There's a story in the bible about God providing mana from Heaven
Food to sustain the israelites while they're wandering in the wilderness
But it never said specifically what it was. What was this mana from Heaven
When I asked that question, I had no idea how much my life was about to change
The first miracle that jesus was reported to have done was turning water into wine at a wedding
the story goes that they ran out of wine and
Jesus put a portion of the Mana into the water that they boiled as tea
He told the waiters to pass it out as wine
So I call up Deepak and I said Deepak. I gotta talk to you. I go. I just found some stuff in the bible
That's not making any sense. I think I found some psychedelics in there. I think there's meditation like what do you think and he's?
Quiet on the phone, and I was like Deepak are you there and he said yeah? He said
Where'd you where'd you find this exactly like send me what you're talking to me about what do you want to do Deepak?
What should we do about this you want to write something up and Deepak was like this is too important
It's like why don't we have a conversation about this could part of the religious experience have to do with plant sacraments
In deep box tradition the mystery plant Soma was used to bring people to communion with God
Could have been that the hymns of the Rig veda
Were actually son to this plant which had no seeds?
That had no flowers that was really mushrooms
There's a scene in the movie Noah starring Russell crowe where he has a dream that he's underwater with animals floating past
He wakes up knowing that God wants him to do something, but he doesn't know what?
He goes and sits with the wise man in the cave played by Anthony hopkins
Who gives him some pSychedelic team he drinks it and has a detailed vision of exactly what God wants him to do
first of all that's a possibility
Secondly why does our brain have receptors to these things well because we are part of the same nature
you know we're not separate from nature science is based on a subject object split on the
Separation that is artificial me and the universe when in fact, I'm also part of the universe more so the same
electrical storms that create thunder and lightning in the sky
Create synaptic firings in my brain which creates thought
We are part of a wholeness and what the religious experience is to experience that wholeness. What is enlightenment?
But being one with the source so whilst they gave people
What I wouldn't even call altered state of consciousness, I wouldn't call them hallucinations
they have people break out of the everyday in the elucidation of separation and to
The reality of truth and whether they did it through wine or mana or so ah who cares doesn't even make any sense?
How could these ancient?
Plants that connect you to God be somehow taken out
Could these plants be the ancient wisdom that we need for our modern problems?
What we call today everyday reality which we take for normal
Lives on less than two dollars a day the environment is totally screwed up, and we say this is normal
It's psychotic right and it's psychotic because we have created it
What do you think it would take to break through that boundary at this point man here. We are in this 21st century
That's of a budget. We'll bring everybody down at her room and
Enlighten the foots of the parts, and that's tricky
I'm in
the Deepak Chopra
Just tell me to go down to Peru and drink Ayahuasca tea one of the most powerful pSYchedelics known to man
still dazed by with Deepak had recommended
I bumped into our friend Jerry who had generously loaned us his beach house for the interview
I was curious what he thought about what Deepak said, I didn't realize at the time, but Jerry's world was spinning out of control
Despite having sold his company for almost a hundred million dollars Jerry was abusing drugs
Drinking a lot of alcohol. His family was in shambles, and he was basically trying to kill himself slowly
more than I realized
Deep hox words were really sinking in at this point. You might be wondering who this zappy guy is
Let me tell you a little bit about myself
I'd done everything society told me to do go to school get a job
Make a bunch of money
fall in Love
Start a family. I was living the American Dream. I
bought beer comm for
$80,000 a few months later I sold it for seven million dollars here. I am starring in my own Super Bowl ad
Life was becoming very surreal
Even though I had it all my conversation with Deepak made it clear that there were other
Experiences that I needed to have the value that I place on the experience is more important to me
So I always felt like I'd rather have a passport full of stamps than a house of a certain type
it occurred to me that like most people I've been searching for happiness outside of myself, and I was having the
Realization that I might never be truly. Happy unless I went inside my own mind to look for some answers
Albert Einstein famously said you can't fix a problem
With the same consciousness or thinking that got you into the situation what this meant to me?
Was that if I wanted to solve a problem in my life?
Or if we as a society wanted to solve some of the big problems, we have like violent
Eco destruction
addiction Depression
We needed to change our collective consciousness
Could society use some of these ancient techniques for its modern problems
I was inspired by people who came before me that seemingly had it all but chose to take the risk of going inside Their own
minds
These people were what I would call psychonauts
sailors of the mind and I saw that these people were going inside their minds and
Exploring inside their minds as part of what they wound up doing and I thought wow I have to do that I
figured before I got too extreme and sat with a Shaman I
Should go out and talk to some a deep ox friends about our so-called reality
only identify with the realm of three dimensions if you only identify with the realm of the body if you only identify with the Mortal
Circumstance in the Mortal experience then to that extent you are at the effect of those circumstances
Faith is standing on the conviction standing on the knowledge on the conviction. There's something way bigger going on here
What we see is only a small portion of the total reality
See we have three states making dreaming and sleeping
But beyond that there is a state where it's neither of this three
But it is a restful alertness that Dawn's dignity
There's nowhere where we escape from being energy?
So we're always energy what we see as it looks physical material is actually the reflection of light
Photons of light that hit our energy and bounce back, so we're reflecting light
But we're reflecting it as a Force field the tornado of energy
if we can stand within the unreal world the ultimate unreal
that appears real that seems limited by the laws of time and space and
Yet have faith in the realm Beyond that literally invokes that realm into being
It seemed like what everyone was saying is
Reality's just a concept I needed to have the direct experience of going inside
Could ancient wisdom have included plants and meditation I
Was excited to learn that a lot of celebrities people like Jerry Seinfeld
Martin scorsese were doing this meditation for a long time and recently people like oprah Winfrey and Dr.
Oz and Katy Perry had taken up the meditation and it seemed to be making them even more creative I
Wanted to see if some of this ancient wisdom could help me to tap into my creativity
in the
1960s a funny little man named Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Came out of the himalayas to the United States, and he wound up teaching his
Transcendental meditation technique to the Beatles and the rest is history
Today there are more than seven million people worldwide
doing transcendental meditation
What I like about a Tm, technique, is that there's no dogma attached to it
It's really just a simple technique of silently repeating a Mantra to yourself
Which causes you to transcend into your quieted mind to subtler and subtler?
states of consciousness until a point that you reach a place called universal consciousness
endless field of energy that connects all of us, we're all knowledge is contained and where everything is manifested from
when the Maharishi passed away in
2007 he put John Hagelin in charge as a quantum physicist and a meditator he had successfully
Used Quantum theory to support
Maharishis model of Creative intelligence being at the center of all creation
Waking consciousness is all about being aware of something this that this concept that person Mm-hmm transcending is
Leaving all that behind to isolate and experience the self itself. It's blissful. It's not the end of the story
1020 minutes of that is enough the idea is to come back into activity and increasingly integrate and
Stabilize the experience of in a reality inner silence along with outer reality, and that's when life really gets to be interesting in front
The mind has two aspects to it. It's the brain this which is very concrete you can measure it you can touch it
But it's interacting with this field of consciousness and what they come together is our individual self our individual
Personality and that's what most people think they are I'm 5 foot 11
I have this education and this part in society of this amount of money
But it's not fundamentally who you are and to know that you need to have the experience of that, and that's where meditation experience
comes in
Was Found that square root
Or 1% in some cities here and there and there and it does create
Positivity in the atmosphere in the tendencies of the people what excited me about this was that if we wanted to change?
Global consciousness, we only needed a critical mass of people tapped in when I found in the bible verses that said
Be still and know that I'm God the kingdom of heaven is within that's what the meditators are saying it's so obvious
It's right there the bible is saying meditate
These days religious affiliation is shrinking I?
Needed to go speak to some of the religious leaders and top scholars of our time about whether meditation was once part of religion
When it comes to religious leaders. There's no one more high profile than Joel osteen
I
Wanted to ask Joel what he thought the mana from Heaven was
I did not expect that
Bible descriptions from moses and Jesus sound more like mushrooms than bread in fact
Every other miracle that jesus is reported have done was after they drank the mushroom tea, St.
Mark's Basilica in venice, Italy, here's all the disciples. There's Jesus and giant mushrooms behind
so uh
That jesus over here with this giant mushrooms behind them painted
Jesus, but the Giant mushrooms
Then I wanted to talk to some people who've been there done that
I probably had as much
Psychedelics is anyone alive when you fall away
for a minute
something happens
That's actually the beginning
And now you have to relearn the world just like you were a baby
What I found max Ayahuasca very special number one is it's the only
Mind-altering substance that needs more than one substance and the other fact that's interesting is that both of these?
Substances the mao which is Harmelin or tetrahedra hama law or the DMT both of these substances?
Are produced in every Mammalian nervous system? So there are substances that our body produces?
Filemaker Foster Gamble's documentary Thrive
Shattered many of the myths that we've been presented by regular society that keep us slaves to our so-called reality
So it seems to be a natural inclination to alter our consciousness somewhat
And I think one of the reasons for that is when we alter our consciousness
We can see our daily consciousness in a new way
And it shifts tends to raise and expand our daily consciousness and to me
that's the point and if we can use substances whether it's broccoli or Ayahuasca, or
you know C sharp major
To give us a glimpse of what's possible for human beings and specifically what's next for me?
What am I ready for when my consciousness separated from my body it changed the paradigm entirely I realized aha
There's something more than this meat vehicle that we have and that one realization set me off
Writing all night furiously until the dawn and it just really tada
And from that point on I've been on a journey of experiential
Spirituality finding the answers myself and the plants have been the greatest teachers in that quest
Many times there's a huge benefit with one experience because it really gets to the core of what's been happening
So it's almost like you know 10 years of therapy and seven hours
Kundalini Yoga icon gir mooc teaches many celebrities how to journey inside
Using the Kundalini technique. She had her own experience with mind altering energies
I do not regret anything I've ever done
You know people say I just drugs. I sit. Well, so what it got you here forget it
I've met other people that I wish they had
because I feel
They can't
Go through the barrier. They can't go into that sixth dimension however you want to look at it
It's going to be the unknown and you have a choice fear or faith
you know face that you're gonna come out all right that the lessons are gonna be valuable and that the medicine will guide you or
Fear fear that something else is Gonna happen
It's gonna be the unknown either way so might as well choose faith there are times in life
where through different means and God works in mysterious ways
We're shown the mountaintop. It's like through grace. It's like the hand of God Lissa's up and just shows us the moon io
a definite debt of gratitude to
my experience with various substances
I can't endorse it unless you're at a certain base in a certain environment
with certain true healers
Because it can run habit just like alice stated. They are powerful
transformational tools and have to be respected and
If you approach them with enough humanity any respect I tend to believe you'll be fine
People are afraid that when they go down there and do these medicines
They're gonna lose the things that they love the most about themselves
And that's the gist this common fear you know you get someone who loves their career not
What if I go down and I tells me I want to be a yoga instructor
I'm like it's not going to do that man
And if it does you're gonna be even happier about the fact that it did there's an opportunity to use
Psychotropic drugs which will open up that mind and show you my God who you really are I'm fascinated by it
I'm interested in it. I I believe it will have real utility somewhere
I just it's too soon for me as somebody that's trained and you know certain way do no harm help
You know I really really be clear about what you're doing. We're not clear yet
Whatever it takes whether you do the drug or whether you do the the meditation exercises or whatever wait. I don't really care there
There's no doubt in my mind that the first
Indication the first formal use for hallucinogens will be an end-of-life because it's clear what I'm reading and seeing in the research is that it?
Improves our ability to
Be connected with something and feel okay about the dying process and God knows we need help with that in this country the traditional
psychological model or the traditional medical model it usually takes years and years and years of therapy and years of
intervention and working with a team of experts to get even just a little progress in someone's life what I've seen in the
Analogy I give is it's 10 to 20 years of psychotherapy often in one to two plant medicine sessions
There is a relationship to plant medicine when it is entered through the door of the traditions that
brings people more to a sacred recognition
Of their life their path, I think the word drug is really has a lot of negative connotations
I can't think of you know. Maybe if some if some drug actually cure someone's it's medicine
Yeah, I haven't heard of people there as I've seen people die
Before I took the final leap I needed to hear it from a pSychedelic badass
That person is rom dass his real name was Richard alpert born to an affluent new England family
He attended harvard and after graduation began as a researcher at the university
It was the 1960s and LSD had just been discovered the government was studying its effect on individuals
and enemy combatants
while a researcher at Harvard
Alpert and professor timothy leary started to run experiments on students with psilocybin mushrooms in LSP
Both of which were legal at the time
The results were nothing short of miraculous
Users were reporting that they were having life-changing experiences
Including a study that showed that 60% of alcoholics that were given one dose of psilocybin
Mushrooms in the right set in setting were never alcoholics again
How everybody not know about this?
Discouraged with the west he headed to India
His guru named him ram dass and when he came back to the United States and published his book
Be here now. He was followed around by massive groups of young people if anybody has the right intent
To wanted to go to Their own
spiritual
inside
the psychedelics are
Wonderful for them wonderful would you recommend that somebody yes looking? Yes?
So seekers should go find a shaman a door and go down and grow
Sure, that was it
I was gonna Gather up a group of friends wanted to take the risk and go as deep into our minds as
humanly possible
Things should just seem to be falling in place. You know
It feels like it's guided. It feels like it's meant to be so for me. I'm just letting it. Go. You know
I just assumed every miracle that
Is going to happen is about that and then I should just kind of enjoy it and let it happen
I have chosen to work with the Meza. Which is medicine bundle
meditations
rituals
counseling and
Working with ancestral medicines such as ottoman or San pedro which our ancestral medicines that have been used for over
5,000 years in the andes of Peru
by pre Incan cultures who are masters of
accessing
Dimensions of consciousness that are so deep that we often don't access know if you're like
It doesn't matter where in the world you go. It's like
you'll always find you know your kind and
When it comes to spirituality I I?
Respect anything that or anyone who kind of walks
respecting the Planet loving
Nature and
opening their heart to you know the universe and
Love itself as long as that's the main priority behind your religion or your you know ceremonial
spiritual belief and you know
I'm down with you. I've got a few attempts something very personal if I'm gonna try and bring back to my family and loved ones
And try and take some of that knowledge or the glimpse of the other dimensions that are out there which?
I've been trying to do
Artificial ways I mean sometimes group my own
artwork and my creativity, but in other ways with
less natural things and
Sometimes that's an anesthetic, but pain or just do day-To-day life that gets you down
but
Yeah, this is something that's been calling me for a while to come and do this
But it hasn't been the right moment in my life
So it all seems to just fall into place naturally. I'm here to have sort of like a rebirth
To you know tap into a place that I guess I've never gone so I
Don't know where that is
I don't know what that is
But hopefully it's a good thing and you know and I'll be able to get through it when you drink the medicine
50% of the medicines responsibility is to do all the healing all the cleansing all the awakening of the clearing all the
Harmonizing that it needs to do
but the other 50% of taking it further of taking it deeper is always yours part of my
My work in this is to make the most gentle transition possible
from being
Very sleepy to be in fully awake
Really looking forward to tapping into some of those guys stuff upstairs
The Son Pedro Trip was was gnarly
it was really insane because
Freddy Puma you know the the shaman that introduced us to the to the catalyst to a spiritual journey
You know which was the San pedro the drink
he
so in tune that guy and
I recall you know being at that at the at the top of the mountain you?
Know at this plateau where we all you know we're just so tired from this massive. You know
High altitude track and
We're finally you know getting some air
and you're you're looking off at these amazing clouds that are flying right at you and you're at the
precipice of this mountaintop and
you know you see hundreds of feet below you and
I got this enormous sorrow
that I kid I was overwhelmed with and
the Sorrow that consumed me was
something that I've been carrying for many years kind of like a
But a little rebellious anger like why am I here like you know like Dad?
You know like I didn't knock on your balls
You know to come out into this you know
Universe kind of anger that I think that I've been holding since I was a teenager, you know what I mean
Why stay in the cows?
Why suffer why struggle?
When you can liberate all of that and be of higher service while being gentle on yourself
I know that you need your ups and downs. So you can be human and enjoy life
And transition cuz it's part of the beauty of existence is to be sad and enjoy happiness. You need to know both sides
But this overwhelming sadness
Wasn't mine
It didn't belong to me
Ever since I was a little kid, it didn't belong to me. It's not mine
I'm a passenger like Iggy pop says you know what I mean
I'm here to ride this you know and and and in a respectful way
Respect every everything that I come across and you know walk my path with love and you know say goodbye after my journeys done
and he came out, and he just I
Felt this warm energy behind me and there he was while I was on the rock
Overlooking the the clouds that are flying towards me. I'm just crying you know and he touched my shoulder, and he said it's not yours
if my trip ended today
I've had you know 20 years of
Heavy pain lifted off of my shoulders, and I'd be a happy camper without doing the ayahuasca
So um you know I'm funeral. I'm feeling really really really really light on my feet
happy
Appreciative and receptive very feminine you know, I'm such a tomboy kinda about time
I step into my femininity my full intent coming down here my macro intent was to try to share
with
Everybody in the world for that matter
the fact that there's different ways to see reality and
that we sort of in this moment of Chaos need to take a step back everybody and
You just try to see things a little differently the only way that you're supposed to fulfill your role is by being yourself
That is the heightened
you
You attract more love and you attract more energy?
One of the one of my intents of one of the things I asked for was to face my fears
And I realized that no, I don't need to face my fears. My fears are not gonna. Go away
First I have to accept myself with my fears each person have a pattern and that pattern is 50%
woven by the person and 50% by the Divine
Ayahuasca is capable of changing that whole pattern
From being one person one day the next day you're completely another person
I'm open to light and love and just good vibes and anything that isn't on that vibration or frequency
I'm just like I don't even see you. You don't exist
So that's how I'm walking into this ayahuasca. Trip. I'm just in a very receptive place
I just you know I know what I'm about
I know what I stand for and I know what I resonate with and you know I just I just hope to walk that path
And you know whoever is walking on along that path
You know that I hope to meet you when we can join hands and you know take this trip together
It happened for me in my ayahuasca experience when I was sitting there
and I realized that I had just died as I was looking at death and
Experiencing death I saw how dynamic it was and how much was going on and I realized that I never needed to fear death again
it was totally liberating and as I spent time in this ayahuasca experience I
Realized that I was sitting in a place where I could ask any
Question I could go into the future I could go in in the past
Whatever. I wanted to know I'm gonna ask a big question so I decided to ask why do bad things happen and
Immediately upon asking that I was lift out into the edge of space back to where when you're a kid you go
Yeah, but what's past space and people don't owe more space, and what's the past that more space?
I was out there on that edge looking at everything in the universe
basically contained like God would look at
And as I'm looking at it spirit said to me you see that it's totally balanced it's perfect
And I looked at I was a wow
That's true. It's totally balanced and perfect if something happens over here
They'll just be made up over here and as soon as I had that realization
I sucked right back in I was sitting in the room again
And as I was coming out, I just started a laugh I was laughing and I realized that I had just gotten the entire
Human Cosmic joke
Here we are with God the man
with the white Beard and Buddha and muhammad Jesus all these men and
I was with God and it was a woman that
Has stuck with me every day since my ayahuasca experience?
well
for me
Ingesting the medicine was a destruction of everything I've ever known everything. I've ever believed in everything. I ever thought was true. I
tried to reason it for a while two days after
try to reason
the idea that it's a hallucinogenic drug Michelle it just you know it takes things from your subconscious and
Projects them you know there's absolutely no way that. There's any truth in what you envisioned
That it's it's it's just a trip. You know you read tons of books on alchemy
You know you have tons of you know information about
Symbolism and religion deep embedded into your brain since you're a little kid
But I know in my heart of hearts. It's not true
And that everything that I have ever known
Could quite probably be bullshit
and
It makes me happy I
Felt a peace and calm, but I've never experienced in my life
an overwhelming feeling that I could relax a sort of
constantly machete we're way through life my urban armor on it was stripped everything away and
put me in contact with something that was a
Benevolent higher power as the only way I can really describe it
It's such a hard time in
The middle of it
like a surgeon
And I thought my balloons ah my wounds just
opened up, I
was feeling pain
and then huh
Like I grew up and hey say, but she won't love myself a bit
Once I got through that hard part or the part that I needed to get out it was just
Definitely the best
life-changing experience that I've ever been through
When people access these medicines they need to access with full love with full willpower
otherwise
They need to find other ways people will transcend anyways now is the time and these medicines are
Major assistance
Major Helpers major
masters you know assisting this process of transition for humanity from one level of consciousness to a higher level of consciousness I've
Lost a lot of anger a lot of hatred and a lot of you know. What if you're an asshole be an asshole?
It's your fate. You know what I mean like I'm easy now look
I'm not angry anymore, and all the mean people in the world
You know because I accept that they're part of it, and it's all good. You know what I mean, it's not my walk
But you know do your thing, and I respect your path
But don't come near me with your evil energy because I'll knock you the fuck out
It all comes down to intent for me if your intent is right. It's gonna work. It's Gonna be
Better than you thought and you're gonna have a lot less Chaos it seemed to me that nature
recognizes that people are highly stressed and that people need healing medicines for the problems of addiction and Depression I
Kept looking for ways to transcend on a daily basis
And I was introduced to sri Sri Ravi Shankar and his breathing technique called Sudarshan, Kriya
the technique is being done by millions of people including prisoners and
Inner-City youth who've been trained by Sri Sri to use the technique to overcome their physical environment and give themselves
internal strength
Sri, Sri's logic goes that when we're born we draw in our first breath
And when we die we let out our final breath?
but most people think nothing of it in between when in fact
Breathing may be our most valuable
capability
Is an important tool?
For every emotion there is a particular rhythm in the breath
and if we attend to the breath by manipulating your own breath
You can slip into the altered state of consciousness at will I?
Learned the Kriya breathing which blew my mind the fact that I was able to put myself into a pSychedelic state with just my breath
Lightning bolts were shooting out of my hands and feet
Time stood still I
Continued to get together with my friends to talk about our experience, and how we were integrating our psyche not training into our lives
There's a whole group of scientists very few but enough
We're saying maybe brain doesn't produce consciousness
Maybe brain filters consciously you say more transmitters good transmitters
And what your transmitters are is that infinite potential that you spoke of that field of possibilities?
And so when you start to break down the boundaries
then all that's left is the infinite so the boundaries are like your
Prejudices things that you know that you've accumulated throughout life that you've either repel or attracted yeah
Every Boundary is a conceptual laundry in consciousness. This is an Earth Rover
This gives me an opportunity to come to this planet step into this suit
Have these life experiences be creative
and and and and marvel at this that this planet that that we come to and it's so funny because a I
Started this whole thing not spiritual
Being once I saw the nature of the cell Membrane the self receptors. I said oh my God
Instantaneously, I had to recognize a few by the science, and it's not is there is there not there's a spirit
So it really helped me to bring my scientific mind and my kind of spiritual experience into Gathering really
They're not different at all. We're just discovering through all these pathways how all of that is one
after I started to really journey with the plants was when things sort of changed a
Friend of mine. I was like 24 at the time he told me I was an idiot and
He said you need you you you were very passionate, but you have nothing to back up
How you feel about the world you've got you don't read you don't have you know
You read One book and you can get twenty years worth of research
in one block
And he kind of like opened up my mind to do research and to fill my mind
Now when I see the world I do a pSyChedelic. I think metaphorically. I think I'm so many different layers
You know and of course. I enjoy the moment - I can chase sensations like any of them. You know
I love to feel good and have fun and interact with people, but
You know information is so beautiful, and if we could just tap into the reservoirs of fountains of the people before us
You know you never know where it could take you
I
Lost Paul, I was like I
Went through about a year of just being like an n like what could I do?
physically to just get my mind off of
Existentialism get my mind off of how transient life is and how we just come here and can disappear at any moment?
How can I get my mind off that sighs just read fuck summer crazy nuts?
circle like I did everything I could possibly do to hide from myself and
I'll tell you that my ayahuasca trip
Made me sad that
He left me here
It wasn't a sadness that he's gone. It was more like a jealousy that he's there first
I think it was affirmed to me in the ayahuasca experience and some other trips. I've had in my life
Where what was happening is when I took the medicine
Or it meditated and I went inside that there basically
I was taking filters off is what was happening so all this bullshit reticular activation system
It's like doors of perception when he popped it
Yeah, he felt like that filtration mechanism that we create by the age of seven it was just lifted off
You know how like you've received so much information and you're in your visual Cortex
But your brain only accepts a certain amount so that you're not overwhelmed. That's your regular
activation system
deciding
According to your wants likes and and and fight-or-flight
Deciding what information you're gonna. Take it each time I got together with my fellow psychonauts
We felt stronger and stronger about the need to get the information out so we could help others to access some of these ancient
Techniques that had been so profound in our lives just you know this true reality society should set up the place in like Costa
Rica like a haven where people think the same way put them all around the world within a consciousness of it is like. I'm in
alright everything's rolling along things are falling into place and
You know like everything in life you you want validation. You want to know that it's having some kind of an effect
Beyond just hey, I'm having a good time. I'm learning a lot
I'm having all these cool experiences, but you know am I really is something really happening
And I was looking for some kind of sign that
you know it was making a difference because I couldn't see what the difference was and
Other than my own friends and people around me
So I
was kind of think God give me a sign here that you know this is is making a difference that there's something to it and
Then the phone call came from Jerry who I hadn't seen since we shot with Deepak in his apartment years earlier
Unbeknownst to me Jerry Had taken Deep Hawks advice as well
And he went down to Costa Rica to plant medicine called Ai boga that comes from an African root
It's the strongest
PsyChedelic known to man and Jerry was taking it to see if he could break his addiction
The full Moon came to Jerry and asked him if he wanted to see why he was so messed up
Now because of my life, I had like addiction issues tons of women issues
ego issues out the gazoo
smoking drinking
And you name it
I was a fan right, so I said what's what's wrong with me and so
what happened, then is that my body went to a
House that I hadn't seen in forty-eight years it was my grand my grandfather's house and in Scranton, Pennsylvania
And at the front of the house like three-year-old me
Has gone like this to me. He's like waving me in and I'm looking at the floor and there was a kid I knocked over
Cranberry juice or grape juice and it hit the wall and that stain was on the wall. This is how perfect
detail and then next thing you know the kid opened the door and
like went like this to me like go look at it, and
My grandfather was sexually molesting me
And I was three the moon told Jerry to go see his dead grandfather and have him explain
Why he'd done it and give him an apology
Jerry went to see his grandfather who denied it ever happened and sent him away
She told him to get his father to help him to get an apology from his grandfather
and he said that he was sorry, and I told him I forgave him and
Even though he wouldn't do anything for me and then
The guy the Shaman goes hey go to the moon, so I went to the moon back to the moon and I
Said Mrs., Mrs.. Moon. What can you?
Do for me and she said
open your chest and I went like this and
my heart was in there and the moon took my heart out and
Washed it, and she I said what the sean saying. What is she doing?
I said she's washing it like this like if she has hands, right
Crazy, but truth. She's washing it. He said I said, what should I do with it you know to the shaman?
He said have her put it in your left hand I said Mrs. Moon
Would you put it in my left hand and she put it in my left hand he goes?
I said what do you want me to do with it?
He just put it in your chest, and I went to put in my chest nick got here, and it was black again
So it only stayed pink for like I don't know
Five seconds, and I said, I'm not putting this thing in me
Because it's shit. That's terrible and uh
He said ask her for a new one, so I said Mrs.. Moon cried, please have a new heart
You know she said yeah, and then she gave me this new heart and then I put it
I said what do you want me to do with that? Just put it in your left hand put it in your chest and
then the next day I
Was a different guy he hasn't touched drugs since and he's able to have a drink socially
Without needing to get drunk. He's reunited with his family and for the first time
He's in a real relationship the first time I was invited to do plant medicine. I thought the person was crazy
I was like you're gonna. Take a drug to get spiritual
I don't think so, and I wanted nothing to do with it, and it freaked me out
you know my mom's a meth addict and I was a meditator and
finally this woman, who's like just a love in my life invites me to go and I couldn't say no, so I went and
that night
She told me set some intentions of what you want to see and I said okay
I want to see why I keep attracting the same
psycho guy over and over and over with a different face sucking the light out of me and
The second thing that I wanted to see was
what was I here to do and so that night was just
one of the most amazing nights of my life
I was shown exactly who I am what I'm here to do and
Exactly why I kept attracting that same psycho guy over and over and over again
It's just amazing cuz Jerry and I wake up every day
and we're just like wow is this our life like we just feel so blessed to be in love with our best friend and to
be
Doing what we love immediately when I came back and my kids saw me they knew I was a different guy and they knew something
Changed as soon as he walked through the door I can like
Visibly see a difference let alone
When I was actually talking with him, I was like shocked. You know I was like well
I got to give this thing a whirl if I could
They could turn him around 180
Look at it. Dude me the first time. I saw gerard after he did plant medicine
He didn't even have to speak or say one word to me
I could tell as I walked up to him about 15 feet away. I knew he was a changed person the chances of someone
Coming out of that severe of a lifestyle case is very rare. I didn't want to drink anymore
I've spoken to packs of cigarettes a day went from that to nothing immediately I
Can't even think about doing drugs like I can't even I wouldn't even have the thought to go do some drugs. He's like zappy
Not only did I take plant medicine and break my addiction in one session
But I've actually opened up a center for people to come and expand their consciousness
heal themselves break addiction and it
Exists, and I was like oh my God it
Manifested from that conversation with Deepak that day where he said stir it up in the pot drinking
the Moon told me
and then this sounds so ridiculously crazy, but told me to go buy a center and to make it a
plant-based
Center told me what building to buy told me what to pay for it
Told me how to treat my girlfriend
Told me how to treat my children I?
Told me that that everything would be okay?
His place is called rythme 'ah and where is it set up a place in Like Costa Rica?
This is the miracle. I needed this place had manifested out of that single
conversation and the Desire to help people break the wiring
The First-ever clinic where people can go to expand their consciousness and heal themselves
While you're at rythme 'ah you can receive counseling and spiritual development
including a program developed
Specifically for rythme a-- by reverend Michael Beckwith called the answer is you it's a consciousness
Expanding program that allows people to one take 100% responsibility for their own life
Come out of the shame and blame game blaming others, too. It moves you through a period of
Forgiving yourself and forgiving all others as you can be clean inside
3 you begin to embrace the vibration of intentionality by having an intention
Or direction of how you want your life to be you have to choose this if we don't choose it
then the
Undertow of the Human Society is choosing for you going to a place like you know
It's being created with me as a place where you can literally just come back to life's rhythm
you know the miracle that you're gonna get is that you're gonna get the real truth and the truth is that
That we are all all of us connected from the same thing
and that love is the thing holds us all together and
When you get to that truth?
That's that's the whole thing that you've been running from your whole life is that one truth?
And then you come and you you come to a place like this and you get to see that
That's the truth then there's the miracle and then you come walk away, and go you know it
You know I lost everything this weekend or this week, but I gained in my life
And what more could you ask for in a in a vacation?
Everything I've gone through has truly been worth it
Because even before this movie's finished. It's already changed the world
because this place exists
Every act that comes from purpose is supported by nature and has the potential to change
Things in ways you could have never dreamed of how do I channel all of this?
connection into being an efficient human being in society
Into giving back because for me love is everything if you have to almost have a way to reenter the ayahuasca experience
Almost on a daily basis the States have been through
And that has to beat your medication. It's for something that would deliver you back there if only for a moment
all of us had life-changing experiences
So the question is how could these incredible plant energies be illegal today to consume or even a study?
It turns out that the answer to that question may be even more sinister than the reason they've been taken out of religion money
The pharmaceutical companies are only interested in selling their patented petroleum-based
Medications that people need to take for the rest of their lives
These drugs. Do not cure, but only mask the symptoms and have significant negative side effects
Here I am living my entire life sustained by plants
I'm eating vegetarian and my day job is bringing out a plant-based formula to help people with addiction I
Owe everything to these ancient tools
plant medicine
meditation breathing
These are some of the tools that were once part of the religious tradition. It's time to bring them back
We started the true reality society to create a peace army to counteract
Mass violence in the world and to bring together people who believe in the importance of going inside their minds
Good every time asleep. I'm back in your future
because
shoeshine
changez
always changing face
I'm going through face
Lakshmi
Sorry, Mama Lakshmi
three my Lakshmi
Sri, maha Lakshmi
three my Lakshmi Genome aha
three my Lakshmi
Sri, maha Lakshmi, oh
Dream my Lakshmi
oh
3:03 maha Lakshmi
my Lakshmi
normal
phone Shri Mahalakshmi, Namaha
slowly and then breathe out slowly
On the in-breath perhaps having the thought piece
And on the out-breath the thought joy
peace
on the in-breath and joy on the out-breath and
Bring your awareness into your heart now and remember a great experience of love
remember a great experience of compassion a
great experience of Joy A
great experience of equanimity the peace that passes understanding
And now bring your awareness back into your whole body and allow the boundaries of your body
to slowly dissolve and merge
with your surroundings
Recognize that every Boundary is conceptual
There's no boundary there are no national boundaries. There are no tribal boundaries. No ethnic boundaries
no Racial boundaries, no religious boundaries
They're all imagination
And they have limited our potential
We are the stars and we are the sky and we are the moon and we are the galaxies
We are the Cosmic Horizon
We are the big bang
We are the laws of Nature
we are
planck scale Space-Time geometry where everything dissolves into
all possibilities
We're platonic values like truth Goodness beauty Harmony
evolution are embedded as
the essential raw Material of the Universe
Where there is mathematical truth, but also musical truth?
Where there is the poetry of the universe and the of the universe and we are that dance?
The Sufi Poet Rumi says look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. This is within your power
become spinning out of nothingness scattering stars like dust
How to beyond all ideas of right doing and wrong doing there's a field I'll meet you there
so remember the field that you went to
It was Beyond right doing and wrong doing
it was the field from where we come and
which we long for
Let Roberto Finishes Peruvian Shamanic song
