When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When you’re ready for it and you’ve engaged yourself to experience something that’s as powerful and stunning and life-changing as this sacrament, it’s kind of like through synchronicity it may find you.
The psychedelic experience in the West is very valid, but it’s been a stepping stone and a learning curve of our culture, which is still a very young culture in terms of both spirituality and understanding the energetics of what we’re embedded in. We’ve had a few thousand years of what’s become Western culture over time, which has distanced itself from nature and has denied, over the course of many centuries, ever-increasing sorts of denials of spirit.
Just a couple of months ago, someone mentioned Ayahuasca. I’d never heard of it. Well, it’s a Brazilian and Peruvian psychedelic plant. I was one of the few who hadn’t heard of it because there is a large and ever-growing following. So today, an Amazonian experience, if you will, with Rak Razam and his shamanic odyssey.