Ayahuasca The Second Encounter — DOP

Ayahuasca
The Second Encounter

October 17 2013

I just booked my second Ayahuasca retreat. This time for three days only and not in the Amazon but in the Netherlands.

It will be a very different experience than before. I can already feel it now. Facing something entirely unknown is always naive no matter how serious you try to approach it. But now that I know the potential of it the time of preparation is more charged with significance. I almost feel like only the second time takes courage.

I wanna use my own engagement with that matter as an opportunity to spread the word about this powerful teacher plant. The list below is for you to come as close to getting an idea of it as possible — without actually doing it. Which is not very close I might add.

The War on Consciousness — Graham Hancock’s banned TED talk

Five long documentaries about Ayahuasca, DMT and Shamanism:

DMT — The Spirit Molecule, 2010

Manifesting the mind — Footprints of the shaman, 2009

Other Worlds, 2004

Heaven Earth, 2008

Watching this testimonial was something like the initial trigger for me:

Christopher Alexander
The Timeless Way of Building

To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness.

Jonathan McCabe
Generative Flow

I never liked generative art. Until I found Jonathan McCabe. He changed that in an instant.

Cary Grant
Why didn’t I do this sooner?

I’m a promoter of the psychedelic experience as you might have figured. More people of high reputation need to come out of the closet and speak out about it.

Tintin
Coming of Age

I grew up with Tintin and I just realized how formative Hergé’s ‘ligne claire’ was for me. His distinct visual…

Synchrodogs
Woman Nature Technology

Their latest exploration into generative AI seems like a natural evolution of their practice.

Auroville
A city in the making

Auroville is the dream of a better world. It doesn’t matter on how many levels such projects struggle or fail.…

Bruce Ricker
Primordial Splendor

The painter has a language which translates meaning to the viewer beyond that which the viewer’s experience can give.

Beth Moon
Ancient Trees

Beth Moon has been photographing some of the largest, rarest, and oldest trees on Earth for the past fourteen years.

Jean Delville
The Age Of Splendor

Jean Delville was a Belgian painter who painted heavily symbolic scenes with a occult oriented spiritual perspective.

Robert Venosa
Timeless Vistas of Inner Realities

New York City born, Robert Venosa was transported into the world of fine art in the late 60’s after having…

Mooji
A Few Minutes to Be Light and Free

Introducing you to Mooji is a matter of the heart for me. His radiance easily dissolves the haunted mind into laughter and leaves you lighter.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal
The Beautiful Brain

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) was a Spanish neuroscientist and pathologist who is considered the father of modern neuroscience.

Terence McKenna
Global Perspectives
and Psychedelic Poetics

Every time I return to Terence McKenna I am amazed once more. Hours of listening just fly by.

Sharon Ellis
Tumult in Earth, Calm in Heaven

Her vibrant nature scenes convey a sense of the divine in nature and are reminiscent of the Transcendental Painting Group.

Peter Birkhäuser
Light from the Darkness

Few artists have so powerfully evoked the uncanny otherness of the unconscious like Swiss artist Peter Birkhäuser.

Crystallized Water
Revelation & Mystery

This message is so utterly beautiful in its implications that I just want to believe it! Love & gratitude materializes in beauty.

Jantar Mantar
The observatories of Jai Singh

In the early 18th century Maharajah Sawaii Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five astronomical observatories in North India, known as Jantar Mantar.

David S. Goodsell
The Machinery of Life

Beneath our everyday world there is a miniature universe of cells, trillions of tiny worlds, unseen and beautiful. This is the machinery of life and it never rests!

Daniel Stier
Ways Of Knowing

A personal project exploring the real world of scientific research. Not the stainless steel surfaces bathed in purple light, but real people in their basements working on selfbuilt contraptions

The Overview Effect
& Satellite imagery

Most probably I will never look down at mother ship earth from space. But some astronauts did when they set out to explore the final frontier.