Heart of the Initiate - ralph miller

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.

Episode 002

Webmaster — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:05:27 -0500

Click to play. (Right click to download.) 37:14 minutes (17.11 MB)

Welcome back!

In this podcast, we invite you to listen to a variety show with segments from various lectures from our March 2007 Brazil Ayahuasca Workshops.

Lectures by Shaman Warinei Wanare (translated by his assistant Sara Ñusta), Ralph Miller and Peter Richardson, with music by Chapman.

The final ten minutes of the podcast consists of a testimonial by Professor Bill Blake who was with us for several weeks in March of this year. Bill does a great job of relating his thoughts and feelings after an intensive Heart of the Initiate workshop experience.

The podcast closes with a few final words from Ralph.

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..."

Ralph Introduction

Ralph — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:38:50 -0600

1:56 minutes (2.66 MB)

Even from his adolescent years, Ralph Miller has passionately pursued his quest for spiritual understanding. He was compelled to learn and understand everything first hand and by experience. By the age of 18, he had traveled to over 15 countries around the world. His personal interactions with a wide variety of diverse cultures, religions and people at such a young age made a life-altering impression on Ralph. A powerful sense of compassion for the brotherhood of man awakened in him.

A successful business owner during the 70's and 80's, Ralph continued to ardently investigate world religions as well as alternative philosophies. He discovered that humans express true spirituality from the heart, and that the heart is the doorway to the divine.

Ralph is a loving father of five amazing daughters.

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.

The 2012 Problem

Webmaster — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 16:40:54 -0600

Article by Ralph Miller

In the September 2006 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine there is a very interesting article on Daniel Pinchbeck, author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism, and his use of the Ayahuasca medicine. I wanted to let you know of this interesting article and reference a few quotations from it in this article.

Humanity exists in a relationship with the plant kingdom. Some plants give us nourishment for our bodies. Some plants have medicinal properties and can help to heal illnesses and injuries to our bodies. And still other plants can offer nourishment to our souls. Indigenous cultures that use these plants consider them to be 'teacher plants' because they transmit a wisdom that is outside of everyday human consciousness.

Ayahuasca is a teacher plant that has been in use by Amazonian cultures for thousands of years. It has only been in the last few decades that an awareness of it has emerged for people from modern western cultures. Many, like Pinchbeck, feel it is a bridge for humanity from a collective forgetfulness back to a human harmony with nature. If we can actually remember who we are and our connection to nature, it will create a quantum evolution in our consciousness.