I had the priviledge to interview Sophia Rokhlin back in July, 2019.
Sophia Rokhlin is a program coordinator at the Chaikuni Institute and directs the sustainable ayahuasca cultivation program at The Temple of the Way of Light, a traditional plant medicine retreat center in the Peruvian Amazon.
So often, we feel things are being done to us. This leads to a sense of victimhood. This is a tough lesson on taking responsibility from mother ayahuasca.
What Is Ayahuasca? Ayahuasca tea is a South American entheogenic brew. It belongs to the world of sacred plant medicine (psilocybin – though it is a fungi and not considered plant medicine, peyote, San Pedro, iboga, etc). The brew was traditionally drunk by ayahuasca shamans and healers in different indigenous tribes of the Amazon for …
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Ayahuasca is a magnified and intensified version of life – she is here to show you who you are, and what you have been holding onto that is no longer serving you. She has no agenda other than accurately reflecting back to you everything that is seen, and unseen about you. You get to decide what you do with that; this is your evolution and free will.
We live in a world where natural plants given by mother earth are demonized and labeled dangerous and illegal because they cannot be patented while deadly chemicals produced in labs are treated as mainstream and safe in order to fill the pockets of a few. It is past time for us to challenge these collective beliefs that imprison us, and psychedelics can show us the way.
As the world is waking up, more are searching for holistic methods to heal trauma, release painful past and reconnect with their heart and soul’s wisdom, and ayahuasca is one of these modalities. Working with something such as plant medicine can shift who we are at the core and assist us in making bold and soul-aligned choices to achieve greater freedom and joy in life.
The ego death experience is quite common in ayahuasca. So what is the plant teaching us about dying while we are still living? Here are the 7 lessons I learned from dying in my ayahuasca ceremony.
This is my personal account on one of my most profound ayahuasca ceremonies. Within one ceremony on creation, death, rebirth, and life, 15 life lessons came out of it. 20 years of spiritual studies in one journey? You can say so.
