The Puma, The Snake, and The Condor. If you have spent some time in the Peruvian Amazon (and I have, and I do), this triad will be familiar. These three animals represent the ‘Inca Trilogy’. In this mythology, the animals are meant to represent different planes of existence. The Snake, low to the ground and […]
Sometime around the 5th grade you probably learned about ‘homonyms’ – those coincidental situations where two words either looked the same, or sounded the same, but actually meant entirely different things; flower and flour comes to mind. And for the uninitiated, you may notice that a similar coincidence seems to exist in the world of […]
If you have spent time preparing for an ayahuasca retreat you’ve probably come across a few terms that look synonymous – a ‘diet’ and a ‘dieta’. While they sound alike, in fact the terms refer to quite different aspects of the medicine work. So what is the difference between an ayahuasca preliminary ‘Diet’ and a […]