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After Nalini
Chapter 16: What comes after the highest point of a journey is also part of the path. A story of challenges, disillusionment, and holding firm.
Mar 29
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Meeting the Serpent
Chapter 15: I want to tell you this story of a Serpent I met… Her name is Nalini.
Nov 18, 2025
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How the Plants Teach: The Medicine of Secrets
Chapter 14: There’s a way the plants speak that doesn’t come through books or teachers. It comes through silence, through listening, through visions…
Sep 21, 2025
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Puyeihunihu
Jul 6, 2023
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Walking with the Serpent
Mar 6, 2023
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Introduction to the Yawanawá Creation Stories
Apr 13, 2023
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Genesis
Mar 13, 2023
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The Journey Begins
Mar 16, 2023
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The First Ceremony
Apr 27, 2023
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Sananda-Wasi and the Hammock of Reflections
Chapter 13: This chapter takes me back to when I was just beginning to hold the medicine, learning lessons I would only come to understand years later…
Jul 23, 2025
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Ten Days with Madre
Chapter 12: One night, as I lay in my hammock under the open sky, a clear image came to me. It felt more like a memory than an idea. I saw a circular…
Jul 1, 2025
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Stillness Beneath the Leaves: Where the Teachings Begin
Chapter 11: Although I had felt a great force while eating the Muka root, I hardly felt anything lying there on my mattress. I kept my eyes closed and…
Apr 1, 2025
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The Dieta Starts
Chapter 10: For a week, we stayed in our new place in the jungle, building the house. It already had a roof made from palm leaves, and a simple but…
Feb 11, 2025
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The Third Wave: From the Echoes of History to a Path of Reverence
Resuming Walking with the Serpent After a Pause—Reflections on Ayahuasca, Responsibility, and the Stories We Are Writing Together
Nov 26, 2024
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First ceremony in Sete Estrellas
Chapter 9: With just a few days left of preparation before the dieta, Luis decided it was time to give me my Yawanawá name. Most of the Yawanawá have…
Aug 18, 2023
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