Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever have: Redemption songs;Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.- Redemption Song, Bob Marley
Many people have sent us their stories of their own awakening.
Although some of these stories have come from past workshop participants, we encourage anyone to send us their own story.
For some it is about overcoming fear and negative beliefs. For others it is a complete departure from an 'old self' and then experiencing a dramatic reawakening.
The telling of your story can have a profound healing effect on others.
Please be considerate of others that you refer to in your stories. We will post many of the submissions that we receive. If you have a photo of yourself that you like and want it posted with your story, please send it along as well.
Be sure to include a title.
Please send all submissions to songs@heartoftheinitiate.com or send them via our contact form.
Redemption Songs
Ayahuasca Experience by Lee V.
I had to surrender any expectations I had regarding my experience. I had allowed the plant medicine to enter me and she had begun her healing work. I felt myself going in deeper, and all of a sudden came face to face with my Goddess. I recognized her immediately, as I have known her all my life. She was beautiful. I was left feeling light, peaceful, and totally high on love.
My Journey on Ayahuasca by Anthony Brown
The journeys showed me that healing happens through presence and that consciousness is in the now, not the past or the future. It told me to feel into my body and helped me open my heart. It showed me my inner being and how I create my reality. And the biggest insight it gave me was that love of self and others is the only answer, 'nothing else BUT love'.
Ayahuasca - My Healer by Susie Bibby
I am not looking for sympathy here only an understanding of what prompted me to take part in Ayahuasca ceremonies after learning that the medicine was a great healer.
This process allows you to relive the experience to gain new understanding and insight enabling resolution or closure. It often results in re-evaluation of your life course with strong tendency and resolution to pursue positive changes to improve your life with renewed purpose and mission. Now I have peace...
Only Love Can Bring The Rain by Matthew Delooze
Ayahuasca has confirmed to me that this world is an illusion created by mass thought. Sadly I believe the collective thoughts of the human race have been hijacked by a very deceptive force and we live lives that the hijackers want us to live. I believe we can change this world by changing mass thought and if the majority of minds can wake up to what is really going on then a massive spiritual shift is possible and we will reconnect with the paradise world that I have been shown and seen.
A Safe, Friendly Embrace by Big Brother Aya by Bill Blake
Aya does generate different responses because each drinker possesses a distinct psychological predisposition. Yet the results are the same. One result is the lessening of the false self, ego, or conditioned thinking—that sneering voice inside our minds always ready to take over the driver’s seat in our life-car. A second result is an opening to greater energy, clarity, and love, and, for some, entry into exotic psychic dimensions.
Density | Moment by Martha Lategan
Are You looking for something?
Searching for a sign as you put one foot in front of the other, with each step moving through your destiny.
My Story by Edward Rodriguez
In the nine years since, I have embarked on spiritual journeys and the discoveries I have been making since are nothing short of extraordinary. In a nutshell, I have come to understand that Truth and Sobriety are two powerful allies, that Forgiveness and Reconciliation are two powerful spears, and that Love is the Shield that sets me free.
Who Am I Without It? by Penny Bush
I've been searching all my life & even though I've run across a few people and a few techniques, I've still to unlock the veil that now imprisons me and I'm scared. It's been so long since I've been without it. It has a life now. It has a memory. It nourishes me.
My Experience in Barbados by Pascal Cauwe
Life does not become pain-free once you start following your heart - but you learn that there is a place beyond the pain - beyond the ego - a place that is eternal - a place that is you... Pain doesn't have the same meaning as before - it's not threatening anymore - it's just part of life - part of being human.
Perfect by Carrie Strull
You start to feel your true connection,the connection that you had when you came into this world, the feeling that you know that you are truly connected to something deeper than this, and for a brief moment you know that you are perfect.