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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have build against it.
Rumi

Sometimes the flower is just something that is guiding you to your destination.

We know almost nothing about the history of the Amazon basin, and until recently most historians believed it was a small, isolated and insignificant culture. Thanks to the use of Ladar (laser ground radar) we know for a fact the existence of vast cities and earthwork structures, some 60.000 of them, predating those of ancient Greece, with an estimated population of some 20 million people, before the arrival of Europeans. Early explorers reported encountering complex society and miles long cities, but subsequent explorers encountered just jungle and dismissed these reports. What happened was a colossal collapse of native society induced by the transmission of deadly smallpox from that same early explorers, with estimates of above 90% death rate. What remains after 8.000 years of continuous habitation of the Amazon basin is not a material legacy comparable to the western ancient civilizations. It's a legacy of balanced habitation that understands our codependent relationship with nature. It is now clear that the whole amazon basin is a man-made garden with an excessive amount of fruit and nuts bearing species, and extensive terraforming evident in man-made superrich Terra preta soil.

But another even more precious legacy remains, and it is the one of spiritual evolution grounded in incredibly vast phytopharmacology unrivalled even by our own modern medicine. As a part of my consciousness expansion journey, I was lucky enough to be guided towards one of the last traditionally trained Shipibo shamans, Maestra Jakon Rate. Her family is the sole guardian of quite an incredible bioluminescent tree called Noya Rao (Palo Volador in Spanish), a master plant teacher often compared to the Boddhisatva of the plant kingdom. It was the beginning of something I'm just now some 2,5 years later are slowly starting to understand. A connection to other modalities of consciousness, facilitating profound transformation and growth that enabled unconditional surrender to the great flow of life. In the end, there is only one simple truth we should live, and it's the understanding that we are love.

It's fascinating how complicated we humans can make things that are so very simple and natural.

Relax, breathe in, breathe out, observe.

The most effective spiritual practice I know of can be condensed to that, everything we need is our body and breath.
A few days ago I was talking with my Kriya teacher on how we tend to believe if it's hard and complicated the practice must be better or more advanced when exactly the opposite is true. Anyway, we had a good laugh about how silly we humans can be, everything we need was always in front of us. Through the self, to the self.