Ayahuasca Matters: Interviews with Robert Tindall
“My take is “salvation” or “obtaining liberation,” in the Western sense, is clearly an import into Amazonian culture. Their concern is in how to walk the way of life and death, how to understand their...
View ArticleThe Pilgrims’ Progress #1: Mayantuyacu
After seven years of residence in the California Bay Area, Susana and I have pulled up stakes and moved back to Peru, where we have been acclimatizing and settling down for about a month now. Our...
View ArticlePsychedelic Press UK Literary Review: The Jaguar That Roams the Mind
“There are an increasing number of psychospiritual drug narratives that centre around ayahuasca and the Amazon, and while they all retain a great number of similar threads, Robert Tindall’s The Jaguar...
View ArticleJune 2014 Mayantuyacu Pilgrimage
Salud con Todos! Once again we are inviting a small group of people to journey with us into the depths of the vegetalista tradition in the Peruvian Amazon. There we will work at Mayantuyacu with the...
View ArticleThe City for Machines, the Jungle for Healing
Back in 2004, when I was documenting the shamanistic practices of the Ashaninkan curandero Juan Flores for my book, The Jaguar that Roams the Mind, Flores had a saying that captured the nature of his...
View ArticleMayantuyacu Pilgrimage May 28th to June 10th
Salud con Todos! A couple of spaces still remain for our upcoming Mayantuyacu pilgrimage! Once again we are inviting a small group of people to journey with us into the depths of the vegetalista...
View ArticleTonkiri: A Newly Released Film on the Pilgrimage of Juan Flores
Film makers Jim Sunday and Andre Clement wandered into Mayantuyacu some years ago wanting to make a short film on Amazonian shamanism. They found themselves swept up into a story of pilgrimage and...
View ArticleMayantuyacu Pilgrimage January 2015
Salud con Todos! Once again we are inviting a small group of people to journey with us into the depths of the vegetalista tradition in the Peruvian Amazon. There we will work at Mayantuyacu with the...
View ArticleMayantuyacu Pilgrimage June 1st-14th, 2015
Salud con Todos! Once again we are inviting a small group of people to journey with us into the depths of the vegetalista tradition in the Peruvian Amazon. There we will work at Mayantuyacu with the...
View Article“I Am Not in Charge. The Spirits of Ayahuasca Are.” One Pilgrim’s Experience...
I am not in charge. The spirits of Ayahuasca are – big, powerful, monumental – like a mountain with a Sphinx on top – brown and green and jungle. Sharp edges, lightening-like patterns like native...
View ArticleMayantuyacu Pilgrimage May 29th- June 12th, 2016
Salud con Todos! Once again we are inviting a small group of people to journey with us into the depths of the vegetalista tradition in the Peruvian Amazon. There we will work at Mayantuyacu with the...
View ArticleSo You Want to Converse with the Serpent? A Journey to Mayantuyacu
Snakes have played an important role in my inner psycho-spiritual life, from the frequent snake-based nightmares that plagued my sleep as a child to far more interesting visions later on, especially...
View ArticleJourney to the Heart: 12-Day Amazon Plant Medicine Retreat For Men at...
Join your guides Robert Tindall (author of The Jaguar That Roams the Mind) and Brian James (yoga teacher & musician) on a special men’s retreat at Mayantuyacu, located deep in the heart of the...
View ArticleMayantuyacu Retreat June 18th to 26th 2020
Dear Friends, for fifteen years I have been accompanying committed men and women into the heart of the Peruvian rainforest to work with Asháninkan healer and teacher Juan Flores Salazar at his...
View ArticleSinging to the Waters
On August 2nd in the early afternoon, we were gathered in the meadow on my land in Mendocino singing “Happy Birthday” to my daughter, Maitreya. She had just turned 12. As the cake was being sliced,...
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