This is the final episode in a 4 part series on "Shamanic Initiations." In this episode, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote answers questions about Shamanic Initiation.
The episode includes the following questions:
• A listener wrote and asked if it is safe for her to deliberately experience initiations without some oversight? [0:34]
• Is an Ayahuasca Ceremony an initiation? Do you have to go to South America to do this? [2:53]
• This reminds me of Henry Miller, the author, when he was interviewed about drugs and what he thought about hallucinogenic drugs. He said they are great in that they can show you where you want to get to spiritually, but to use them as the way to get there continuously is being irresponsible. So sometimes folks seek out Ayahuasca because they are really seeking the spiritual experience, and their body, mind, and spirit is not sufficiently prepared for the power that comes through them. And I am hearing you say they may not be held in that the containment has to be important. Is there a way to get that glimpse of where you are going to, that flash of enlightenment, that is safe, here in North America? [12:45]
• Also as you were speaking I was thinking about the honey bees, and how it is important to take honey that is local because it strengthens your immunity to your own environment—for your physical body. So is there a kind of spiritual honey for working with initiations? [14:38]
• Can you give the listeners some encouraging words about initiations and advise about who they can talk with if they are experiencing initiations? [15:48]
• Do you have anything else that you would like to add at this time? [18:38]
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