{"id":2264,"date":"2014-11-25T02:15:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T07:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crowsnestshamanism.com\/blog\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2017-02-14T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T17:24:00","slug":"jung-amazonian-shamanism-synthesis-modern-western-approach-integration-implementation-ayahuasca-ceremonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowsnestshamanism.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/25\/jung-amazonian-shamanism-synthesis-modern-western-approach-integration-implementation-ayahuasca-ceremonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Jung and Amazonian Shamanism in Synthesis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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JUNG AND AMAZONIAN SHAMANISM <\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

IN SYNTHESIS:<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>An Intensive Retreat Interfacing the Power and Wisdom of Jungian Psychology\u00a0With AYAHUASCA\u00a0Ceremonies.<\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n

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\n<\/a>“There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” \u00a0<\/em> \u00a0 -C. G. Jung\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Crows Nest Centers for Shamanic Studies International<\/em> and C. Michael Smith, Ph.D. (Mikkal) invite you to join our team in the Peruvian Amazon for a combined psycho-educational seminar and intensive retreat focused on the power and soulful depth of Jungian psychology in helping significantly with the preparation, experience, integration, and implementation of powerful Ayahuasca ceremonies. This workshop theme will focus on\u00a0psychoshamanic principles in working with the jungle medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"images-1\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Ayahuasca<\/em> is one of the most spectacularly powerful medicines on the planet. Increasing numbers of people seek its power to help them heal intractable diseases of mind, body, and spirit. It can be especially effective in the healing of depression, post traumatic stress, and alcoholism and other addictions. Others are drawn to it as a tremendous shamanic plant teacher, seeking profound visionary experiences and insights to the core questions of their lives. For some it becomes a medicine for vision questing, in search of clarity about the next chapter in life. Few medicines are like it in being able to treat the whole person physically, psychologically, and spiritually. C.G. Jung spent a lifetime crafting a psychology with the Sacred at its center. It is a psychology highly aligned with the shamanic way of life. Jung himself considered shamanism as a prototypal individuation process. He called it an “archaic individuation process<\/em>,” meaning that shamans were the first \u00a0human pioneers of individuation. Ayahuasca brings flesh and blood, color, art, song and and incredible vision to the Jung’s abstract concept of individuation and wholeness-making. Jung’s life and work, and \u00a0his key concepts and techniques when applied to ayahuasca experience bring illumination for what occurs in these sacred ceremonies, in the darkness and unconscious depths, and can give you incredibly valuable tools for deeply interacting with the visionary transpersonal and transcendent entities and images\u00a0you encounter in deep trance.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0One of the great challenges of any shamanic ceremony resulting in profound vision, insight, or healing, is how to integrate the experience and implement what you received in your actual daily living after the ceremonies. Indigenous peoples of the region have a social context and an ancient supporting mythological cosmology, rich in numinous archetypal structures that support and even demand integration and implementation in daily living.<\/em> In an indigenous shamanic culture, if you come back from the ceremony and do not change, your experience and the shaman\u2019s reputation is put in question. When modern Western people descend on the Amazon for ayahuasca ceremonies, this social context and mythic cosmology rich in supporting archetypal structures is not in place. Modern Western culture and its assumptions about medicine, health and sickness has long been highly secularized and devoid of the sacred. When we return from the Amazonian ceremonies to our own culture, the supporting archetypal structures for our profound experiences are likely to not be\u00a0available. As a result, the only thing that has changed is our conversation<\/em>. What we talk about: our ayahuasca adventures, about our adventure in a foreign country, and so on. This is an unnecessary side-effect of gringos taking ayahuasca. This seminar\/retreat is designed to demonstrate that\u00a0lasting change and healing can be sustained, – far beyond the changes in what you talk about afterwards.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0You will receive daily, crucial information, principles and techniques that will help you insure integration and implementation of your insights and healings. You will discover the importance of the mythological-archetypal contexts, the phases of preparation and intention making, \"11040624_643889305757434_3224221096628527931_n\"<\/a>the skills you need in the ayahuasca ceremony (and virtually any entheogenic ceremony) to get the most out of it, and know how to inquire more deeply in the ceremony through Dialogue<\/em> with the numinous powers involved. You will learn how to process the<\/span><\/p>\n

experience the next day through use of felt-sense of crucial areas of your ayahuasca experience, and how to inquire more deeply into the content that emerged. You will learn both shamanic and depth psychological techniques, which Mikkal has crafted into The Archetypal Heart<\/strong><\/em> and\u00a0The Four Acts of Power<\/strong><\/em> for opening to transcendent healing and intuitive-visionary insight, inquiring into it more deeply, keeping durably ahold of your experiences. You will be guided in forming daily principles and talismans that support your implementation in action steps, day by day, week by week, month by month, after the ayahuasca ceremonies. The event is also available as a part of the Crows Nest<\/span> <\/em>Certificate program in Amazonian Shamanism and Depth Psychotherapy<\/em><\/span>\u00a0for graduate and doctoral students interested in field and\/or dissertation research projects. Ask about details if you are interested in that track and mentorship with Mikkal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Retreat\u00a0Leader<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\"22704_10206418937982550_8603483655582847574_n\"<\/a>C. Michael Smith, Ph.D. (Mikkal)<\/strong><\/span> is an internationally renowned Jungian scholar, psychologist, medical anthropologist, and shamanic teacher. He has been a student of\u00a0entheogenically-based shamanism for three decades, and has a special interest in the healing powers of Psilcybe Cubensis<\/em> within a depth psychological and sacred context. He is director of Crows Nest Centers for Shamanic Studies International<\/em>, with communities in Bruxelles, Belgium, Msabielle, France, Capetown South Africa, and the USA. Author of the best selling\u00a0JUNG AND SHAMANISM IN DIALOGUE <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and the acclaimed\u00a0PSYCHOTHERAPY AND THE SACRED (Gradiva Awards, 1996).\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>He\u00a0was elected to\u00a0Le Coll\u00e8ge de Chamanisme Ancestral<\/em> in Paris, and \u00a0has been a teaching member of the French Cercle de Sagesse de l\u2019Union des Traditions Ancestrales for many years.<\/em>\u00a0In 2012 he was keynote presenter at the 8th International Conference on Amazonian Shamanism<\/em>, in Iquitos,and a featured speaker and workshop leader there in 2013. Mikkal is also a former psychological consultant to Mi Templo Sagrado<\/em>, Tarapoto, Peru, having collaborated in the Jungle and in Europe with the maestro Raul Diego Nelson Falch, Ph.D. In the USA he has been involved in academic research in Jungian psychology and Shamanism, and has for many years served on doctoral committees of many cutting edge institutions: Pacifica Graduate Institute, California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), Institute of Transpersonal Psychology \u00a0(Sofia University) , Saybrook Institute, Argossy University, the University of Chicago, The Chicago Theological Seminary, Harvard Divinity School. He has been keynote lecturer at various C.G. Jung Societies throughout the USA, and is currently a\u00a0research consultant to the University of Michigan Medical School.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Mikkal will be leading the seminar and retreat, focusing on psychoshamanic principles and skill-sets, integration and implementation of the ayahuasca ceremonies, which includes preparing yourself for the medicine ceremonies, skillfully inquiring and receiving during the ceremony, and skillfully integrating the material and developing implementation after the ceremony. He will also facilitate shamanic journeys during the week (on non-ceremony days) to further explore and ‘digest’ what came in the ceremonies the previous evening. The final day will feature a special shamanic\u00a0journey\u00a0supported by amazing percussion \u00a0by Nicholas Brahban dyadic processing and identification of the results and central insights and healing tasks to return home with, and group sharing of the implementation plan.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"shipiba1\"<\/a><\/span>The three night ayahuasca ceremonies will be offered, alternating with morning workshop presentations and group work. <\/span>This workshop plan involves work with a couple Shipbo women healers, Louisa Caupor Vazqez<\/strong>, and her assistant Sara Gonzales Gomez,<\/strong> in three ceremoniesin the jungle near Iquitos. You will experience the amazing power of Shipibo Icaros<\/strong>, and the skillful and loving care \u00a0and support of women healers.\"img_7684shipiba2\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Nicholas Brabhan<\/strong> will be assisting with facilitation of the integration processing, employing\u00a0altered state integration with sonic driving and holotropically-based meditations.\u00a0 He will also offer morning Qigong sessions. Optional group tours of the Jungle and the Bora tribe are possible, tours of the Belen Medicine Market, a boat tour of the Amazon River and a visit to the Bora Tribe are possible for those interested, and amazingly inexpensive. Also an option is to work with the frog medicine, Sappo with Juan Nicolas Maldonado Romero,<\/strong> and work with Maria Louisa<\/strong>, the local bone setter doctor (a kind of ancient jungle chiropractic-massage healer in the curanderismo.<\/span><\/p>\n

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ASSISTANT FACILITATOR\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Nicholas Brahban, Jazz drummer, percussive healer<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Nicholas Brabhan leading an innovative percussive journey, preparing participants to inquire and dialogue during Ayahuasca ceremonies<\/span>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Nicholas Brabhan<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0is a Latin\/Jazz drummer and percussionist with a high interest in the spiritual music of Africa, Brazil and the Caribbean. He has been playing for over 15 years in a variety of musical settings including Avant-Garde\/progressive jazz and rock groups, West African dance classes and for Trance Dance and Sacred Breathwork ceremonies with Mikkal and Raul Diego Nelson Falch at the 9th International Conference on Amazonian Shamanism<\/em>, in Iquitos, Peru. He is<\/span> a certified studio production specialist with Berkley School of Music and certified in the Holotropically-based Sacred Breathwork<\/em> from Crows Nest Centers for Shamanic Studies \u00a0International. He is a student and practitioner of Chinese Qigong, Shamanism and has special interest in entheogenic\/NOSC healing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Location:<\/strong><\/span> Iquitos, Peru. Lodging and some ceremony and Ayahuasca Medicine House,\u00a0in the Jungle.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Our Jungle Guide<\/span><\/p>\n

Juan Nicolas Maldonado Romero<\/span><\/strong> has lived in the Iquitos his whole life and knows the Jungle well. He serves as Jungle tour guide and assists with logistics of these events. Juan seems to know everyone in the region, and offers jungle tours on off days, and prepares you for them psycho-spiritually. He has an incredible knowledge of the flora and fauna. He also arranges boat tours of the Amazon River, and takes you to fascinating places, including a visit to the Bora tribe, if interested. He is an invaluable part of our team. One the interesting optional medicines, Sappo, the frog medicine ceremony, will be offered by Juan.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Iquitos, Peru Photos:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

For a very Grounded and well-balanced Introduction to Ayahuasca, see this new documentary by Seti Gershberg:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n