Familial Ties

In October of 2019 I traveled alone to the Andean mountains of Peru to drink a potent psychedelic plant medicine known as ayahuasca. During the course of my travels I encountered a series of profoundly moving spiritual and emotionally healing experiences. Following is a piece of that magical journey captured to paper.

"I saw his dose of brew: it must have been 3 or 4 times larger than mine. I thought either my dose is so small that nothing is going to happen to me or his dose is so large that he is going to die tonight. Either way, he is going to meet God. I then proceeded to have the most cataclysmically intense, soul-altering experience of my life..."

This experience was deeply significant as it symbolized to me a moment of authentic masculine connection between male siblings and a father. My own communication with my father had been totally severed earlier in the year. My relationship with my father was, and remains, nonexistent and this was weighing heavily on me at the time of my journey. I feel that I was being shown that deep connections to other men are accessible, regardless of the wounds sustained in relation to my father. Sometimes this connection can even be found in a man who I had never met. Although the relationship and connection struck me more as brotherly, it felt like a lesson in fatherhood, brotherhood, masculinity, and love.

-Introduction

-Housekeeping

-Psychedelic Review: "The Color Out of Space" (2019 Film)

-Psychedelic News: The passing of Baba Kilindi Iyi

-Reading: "Familial Ties" by Clinton Kaley

-Exploration of Reading

-Goodbyes

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