The spirit of the plant puts people in touch with their repressed pain and trauma...

Ayahuasca: The power of a plant from the Amazon and the respect it demands

The spirit of the plant puts people in touch with their repressed pain and trauma.

As a Western-trained doctor, I have long been aware of modern medicine's limitations in handling chronic conditions of mind and body. For all our achievements, there are ailments whose ravages we physicians can at best alleviate. In our narrow pursuit of cure, we fail to comprehend the essence of healing.

Thus the popularity of ayahuasca, the Amazonian plant medicine that many Westerners seek out for the healing of physical illness or mental anguish or for a sense of meaning amid the growing alienation in our culture.

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/amazing-power-plant-amazon-and-respect-it-demands

An anthropologist's theory on shamanism and the origins of knowledge completely rewrites our understanding of dna

The shaman’s world is one of allegory, symbolism, metaphor and transcendence into the realms of energy and spirit. Their understanding of the universe and the abundant sentient beings which inhabit it is wildly foreign to the mind of the material scientist. Our best chance, therefore, at bridging the gap between science and spirit may lie in the anthropological study of those tribal cultures whose operating systems permit them to move freely in the metaphysical realms with the assistance of natural hallucinogenic substances.

The shamanic explanation of the origins of life and of the intelligent nature of the plants and animals which inhabit the rainforest are quite unbelievable to most, but a rational approach to understanding their perspective lends extraordinary insight into some of the greatest mysteries of human consciousness.

Author and anthropologist Jeremy Narby set out in the mid 1980’s to do just this, hoping to learn from medicine men of the Amazon jungle about how it is they claim to be able to communicate directly with plants and unseen spirit beings of the forest.

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The Last Shaman - Ayahuasca Journey

James is an all American boy whose promising life is brought to a halt by acute depression. Turning his back on the most progressive western treatments and medicines, James discovers ayahuasca in search of healing in the Peruvian jungle. Over the course of 10 months venturing from Shaman to Shaman, James finds friendship, answers and a kind of redemption hidden deep in the Peruvian amazon. watch the-last-shaman

The 'Water of Life' is the key to unlocking this potential power and awareness of who we really are, as well as why we are here and what we need to be doing in this experience...

They always reveal themselves over time

Pay attention to a person’s actions, pay attention to a corporation or government body’s overall actions, and follow the trail to the hidden motivation. It is there that their real intentions can be observed. Generally on this planet we can follow the money and see where it leads, from the destruction it wields. The imposter cannot hide themselves 100 percent of the time, they always reveal themselves over time.

Lament singing: An ancient tradition that helps people cope with trauma in the modern world

In Finland, lament singing is experiencing a revival, one sad song at a time.

Lament singing: An ancient tradition that helps people cope with trauma in the modern world -- Science of the Spirit -- 

To the people of Karelia,

souls and spirits born in beauty:

Through the windows were your green fields,

in the blue skies larks were singing,

saints and icons stood in silence,

watching over wooden log homes.

Kanteles echoed in the dark rooms,

and the stars blinked in the night sky,

but your thoughts were wrapped in darkness:

iron hail rained on your rooftops

Entomologists: Where have all the insects gone?

Entomologists: Where have all the insects gone? -- Earth Changes

What is appropriate and what is not?

Growth is not measured by what one accomplishes (in life) but rather by (our realization of) inner truths. These inner truths are always available from within. There is no greater help than what you carry within yourself. Hear your own song so that you may learn to sing…

Hale Makua

The common welfare

Dickens' The Christmas Carol has a profound message for us regarding our agenda.

Marley's Spirit has learned "on the other side" that:

Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!

Creation is conducive to the particular lessons

Each and every soul, depending on their past lives and depending on their evolutionary intention for this life will create a family, a religion, and a belief system that is conducive to the particular lessons that they are seeking learn in this lifetime.
Timelines offer various choices for our collective experience, and infinite possibilities for our individual experience...
To me that says that there is a certain amount of subjectivity to the truth, that God is evolving, creator is evolving and as each one of us expands our consciousness, we are expanding as the leading edge of the universe and god is creating and expanding with and through us and is so experiencing itself in new ways. There are natural laws and also specific subjective truths that we each need in order to learn and to develop certain soul aspects in each specific incarnation.
Kaypacha Astrology for the Soul May 3, 2017