What if "direct experience" is something defined and made desirable by a Western ideology that influences us and that shapes our goals before we book a plane ticket? What if a seemingly unique "call" to "follow our bliss" (Joseph Cambbell) may not be a message from Ultimate Reality, but arises from mundane social influences? Social influences we are unaware o
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Nicotine is nicotine, whether it is in powdered form in a laboratory bottle, or concentrated in a plant. If someone believes nicotine in a ritual herb is less hazardous than nicotine that is USDA pharmacy grade, that belief has a name - Vitalism. Quotethe theory that the origin and phenomena of life are dependent on a force or principle distinct from purely chemical or physical forces. N
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Corboy: I wish to make it clear that in my previous post (April 15, 2016) I quoted another person's description, of combining ayahuasca with another harsh drug, namely nicotine. This discussion took place on a website, entitled "Doubtful News". (Corboy has never used nicotine, nor entheogens, and has no plans ever to do so.) The URL to the Doubtful News article was in sm
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CORBOY WROTE Having drank both tobacco and ayahuasca in Peru I perhaps could shed some light. It’s true that in most places people tend to drink tobacco a couple days before the first ayahuasca ceremony in order to “cleanse ” . Actually there are various recipies of Ayahuwaska... In Santo Daime it is only the vine and the leaf ... But other shamanic paths use tobacos mix with the ayahu
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Trinity de Guzman attended his first LGAT (large group awareness training) when he was 18 years old. It was a high pressure, classic, manipulative LGAT. He did other trainings too. He claims he can "manifest" anything and that he has the best of "intentions". He was workers listen to hours of sales instruction tapes. Trinity, Marc, and Dylan seem to be living in thei
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Are Trinity and Guss aware that many places in Peru are high altitude (8,000 feet? If their event is in such a location, are they aware that subjects could risk altitude sickness? Some visitors might risk altitude sickness, especially if they have either a pre-existing medical condition that puts them at risk, or if are otherwise healthy but that their their bodies cannot readily adapt to h
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A former member says Trinity and Marc patronized and shamed people. "They actively fostered secrecy and lack of transparency". Marc appointed himself chief medicine man and tried to tightly regulate workers. Marc claimed that he could judge a worker's "high or low vibration" and that he would restrict their behavior accordingly. Marc expected workers to follow his 6 or
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Dylan Guss now claims that the Lewis county prosecuter's office "gave their approval". before Ayahuasca Healings operations started up in Washington state. This is not true. What did happen is the prosecuter expressed his opinion to the media. Dylan is now using that quote and spinning it to claim the prosecuter directly approved AH. Dylan characterizes he, Trinity, and Marc
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QuoteMy credit union is still processing my claim but the assistant manager states that I should have my funds returned ($3500.00) in a few days. I did the math on the 'retreats' and I figure that Trinity et al raked in at least $400,000.00 12 people per retreat at 1500 a piece is $18,000 per retreat. 4 retreats per month is 72,000. Retreats were booked from January through August. 8 mo
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The "4-day personal development retreat in the mountains" Trinity talks about here was a large group awareness training run by the scamster T. Harv Eker in Canada. Info on these manipulative trainings : QuoteYears ago, when I was 18, I realized that the old-fashioned college thing wasn’t for me. I could see that there was something so much greater waiting for me, even though I h
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At least for the moment, the ayahuascahealings.com site is down. Archives can be found here:
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Yes TNT does sound like a deceiver ...but then he held deposits on ceremonies and the costumers where held to hold their breath ...AND KEEP SPENDING THAT MONEY THAT IS NOT HIS TO SPEND ...HE AS TO KEEP SAYING ."THESE AMAZING AMAZING CEREMONIES ARE JUST AROUND THE CORNER FOLKS " He lies ...he deceive and he as the gall to say "And this is where we ask you for your help.Pl
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Wow. They were notified in Feb., yet Trinity didn't make this public til nearly mid April. I wonder if their lawyer told Trinity that they would have an exemption in just a few weeks, or if Trinity continues to simply not listen to any reality. Apologists for Ayahuasca Healings are attempting to tone police critics on social media, perhaps in an attempt to shut us up. I encourage criti
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Latest from Trinity: QuoteTrinity Many of you are wondering how to attend our Ayahuasca Ceremonies in America. Before going into that, it's important that you first understand the "backstory".Behind exactly what is unfolding in our Church - right now. On January 22, 2016, we held our first weekend service at our Church in Elbe, Washington.Here, we shared the sacrament
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It's actually true that the expenses exceeded the contributions we've received - both Marc and Trinity, the founders of the church, have invested and lost money from their own savings. Although the contributions we've received were not an exchange for services, out of good faith we will be sending everyone their money back if they're not happy with a retreat in Peru . IF I UN
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Dabcult, I agree with you, this is very dangerous. Christopher "Trinity" de Guzman, Dylan Guss, Mark Roland Shackman a.k.a Kumooja Banyan Tree are proven to be not trustworthy. To go to an isolated location with them amplifies the possible danger.
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TODAY CNN REPORT ON AHUAWASKA
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Here is in a nutshell what skolars and PHDs have said about Mr Verela in the article that I have posted above . "We denounce the commercialization of Yajé(AYAHUASKA ) as if it were an ordinary product or service, generating an artificial demand based on crass manipulation of what it means to consume the Yajé medicine, and taking advantage of the ignorance, credulity, good faith, and vul
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Here is another case of a guy with similar ideas as TNT ...it was news on CNN today ....and a letter by academics was join to the article
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Marc Roland Shackman went bankrupt in August 2014
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Quotedylan It's actually true that the expenses exceeded the contributions we've received - both Marc and Trinity, the founders of the church, have invested and lost money from their own savings. Although the contributions we've received were not an exchange for services, out of good faith we will be sending everyone their money back if they're not happy with a retreat in Pe
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This is Dylan Guss' response to one of the 18 people who were ripped off: QuoteThank you for honestly sharing your thoughts and concerns. It's actually true that the expenses exceeded the contributions we've received - both Marc and Trinity, the founders of the church, have invested and lost money from their own savings. Although the contributions we've received were not
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A compilation of some of the criticism of Ayahuasca Healings / Your Highest Truth Healings Inc.
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There is yet another contributing factor: Many people are out there who are attracted to anything that appears or is described as dangerous. One category might be drawn to ayahuasca rather than MDMA precisely because of the risk. So what if ayahuasca has been ripped away from its original custodians? They'll not care about that. This is my private citizen's opinion: I wou
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Quotecorboy And what if one or more people take Trinity's course and become as grandiose as he? Especially likely if combined with ayahuasca. If Trinity were not such an infant, he would know that messianic "calls" very common to happen to people when they first take ayahuasca. That is the other side of the coin of why ayahuasca and cultism are a very dangerous mix. Ayahua
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FROM AYAHUWASKA IS NOT LEGAL ...page Steven Matthew April 5 at 4:51pm Hey, just an update. I *was* able to get my money back via my bank and they are investigating them. I should hear back about their progress/findings within 45 days and will update you then if there's anything of interest. I'd like to thank everyone here for all of the information they've provided.
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What is gonna happen during this upcoming Trinity course is that subjects will become woven in to a social network full of people like Trinity -- and persons who do not do background research on Trinity and do not take the danger warnings seriously. Subjects risk becoming further embedded in a dangerous neighborhood within the global consciousness seekers scene. And what if one or more p
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I found this video this morning It is funny ...sad and so misguided and as far as enlightenment as i can imagine anyway . Trinity last video interviewing a Shapibo shaman should make people think twice about whohever are the Shapibo .... One interesting part of this video is at the end where the poor guy says ...he is coming back in a few weeks ...but unfortunately he says th
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Trinity is once again selling retreats in Peru, at the same establishment he worked with prior and has acted as exclusive booking agent all along. Dylan Guss is once again the program contact. Unfortunately they are including a tobacco tea ceremony, such purges can be fatal. Note that Trinity uses his business name in this marketing in a covert manner: Quote1 Year of Integration C
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More criticism of Dylan Guss: QuoteDylan Guss is a fraud. QuoteDylan fooled me for awhile. He pretended to care about me personally but I eventually realized that he was cut from the same cloth as Trinity. They are bad people.
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