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    Awakening With Ayahuasca: A Conversation About Energy Healing, Shamanism And A Spiritual Quest
    Awakening With Ayahuasca: A Conversation About Energy Healing, Shamanism And A Spiritual Quest
    Awakening With Ayahuasca: A Conversation About Energy Healing, Shamanism And A Spiritual Quest
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    Awakening With Ayahuasca: A Conversation About Energy Healing, Shamanism And A Spiritual Quest

    By Karl Meyer and Alicia Benova

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    In “Awakening with Ayahuasca” energy therapist and healer Alicia Benova speaks about her spiritual journey. Born in Eastern Europe, Alicia had to contend with personal pain and hardship which tested the limits of her endurance and led to her involvement with energy therapy. Driven by anguish to the far reaches of the Amazon, Alicia travelled across continents in hope of healing her wounds. Her quest culminated deep in the Peruvian jungle in her life-changing encounters with ayahuasca and shamanism. In the process of narrating her story, Alicia touches on topics and questions that will be of interest to those who contemplate exploring shamanic healing and the sacred ancient medicine of ayahuasca.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKarl Meyer
    Release dateNov 19, 2015
    ISBN9781310873171
    Awakening With Ayahuasca: A Conversation About Energy Healing, Shamanism And A Spiritual Quest
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    Karl Meyer

    Karl Meyer is a nom de plume. In his previous incarnation, Karl was a scribbler who wrote on politics, economics and religion. His work has appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines and internet outlets.

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      Awakening With Ayahuasca - Karl Meyer

      Awakening with Ayahuasca: A conversation about energy healing, shamanism and spiritual quest

      Alicia Benova with Karl Meyer

      Copyright © 2015 Karl Meyer and Alicia Benova

      The moral right of the authors has been asserted.

      Cover Image: Photograph by Alicia Benova

      All rights reserved

      Portions of this book may be quoted if attribution is given.

      A production of DARSHANA,

      a division of the Awakening Consciousness

      darshana.vera@gmail.com

      First published in November 2015

      ISBN: 978-1-3108-7317-1

      Contents

      Title page

      Contents

      About the Authors

      A note on capitalisation

      Prologue

      Part I: Journey

      Part II: Ayahuasca

      Connect with Alicia

      About the Authors

      ALICIA BENOVA

      A graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, Alicia is an energy therapist and healer currently based in West Palm Beach, Florida. Born in Eastern Europe, she has been a long-time student of indigenous religions and has participated in native rituals and ceremonies on three continents. In addition to her healing practice, Alicia regularly leads retreats to Amazonia and other places of indigenous spirituality.

      You can learn more about Alicia’s work and retreats by visiting her website at www.healinginperu.com.

      KARL MEYER

      Karl Meyer is a nom de plume. In his previous incarnation, Karl was a scribbler who wrote on politics, economics and religion. His work has appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines and internet outlets. Karl lives in Europe.

      A note on capitalisation

      In this book the term ayahuasca denotes two different things. When referring to the brew that is drank during shamanic ceremonies, the word ayahuasca functions as a common noun. In these instances the first letter is written in lowercase.

      When the word ayahuasca refers to the goddess or spirit — as in Madre Ayahuasca — it functions as a proper noun and is capitalised as such.

      Prologue

      The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.

      — Albert Einstein

      Before you begin please try to open yourself to the possibility that there is more to reality than what we ordinarily perceive and experience in the course of our daily lives.

      When we suspend our judgmental mind and look at things through the eyes of intuition we may discover dimensions of reality whose existence was previously unsuspected. This may lead to new possibilities that are as extraordinary as they are wondrous.

      Part I: Journey

      Karl: You have had profound, life-changing encounters with shamanism and the ayahuasca brew which is used as part of the shamanic healing process. Your extensive first-hand experience may be of interest to those who want to learn more about the extraordinary properties of this sacred medicine as well as to those interested in spirituality in general. It would, however, be difficult to fully convey the life-changing potential of ayahuasca and the transformative role it has played in your own life without first learning something of your personal story. Yours has been a fascinating journey and one that has been as remarkable as it has been difficult. But let us start at the beginning. Where were you born?

      Alicia: The country where I was born is called Slovakia today, but at the time it was called Czechoslovakia. It was a small country in eastern Europe which was part of the Communist Block. You could say that I was born behind the Iron Curtain. The society into which I was born functioned in ways that most people today would probably find quite unusual.

      Karl: Were you spiritually inclined as a child?

      Alicia: No, I wasn't. I grew up in an atheist home in a system that was against religion. I was taught not to believe in God, because it was against our society… believing in God was considered improper and dangerous. I didn’t spend time thinking about religion or spirituality — I was interested in normal childhood activities. I liked sports and outside games like hiking and running, and I spent a great deal of time in the woods behind our flat. Sometimes when we travelled to visit my grandparents who lived in the country, I was taken to church. I remember feeling frightened seeing Jesus on the cross dead with blood all over him. I didn’t understand why people would choose such a gruesome symbol to commune with God. It did the exact opposite for me — it horrified me and turned me away. Today, being in my forties, I believe in Christ’s message of unconditional love, but I can't accept how over the centuries the Church changed his teachings. How could they manipulate people so that they'd kill in the name of

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