Hey, love. Are you web-weary? Glazed eyes. Dull attention. Forage-clicking, with scroll-happy fingers. Scouting for a certain kind of cyber-fix? Fair enough. I got you! But we need to start with a nice system re-set.
Use the video below as a tool to momentarily wipe away troubles and trifles. Let the percussion serve as a machete to a mediocre mindset. I have yet to bring an impoverished thought, or petty idea to primal drumming, that did not get refined, and made considerably better. The beats beckon my best. They say:
Grow up! Show up! Stand tall. Give all.
It's like a sonic rite of passage into true adulthood. Or peaceful warriorship.
I'm embedding it here directly so you don't even have to fuss with a new tab, or be bounced to a new page. You can just press play on the video, and enjoy a 4.5 minute rhythmic reorganization of yourself. With eye candy. Get a fire lit, either IN you (for lovin' folks), or UNDER you (for doin' stuff). The music-flame is adaptogenic, and goes where it's most needed. Ready? Renewed? Vamos!
The green path illumines your nature.
Then shows you it is THE SAME as nature.
A lot of responsibility -- and relief -- ensues.
What do politics, police, personal income tax, passion, permaculture, private property, porn, principles, philosophy, prayer, poetry, privacy, physics, pleasure, peaceful parenting, physiology, propaganda, perception, power and the paranormal ALL have in common (aside from obvious alliteration)?
All those seemingly unrelated topics, are cross-breeding with each other. Their mutant babies are landing in your portfolio. Affecting your persona. Influencing your preoccupations. It is all woven together.
Just because you can't see the threads, doesn't mean they aren't there.
I always felt the connection between things.
School tried to destroy my innate, perfectly developed sense of holism. Replaced it with fragments and fractures, and called it 'sophisticated thought.'
Yeah. Merci, Descartes... for doubting your senses and experiences so much, that you ended up trusting DEDUCTION and DUALITY to be your narrow guides. Thanks for reducing the universe, and the human body, to mechanistic machine parts.
When really, they are both complex ecosystems that are alive. Evolving and expanding.
That we regard both the planet and our bodies as machines, is sadly evident. Our materialistic bias has normalized HYPERCONSUMPTION + SPIRITUAL BANKRUPTCY. It is our standard way of life to shop, and to renounce mystery. What has that lovely combination gotten us?
Even with first-world comfort, we still wonder why we feel so empty inside.
I lived that zombie-life, for too many years.
First, trying to deny the hole.
Then trying to fill the hole with consumable crap.
Neither worked, of course.
So I stuffed and suppressed all the dissonance, until one day...
My house finally divided.
It took nearly nine years to build, and just a moment to slice...
...'cause ideological differences are no joke.
Lovely home. Good man inside.
Relational escrow is why I tried
to go along with things dead wrong;
like the fattening of our citizenry
with sugar, war and misery.
The deadening of our workers,
pimped by tax-stealing lurkers.
The terrorizing of civilians,
by uniformed reptilians.
The withholding of plant medicine
'cause pharma banks the swindlin
of made-up diagnoses.
This shit is just atrocious!
I got tired of bending over,
as if I had no power.
So I turned and walked away.
Chose a new day.
Made a new way.
I won't pay you with my time,
my presence or attention.
I deem you unworthy,
of so much as a mention.
Yes, leaving made some tension.
But tense is good, sometimes.
Helps you see dividing lines
you must draw around your mind.
Declare: "No violating!"
And mean it.
I didn't want to be a silent, cowering, unarmed, bullied, cannabinoid-deficient, over-taxed victim, unable to effect change in my own life, let alone the life of others.
But that's exactly who I was being.
I interrupted that pattern, and that life, by coming to Acapulco this past February, to attend a really special anarchist conference called Anarchapulco. When you register, you can TAKE 10% OFF your final ticket price by typing the coupon code "defiance" without quotes, at checkout.
I didn't know a soul when I came.
It's now six months later, I'm still here...
... and feeling very fortuned to live among a group of talented, informed, principled anarchists. I'm learning through new friendships, language and culture, expatriation, tequila, risk, living out my ideals. All-night philosophical debates, along with plenty of laughs and foolishness. Telling the truth. Hearing the truth. Growing, man. And having a great time while doing so.
I did not see that coming... living with so much agility, joy and deep connection. My previous environments were steeped in life's hardship, moreso than the accessibility of dreams. I now regularly let loose my vivid sense of possibility... and am actually encouraged, rather than called crazy. That's a very nice change! A resonant community can undo years of social harm and damage.
Psychedelic means 'to make visible, to reveal; mind manifesting.'
This is the opposite of the impaired, debilitated trip the uninitiated wrongly presume about psychedelics. Psychedelics SHOW, to help you KNOW. Just like 3D glasses shift your optic vision... psychedelics shift your inner vision.
In my introductory post I explained that forests made themselves known to me at an early age. I instinctively understood the natural things going down in forests, and think it helped pre-acquaint me with Aya. I prepared myself for her, and her True Brew, my entire life.
Ayahuasca DOES ROOT WORK. She works with your roots. Your core. Your quintessential self. This is why, I believe, her medicine is often:
- misunderstood
- underestimated
- perceived as scary or intimidating
Your roots, like plant roots, are not visible. They are submerged in dark depths, and their health or sickness, is reflected in the outward leaves of your life. Makes sense, right?
Ayahuasca does not coat green color over yellowed or diseased leaves. She is not a cosmetic, surface solution. She is a root-working soul solution.
The chemical-compound-spirit-molecule that is Ayahuasca, will work with your roots. Clarify your understanding of Who You Are. She will help you include, and transcend, the arbitrary land you first breathed on, and the random womb you portaled in through. Your particular geographic and nucleic facts are interesting, to a degree. But the most important thing she makes clear is that YOU WERE MEANT FOR MORE. You were meant for more than struggle or alienation, friend.
Come to Anarchapulco.
Mingle with free, kind, smart, peaceful, self-possessed, liberated people, and see if it doesn't have a great effect on you. Anarchapulco is more than a conference. It is an INTEGRATIVE EXPERIENCE with just the right information, people and circumstances that could actually change your life. Or show you how to create a new one (bravery required, though).
I'm humbled and honored to be a NeverGetbusted facilitator assisting 
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To Our Free + Feral Selves!
Erika