Ayahuasca Talks

Hello Ayahuasca Talks listeners! This is just a short announcement to let you know that I will be recording more episodes, however, they will no longer be quarterly. I decided this as I’d rather bring you an episode when there’s an opportunity for a conversation that I feel is important and worthwhile rather than producing them on a schedule. So stay tuned for more great discussions on Ayahuasca T...

At the beginning of this episode and throughout, we establish the striking similarities between Ayahuasca experiences and Near Death Experiences in their effects at times and their lessons. Cailin describes her ongoing relationship with her spiritual guide Damon Michael and shares the lessons around remaining lucid in this dream of the world and how to navigate it through our focus and awareness o...

Henna and I talked about our journey through plant medicines from activism to a greater focus on what we would like to see and be in the world. Henna discusses how she is making her vision of a healthier, more respectful and harmonious community happen in Finland. Henna shares her experiences of bringing people together, the hurdles she has overcome in this endeavour, what she has learned and how...

Jerry talks about his extraordinary spiritual experiences: his NDE and other amazing out of body experiences and interactions with healing entities. We talk about love and the importance of it and the kinds of frequencies and elevated states that help us move forward in life. Jerry describes how he began to heal people at a distance and touches on the quantum nature of this healing. We discuss the...

Tracy shares her story of working with plant medicines and how they ultimately led her to create a healing community in Costa Rica. Tracy and Rebecca share stories around some dark/difficult medicine experiences relating these experiences themselves to an initiation of sorts which make us stronger. We discuss her integration journey and some of the things that happened along the way to help her he...

Lori shares openly about her experiences both before and mostly after Ayahuasca. She talks about her own suicidal thoughts as a result of the challenging situations that she was dealing with post-pandemic and how this led her to the medicine. We discuss the themes/issues that came up during and after her ceremony and how she addressed them. Discussion topics involve harmful thought patterns about...

Integration Themes: Trust, Money & Social Acceptance. Doug shares the story of his integration journey beginning with him leaving the corporate financial world and creating organizations that are more aligned with his values and interests. Doug discusses some important themes of his integration path including his relationship with money, his heightened concerns over what others think of him an...

Neil shared openly about his early childhood and about his integration journey so far. He talks about how he has become more open and authentic. He brings up the topic of ‘transactional relationships’ and we discuss this in terms of not only our own social experience but also within the larger psychedelic industry. We talk about making mistakes and how important it is to accept this part of our re...

Tammy shares her experiences integrating Ayahuasca. She shares about how she confronted a dark energy that attached itself while she helped to facilitate a ceremony and what she learned from that. She also discusses some of the figures that showed up during her own Aya experiences and how she began to understand more about them afterwards through hypnotic journeying. Tammy shares how she healed he...

Ehren talks about his studies of South American Indigenous cultures, the ugly realities of colonization and how this inspired him to explore plant medicines. He shared about his initial post-psychedelic experience of narcissism as a reaction to the overwhelming nature of this profound event in his life and his sense of mission. This led to him making changes motivated by the rejection of those aro...

A common inner physical reaction, such as tension, can produce a whole host of unintended effects that we experience as ‘reality’. Becoming conscious of the specific beliefs that cause our inner tension and how they impact the role we play in our lives, can help us reduce/eliminate suffering and create opportunities for positive change.

Jared shares his experiences of coming back from his Ayahuasca ceremonies and the transitional period that took place in his life as he moved out of his traditional military career into a career path that was more reflective of his gifts. We discuss the inner voice and guidance we have received since our Aya experience and how it shows up for us – often with humour. Jared explains how he responded...

We discuss some of the important messages and themes that shaped Greg’s integration journey including ‘You Cannot Fail’. We discuss how the idea of failure in life can prevent us from taking chances and how the idea of failing is introduced to us very early in life via school exams etc. Greg shares a story about how he internalized a minor incident when he was young and how that impacted him in li...

This discussion encompasses a few themes:  healing and/or moving away from unbalanced relationships & the grief associated with that, recognizing challenging situations as opportunities to apply themes that came up in ceremony and seeing/feeling what lies beneath the surface of relationships or situations. We talk about recognizing our intuitive abilities and applying them to assist along the inte...

Our discussion begins with being called to the medicine, what this felt like. We talk about how the process of integration involves many chaotic episodes that are the prelude to a rebirth and that this is how we can interpret the events that are externalized in the world right now. We talk about the evolution that is taking place from being a follower society to being more self reliant and focused...

In this episode, we discuss the power of fluid perspectives – of being open to changes in worldview and perspectives. Vyolet shares the changes she made in her life, the challenges she faced and how this transition ultimately moved her forward. We talk about the power of surrender and trust that things will work out in the end. Vyolet reaffirms how the problems she anticipated in making these chan...

Emileena and Rebecca discuss the value of creativity. Plant medicines and psychedelics celebrate and cultivate the creativity within us. Creativity is often discouraged or devalued in society and those who have this particular talent are often guided away from pursuing it professionally. However, most of the products that benefit us originated from someone’s creativity, so if we limit creativity t...

Judith and I share our thoughts on the true nature of the long and often challenging path of integration. It can become a way of life. We share about our patterns and how they often continue to emerge in different ways to remind us and to help us work on these things as part of our integration. It can be difficult when patterns emerge again and it's important to remember that we have made progress...

We discuss a more expansive concept of illness that we discover through Ayahuasca. We talk about both individual illnesses and how this relates to the greater illness of humanity and the opportunities we have to heal it. The ACEs study that is known to the mainstream world of medicine indicates a clear connection between childhood abuse/trauma and illness. Dr. Tafur talks about getting to the root...

Kyle shares his NDE (near death experience) and his spiritual emergence following this event. We talk about our individual experiences of spiritual emergence/emergency and Kyle provides an explanation of the difference between the two. We discuss the similarities between NDEs and medicine experiences as well. We talk about the pull that we often feel to be back in the blissful/peaceful states we c...

Sebastien Fouillade of Leadershipedelics & Rebecca Hayden discuss living more authentically. Plant medicine experiences often emphasize our uniqueness and how important it is for us to discover and honour our authentic selves – to live our lives accordingly and to reflect this in everything we do. We talk about our personal experiences of self discovery and the process of becoming more authentic....

Xiaojue & Rebecca discuss the 'fawning' response to trauma which is a lesser known characteristic of trauma behaviour. They talk about their own experiences of this response and the impact it has had on their habits and personal growth. The discussion touches on different aspects and root causes of this response, everyday examples and the larger implications of this on a societal level. 

This special episode features a discussion about exploring and shedding the darkness within to achieve a more joyful and loving existence. Rebecca Hayden describes experiences of confronting and letting go of dark energies while in different states after medicine experiences. This is a discussion that took place with Michael Kokal in 2020 and delves into the possibilities of what can be achieved i...

This discussion is about healing from the inside out through challenging times. We talk about outer reflections of things that we need to heal - issues such as control which is coming up a lot now. We discuss moving through trauma into empowerment. Other topics such as shadow work and empathy come up as we discuss our own healing journeys and tools that anyone can use to help them through these di...