2012 preparation: Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon.

Herbs: http://amazontroy.amazonherb.net/ yoga, nutrition, Maori Shamanism: http://www.ata-rangi.com/ Rolfing: tarpitboss@mac.com and recently Natural childbirth: http://www.tlcwomanscenter.com/ all having a profound impact on my life and realization that life is sacred and it is important to respect the Earth, others and myself. Peter Gorman writes: "Plants, like everything else, are our co-dwellers in the universe. But man has a special relationship with plants. They provide, and have since the beginning of time, the bulk of our food, our clothing, our shelter. Some provide us with the loveliest scents; some with extraordinary color. Theyre the source of our medicines, their roots work with soil and stone to keep the surface of the earth intact. They go so far as to take the poisonous carbon dioxide that humans exhale and turn it back into human-life-giving oxygen. Thats some relationship. Of course it may be that plants only invented us to distribute their seeds, so Im not suggesting they live to cater to us. But they do provide us with much of what we need to exist on this planet." Ralph Metzner writes: "Ayahuasca is an hallucinogenic Amazonian plant concoction, that has been used by native Indian and mestizo shamans in Pershow less...