Process and ceremony
Our place is medicine
The first medicine of our collective is to bring the consciousness that each person is included in the inclusive space of our dham; sacred place. This, in the setting of respect and mutual ethic. Which will bring harmony in the group and a constant interior peace in each one. A profound calm perhaps never before encountered within our modern societies where everything is struggle, exclusion or isolation.
How do we work with the medicines?
The medicine process
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Our collective is based on the dynamic of expansion of life. Which means that we don’t live things in a separated or divided way. In this sense, for us, each ceremony is therefore linked with the previous and the next one; and all that happens in between. It’s why, more than proposing ceremonies, we propose a collective medicine process that is continuous and integrates as much the ceremonies as daily situations.
This process is made up of sharing, observations and the search for meaning. It is based on objectivity, logical deduction and opening up to hypotheses carrying meaning for the present, which will then be confirmed or re-oriented towards their real meaning by the medicine. It consists largely of the revision of personal or collective situations of the past in order to not only understand the correct or incorrect meaning, but to discover the perfection beyond appearances. Our process essentially relies on the basic philosophical concepts of “everything complete and perfect” and of “one and different”. It is always based on the present. On observable situations of the present and on the resulting themes of the present. It starts from a common base that unites us then it’s up to each one to see where they are personally. Each one maintaining their individual freedom to involve themselves at the level of their motivations; without expectation on the part of the collective, which does not depend on the decision of each one for its own progress and respects each one’s rhythm.
Over the course of the process, we discover the common, collective subconscious programmings that confine us in the dream of illusion and we open ourselves to discover the healthy structures and dynamics of life. It’s a profound process of transmutation that relies on observation outside of ourself but also on self-evaluation. It’s a process that can be very intense and exigent but which is extremely rich and participates in creating very deep and authentic links on the path.
We don’t live this process to liberate ourselves from programmings but to be useful firstly to the whole weaving of our relations and to outside people wishing to take part in it; it’s on the base of this intention that the process also benefits us consequently. And it’s why it can only be lived in circle consciousness.
What are our ceremonial spaces?
Collective discussions
The discussions linked to the process taking place around Mama Coca and Tobacco, we consider them as ceremonial spaces; ceremonies. Many unblockages, realisations or big decisions in reality happen in this space. For us, the importance and level of medicine of this space should not be minimised. It is essential. The base of our collective process.
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Sweat lodges
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The particularity of our sweat lodges is to firstly re-encounter the natural meaning of rituals of the path. Fully integrate them in our daily life. Re-encounter our nature of being. Share a moment together very simply. Reconnect with the earth and beyond with divine mother and her healthy dynamic with the masculine. The healthy polarity of life. Recover this consciousness in ourselves and among ourselves. Open ourselves and expand circle consciousness.
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Ceremonies
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Our ceremonies are done in three stages: preparation, ceremony, debriefing.
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Our ceremonies are always prepared in a preliminary space around Mama Coca and Tobacco. In this time of preparation, we enter into a dynamic of collective discussion on the base of a methodology that has been discovered, proven and re-proven over the years. We make a link with the previous ceremony and its debriefing. Considering the different, inter-related themes of the present and the teachings that have been revealed during concrete situations of the week or dreams that have appeared in the collective. It’s the moment to confront resistances and motivations in order to go forward.
When we enter into ceremony the majority of the work is already done and it’s the moment to be centered on the chant which is our first offering and brings the medicine connection. Get out of our mind. Listen. Dare to be natural all the while remaining respectful of the space and of the people present. Let ourselves be guided by the medicine in order to re-encounter our healthy, spontaneous nature. Open ourselves to circle consciousness and to the relationship with the other in a healthy and favourable setting. Our ceremonies are ritualised through different moments which ensures their running smoothly and the authentic connection. We chant but also share our experience during the ceremony itself; this dynamic of sharing and the situations that it can bring are fully part of what the medicine wants to make us live, experience, and of which we will understand the meaning later on. We take the path very seriously but we also live big moments of laughter in the ceremonial space.
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It’s after the ceremony, during the debriefing, entering once again into the space of Mama Coca and Tobacco, that we will discover the infinite grace that the medicine (Ayahuasca, Huachuma or Yopo) has brought us without us having realised it at the time. Because in our connection, the medicine unveils its secrets mainly after the ceremony.
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