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:

The Zen Mind

The Zen Mind is a fascinating journey across Japan to explore Zen in its natural habitat.

Lennart Nilsson
A Child is Born

The mere fact that you exist is quite awesome. The way you came into this existence is a unsurpassable miracle hard to believe.

The Last Honey Hunter
of Nepal

Deep and dark, this film glides through a misty world of forest spirits, dreams, and psychotropic honey.

Roger Dean
Floating Dreamlands

Roger Dean is best known for his work on posters and album covers for musicians, which he began painting in…

Jean Liedloff
The Continuum concept

This book is a must for all future parents. Besides that they don’t need to learn much.

Sayat Nova
The Color of Pomegranates

The film does not attempt to tell the life story of a poet. Rather, the filmmaker had tried to recreate the poet’s inner world.

Gage Taylor
The Holy Grove

His meticulously rendered landscapes suggest a nostalgia for Eden and the availability of peace and joy through an expanded awareness of the beauty inherent in the land.

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…

Armin Copp
Broken worlds without end

Fractals are a wonderful way of seeing infinity. Their beauty is only secondary after that lesson in perception.

Exploring
micro worlds

After so much exploring the inner worlds and energetic realms, back to matter.

Brenna Murphy
Resonant hyper objects

The ancient and the yet unseen echoes through these arabesque hyper realms, with an almost hallucinatory effect.

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!

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.…

Icaros
One who set forth
to learn what being alive was

This film is about people who set forth to fully experience life. To shed the false shell and to return home.

Eyvind Earle
Master of the trees

Eyvind Earle is a master of contemplative landscape paintings. To me these dream-like sceneries are highly hypnotising.

Renzo Martens
Enjoy Poverty

Renzo Martens’ Enjoy Poverty is one of the most provocative films that have been circulating the art world since its release in 2009.

Ernesto Neto
The body that carries me

I would describe the work of Ernesto Neto as ‘body art’. It’s a supreme example of art that communicates by bodily sensations.

Pablo Amaringo
Shaman and painter

Amaringo’s paintings give a good impression of the quality of an ayahuasca vision. Pablo César Amaringo Shuna was born in…

Híbridos
The Spirits of Brazil

A poetic and cinematic research into spirituality and its music in Brazil by Priscilla Telmon & Vincent Moon.

Chris Bryan
Mocean

Watching this video, I felt captured by a primal feeling of awe. One of these rare moments when we glimpse how inconceivably vast and powerful this reality is.