, I am going to be resting my Newbies series for a while, although, please do feel free to email me any suggestions for future articles, which you would like to read, as I want to publish a few articles about my experiences in Egypt and my subsequent…

  • Audible Review: The Shaman in Stilettos

    Audible Review: The Shaman in Stilettos

    In this week’s Audible Review, I will be discussing Anna Hunt’s novel, The Shaman in Stilettos, the true tale of how a modern woman falls for a charismatic shaman in Peru. The Shaman in Stilettos You have to give it to Anna Hunt – it’s a cracking title. In fact, I first heard about this…

  • Cacao For Newbies

    Cacao For Newbies

    This is the seventh in my weekly (every Friday) series of blog posts ‘For Newbies’, in which I attempt to outline the basic practices and terminology of shamanism in as clear and easy to understand prose as I can. This one is about the sacred plant medicine, Cacao. I enjoyed reading about Ayahuasca in your…

  • Ayahuasca For Newbies – Part Two

    Ayahuasca For Newbies – Part Two

    This is the sixth in my new weekly (every Friday) series of blog posts ‘For Newbies’, in which I attempt to outline the basic practices and terminology of shamanism in as clear and easy to understand prose as I can. This one is about the sacred plant medicine, Ayahuasca. I’ve split this article into two…

  • Ayahuasca For Newbies – Part One

    Ayahuasca For Newbies – Part One

    This is the fifth in my new weekly (every Friday) series of blog posts ‘For Newbies’, in which I attempt to outline the basic practices and terminology of shamanism in as clear and easy to understand prose as I can.    This one is about the sacred plant medicine, Ayahuasca. I’m going to split this…

  • Creative Use of the Audible Format – Part One

    Creative Use of the Audible Format – Part One

    Apologies for the delay in posting this, which was due to an extraordinary visit I undertook to Egypt (details of this, coming soon to this website!). This is the fourth in a regular weekly series (every Wednesday) of 4 Audible reviews, broken down into the categories, which I selected for my first Audible blog (Dan’s…

  • Shamanism for Newbies

    Shamanism for Newbies

    I thought that I would start a new weekly (every Friday) series of blog posts ‘For Newbies’ to outline the basic practices and terminology of shamanism in as clear and easy to understand prose as I could. I’m going to start with the question my mother regularly asks me… What exactly is a shaman? A…

  • Embrace of The Serpent

    ‘Embrace of the Serpent’ is a film about the Amazonian shaman, Karamkate, who travels the river, forty years apart, with two separate German ethnologists, searching for the mysterious and psychedelic Yakruna plant.

  • Ayahuasca

    It is a common misconception that shamans around the world make use of mind-altering substances to ‘journey’ (see my previous post, ‘How to journey’). Whilst some do, it’s worth noting that the majority do not. Entering an altered state is perfectly possible to achieve through setting your intention and visualising. And what is the best…