Episode 69 - Ayahuasca Shaman Maestro Hamilton Souther
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Episode:
- An Indian waiter in L.A. wanting to travel to Iquitos to take ayahuasca with an American man trained in a Peruvian tradition: the joys of globalization
- Check out Hamilton’s podcasts with Aubrey Marcus
- When spirits show up in your room telling you have to travel to Peru' and become a shaman
- How Western psychiatry would respond to reports of talking to spirits
- Hamilton grew up in a background steeped in empirical science
- "I didn't want to believe in Yoda. I wanted to hang out with Yoda"
- The Peruvian Yoda
- How Hamilton was accepted into an apprenticeship after being turned down
- Telepathy through ayahuasca
- Drinking aya about 150 times a year
- Power plays between Native shamans
- Fighting 50 MMA fights at the same time under different rules
- What now?
- Tackling the global mental health crisis
- "We do not have an answer for trauma. Yet Life seems to have an answer for dishing it."
- www.BlueMorphoFoundation.org
- Moving beyond a competition based model
- Trust in human ingenuity
- Bridging the gap between nostalgia for the past and hope for the future; tradition and technology