The Bufo 5-MeO-DMT Experience

It’s been a few years since the Bufo toad venom had popped up on my radar – at that time I’d decided that rather than actively seeking out the experience, I would manifest it into my life. As these things tend to play out, I received a call from a friend of a friend requesting to hire out my retreat space to a facilitator offering this very medicine.

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Yury Shamis
MS Story

I was aged 22, when after numerous months of pain, confusion, fear and medical examinations, I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Nothing can really prepare you for that moment when you’re sitting in the doctor’s office and being told that statistically speaking, you will be in a wheelchair within 15 years…and dead within 30.

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Wounded Inner Child

Throwing myself into the world of singledom, highlighted and brought forth two unreconciled parts of self. My 18-month-old inner child. The one I now identify with the imagery of a scared, unsettled kid, reaching up for mummy. He’s been rampant every time I feel overwhelmed and unsupported.

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MDMA - A Truth Serum Experience

Despite a clear resistance towards potentially learning truths that i did not want to bear, I decided on a self guided MDMA trip as my vessel through the ego. Having eaten a light breakfast, I ingested 100 mg, put on a tailored Psychedelic Therapy playlist and settled down on my couch with night shades on.

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On emotions, therapy and the psychedelic experience

One of the ways I find best to look at emotions is to compare them to food and our digestive system. Like food, emotions are organic material that require processing (or digestion) by the body. Also like food, some emotions are more complex than others and subsequently require more effort and time to process.

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So think about falling in love

You’re lonely, insecure about the dating game and are lovesick. You meet someone who is great and start thinking that you really like this person, that you could date, fuck and possible have a future together.

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Surrender Vs Ego

On a psychedelic trip we often come to the point where we’re faced with a challenge of surrender.

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How to ruin our life

Understand that life is not a straight line. Life is not a set timeline of milestones. It is okay if you don’t finish school, get married, find a job that supports you, have a family, make money, and live comfortably all by this age, or that age.

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Inner Journey

We drove up to my favourite spot. Here, nature manicured the environment with only a hint of human participation. Our intentions were to connect, both to ourselves, each other and our surroundings.

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Dice Therapy

Assume that we're all born without personality constraints. That we can be anyone, say anything and act in any way possible.

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Imagine

Imagine you woke up tomorrow and couldn’t remember who you were.

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Sufi Wisdom

There once was a king who enjoyed spending his free time in the company of philosophers and friends, debating various subjects.

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Paradise

Think about Paradise. What comes to mind? Palm trees, blue/green beaches with white sands and coconuts…

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Triple A

The Awareness of my unconscious fear opened the door to Acceptance of the truth and the re-opening of my heart. Now the last and most important step of this adventure is Action...

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Creed

We are all born with emotional instincts, or the ability to feel the world around us which in essence is our purest state of being. 

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So what have I learned about life now?

I spent the last 36 hrs in a foetal position bitterly trying to ascertain why the universe is punishing me. This morning it came to me that perhaps the point of life is not to be happy but just to live.

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