In this episode with Elza Buder, we discuss our spiritual practices, our struggles losing touch with reality, and how spirituality has influenced our lives. Having a grounded practice is so important to stay connected on this 3D/human plane !

We are joined by Zhi today,  who I met during my trip to the Amazon for Ayahuasca. His bad trip experience is one of the wildest stories I've ever heard, and I got to experience this right next to him in the ceremony room.  (Well... before they carried him out of the room for making demonic noises )

Both of us experienced our most difficult trip at the same time, and I think we can agree that our bad trips were what taught us the most. 

If you don't know what Ayahuasca is, it's a shamanic plant medicine that is a big part of the Amazon Culture. The main component of Ayahuasca is DMT  which is a very strong hallucinogenic! From a cultural perspective, it is believed that the Ayahuasca plant is a portal to the spirit realm. 

In this first episode, I share the story of my spontaneous awakening ("psychosis") which happened halfway through my University studies. At the time, I was a psychology student with minimal knowledge about psychedelics and spirituality.  I had not heard of DMT before... I never imagined that meditation would've induced a full-blown psychedelic trip... oh and a complete internal paradigm shift in my understanding of Consciousness.