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Ancient wisdom for the modern world. Sharing the teachings of elders, plant medicine, and indigenous traditions to help you live in harmony with Mother Earth, yourself, and all our relations.
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The Way Of Life – Community Update (opens the original)
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Thank you. To everyone who’s supported this work, in the free and paid capacities and to those who’ve messaged me about the mentoring work, telling me how this has helped. That encouragement keeps this moving.The Way Of Life is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="button pri
Plant Medicine Is Not an Escape From Responsibility (opens the original)
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There is a story I heard many years ago about a young apprentice who was beginning his path with plant medicine.He had been sitting in ceremonies for a while, working alongside an old maestro. One day he came to the elder and told him what he wanted. “I want to be a healer,” he said. “I want to serve this medicine.”The elder looked him up and down.“Alright,” he said. “Then start by working the fire.”The ceremonial fire. Chopping the wood. Lighting it. Tending it through the whole night, every ni
A Man Who Cannot Sit With Discomfort Will Escape His Life (opens the original)
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The pregnancy test rolled across the table. My wife looked at me and said, “Congratulations. You’re going to be a father again.” That sentence echoed through the old timber walls of a 1920s bush house in the Australian outback. We were homeless, jobless, and pregnant for the third time.The Way Of Life is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<in
#18 Fabricio Descanse Alvarado (opens the original)
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Fabricio comes from the Kofan Chandía Na’en territory, an ancestral reserve tied ecologically to Kofan Bermejo, roughly 55,857 hectares of Amazon rainforest, home to just thirteen families. He’s spent his life inside a tension that most of us will never have to sit with: watching his community’s land, water, and traditions get pulled at from every direction, by mining companies, by the state, and by the slow erosion that comes from young people growing up wanting something other than what their
A Pair Of Scissors (opens the original)
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She was eighty-six years old. She lived in the depths of the Colombian Amazon, near Chiribiquete, in country so remote it barely exists in the modern world. When she walked into our bathroom, the light was dim. My wife was in the bathtub, in a state I can only describe as an altered state of consciousness. The old woman poked my wife’s stomach. Her old, bent index finger dug in just below my wife’s rib cage. “Mmmm, you’re ready,” she said. And that was it. She walked out of the bedroom, leaving
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