Over the course of this last year Warinei Wanare has spent a great deal of time with his own mentors of the Sikuani tribe in the eastern Orinoquia region of Colombia. This region is legendary for its wealth of healing and psychoactive plant medicines. There are more sacred plants here than anywhere else in the world.

The Sikuani have ancient healing traditions that use sacred words or prayers. During the ayahuasca ceremony these prayers are sung over the people and invoke healing. The language is sacred and comes from a place in the spiritual worlds. Warinei continues to bring forth their knowledge and healing traditions to share with people from all over the world.

Over the course of this last year Warinei Wanare has spent a great deal of time with his own mentors of the Sikuani tribe in the eastern Orinoquia region of Colombia. This region is legendary for its wealth of healing and psychoactive plant medicines. There are more sacred plants here than anywhere else in the world.

The Sikuani have ancient healing traditions that use sacred words or prayers. During the ayahuasca ceremony these prayers are sung over the people and invoke healing. The language is sacred and comes from a place in the spiritual worlds. Warinei continues to bring forth their knowledge and healing traditions to share with people from all over the world.

A lecture by Ralph Miller given to a group of new arrivals today, March 20th, 2007! on the morning of the first Ayahuasca ceremony.

"We are all here in a desire to explore a shamanic path, an experience with shamanism. By shamanism, specifically in a shamanic ceremony, we will be ingesting a shamanic plant medicine that has been used for thousands of years in indigenous cultures to bring us to a place of consciousness beyond what our normal daily awake experience is.

The recommendations that many of you have read about or heard about have to do with this concept of "letting go" as you enter into this shamanic ceremony. In many ways, the shamanic path has to do with letting go, it's a relaxing to a potential within yourself that you are not accustomed to, that you have not experienced in your day to day life."

A lecture by Ralph Miller from the second week of our March 2007 Ayahuasca workshops in Brazil.

"On some level, many of us may make the choice to come to this plant as a conscious choice that has to do with our own life path, to be awake rather than asleep, to disengage from a repetitious life and come into a fuller expression of who we are. It may be an individual agenda to enhance our own life. There may be others of us who come to a place in our lives where this medicine is a sort of last resort to be of service to ourselves and humans and serve a higher consciousness in the collective.

In the illusionary scheme of things, our decision to come to this plant has much to do with ourselves and little to do with the plant. People think, "I am going to go to Brazil and I am going to take this plant". However, many of you may have also experienced what I am about to say through some sort of strange synchronicities that you may have chalked up to be just "coincidences". But in a way that defies cause and effect, there is an intelligence in this plant that on some level, while we think we are deciding to come and drink the plant, on another level the plant is choosing us to come here so that she can drink of us.

This has to do with the idea of a plant-human intervention..."

A lecture by Shaman Warinei Wanare from our March 2007 Ayahuasca workshops in Brazil.

The only way to learn is to be awake in every moment of your life. In every decision that you make, watch to see if you are actively living in that very moment. This will be your guard from the 'sicknesses' that you face as you walk on the shamanic path.

The lecture mentions these sicknesses, and how to avoid being affected by them.

"Everything is a shamanic act. The plants, like the elders say, are the key that allow us to know ourselves a little more. When we are taking this plant into ourselves we are opening this key so we can have access to other dimensions to learn how to act in this one, and to act in this reality to put into practice what we have learned from these plants. It doesn't make any sense to go and visit other realities if we don't put into practice in this dimension what we have learned.

The most important this is to have an impeccable attitude. The heart of the human being is so vulnerable that we need these plants to know how to act. They allow us to be awake. If we are really awake, we are experiencing life in every moment. But if we just get lost in the daily life, a lot of problems start and we start to struggle in our outlook on life and the path we are walking."

News for the Soul Live Radio Interview (February 14th, 2007)

Listen to our second live interview with News for the Soul radio. Show host Nicole Whitney speaks with Peter Richardson about the ayahuasca medicine experience but takes us in a different direction from our original interview 4 years ago. When we speak during our Brazil ayahuasca workshops the talks are always dynamic and spontaneous, about connecting with the present moment. So in Nicole's words "let's just talk and see where it goes!"

Join us to hear more about our workshops, how we came to take people from all over the world to this sacred medicine, and ideas about how this medicine helps people to understand who they really are. They key question in approaching this sacred journey is to ask yourself "why"?

News for the Soul radio show is host to the largest free life changing media resource on the world wide web. Hosted by Nichole Whitney, their Vancouver based radio is an internationally syndicated radio and internet broadcasting show.

Programmed Spacemen is a synth-and-beat-driven exploration of people's capacity to be programmed into a life of everlasting "sameness". It is disguised and thus hard to hear, but there are some distored lyrics in the background which say: "There are programmed spacemen all over the place."

This track represents what you could think of as a contained psychedelic space, one which is neither scary nor blissful, but simply ever-present with a steady flow or rhythm. Some might consider it ak