I loved this conversation with Danny from The Passing Through podcast. I highly recommend his other conversations, where he chats to some of my most beloved teachers and influences. Below is his description:
“When you think of plant medicine, one of the first things you think of is probably ayahuasca. An Intensely psychedelic kaleidoscopic weekend of hallucination and vomiting hopefully accompanied by profound shifts in consciousness. You may know someone who’s attended an ayahuasca ceremony, you may have even attended one or more yourself, but you probably haven’t heard the stories of someone who’s studied with indigenous Shipibo people of the Peruvian Amazon.
This week’s guest spent 5 years in the jungle, embedded in an animist culture, undergoing plant dietas while learning medicine songs called icaros as she deepened her understanding of both plant intelligences and the ancient practice of Amazonian Curanderismo.Skye has also spent three years apprenticing with Chinese medicine, she’s a Grief Ritualist, a facilitator in Experiential Deep Ecology. Skye currently co-facilitates Josh’s yearlong study group The Mythic Body, and leads her own events focused on reclaiming animist perception, developing mythic imagination and helping people reconnect to the living, breathing, more-than-human world all around us. She leads various study groups on Practical Animism and Grief work, as Nature Connection Mentor, Folk Herbalist, Plant Medicine Ritualist, Naturalist and as someone who spends a lot of time outdoors, in ritual or in focused practice on the land.
Honestly, I can’t think of a more fitting guest than Skye. This is one of my favorite conversations on this show and I hope you enjoy it too. I’m grateful this podcast affords me the opportunity to speak to people like Skye. So thanks for listening and helping to make all of this possible.”
Links mentioned in episode:
- Amazonian Curanderismo
- Master Plant Dieta
- Icaros — The Fruit of Dieta
- Plant Medicines & Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy
- Skye’s Upcoming Plant Intelligence & The Imaginal Realm Course
- Inner Work by Robert Johnson
- Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm by Stephen Harrod Buhner
- Animism Is Normative Consciousness by The Emerald Podcast
- John Seed on Passing Through
- Francis Weller on Passing Through
- Josh Schrei on Passing Through
- Bayo Akomolafe on Passing Through
Deep Earth Dreaming 