Category Archives: Ayahuasca

The Bitter Cup: Ayahuasca – beware the hand that serves you

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Michael J. Melville

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The Water Horse Way

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Michael J. Melville

Honestly, I didn’t know what to do. Out of the blue came a Facebook friend request from someone I hadn’t seen in five years. Three years ago he agreed to meet me for a movie, Cloud Atlas, which illustrated most … Continue reading →

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Orange Marmalade

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Michael J. Melville

What would be fun to do after reading about the Shadow? A movie perhaps, yes, a comedy would be a good compensation, but which one? I had seen the previews for Paddington, that story of the little bear from Darkest … Continue reading →

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Good old St. Nick and Mestre Irineu

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Michael J. Melville

At the opening of the Christmas festival, which is dedicated to the Virgin of Conception, we sang the founder’s hymns. Mestre Raimundo Irineu Serra had a vision after drinking ayahuasca with the natives of Peru when he was a border … Continue reading →

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Apu Spirit of the Andes

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Michael J. Melville

When the Eagle Woman returned from Peru, she gave me a carved stone figure called an Apu. She said that all the medicine people in the Andes have these stones, but only the most powerful have a star incised in … Continue reading →

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The Violet Wizard Saint Germaine

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Michael J. Melville

Inside the Good Cup Café, the spinach and feta quiche had to be heated. I filled my ceramic coffee mug and returned to pay for my brunch. Meanwhile a young guy in a baseball cap came up beside me and … Continue reading →

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The Disembodied Voices

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Michael J. Melville

When we listen to our inner voices and act upon their counsel, our world is created.  Perhaps the new age way of talking is more apt, our world is “co-created” by me and the forces of the universe.  Those forces … Continue reading →

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The Car Pool

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Michael J. Melville

When the unconscious speaks through us, it is time to pay attention.  This communication from the spirit might be in a Freudian slip of the tongue or an overwhelming attraction to another person.  Those people come into our world for … Continue reading →

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Ayahuasca, Syzygy, and Divine Light

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Michael J. Melville

I awoke to the sound of church bells.  I had parked my car by the park and fallen asleep there.  I was back in Santa Barbara.  It was Sunday morning.  I could still make it up the mountain in time … Continue reading →

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The Bishop and Santo Daime

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Michael J. Melville

Because genuine religious experience comes from naive, primitive ground levels of the psyche, an open channel to our inner world is needed to connect with the Divine.  Ayahuasca provides the key needed to open that channel.  A religion based in … Continue reading →

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