Hamilton Souther has lived in the Peruvian Amazon for two decades, and it took him 14 years of intensive training to get to a place where he felt he could fully accept his role as a facilitator of plant medicine visionary experiences.I have learning through Hamilton’s online courses and private Telegram community how to conduct ceremonies for myself and others. He teaches from the perspective of a true master with the humility to admit that there is still so much to learn despite having gone through thousands of visionary plant medicine experiences himself. As such, Maestro Hamilton makes for a wonderful teacher and mentor for those interested in deepening their connection to the plants, holding space for healing, facilitating ceremony, and appreciating the complexity of “God”, the universe, the micro, the macro, consciousness, and life itself. And these are a few of the topics that we discuss in this very exciting conversation!
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[00:13:00] - Who is Maestro Hamilton Souther? What is Blue Morpho?
[00:15:30] - We’ve done so much damage to the Earth. Why would plants/fungi want to support us? Perhaps there’s a symbiotic relationship…
[00:22:40] - Did the plants perhaps have some role in the compulsion of shamans to make these medicines accessible to those who needed this symbiotic relationship (i.e. outsiders)? What is the cost to the “natural” world if Homo Sapiens is unable to acknowledge their relationship with the natural world? What would it be like to be a plant in the rainforest?
[00:31:08] - How do we bridge the gap between Western ideals and the interconnectedness that can be learned through shamanic technologies? The former are exclusive; the latter are inclusive.
[00:37:55] - What is “God”?
[00:47:06] - What happens when our physical bodies die?
[00:53:02] - Where babies come from? The passive creation process of nature is ongoing. Insights about conscious conception. And challenging the linear notion of ancestry.
[01:01:30] - What about this sense that many families feel regarding babies “trying to come through”? The myriad of feelings that emerge after miscarriage, not all of which are entirely negative. Value of dreams.
[01:09:10] - The beauty of acknowledging how little we actually know about life, the planet, and consciousness and the joy of exploring the nature of love. The medicine song of the jungle.
[01:21:16] - What role does technology play in the advance of society and community? Perhaps AI might liberate us from the need to always access our computational intelligence so that we might further develop other innate intelligences like our emotional intelligence. The Earth does not misplace its intelligence.
References from the conversation:
* Masters of the Living Energy: The Mystical World of the Q’ero of Peru, Joan Parisi Wilcox
* Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn
* Vocal Transformation
* Neural correlates of the psychedelic state as determined by fMRI studies with psilocybin, by Robin Carhartt-Harris et al
* Saunaspace infrared bulbs and sauna (no financial affiliation)
Related episodes:
* Hamilton Souther: On the Use of Plant Medicines in Releasing Birth Trauma
* Maestro Hamilton Souther: Plant Medicine, Sorcery, Shamanigans, and Liberation from Trauma
* The Voice as Sacred Instrument: Icaros, Plant Spirits, and Vocal Transformation
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