Tag Archives: entheogens

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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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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The Coffee Angel

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Michael J. Melville

I wanted coffee before the movie.  There were twenty minutes to spare and, can you believe it, Starbucks was out of coffee?  Well, there was none to pour, so I was given my choice of a freshly brewed cup of … Continue reading →

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Water and fire, dragons meet

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Michael J. Melville

When we met it was my first Santo Daime Work.  He was my youngest son’s age and he greeted me like he was expecting me.  During the break I was sitting in a chair looking out to sea, watching the … Continue reading →

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Chemically Dependent Memory and Emotional Growth

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Michael J. Melville

The first time I was told “we stop growing emotionally when we start using substances” was in 1997.  My marriage of 30 years was dissolving and I knew the patterns I learned in childhood were the root of it all.  … Continue reading →

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Confronting the Dark Lord

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Michael J. Melville

We opened our private sharing of ayahuasca in the Santo Daime style with prayers.  I called down the Holy Spirit, prayed for illumination, for clarity, that the sacred medicine would show me whatever I needed to see so that I … Continue reading →

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Takiwasi meets Santo Daime

Posted on May 28, 2013 by Michael J. Melville

     Sometimes the Universe has a plan which we have to accept, even when the formal structure discourages doing what feels right. Within my understanding of the Santo Daime tradition, physical contact is kept to a minimum. The ayahuasca is … Continue reading →

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