I am a new media strategist and

lifestyle business coach to visionary

entrepreneurs. I travel the world
while running my business as a
digital nomad. My boutique
agency provides “done for you”
web design, development and
online marketing services for social
ventures, sustainable brands,
transformational coaches and new
paradigm thought leaders. I am
also a personal development junkie,
and 20 year practitioner of
shamanism, with extensive training
in Tibetan Bon Shamanism and
experience with the ayahuasca
traditions of the Amazon Basin.

In 2004, I had a life-changing experience in the Brazilian Amazon, which has

evolved into many long-term, return visits as a guest of the indigenous tribes
of Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil over the past decade. I began writing about my
experiences, but as I did, I realized that the best stories were not about me,
but about the people of the Amazon basin – the shamans, the indigenous
leaders, activists and ordinary people whose struggles and wisdom have
much to teach us about the nature, the human spirit, the unseen world, and
the incredible power of our minds.

In addition to their stories, at EntheoNation, we highlight the research and

ground- breaking information of visionaries who have dedicated their lives
to exploring the landscapes of non-ordinary realms of consciousness & the
power of human consciousness to solve the worldˇs urgent problems, to
help individuals experience deep healing, and access transcendent wisdom.

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 Human beings have been using vision-inducing plant medicines for
thousands of years for healing, divination, and spiritual guidance.

Ayahuasca, San Pedro, peyote, magic mushrooms, iboga, marijuana are

a few of the sacred medicines that are considered to be teachers that
have the ability to heal us physically, emotionally and spiritually. For
thousands of years sacred plant medicines were used ceremonially, with
reverence. Itˇs only in the recent decades that some of these plants and
fungi have popularized by modern culture and used recreationally.

Aya Mama by Mariela De La Paz

Effects from the consumption of psychoactive plants and fungi can be

wide ranging. Some medicines are mildly psychoactive, while others
can be wildly visionary.

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 For this reason, it is advisable to consume such medicines in a safe
environment, under the supervision of an experienced, trusted
guide, sitter, spiritual facilitator, healer, shaman or medicine man /
woman.

Itˇs also a good idea to be aware of the laws around the

consumption of these medicines, as many of them have deemed
illegal in some countries, while receiving religious protection in
other countries. Having law enforcement bust into your ceremony
can be a whole different layer of unpleasantness!

From a practical standpoint, when you are in an altered state,

your perception of reality may be completely different from the
physical reality around you.

For this reason, it is important to be in a safe, comfortable location

where you can be completely relaxed, so you can open up fully
to the Divine. The fewer distractions there are, the easier will be to
journey deep into the visionary realms, experience parallel worlds
to ours, and encounter spiritual allies and teachers.

From a shamanic perspective, having a sacred ceremonial

container, held in integrity by people of integrity, minimizes
encounters with harmful spirits, some of which can be parasitic.
They can drain our energy, cause disease, create emotional
disturbances or bring about misfortune. If they become
energetically attached to us, they can be difficult to get rid of,
and require the assistance of a skilled shaman to exorcise.

Ultimately, your relationship with the Teacher Plant (or Fungi)

supersedes your relationship with the human shaman or
ceremonial guide. Many people place their trust in the shaman,
but sometimes this can be a mistake, if the shaman has
questionable integrity, or is influenced by money or power or sex.

For this reason, itˇs best to cultivate a sacred teacher-apprentice

relationship with the Master Plant, first and foremost, and
understand that the shaman is simply the person who opens the
door to the spirit world.

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 Itˇs important to emphasize that sacred medicine visions are messages
from the Divine that contain wisdom to help you heal and evolve
spiritually. Visions are like “the finger pointing at the moon”. It can be
easy to become attached to the experience of receiving far-out
visions, while missing the point of the lesson.

Plant medicines also tend to show you what you need. So if your mind
and body need rest, then chances are, then, instead of having visions,
you may instead experience a profound, restful state.

Visions by Anderson Debernardi

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 Visions tend to arise from a state of relaxed, open meditation,
rather than focused intention. In other words, the more intent
you are on having visions, the more difficult it can be to have
them, or see clearly, due to the tension and constraint present in
your mind. While the strength, preparation, and amount of the
medicine you are consuming can impact the intensity of your
visions, itˇs often said in the shamanic world, “Itˇs not how strong
the medicine is, itˇs how open you are” that affects whether or
not you receive beautiful, other-worldly visions.

Finally, because Sacred Power Plants work in different ways, and

tend to have different “personalities”, it is important to
understand how each medicine transmits wisdom. Peyote-
induced visions and are transmitted in a much different
way than ayahuasca-induced visions and insights. Iboga works
in a vastly different way than psilocybin mushrooms. There are
also more than 180 species of mushrooms that contain
psychedelic chemicals, so each variety will also bring about a
different experience, and be a different relationship.

For this reason, itˇs important to understand the recommended

protocols around working with the different Master Plants, and
whether there are contra-indicative substances that you will
need to avoid in order to consume these plants safely

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 Here are some general guidelines to optimize your experience
working with Visionary Plant Teachers:

▶ Cleanse Your Body.

The days and weeks leading up to your communion with the

sacred plant medicine, have a clean, healthy diet. Eat organic,
whole foods. Avoid alcohol, pharmaceutical drugs, processed
foods that are high in sugar or salt. You may receive a list of
foods and substances to avoid. Many plant medicines will help
you “get well” by causing you to purge at the front and out the
back. Many people experience clear visions after purging.
However, the cleaner your diet going into the ceremony, the
less there will be for the plant medicine to clean out of your
system, and the higher the likelihood you will have clear,
luminous visions during your journey.

▶ Cleanse Your Mind.

We are constantly being bombarded by violence, negative

stories, imagery, and energies during the course of our day-to-
day lives, especially from the media. While weˇve become
quite used to this sensory stimuli, during a plant medicine
ceremony it can become abundantly clear how these negative
energies affect our overall mental and emotional well being.
You may find yourself in ceremony purging the news of the
week, along with anything else from your life that you need to
let go of. Therefore a great idea to do a negative media and
information cleanse in the days and weeks leading up to your
communion.

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 ▶ Set Your Intention & Prayer.

In order to receive the insight you are seeking, it is a good idea

to set an intention and prayer for the ceremony. This allows you
to “place an order with the Universe” on what it is you want for
yourself and your life. It allows the Universe to tell you, through
images, intuitive downloads, and spirit encounters, what it is you
need to shift within yourself in order to achieve your desired
outcome.

▶ Keep Your Eyes Closed.

Unless you are in a completely dark environment, opening your

eyes will most likely bring you back to “this” reality, and cause
your vision of the “other” reality to fade. Often you may
perceive both realities at the same time, like overlapping layers

▶ Keep Still.

The more still you are, the easier it is for detailed, technicolor
visions to fully arise. The more you fidget, the harder it is to get a
clear “snapshot” of your visionary landscape. If you are in an
event where there is dancing, it may be harder to sustain clear,
prolonged visions. However, the purpose of a dancing
ceremony might be more about mediumship and incorporating
healing spirits, rather than meditating and receiving visions. I
encourage you to embrace the focus of the work, rather than
attempt to practice yoga in a Tai-Chi class.

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 ▶ Focus on Your Breath.

Practice calm-abiding meditation by focusing on your breath.

This will reduce the chatter of your thoughts, which can create
visions of their own that are more like psychological dreams,
filled with random, confused imagery from your subconscious
mind. Bring your mind to a place of stillness, which is a pristine
landscape for the luminous arising of a divine vision, or the
emergence of a clear, detailed, parallel reality.

▶ Focus on the Words.

If you are in a ceremony where there is music, singing, and

chanting, focusing
on the words of the sacred songs will unlock profound insights
and messages, even if you do not know the language. In fact,
you may discover that you completely understand the meaning
of the song, even if you do not understand the words.

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 Sometimes visions may come on quickly and feel overwhelming. All of
the sudden, everything you know as real around you completely
dissolves, and your mind loses its ability to grasp onto the familiar for
comfort. It may feel like you are dying.

Understand that under most circumstances, these feelings are

temporary and will most likely subside after the peak experience has
past. The thing to avoid doing is panicking, as this will most likely
accelerate the feeling of overwhelm. Here are some tips to navigate
intense visions with ease and grace.

▶ Be Still.

Panicking and moving around when your perception is highly altered

can increase the chances of physical harm. Venturing away from your
ceremonial space increases the chance of getting lost, hit by a
vehicle, or unpleasant interactions with people in the area. Try to stay
put and ride it out.

▶ Focus on Your Breath.

Slow down your breathing and focus on your breath. Count your
breath. Make this your single point of focus.

▶ Center Your Attention to Your Heart.

Focus on feelings of love and compassion. Meditate on all the beings

that may be suffering right now, feeling the same pain, fear and
anxiety you may be feeling at the moment. Send them your love. Light
is always more powerful than darkness, so connecting with positive
emotions can be a powerful way to break through fear and anxiety.

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 White Tara by Amanda Sage

▶ Pray!

Focusing your mind on prayer can also help shift the experience of
overwhelm. Your prayer can also summon the assistance of your
spiritual allies to support you as you navigate the visionary state. You
may be amazed at who shows up!

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 On one occasion I drank an incredibly strong and wildly visionary
brew. Everything around me began to dissolve and swirl around in a
vibrant, kaleidoscope of colors. I felt panic and terror starting to
build up. At that moment I prayed.

From the swirling vortex a beautiful, regal being appeared, half bird,
half man with a feathered headdress and beautiful big wings,
carrying a golden staff with a hooked end, like a shepherd’s staff,
riding a long, thin, elegant boat with a dragon-head prow.
Everything about this being reminded me of Ancient Egyptian art.

The being morphed into different shapes, and then morphed back.
He did this a few times, and then I realized I was being shown how
to shape-shift. It is this shape-shifting skill that I learned that day that
has helped me numerous times traverse intense, rapidly moving
visionary landscapes and make it to the other side with ease and
grace.

The lesson of shape-shifting is a powerful metaphor in life. You can

be whomever you choose to be. So if life is serving up some difficult
challenges, try becoming a different version of yourself and see
what changes.

▶ Drink Water.

This can help dilute the medicine that is in our system. It can also help
you purge, which will also decrease the medicine in your system.

▶ Get Help.
If you are attending a ceremony with experienced facilitators, there
are guardians whose job it is to look after the attendees. If you feel like
you are unable to ride out your experience and make it through the
intensity, call for a guardian to assist you. The shaman may perform a
blessing or purification ritual over you, to support you in healing process.

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 Innumerable sentient beings coexist alongside us in our world; many of
them cannot be perceived by our visual senses. As you work with
visionary plant medicines you may find that innumerable dimensions
coexist alongside our own 3-dimensional reality. You may find that the
word “Multiverse” is a much better description of our Universe.

Gaia Tree by Mariela De La Paz

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 Here are some broad categories of beings you may encounter in the
visionary state, and how to engage with them.

▶ Divine Beings.

These are otherworldly beings that are extraordinarily beautiful and

radiate love, compassion, majesty, and nobility. It is a blessing to
encounter them; be open to receiving healing and wisdom from them.

▶ Elemental, Animal, and Nature Spirits.

Fire, Wind, Water and Earth all have consciousness, the ability to heal
and to destroy, and profound wisdom to impart, if we are willing to
learn. There are also innumerable manifestations of these primary
elements. In the case of Water, there are spirits of individual waterfalls,
lakes, rivers, as well as the Spirit of the Ocean. Every animal species is
ruled by its archetypal spirit. You may also perceive non-embodied
creatures living in trees, in bushes, in caves. Some of these spirits are
friendly to humans, others are not.

▶ Spiritual Teachers, Guides, and Allies.

If you journey into the Spirit World with regularity, you may encounter
some of the same beings or classes of beings multiple times. You may
feel a powerful feeling of familiarity, kinship, love or affinity for these
spirits. They often help you, give you insight, or compassionate
empathy. Their presence feels good to you. These are your spiritual
allies. You can cultivate a relationship with them that extends into your
waking world, and call upon them for guidance. Animal guides often
appear in your day-to-day world, to give you messages or warn you of
harm.

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 ▶ Karmic Spirits.

In modern Amazonian culture, there is a belief that every individual is

accompanied by an entourage of spirits. Some of those entities are
your spiritual allies. Others are entities that are karmically attached to
you, usually through some kind of karmic debt. In the Amazon, it is
believed that substance addictions are actually caused by demons or
parasitic entities that feed off the negative emotions and feelings that
the addictions create. Interestingly enough, the same plant medicines
that are used traditionally to exorcise spirits are some of the same plant
medicines modern science has found effective in treating addictions.

Sometimes it is necessary to exorcise these demons, or do some kind of

ritual or practice that fulfills the karmic debt, so that the entity can be
released. The idea that spirits accompanies us in our daily lives is
accepted as normal in shamanic cultures. In the visionary state, you
may perceive them more clearly, and in doing so, it can be a good
opportunity to communicate with the spirit and inquire what it wants
from you. It may be that a healing is needed between you and the
entity, even if the karmic debt occurred lifetimes ago.

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 The Shaman by Amanda Sage

▶ Negative Spirits.
Dark spirits evoke the opposite feeling from Divine Beings. They do not
emanate feelings of majesty, wisdom and compassion. They will most
likely look and feel strange, and your intuition may be wary of them. If
you have encounters with spirits of dubious intent, it is a good idea to
strengthen your auric field with light and mantras or prayers of
protection. You can also call upon your spiritual allies for assistance.

The presence of negative spirits in a ceremonial space also suggests

that the spiritual container of the work is not solid. This could be due to
the skill of the shaman or facilitator who is guiding the work, as well as
their level of personal integrity. For this reason, its really important to be
careful about who you consume visionary plant medicines with, and
only work with shamans, facilitators or spiritual groups you trust.

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 As I mentioned before, you may find yourself encountering the same
spirits or classes of beings in your journeys into the Spirit World, ones that
repeatedly provide wisdom, healing, and guidance each time you visit.
These guides and allies have made a spiritual commitment to helping
you. This commitment may span lifetimes. You can cultivate an
ongoing relationship with these guides, so that you can continue to
receive communication from them as you navigate your day-to-day
life in the complex, modern world.

Here are some tips on strengthening your communication with your

guides:

▶ Create an Altar Space For Them.

If there are specific animal spirit guides that come to you, placing an
image or object that represents this Animal Totem on your altar will
help you maintain a clear channel of communication. Pay attention to
whether these guides manifest themselves in your waking life. Perhaps
you are walking through the forest and find an Indian arrowhead,
eagle feather, or a deer antler. Itˇs a particularly powerful sign if the
object appears shortly after a ceremony – definitely create altar space
for it if this happens.

▶ Communicate With Your Guides Daily.

Visualize your guides. Donˇt be afraid to consult with them. For

example, if I am conflicted about a particular decision, I will ask my
primary Spirit Guide for advice. If she responds a certain way, for
example, with snarling or growling, then the answer is negative.

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 ▶ Pay Attention to Cameo Appearances.

Your guides, depending on what it is, may show up in your every day
life. It may show up as a statue or painting in the home of a person you
feel a strong sense of purpose-resonance with.

I remember going into a job interview – my first Internet job after I

returned from 4 months in the Brazilian Amazon. For months I struggled
with how I was going to fulfill my mission of, “Leverage emerging
technologies to empower indigenous traditions, so that ancient
wisdom can benefit the modern world, and technology can empower
indigenous people.” As a tech-challenged person at the time,
I had absolutely no idea how to do this.

So I landed this interview. My former boss was seated in front of a large

window. As he explained the role to me, a hummingbird appeared
above him outside the window and basically hovered around his head,
darting out to the side, ducking behind his head again, darting out to
the other side. This went on for a good 15 minutes. I sat there
mesmerized, and had totally tuned out what my former boss was
saying. Needless to say, I accepted the job, and my career in Internet
marketing became official on that day.

▶ Draw Them.

Paint Them. Create a beautiful piece of art that symbolizes your guide.
I enjoy illustrating what I see. The Spirits love this.

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 A 6-Part Mini Course on How to Cultivate a Spiritual Relationship with
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 Amanda Sage is at the forefront of
a new breed of visionary artists
using art as a tool for personal,
spiritual and planetary growth and
transformation.

Born 1978 in Denver, Colorado; her

adventurous spirit carried her to Bali,
then on to Vienna, Austria to study
classical painting with Michael
Fuchs, resulting in becoming
a long time painting assistant to
Ernst Fuchs.

Her aspiration is to paint messages,

visions and narratives that
communicate with

an ‘older & wiser usˇ, awakening ancient memory; as well as the ‘present
usˇ, that we may grow up and accept the responsibilities towards ourselves,
each other and the rest of existence on this planet… now

When not traveling to teach workshops or for projects & exhibitions, she
currently spends most of her time in her studio above the HIVE Gallery &
Studios and the Temple of Visions Gallery in downtown Los Angeles.

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 Anderson Debernardi was born on
the 12th of June ,1968 in Orellana
(Distrito de Vargas Guerra) a small
town near Ucayali river in the
Peruvian Amazon rainforest .

In recent years he has become one

of the most prolific rainforest
visionary artists in the region. He
currently lives in Lima, but spent
many years in Pucallpa and Iquitos
including his time at the Usko Ayar

Amazonian School of Painting which was founded by Pablo Amaringo and

Professor Luis Eduardo Luna.

Andy is a strong advocate for the preservation of the rainforest and sees the
medicinal and visionary plants as a gift from nature. He hopes to see culture
evolve to the point at which the forest is not merely seen as land to be
“developed”, but rather as a sacred resource that must be protected.

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 Mariela de la Paz is a Chilean
visionary artist residing in Northern
California. Her visionary pieces are
imbued with her research of
indigenous people, the land, and
spirituality, and hold symbols of her
esoteric studies.

She was guided to take part in the

Sacrament of Plant Medicine,
which triggered a massive
breakthrough in her

self-awareness. To this day she considers it to be the most tangible

experience of “God” that she has ever had. She includes the symbols of
Alchemy, Kabbalah, Numerology, Shamanism, Taoism, and Buddhism
throughout the series of her work from her various initiations in these
practices.

The themes expressed in her art are tribal, earthly, and honor the female
principles of ancient matriarchal traditions.

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