Posts by Lorna Liana
Ayahuasca & the Soul Quest Adventure of a Lifetime
After nearly one year of wildly visionary journeys with my medicine family, in 2004, I decided to travel to the Brazilian Amazon, hoping to connect with the indigenous shamans and experience the living tradition of ayahuasca, in a culture with an unbroken history of working with the sacred plant medicine. I was also burnt out from nearly a decade of nonprofit work and hoping to receive some insight from drinking
Read MoreSymbiosis Gathering Music You Can Trip To – 2016 Lineup & Free Download
Symbiosis Gathering, a multifaceted lakeside arts, music, and community gathering, today released a compilation via Bandcamp offering fans a free downloadable collection of material from the electronic artists and live performers that make up the ‘Family Tree’ lineup. Symbiosis Music You Can Trip To In alignment with the diverse curation of the gathering, the compilation…
Read More9 Reasons You Should Go to The World Ayahuasca Conference
The Brazilian Amazon is a very special place for me. It’s the place where I connected with my soul’s purpose and mission while I was working with visionary plant medicines in the jungle. It was there I received a message from the Forest: “Lorna, your mission, should you choose to accept is this: To leverage emerging technologies
Read MoreAyahuasca Visions: Transforming into a Lion of Fire
I found myself in a canyon at night, the ground was hard beneath me, and there were rock walls and boulders around me. In the unfamiliar territory I sense the approach of another being, the being that radiated magnificence and masculine nobility. around me. In the unfamiliar territory I sense the approach
Read MoreAyahuasca Visions: A 6-Armed Goddess, Golden Chalice, & the Sweet Nectar of Mercy
I found myself in another place, I want to say some other dimension or world where I could see a canal of water flowing through a tunnel that had ornate columns on either side. Again, it seemed dark, at night, but coming down the channel was a vessel with a curved prow that emanated celestial…
Read MoreAyahuasca Visions: The Wolf Medicine Woman Who Was Me 10,000 Years Ago
I found myself observing I found myself observing a scene from above, I was looking at an alpine landscape under a full moon. I could see the tree line of mountains rising up around a high Meadow. Traipsing in the meadow under the moonlight was the figure, a woman dressed in wolf skins. I had…
Read MoreHow Psychedelics Saved My Life, Part 2
It took me a while to connect with my ayahuasca medicine family, largely because my intention was to sit up in a circle of genuine practitioners, and not experience ayahuasca as a tourist in Peru. What made me even more intrigued about experiencing this plant medicine was meeting a 16-year-old girl in Cuzco, who shared with me her experiences living with a curandero in the jungle. She had run away from her family because her father
Read MoreAyahuasca Visions: A Procession of Divine Beings Celebrating My Existence
I could sense the approach of something divine, it was an emanation of otherworldly energy that radiated purity, love, and compassion, so different from anything incarnate on this earth. As whatever was approaching was getting nearer to me that radiating energy of Divinity increased from a glow to a furnace. Imagine imagine if God, or…
Read More6 Reasons Symbiosis is the Ultimate Gathering for Modern Shamans
I’ve been going to Symbiosis Gathering for years; Symbiosis and Burning Man are the 2 transformative festivals that have had the most powerful impact in shaping who I am and defining my culture. Whether it’s through discovering new favorite musicians, or being mesmerized by the incredible light shows emanating from beautifully-designed stages, to being astounded…
Read MoreHow Psychedelics Saved My Life, Part 1
Had I not discovered and experienced that profound sense of Oneness, Universal love, the interconnectedness of all beings in the web of life, that LSD can elicit, I would have offed myself a long time ago. If you’d like to hear the story of how LSD saved my life, and what ultimately led me to create this site, here’s my story. Daily Racist Bullying Caused Me to Hate Myself as a Young Girl I started off life, happy and in awe of the world around me. I had no brothers or sisters but could keep myself
Read More