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Told me like, no, you're not actually allergic to cats,
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and told me the story that my grandfather killed the
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cat and that I need to apologize to all the
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cats through this cats, through this cat, which I did,
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and then it's sad. You have to go back home
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and you have to adopt the cat, which I did,
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and ever since that, I had plenty of cats and
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I never had allergies, so my allergy was killed just
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like this, playing truth.
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In the minds of the.
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Hey, everybody, welcome back to another episode of Broadcasting Seeds.
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I am your host Bennett Tantan, and today we have
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Sam Believe from i Ahohwaska podcast. But Sam, for those
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people that don't know you, tell people who you are,
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what you do and where people can find you.
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So first of all, thanks for having me on the show.
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My name is Sam and I am originally from Latvia.
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I've been living in Columbia now for nine years where
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I started Lauira which currently is the best rated Aaoaska
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retreat in South America, where we've given Auska now the
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close to three thousand people. And as you said, I
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run Ahuasca Podcast where I educate people about everything I
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Waska and psychedelics related. In my past life, I was
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an engineer working off showing guests. It was never like
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if you'd ask me ten years ago what I would
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do ten years from now, I would never expect that
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because I didn't know where Columbia was on the map,
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I didn't speak Spanish, and I didn't know what aauasca was.
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And I've never taken any drugs because back then I
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believe it was a drug. So that's kind of a
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bit of summary. And now I live here in Colombia,
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in Colombian countryside. I have three small kids, one three
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and five, and I'm very passionate about plant medicines and
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educating people about them.
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Yeah. So yeah, your journey is pretty unique. What led
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you from your previous career into this world.
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So the short story is to sum it up as
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just unending line sequence of synchronicities, you know, serendipities, chance
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events where it almost feels like I'm following the trail
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of breadcrumbs. Right, people write information, right, events come one
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after another. But in short, when I first came to Columbia,
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I just love this. I love the country. I traveled
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through South America. Eventually I came back again during my travels,
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I would hear a lot about Ahauaska, and eventually, when
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I settled down in Columbia slightly before COVID began, I
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felt that calling to Ahuaska, and different people describe it definitely,
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but it almost feels like you're an ecro chamber and
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all you hear about is Awuaska. And then synchronicity presented
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itself and I had a chance of opportunity to participate
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in the retreat, and I not to retreat, but more
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like a stand alone ceremony, which I did. I didn't
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think much of it back then, but it started changing
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my life gradually, Like I went from never believing myself
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to just believing in myself for no particular reason. I
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just started setting big goals and going towards them and
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actually achieving them. But long story short, when COVID started,
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I got really depressed because I was in between my
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off showing gus profession and not really knowing what to
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do future. It was before I organized any ceremonies or
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something like that, and I went back to Aauaska to
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help me heal with a very serious intention, and it
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started lifting the fog. A couple weeks at a time,
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a month at a time, giving me space to breathe,
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giving me space to learn new things and try new things.
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And eventually I really wanted to go to the jungle.
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Unexplainably so I've never been to jungle before, and I
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was looking for someone to take me there. And then
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a guy messaged me on Facebook and he's like, so
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I was. I had a property where I was renting
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some rooms and I was promoting it on Facebook and
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he messaged me and he said, can I rent your
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property to do an ayauska ceremony, which for me was
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huge syncrosity because I had to travel very far away
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to do it. And then as he came, he said,
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I love this place. We're going to do it, but
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first we're going to the jungle. When we come back,
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then we'll do it. And I was once again I
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asked him to join. I ended up going to the
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jungle and there in the jungle, I had a message
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from the medicine were It was more complex than that,
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but to sum it up, it basically told me, your
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purpose that you're looking for is this? I ask it
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your purpose and it basically told me that I can
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heal people. And it told me that if I don't
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do it, I will never be happy, Like, this is
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your path, you do it if you don't do it.
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And I followed that path and ever since then, it's
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always synchronicities. It's always coincidences. Something seems to be guiding
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me on some path and helping me, which is really
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strange for me to explain, and still as a skeptic
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and as an engineer in a past and coming from
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a very non religious background, it's strange to admit. But
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I just have no doubt anymore, you know, even from
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a very scientific point of view and of one. I
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could outline all of the things that happened to me,
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and you just can't deny that there is some kind
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of support, invisible support.
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Something's going on there, right, Yeah.
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Yeah, So for someone who's never experienced ayahuasca, how would
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you describe what that journey is like?
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So it depends on where you do it in the
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perfect world, and I would outline the way we do
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things here at the Warra, But it would start with
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preparation where you would sign up for the retreat and
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they would vet you medically, make sure you are eligible
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to partake, and then they would guide you through preparation
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some form of online course to get ready to understand
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what's going to happen and how to navigate that experience.
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Then you would come to the retreat and there would
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be a group of loving facilitators. It will be a
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beautiful safe space for you to be at. And then
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you would once again get some more training, and then
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you would get to know the group, do some wart circles,
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get really cozy in the space, and then in the
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evening you would come to the ceremony space where you
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would come to the altar and the shaman would look
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you in the eyes and then pour you a cup
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off this thick, viscous liquid, not the most pleasant tasting,
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and then you drink it and you lie down your
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metro so you stood by the fire. And then you'd
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go through a psychedelic experience where you would see past,
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see future, see your traumas, see your past life, meet God,
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go to another planet or anything in between. And it
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would be accompanied by purging, vomiting or diarrhea, and not
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all the time, but you might purge once or twice
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whichever and sometime both. We call that double trouble. Most
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of the time one or the other, but you would
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see things that would be meaningful to you, and the
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next day you would be in a wort circle and
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you would journal about You would integrate that experience and
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hopefully bring some of those lessons back to your day
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to day life and understand that maybe something needs to
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be changed or improved. And I WAS could give you homework.
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Different people have different experiences as well, like to say,
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is I WAS always gives you what you need, but
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it barely gives you what you want. So we encourage
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people to have an intention when they come to the retreat,
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so they have a reason why they're there. But a
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lot of times I WAS coll take you somewhere else.
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And there's honestly so much variety it almost feels like
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a thousand different medicines at once. For example, I'll outline
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my first experience. My first experience was very visual. It
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was very much about the mystery. For some reason, I
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was shown things about ancient Egypt and pyramids, and it's like,
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not really what you expect to see in the Amazonian jungle,
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but there was something in.
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actually unconscious, so you might get healing without even knowing
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you had one. Sometimes people even feel nothing at all
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and they come back home and their lives change, their
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addictions sort of drop off. But in most cases it
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requires you coming, drinking the medicine, going through the journey,
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and then going back home and actually doing the work
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where you implement all of the knowledge that you pick up.
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But like our moto for example, is connect, heal, grow,
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And it's because first you come, you connect with the medicine,
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with the group, with the universe, with God, with nature.
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Then you heal physically, mentally, spiritually, and then you grow.
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And then growth can include anything from getting creative and
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coming up with new business ideas to you know, meeting
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God or exploring the secrets of the universe. So we
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like to focus people heavily on the healing part because
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I believe this is the most pending in our current society.
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You know, so many people on enter the presence and
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mental health crisis. But the spirituality is an inevitable part
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of Ayahuaska or any work with psychedels eventually come to
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them to those realizations and which I think is very
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important healing as well.
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Yeah, absolutely, what are some of them? I would say,
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what are some of the more meaningful experiences that you've
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witnessed people.
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Have, I mean, very common ones are somebody comes and
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they you know, they've been feeling somewhat strange their entire life.
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They don't know what's wrong with them, but they're never
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really happy. And then they would drink the medicine and
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they would remember an event or trauma that caused them
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to be the way they are. And then they through
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the medicine and also then through therapy or different forms
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of integration, they process it and their life just improves
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and they become happier, healthier person. Sometimes people come and
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they have a specific addiction and then they go back
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and the addiction just no longer calls them. They no
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longer want to drink, they no longer want.
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I've had people quit everything from cocaine to weed. Not
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always it's just that easy. Sometimes it requires a lot
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of work. Or sometimes you have a person coming and
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they and you know, they have beautiful experience, and then
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they go back home. And then they come back a
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year later and they said, ever since I left, I
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started the business, and I ran the marathon, and I
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wrote a book, and like things just changed and they
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something unlocked in them, or sometimes somebody comes with the
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physical ailment like the risis or autoimmune issues and a
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lot of disease that's called by that's caused by an
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emotional underlying emotional issue. They just sort of start unwrapping
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and people get healed and they feel better, relationships improve.
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It's not always a linear path, and a lot of
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times it's like two steps forward, one step back. But yeah,
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I've seen them. I mean, I've had at least a
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couple of hinded people tell me that we've changed their
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life and they're very grateful, So it is it is
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very meaningful. Or sometimes people tell me after the retreat
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that actually they bought a one way ticket and they
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said that if this doesn't going to work for them,
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they were going to kill themselves, right, and they're all
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still alive because I ask is a powerful tool. Right,
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So it very quickly shows you, you know, what life
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is all about and how much beauty there is. So yeah,
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it's pretty pretty meaningful work.
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word psychological spiritual or something that blends both.
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Yeah, So the reality is as I say, it's like
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it's a title and it has so many different facets.
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It's like a Swiss knife and like, oh, let me
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work on this emotional issue or let me go and
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explore spirituality or feel the spirit of the plant, and
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all of that isn't the same thing. And it depending
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on sort of which frequency you tune into or what
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it is that is most pending for you can take
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you on. I mean I've had that, I ask you
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more than angry times, and I've never had the same
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experience twice. Sometimes it's very DMT, like sometimes it feels
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like you're in the mushrooms, and sometimes it feels like
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whatever psychedelic I've never tried before, So it does feel
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like hungered psychedelics in one. But I think it's a blend.
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And I think even trying to separate psychology from spirituality
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is kind of probably not really accurate because in the end,
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when you go deeper and trying to understand how the
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brain works, those lines blur and you start yeah, like
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asking words, what is going where is it coming from?
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We don't know, as like science doesn't know. It's still
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up to debate. But whatever it is and whatever the
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mechanism is, what I do know is that it works
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because people ask me like, oh, like, who is that
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giving me those messages? Is it a plant? Spirit? Am
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I talking to God? Am I talking to your subconscious?