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Tlingit Indian Shamans & Their Shaman Soul Catcher Talisman Tools..
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #008080;"><em>I've been interested in the Tlingit Shamans for some time now on my soul journey it was ever since I acquired my own Tlingit…</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #008080;"><em>I've been interested in the Tlingit Shamans for some time now on my soul journey it was ever since I acquired my own Tlingit Indian hand carved Walrus Ivory Shaman Soul Catcher you can see the images of it attached below..but what attracted me to them moreso was their deep connection to their Raven moiety ..continue reading to learn all about this deep connection they hold to Raven & their culture & arts...</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300;"> <span class="font-size-4"><em><strong>These are</strong></em></span><span class="font-size-4"> <strong><em> Tlingit Indian Shaman Ivory or Bone Soul Catchers</em></strong></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #008080;"><em>Carried by a shaman when he pursued the soul of an ailing patient under his care. usually at twilight. The soul fluttered toward the horizon. With the stopper removed from his magic box, the shaman followed it, beguiling it with incantations. When he succeeded in approaching it, he popped it into the box, replaced the stopper, and returned it to the patient, who then recovered.</em></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #008080;"><em><font size="3">A Tlingit is born with a specific and permanent identity constructed in the following order of importance: clan, moiety, house and tribe. There is heavy emphasis upon family and lineage. Tlingits are a matrilineal society and the social structure and relationships are products of the belief that all Tlingits are reincarnates of their ancestors.</font></em></span><br/> <span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #008080;"><em><font size="3"><b><br/> <span style="color: #993300;">Clan</span></b><br/> This is the active and principle organization of the Tlingit societal structure. It dictates the law, life and religion of the Tlingit. Being a part of a clan is the most binding union of your existence as a Tlingit, and it is unchangeable unless you are banished. By in large a person's individualism disappears when a member of a clan because each person must defend the clan in it honor and property at any cost to their person. </font><font size="3"><b><br/> <br/></b></font> <font size="3">Each clan stayed fairly separate and was governed by their own chief and his council. In case of attack each clan's leadership within a tribe would come together and fight as one.<br/> <b><br/></b></font> <span style="color: #993300;"><font size="3"><b>Moiety </b><b>(phratral crests)</b></font></span></em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><br/> <span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #008080;"><em><font size="3"> Moieties are the two equal subdivisions within a clan. They distinguish an imaginary relationship that primarily functioned to organize possible bonds for marriage. The moiety within a clan did not have their own leadership. When born, the Tlingit baby assumed the moiety of their mother--eithe</font><font size="3">r of </font><font size="3">the Eagle or Raven moiety. </font></em></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #008080;"><em><font size="3"><br/></font> <font size="3"><span style="color: #993300;"><font size="5">EAGLE</font></span><br/> <br/></font></em></span></div>
<span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #008080;"><em><font size="3"><br/> <br/> <br/></font> <font size="3"><b>Killer Whale<br/> Brown Bear<br/> Thunderbird<br/> Wolf<br/> <br/> Salmon:<br/> Coho <br/> Dog Salmon</b></font></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #008080;"><em><font size="3"><br/> <b>Frog<br/> Sea Tern (Seagull)<br/></b></font> <font size="3"><b>Beaver<br/> <br/> Salmon:</b><br/> <b>Coho <br/> Dog Sa</b></font></em></span></div>
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<p><br/> <span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #008080;"><em><font size="3"><b> </b></font></em></span><br/> <span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #008080;"><em><font size="3"> <span style="color: #993300;"> <b>Houses</b></span><br/> The places of residence for families and more commonly large extended families are also extensions of clans. These houses were often called long houses. They are a further way in which Tlingit people distinguish themselves. <br/> <br/> Some examples of houses include the Snail House, Brown Bear Den House, Owl House, Crescent Moon House, Coho House, and Thunderbird House or mine, which is the Killer Whale Chasing Seal House.</font></em></span><br/> <span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #008080;"><em><font size="3"><br/></font> <font size="3"><span style="color: #993300;"><b>Tribe</b></span><br/> A tribe typically consisted of two clans that came together due to location (migration) or continued intermarriage. A tribe remained intact for the benefits of mutual protection, and social and economic advantages. A single clan might be a part of a number of tribes--this encouraged peace amongst the clans and tribes.<br/> </font></em></span></p>
<h3 id="sites-page-title-header" align="left" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #993300;"><em><span id="sites-page-title" dir="ltr">Language</span></em></span></strong></span></h3>
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<tbody><tr><td class="sites-layout-tile sites-tile-name-content-1"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #008080;"><em><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;"><font size="3"><font size="4"><b><span style="color: #993300;">Background:</span> </b></font>The Tlingit language is a branch of the Na-Dené language family and has Ancient roots shared with the Tsimshian and possibly the Haida. It is known for its complex grammar and sou</font><font size="3">nd system—certain phonemes are not heard in almost any other language. Some of the grammar of the Tlingit language parallels that of the Athabaskan languages like the Navajo, but it does not share vocabulary with any other language. According to linguists, the Tlingit language may have split from the Athabaskan about 5,000 years ago. <br/> <font size="4"><br/> <span style="color: #993300;"><b>Future:</b></span></font><br/> The language is highly endangered, with fewer than 140 native speakers still living, all of whom are bilingual or near-bilingual in English.<br/> <b><br/> <span style="color: #993300;"><font size="4">Why the language must be preserved:</font></span></b><br/> So much of the Tlingit culture to this day is preserved through memory and oratory communication. Feverish efforts have been taking place to document the knowledge and memories of the elders, but there is only so much documentation can do. Unless youth learn the language, so much of the richness of the culture will be lost. People need to continue to speak and refer to things about the culture using the original language only so much can be translated. We cannot let this language gap continue to expand. <br/> <font size="4"><br/> <span style="color: #993300;"><b>Programs:</b></span></font><br/></font></span></em></span> <br/> <span style="color: #008080;"><em><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;"><font size="3"><span style="color: #993300;"><b><a href="http://www.sealaskaheritage.org/programs/landcult.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span style="color: #993300;">Sealaska Heritage Institute’s language programs</span></a></b></span><br/></font> <font size="3">“Se</font><font size="3">al</font><font size="3">aska Heritage Institute (SHI) produces Native language curriculum and other education tools through its Language and Education Programs. The institu</font><font size="3">te encourages students and teachers to use its online resources to perpetuate and revitalize Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian languages.” SHI also offers many opportunities to connect people to classes and programs to learn the language. </font><font size="3"><br/></font> <font size="3"><b><br/> <span style="color: #993300;"><a href="http://www.stanford.edu/dept/SLP/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span style="color: #993300;">Stanford Special Language Program</span></a></span></b><br/> This is a new program at Stanford that allow for students (2+) to take a class through a distance learning medium. This enables students to learn unique languages beyond the confines of what is offered at the University. Stanford students and students elsewhere could begin to be able to elect to fulfill their language requirements through this outreach medium and dying languages, such as the Tlingit language, could be better preserved.</font></span></em></span></div>
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SHAMAN STONE/MOQUI BALL
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<div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1572733978851_88846"><div class="sqs-block-content"><p class="" style="text-align: center;"><em>These mysterious healing stones also know as Shamanic Star Stones, Mochi Marbles, Thunderballs, Navajo Cherries or Indian Marbles. Geologists call them iron concretions. They formed 25…</em></p>
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<div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" id="block-yui_3_17_2_1_1572733978851_88846"><div class="sqs-block-content"><p class="" style="text-align: center;"><em>These mysterious healing stones also know as Shamanic Star Stones, Mochi Marbles, Thunderballs, Navajo Cherries or Indian Marbles. Geologists call them iron concretions. They formed 25 million of years ago, discovered in north rim of the Grand Canyon in Utah.</em></p>
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With a powerful microscope, the researchers also discovered tiny structures suggestive of microbial life inside the concretions, similar to tubes seen in Martian meteorites.
Moqui balls have a sandstone compressed center with a super hard outer shell of iron ore hematite.</em></p>
<p class="" style="text-align: center;"><em>Moqui balls, are believed to have one of the highest energy vibrations. A round Moqui ball on a flat surface it will dance around until it finally finds it’s setting spot. Below is a video of my dancing Moqui ball.
These odd balls are said to be found in pairs of male and female energy. Many people determine if the Moqui Ball is male or female by the outward appearance. If the skin is smooth and round it is female and rough and disk shaped is male.
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<p class="" style="text-align: center;"><em>These stones have been used in native cultures for thousands of years. For their Shamanic healing, visioning journeys, meditation, and spiritual rituals to connect with ancestors. In addition they were used for physical pain, balance, increasing vibration and other healing purposes. The Shaman would place these stones on the disease, wound or pained body part to remove blockages.</em></p>
<p class="" style="text-align: center;"><em>Simply holding the stones for balancing, aligning the chakras and relaxation, holding the female stone in the left hand and the male stone in the right.
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<p class="" style="text-align: center;"><em>Similar to the Moqui ball stone is the "Boji Stone” which name is a trademarked name for Kansas Pop Rocks, another Master Healing Stone which comes from the wondrous natural formed pyramid formation in Kansas discovered in the late 1970's. Rising above the plains in Gove County in western Kansas is Monument Rocks, a series of large chalk formations formed some 80 million years ago. Also referred to as the Chalk Pyramids.</em></p>
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<p class="" style="text-align: center;"><em>It's also said that if you rub them together in a dark room sparks will occur. Don’t try this at home.
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<p class="" style="text-align: center;"><em>Often called the "living stone" , if the energy is depleted or destroyed, the stone changes molecule structure from 7.4 hardness to dust. Geologists find that this is a most unusual aspect of the this stone, like the human body, when its life force energy leaves, the stone decays, it's chemicals and mineral. elements turn to dust.</em> <br/> <em>
</em><br/> <em>Like the Moqui ball the Boji has a mate, the smooth stone is referred to as the female, and the rough one is male. It's best to purchase they in mates, this will increase they energy. Their healing properties are to balance ying and yang energy, aligning all 7 chakras and to cleanse and protect the aura.
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Toltec Shamanism: The Spiritual Realism | Documentary
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Interview-documentary of french instructor and writer Paul Degryse, which has been been studying, practicing and teaching a form of Toltec shamanism based on the work of Carlos Castaneda and Don Juan, for almost 30…</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Interview-documentary of french instructor and writer Paul Degryse, which has been been studying, practicing and teaching a form of Toltec shamanism based on the work of Carlos Castaneda and Don Juan, for almost 30 years.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>"In a world where humanity stands in the cultural dead-end of materialism, is there a hope for a new form of spirituality that would be respectful of life, uniting, and truly fulfilling for the human being?"</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>More than a simple cultural documentary, the metaphysics of shamanism teach us a fundamental understanding of the basic laws and principles of the universe, and how we can use them in a conscious and practical way through the power of intention, to create a life that we really want.</em></p>
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Shamans of Siberia: powerful healers chosen by spirits
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><em>Shamans of Siberia: powerful healers chosen by spirits</em></strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>In windswept Siberia, Shamans have for generations cured illnesses without touching their patients, sung with their diaphragms and controlled the…</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><em>Shamans of Siberia: powerful healers chosen by spirits</em></strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>In windswept Siberia, Shamans have for generations cured illnesses without touching their patients, sung with their diaphragms and controlled the weather.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Some can travel over long distances and even levitate, hovering above the birch trees.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>They regularly communicate with kind and sometimes evil spirits.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>One of them, Tyurgen, manages to balance Shamanism with life in industrial Chelyabinsk.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Apart from his spiritual activities, he practices a unique musical style - electronic music with folk instruments, throat singing, and folklore-inspired lyrics.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>We also meet a doctor of anthropology who explains what really goes on in a Shaman's brain when he is in a trance state.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>This is not idolatry or fanaticism. It’s pure and simple Spirituality, a way of reconnecting to our ancestors and beyond.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>It’s time to relive their methods so we can truly move forward with full sanity.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Stunning pictures as shamans from around the world gather in Sayan Mountains.</em></p>
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<div class="topListAlt"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>‘I don’t think I even came across a country with as many practicing shamans as Tuva’. Picture: Alexander Nikolsky</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>A shaman, in the dictionary definition, is ‘a person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil spirits, especially among some peoples of northern Asia and North America. Typically such people enter a trance state during a ritual, and practise divination and healing.’</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>These images – giving an extraordinary glimpse inside this largely unknown world – have emerged of a conclave held this summer over nine days near the village Khorum-Dag in Tyva Republic.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>This festival, named ‘Call of 13 Shamans’ was held in an area of Siberia that retains great respect for shamans and was intended as a show of unity by the planet’s most respected practitioners.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>The shamans began by going to different locations in the mountains for three days of meditation, making rites and holding ceremonies.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>The timing had been selected to match the natural cosmic cycles and calculations of experts from various theological schools.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>‘On these days the sky, as if taking a step toward the ridges of the Sayan Mountains, is getting closer. So the inner eye of the wisest shamans of Earth will open new horizons through communication with spirits, planets and stars of far Black Heaven (Cosmos), comprehension of the mysteries of the interaction of stars, planets and Mother Earth in modern times, and what to expect on our planet in the future,’ said the organisers in advance.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>The main organiser was Nikolay Ooorzhak, a hereditary Tyva shaman.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>The event was held with the help of Mongush Kenin-Lopsan, president of the Tyva shamans, and Irina Daryina from Belarus.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Among the participants was Guillermo Kestenbettsa (Peru), Hivshu (Greenland), Kim Dzhong Hee (South Korea), Otakame Rogelio Carrillo (Mexico), Mariman (Gerardo Arrieta Aranda) (Chili), Zhamsuran Chuluunbaator (Mongolia), Kailash Kokopelli (Sweden), Elvil Chilbiir-Kam (Olard Dixon) (Russia) and others.</em></p>
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<div class="topListAlt"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>‘I hope Tyvan shamanism survives in the modern world’, said Mongush Kenin-Lopsan. Picture: Alexander Nikolsky</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photographer Alexander Nikolsky said: ‘We came at the site the day before all the shamans arrived. The locals were not very happy about this, because Khorum-Dag mountain is a sacred place and people should not disturb the spirits. As if to confirm their words, a great storm erupted on the first night.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>‘Then the shamans came and all became quiet; locals even slaughtered a cow to feed us.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>‘The shamans sacrificed sheep, but no one was allowed to make pictures of this.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>‘The rite that you see on the photographs was the rite of opening the gates, like an invitation to the spirits. The tension was so strong that shaman Nikolay Oorzhak lost consciousness, though he doesn’t like to speak about this. There were moments when I coulnd’t shoot, so strong was the feeling of involvement, and there were other moments when my camera stopped working, it just switched off’.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>‘I also helped Kailash Kokopelli in his rites and climbed the mountain with him. It was an incredible experience’.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>As shaman Irina Daryina from Belarus said: ‘Tyva is a special land, with very powerful mountains and many ancient burial mounds’.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Nikolay Oorzhak explained: ‘I don’t think I even came across a country with as many practicing shamans as Tuva. In Kyzyl, which is our capital city, there are several clinics with more than a dozen shamans. There are also shaman clinics all around Tuva, in villages and regional centres’.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>‘To me it has always been a call of my blood; I felt like I belonged shamans, I always sought more knowledge about them and about Buddhism’.</em></p>
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<div class="topListAlt"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>‘There were moments when camera stopped working, it just switched off’. Pictures here and below: Alexander Nikolsky</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>‘I hope that Tyvan shamanism survives and continues its tradition in the modern world’, said Mongush Kenin-Lopsan. ‘Today, despite great advances in science and technology, problems and contradictions increase within familes as much as within and between states. This festival was aimed at helping maintain harmony between human beings and the universe’.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Hivshu, who travelled from Greenland, said: ‘Shamanism, songs, tambourines – this is part of my life, even though I do not consider myself a shaman. I believe in Christ. Perhaps he was a great shaman, and a very nice person who didn’t divide people by rich and poor.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>‘I never lost touch with my ancestors, and their culture. They gave us love for life and people, and we want to pass it on around the world.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>‘There is little story that I keep telling people; it is about an old shaman that met a bishop and told him that he traveled to other worlds, but never saw hell.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>‘The only place that was similar to hell, he said, was on our planet. I want to continue encouraging people to stop treating each other badly and bring more love and joy into their lives’.</em></p>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The Reality of Truth:</span><br></br> <span style="font-size: 18pt;">New Documentary Film Explores the Healing Powers of Psychedelic Plants and Altered States to Help…</span></h1>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The Reality of Truth:</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 18pt;">New Documentary Film Explores the Healing Powers of Psychedelic Plants and Altered States to Help Transform Planetary Culture</span></h1>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="dropcap1">T</span>he Reality of Truth is a new documentary film directed by Laurent Levy and written by Mike “Zappy” Zapolin. The film documents Zappy’s search for deeper, existential meaning as he travels to the Amazon to partake in a psychedelic ritual.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>The documentary opens with a volley of important questions that many of us ask ourselves: <a href="https://www.consciouslifestylemag.com/everything-is-energy-illusion-reality/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">what is reality</a>? Do any of us, even those of us who are successful in life and economically affluent, really know?</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>How do we connect with the spiritual dimensions of our being—for our health, healing and growth—in a materialist society that so glorifies material wealth and affluence as the end-all, be-all?</em></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Diverse Thought Leaders Explore Reality</h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>The Book of Exodus describes a “small round thing”, the “Manna” to be eaten. The Rig Veda references the sacred “soma”, a mysterious plant used for ritual and visionary experience. Zappy starts the film narrative with a phone call to Deepak Chopra to discuss some strange, and controversial, Biblical references that allude to the use of psychedelics. Did ancient civilizations <a href="https://www.consciouslifestylemag.com/psychedelic-trip-safely-explore/">ingest psychoactive substances</a> (we know this to be true, in many cases)?</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>If so, Zappy asks, can we use these substances, along with other altered states of consciousness, to help modern society?</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>In many ways, this documentary answers that question with a resounding yes.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>More so through a deeply personal, sometimes harrowing journey with plant medicines, Zappy and his fellow “psychenauts”, meaning “sailors of the mind”, come to understand how important it is to tend to these inward vistas.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Some of the most compelling parts of this documentary featured thought leaders and spiritual teachers, like Marianne Williamson, John Hagelin, Bruce Lipton, Ram Das, and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Each teacher presents their own take on the deep questions, but if there was a general consensus, it was our society’s materialism isn’t the end-all, be-all—reality is beyond materialism.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Beginning with an exploration of meditative states, Zappy learns about the power and effectiveness of Transcendental Meditation (T.M.) developed by guru Maharishi—the same teacher who became known for being the “spiritual advisor” to The Beatles—and the widespread cultural adoption and interest in contemplative practices.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>What was particularly striking was Christian author and heavy hitter Joel Olsteen’s casual admission, in Zappy’s interview, that the “Manna” in the Bible was probably a mushroom!</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>There are many gems in the documentary that I will leave the reader to discover for themselves, but it’s through these profound conversations with modern wisdom teachers that Zappy receives varied—even sometimes conflicting—opinions on how psychedelics might fit into our lives.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Some, like Marianne Williamson, see psychedelics as a temporary glimpse of the “mountaintop.” Some recommend using them only at at certain <a href="https://www.consciouslifestylemag.com/spiritual-awakening-signs-and-symptoms/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">levels of spiritual attainment</a>. Others, such as a medical professional, can’t recommend them yet, but foresee their legitimate usage in therapeutic settings for end-of-life care. Still others in this section boldly advocate psychedelics that a single session with some psychedelics can rival “ten years of psychotherapy”.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Ultimately, a conversation with Ram Das catalyzes Zappy to take that leap of faith and travel with his friends to Peru for a plant medicine ceremony.</em></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">The Medicine: Healing Stories</h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>San Pedro, “Huachuma”, is a drink made from the San Pedro cactus, used in the Andean region for religious ceremonies for over 5,000 years. Ayahuasca, as more and more people are finding out, is an tryptamine-based plant medicine from the Amazon made out of a combination of two different plants.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>In the Ayahuasca ceremony, Zappy confronted his personal fears around death and discovers how “dynamic” death really is. It also yielded total cosmic visions of universal balance and the sheer joy.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Michelle Rodriguez shares some of the deep pain and loss that the San Pedro helped her to let go. Her Ayahuasca trip also helped her to accept—and even embrace, at a spiritual level—the traumatic loss of her friend and The Fast and the Furious series co-star Paul Walker.</em></p>
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<div><em>After their trip to Peru, the group touches base again with Deepak to reflect on their inward journeys.</em><p style="text-align: center;"></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Zappy learns Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Sudarshan Kriya breathing practice to continue to integrate his plant medicine experience. He is amazed by the ability of Sudarshan Kriya to alter his state of consciousness and, as Sri Sri mentions, it can be done at will. As someone who has personally learned this form of kriya from Sri Sri’s Art of Living retreats, I can attest to the potency of <a href="https://www.consciouslifestylemag.com/prana-energy-breathing-techniques/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pranayama</a>, or breathwork, to shift consciousness into a dynamic, beautiful and receptive state.</em></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Coming Full Circle</h3>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Gerard Powell, who let Deepak and Zappy film together in his beach house, ended up taking the advice of Deepak and trying plant medicine, too. Facing a downward spiral of substance abuse, he traveled to Costa Rica in the hopes that Iboga—a powerful psychoactive plant from Central Africa—might help to cure his addiction.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>During a visionary, healing journey, Gerard uncovered a childhood memory of traumatic sexual abuse. He was able to heal—literally given a new heart by the spirit of the plant medicine—and went on to found the Rhythmia center. <a href="https://www.rythmia.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Rhythmia: Life Advancement Center</a> is a medically licensed resort in Costa Rica, a convergence point of exactly the kind of breathing techniques and plant medicines Zappy has been exploring in this film.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>There are a series of profound connections between Gerard’s experience, Zappy’s quest for answers to our deepest spiritual questions, and that first conversation with Deepak.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>But you’ll have to watch it yourself.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>And find out where this story intersects with yours.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>We’re at an amazing moment in culture. In history. Politics seem worse than they’ve been in a long time. But, more than ever before, our culture is waking up to the potent, entheogenic (literally meaning the divine within) allies of plant medicines and other altered states to transform their lives.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>These allies, when understood properly—as the San Pedro shaman Fredy Puma mentions in the film—can become powerful aids as we work to actualize a personal and collective transformation; but we must be willing to take those next big steps. It cannot take us all the way.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>The Reality of Truth sets the stage for the next step. It asks the viewer, it asks you: what will that be?</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Learn more and watch the film for free here:</strong><span> </span><a href="https://therealityoftruth.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><span>https://therealityoftruth.com</span></a></p>
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<h1 class="title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer" style="text-align: center;">The Reality of Truth (Full Length)</h1>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>If you’ve been contemplating trying Ayahuasca, watch this documentary. This eye- opening film features Deepak Chopra, Michelle Rodriguez, Ram Dass, Marianne Williamson, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and many others. Watch as they share their perspectives and experiences with Ayahuasca, plant medicine and meditation.</em></span></p>
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