Odyssey 2015 - Review, Overview and Preparation for embarkation

Greetings

The past 12 months since my return from completing Odyssey 2014 has been full, complete, shocking, enlightening and complete with love.

Within this time I have developed an investment masterclass for the tourism industry in Queensland and delivered that throughout the State and developed the content into online tutorial webisodes.

I've travelled to Europe again for a wedding and revising friends and travelled to Romania to catch up with new friends there and making new ones too.  I've developed a cutting edge, state of the art Client Relationship Management Database using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 software and delivered that for the Queensland Government.

And I've walked away from all of that to commence Odyssey 2015.

I recently chose to resign from my job of 10 years as a Public Servant for the State of Queensland in Australia.  It came during a trying time for the Government and me personally, however parting ways at this time is absolutely perfect and am grateful for all that has occurred.

Since triggering my departure from Government lifestyle opportunities are abundant, more obvious and I'm hoping to be able to collaborate with wonderful people in projects that bring joy, freedom and happiness to those involved.

I'm open to the future and have let go of the side oft the river to allow all opportunity the energy it needs, to assimilate with myself and the ongoing changes.  I ask and gratefully receive what I ask for, as it enables me to be give back in greater yield than ever before, so on and so forth...

As you may understand, after being away for a long holiday (Odyssey 2014) the good feeling stays with you for some time, this good feeling for me lasted until June 2014 and I came down with a thump and crash.  I didn't expect it, however as always ultimately see experiences as a perfect right in their own light and had a fantastic support network around me of friends that are my family.  You know who you are, blessed souls. xx

Odyssey 2015 has been forged through adversity, however mainly due to the fantastic partner that has entered my life.  My friend, my lover and the so very gorgeous Angela.  Without her energy entering mine, the mere concept of this next journey wouldn't have been considered.

After travelling to Europe in August 2014 I was done travelling for a while, there's only so many airports and airmiles you can do before you just want to put your feet up.  However after a few dates with Angela I was told that she's off overseas to travel and I could come, or I could stay......Hmmmmm ..and here we are :)

We now have less than two weeks to finalise the necessary things here in Brisbane and to start preparations before we embark to Iqutios Peru and to the Ayahuasca Adventure Centre (www.pulsetours.com) and to experience the benefit of being onsite deep in the Amazon jungle again.

I can feel the process of the Amazon beginning again within me.  To help with this we've escaped the city environment and are now on Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef, enjoying some warmer weather, family company and exceptional views of an environment so precious, ourselves out in nature, immersed in it, and blessed to be amongst it.

Ahhhhh....Gratitude is the theme

Amazon Adventures - A closer look a year later

The site and setting of your Ayahuasca experience is essential.  This is not the substance to be taken within the hustle and bustle of life around you, or more so to have when other others energies are present that may be unwanted and wanting to affect your experience.

Choosing your site is essential and this should be part of the research I suggest anyone does when curious about seeking an authentic Ayahuasca experience.

The setting of the site chosen should allow you to decompress to levels of relaxation that are challenging to get to in everyday western life, due to our rat race and ways of separation.  Once in the appropriate setting and relaxation sets in, my guard comes down and I become more allowing of the process to commence and not so apprehensive.

I was quite fortunate to have chosen a site and setting perfect for my first experience and very grateful that I was able to experience it here, The Temple of the Way of Light.

Ceremony

After over 18 months of research, intrigue and digesting of copious hours of You Tube videos on Peru and the Amazon, it was time.  It was my time to walk up, sit in front of the Maestra (female Shipibo Shamen) and drink my first cup of Ayahuasca.  My initial thoughts were that it wasn't too bad; it didn't taste as horrible as I had been told....this was to change.

After all participants had drunk, the lights were blown out (no electricity at the site I chose) and the darkness of the Maloka was taken over by the night light.  We then waited for the experience and for "mariana", the name called for when one is under the influence of Ayahuasca.

After about an hour, the song starts.  The Icaro  -   A genuine authentic Ayahuasca experience is nothing without Icaro, the song sung by Maestras and Maestros (Male Shamen) during ceremony, that works in concert with the medicine effecting you.  The Shamen work with the song and the medicine to assist in the healing.

The Shamen are highly skilled and have worked for many many years in dieting on Ayahuasca and other specific plant remedies to assist in their own unique healing gifts.  Your Shamen should be accessible and available to engage with you after ceremony.

For me, the first ceremony was a display of the most fantastic lights over all colours of the rainbow, to the point I felt the Shamen had LED lights in their clothes - ha :)  The medicine affects the hearing and I was hearing the Icaro's blend together in such a beautiful reverbing sound, and was blown away by the experience.

The ceremony went for about 2-3 hours; I was engaged by the medicine for about 8 hours.  The balance of time spent marvelling at the night sky, night animals, and the thousands upon thousands of thoughts that were bouncing through my head as my ego played out it's egoisms and my higher self started to take a more balanced place within me.

The ceremony acts as a great healer, therefore I had incredible mental energy, however was very fatigued by the process.  

The first level the medicine works on, is the physical level and clearing blockages in the body that are holding you back, causing dis-ease and are there to be removed and healed.

The purging is very dehydrating and one needs to be mindful to increase drinking of waters, teas and juices which are readily available.  

I had a total of 7 ceremonies, each very different to the other. On my second ceremony I experienced the purge.  I was amazed that even after purging several times, there was still a lot of purging to be done.   It's quite an experience vomiting (purging via one's mouth) amongst a group of 21 other people.  It is a great leveller and I definitely realised how much of a healing process it is.  

You see, it goes beyond vomiting up substance; it's the release at a guttural level of the energy blockage from a given point within the body.  An example was mine was a hissing and guttural belching, and the feeling of issues, events and experiences that I have manifested within my body..go into the bucket...gone.  Each and ever dark thought and issue that I was dealing with, came with a purge.

My subsequent ceremonies each held very personal experiences, and as the retreat unfolded I began to understand the healing more and more and what was happening to me as a consequence.  My heart was being healed and returned to the centered point of a boy that had never experienced trauma, hurt, pain or sadness.  What a gift to be given, what an essential component of living that was returned to me.  "Never have I been relinquished from my ego so far and lived in my heart for so long".

Amongst my unique experiences was a connection to my star brothers and sisters, who I felt and saw quite acutely during my second ceremony, a giant Arcturian woman, who took me up and up towards my spiritual home of the Pleiades, only to look back and realise that my body wasn’t ready, and it wasn’t time, and I wasn’t ready. I came back down into my body and purged big time!!!  Another experience was witnessing those that live just outside our spectrum of vision who are always there in the shadows and observing the healing process, these were quite small and no higher than my knee and disappeared once I went out of my heart and into my head to analyse what they were.

The next levels Ayahuasca and the Shamen work on, the ones that are still working...and continue to do so and feel will do so for the remainder of my existence in this form.   The imprints of the work and the medicine are now indelibly bound to my DNA.

I approached this experience with believing that a 12 day retreat and 7 ceremonies will be enough. I've since found that for me, It's only the start.

Integration

Returning to Australia after an extended period having undertaken over 18 flights through 8 countries was a challenge to come back to.  

In hindsight, I would have approached my Amazon experience first and then travel afterwards.  But it all happened perfectly as it should.  I was quite wobbly returning home, sitting in a western house, still feeling the effects of Ayahuasca and having absolutely no one that I could talk to nearby who would understand or appreciate the experience.  It was literally a new me in an old me world - get ready for feeling that should you take a similar path my friends.

I sit now writing this, 10 months after the experience, after having had several moments where I had questioned my reasons for going to the Amazon, only to have it all come full circle.  

I am currently in the midst of preparations for returning to the Amazon for another stint.  This time with 12 ceremonies over 21 days, which includes other healing modalities, such as Kampo, which is healing using frog venom.  And this time sharing the experience with someone close to my heart, that I would not have found if it weren’t for my first experience...amazing what happens when you let go and connect xx.

Look out for postings for Odyssey 2015 by following me at Twitter and at my Blog.  Very happy to discuss any of these topics with anyone.

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We're all spiritual beings, having a human doing experience

We're all Children of the light with free will to dance all through the night.

Dave Waller