A friend recently asked me how I was doing. Without thinking too much, I said: “I’m a little bit more brokenhearted, and a little bit more whole.” She needed an explanation, and I didn’t follow up with the conversation. I’ve been feeling that answer for the last few days, giving it space, letting it sink […]
Remembering Wholeness: Ayahuasca and the Structural Violence of Modern Life
“Why does one write, if not to put one’s pieces together? From the moment we enter school or church, education chops us into pieces: it teaches us to divorce soul from body and mind from heart. The fishermen of the Colombian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word […]
Bringing the Jungle to the Conference Room
Dear Family of the Temple, I wish you a happy new year and a wonderful new journey around the sun. Many of you have joined us at our rainforest home in the Peruvian amazon, and are aware of the multi-faceted nature of the healing work that we offer to our global ayahuasca family. Besides the […]
The Temple of the Way of Light and the Chaikuni Institute at Breaking Convention 2017
This summer, The Temple of the Way of Light and the Chaikuni Institute proudly partnered, once again, with Breaking Convention, a multidisciplinary conference on psychedelic consciousness, featuring more than 150 presenters from around the world, including our Research Coordinator Adam Andros Aronovich. This amazing conference took place at the University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval […]
The Temple of the Way of Light and the Chaikuni Institute at Psychedelic Science 2017
The largest psychedelic conference in history took place at the end of April in Oakland, California, bringing together luminaries and researchers in all fields of psychedelic inquiry and practice, including a whole track devoted to plant medicines. And what an amazing week it was! The Temple of the Way of Light and the Chaikuni Institute […]
