I like what I saw! I noticed re-ocurring themes and variations….symbolism of the eastern kind. This is right up my alley. I wonder what the reaction will be. I say this because your work is “outside the box”

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and of course there is always http://www.pinholeday.org (next one coming up soon) were among the thousands of average pictures there are plenty of gems to be found… what’s been termed “alternative processes” is on the rise…

by the way, the forests around were you live would be perfect for wide field pinhole landscapes… something to think about… cheers

Very Nice images.
I’ve got a couple kind of like these at home which I’m struggling with. My problem is I’m trying to go once again for less information – mine are too descriptive. I’m sure all this is Sally Mann’s Deep South influence on me. It’s driving me a little crazy, I never come back from this creek with anything I personally feel satisfied with.

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Can I sing now?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Of course I knew you weren’t. But I also say whatever helps people get out of pain and suffering is fine by me, at any cost (and aya or iboga is a fraction, even at spa prices, of what a Western doc might cost ya). I do have to say that I find the Brit predilection to snarkiness regarding anything outside their ken or comfort zone to be a bit wearisome at times (such as the tone of the Guardian piece). That said I saw the Extreme Celebrity detox episode several years ago and laughed my head off. Esp Tony Wilson with his playlist for the evening. What a tosser!

Do try and listen to that interview with Francois though.

Best,

CP

They are even doing aya heroin detox’s at funky little country retreats.
and I guess the documentary ‘extreme celebtrity detox’ didnt help matters much either.

these Silicon Valley folks, never sleep….

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Well there is hubris in anything isn’t there? True story: a person I was told about recently went down to the Amazon, found some remote village and the local shaman and asked to do a dieta. Well, he’s apparantly a person who lets his ego get in front of him and the locals fucked with him. So they dieted him on the potato plant and he of course fucked up his diet and they didn’t help him. My friend who knows him said he came back looking like a potato! Plus his esophagus had shrunk to the size of a dime. He’s getting help now but his ego still won’t allow him to realize that he was the one who fucked it up.

Anyway, I don’t think I or anyone I know working with this medicine even remotely feel we are “buying a lifestyle.” We are seeking healing and fortunate to do so from some of the best in the world in this tradition. Of course there are those who are just after an “experience.” Quite often they are the ones screaming their heads off and being disruptive (I had one woman who masturbated the whole time, moaning, next to me, needless to say she was never asked back).

I have heard from others that aya has had a bit of an Ab Fab reputation in the UK so it might just be a matter of perception and actually working with the real deal.

And yes demons – which are just a visual manifestation of our shadow selves.

True story.
Theres a guy from brixton..a poet.big hit on the new hippy circuit. shamanic spirit apparently….renounces all western trappings to go to the rainforest and be apprenticed to a shaman….committed guy. claims that the west has lost its way, and all the spiritual and medicinal secrets of the rain forest can be learned for the benefit of all..so anyways, about five months in your man gets a scratch on his foot…takes some shamanic medicine..meditates or whatever for a couple of weeks…his shaman gives him some bugs to eat or somesuch (forgetting of course that he and his have a natural immunity to many of the forest toxins which our boy dont)…so now your mans leg is pretty in infected and painful…but he is in the bosom of healing and spiritual knowledge..whats a guy to do?….he hotfoot(sic) it to a phone box as quick as he can…rings up everyone he knows back home…money money need money..medical emergency..stop. Gets to a hospital (western medicine) where after a (quite expensive) prolonged fight with the infection…he loses about half of his foot. (Am I a bad person that I laughed my ass of when I heard this? ) anyways,, he’s back in england now…back on the circuit…probaly dining and getting laid of this story as we speak..and seemed very happy last time I saw him…limps a bit though…but that adds to the authenticity right?

Peace

and…did you really say “purging demons”?