Heart of the Initiate - ayahuasca lectures

A Closer Look

Webmaster — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:04:13 -0600

We invite you to have 'A Closer Look' at the Heart of the Initiate ayahuasca workshops in Brazil. We'll take you on an experiential journey with the sacred plants to have a deeper understanding of who you really are. In the stunning natural beauty of our location, we'll explore the vast inner worlds of this visionary medicine.

"The truly remarkable thing about this plant medicine ayahuasca is that it is presenting to you a whole new arena of consciousness. In the moment I think that's where this reconnection happens, this remembering, this reconnection with yourself. In this moment you can have a sense of the sacredness of every action that you make." - Ralph Miller, Heart of the Initiate

Logos: The Living Word

Webmaster — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:44:03 -0500

New Live Lecture by Ralph Miller!

Click to play. (Right click to download.) 31:12 minutes (28.6 MB)

Recorded live on March 16th, 2008 during our workshops in Brazil, listen to Ralph Miller lecture about the intelligence of nature and the origins of language.

"Ayahuasca activates the language centers in human consciousness. There is an ancient mystical Greek philosophy called the Logos. The Logos was 'the word'. Through the Logos, all things that came into being were made. The Greek mystics felt that there was a language that existed beyond three dimensional, temporal human language. That it would be a four or five dimensional language that can call into existence all that is."

"It is important to have an awareness that this is a sentient intelligence. It is the port that human beings can plug into to interface with the intelligence of nature."

"It's quite likely that in the early stages into our lives we were existing in a state where our brains and our neurochemistry were bathed in these transcendent molecules. I am fascinated with some of the writing and studies that a Swiss psychologist names Jean Piaget did on infant brain development. Just after childbirth, everything that is happening for the baby is experienced as its world and it has not made a differentiation between itself and something other than itself."

"Aluna is another world that is a part of our world that we don't have a perspective with. It exists outside of temporal time and the reality that we experience. Events that are happening in the past, events that are happening now and events that are in the future are all existing simultaneously."

Destiny

Webmaster — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:25:22 -0500

New Live Lecture by Ralph Miller!

Click to play. (Right click to download.) 35:40 minutes (32.6 MB)

Recorded live on September 2nd, 2007 during our workshops in Brazil, listen to a lecture by Ralph Miller about approaching our own individual Destiny.

Each of us look at the circumstances that brought us here and the desire to approach our own individual destiny. We agree to put one foot in front of the other towards something that we are completely ill prepared for. Our destiny is unavoidable. Our egos take great comfort in the belief that we have choice in the decisions that we make. But free will is ultimately not reconcilable with Destiny. Destiny is a place and a point where you will be without option. It is because of your own design and your own desire that you create your Destiny.

The Ayahuasca medicine is like a crossroads between the natural world and human beings. It is an encounter with an intelligence that is far older than human intelligence. The origin of who we are is embedded in a symbiosis with nature. Perhaps you are here because the plant decided to partake in you. The plant decided that it wanted to drink you.

It makes you feel the awesome nature of the Destiny that you are involved in. There is nothing that is out of reach for the interaction between this plant and human consciousness. As we approach this ceremony, I would invite you all to have an anticipation and a respect for the Destiny that each of you created in your own life to be here in this place today.

Appreciation from the Heart

Webmaster — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:46:40 -0500

New Live Lecture by Shaman Warinei Wanare!

Click to play. (Right click to download.) 19:09 minutes (8.77 MB)

Recorded live on April 2nd, 2007, in Brazil, listen to a lecture by Shaman Warinei Wanare about being grateful from our hearts. In this talk, Warinei reminds us that when we point our finger at others, three of our fingers are pointing at ourselves.

Always be grateful from you heart. It is one thing to be grateful from words, but it is another thing to be grateful from our hearts. To be grateful from our hearts we have to have a clean heart. We have to review our mistakes to remove them so the ancestral word can be born from this space, the world that comes from the origin.

When you are being grateful or are giving thanks, that means that you are living together with the sacredness, or living in the sacredness. Because to live in the sacredness doesn't mean that you are above or below the rest of the people. You are just giving the respect that each person deserves. The respect that each animal, each living being deserves in the earth. That's a way of living sacredly.

Translated by Sara Ñusta.

Listen to Warinei's lecture from last week.

Two New Lectures - Live from Last Week!

Chapman — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:34:42 -0500

We just put up two new lectures given live last week!

The first lecture by Shaman Warinei Wanare is from March 14th, 2007, and is called The Four Sicknesses of Humanity.

The second lecture by Ralph Miller is from March 16th, 2007, and is called Plant-Human Intervention.

Please have a look at these two new lectures fresh and live from our Brazil Ayahuasca Workshops.

Plant-Human Intervention by Ralph Miller

Webmaster — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:11:17 -0500

Click to play 44:35 minutes (20.41 MB)

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..."

The Four Sicknesses of Humanity by Warinei Wanare

Webmaster — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:00:09 -0500

Click to play 47:45 minutes (21.86 MB)

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."

Episode 001

Webmaster — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:23:35 -0600

53:06 minutes (24.33 MB)

We are excited to offer the first episode of our podcast!

In this podcast, we invite you to listen to a lecture given by Ralph Miller on the sacred plant medicine Ayahuasca. Making the assumption that listeners know nothing about this ancient plant teacher, Ralph talks about what Ayahuasca is and tells the story of how it is moving out of the jungle and into the Western consciousness, helping humans create a bridge back to our ancient past, a reconnection to the sacred primal force within us all. In the process, he explains the distinction between what we call "drugs" and the Ayahuasca plant medicine. Ralph also touches on some of the biological and chemical aspects of our brain's inherent connection with the active ingredient in the Ayahuascsa brew, dimethytriptamine (DMT), through our pineal gland.

Throughout the podcast, Peter and Chapman pause the lecture to clarify some questions that might come up for the listeners.

We are very happy to offer this new technology to everyone interested in our workshops.

Implanted by Ralph Miller

Webmaster — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:56:11 -0600

25:36 minutes (29.3 MB)

The only thing that the plants would want us to do is just to stop and listen. To actually show up for our lives. Your life changes after experiencing these sacred plants because you have turned on a brain function, you've turned on a perception that you didn't have before. There is a biological switch that is flipped.

Pulling Back the Curtain by Ralph Miller

Webmaster — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:54:31 -0600

20:18 minutes (9.3 MB)

Recorded live from our June 2006 workshops in Brazil, listen to Ralph Miller talk about the movement of westerners seeking alternatives to today's ego based society in the ancient wisdom of the plants.