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 • 

Dennis Notten

13

1

July 2025

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 • 

Dennis Notten

8

1

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 • 

Dennis Notten

8

2

April 2025

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 • 

Dennis Notten

10

6

February 2025

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 • 

Dennis Notten

14

2

November 2024

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 • 

Dennis Notten

11

1

August 2023

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 • 

Dennis Notten

18

1

Time in the Village

Chapter 8: When the house was finished, we left for Tarauacá on the boat. It felt strange to go back into the world after having just arrived in the…

Aug 3, 2023 • 

Dennis Notten

12

July 2023

Preparing for Muká

Chapter 7: I arrived back in Amsterdam with clarity, confidence, and trust. I decided that I would move to Peru the following summer, and to play in the…

Jul 20, 2023 • 

Dennis Notten

16

Puyeihunihu

The story of Ruá, and the birth of the plants of power...

Jul 6, 2023 • 

Dennis Notten

12

1

June 2023

Transitions

Chapter 6: The time in Brazil ended, and I returned back to the Netherlands, to my life, to my relationship, and my job in the classical music world…

Jun 22, 2023 • 

Dennis Notten

14

1

Meeting the Santo Daime

Chapter 5: Just a few weeks later, in the summer of 2012, I set off for Brazil with my girlfriend and a dear friend Jeroen. We stayed for a few days in…

Jun 8, 2023 • 

Dennis Notten

24