Sacred Valley

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If you travel to the Sacred Valley of the Incas today, you will see those brilliant red kiwicha fields glowing in the sun.

But, you know, beyond the aesthetics, what makes this plant so botanically special?

It really comes down to its metabolic engine.

There was even huge rock formations that would take the impression of dragons, and it would hold kind of a crystalline dragon energy.

After that, I left Bolivia and r- and went up to Peru, and during... or while I was in the Sacred Valley, I was in a collectivo, which is kind of like a minibus going to Cusco, and I kind of picked up, like psychically out of the window, that there was a dragon kind of, like, whisping past, yellow dragon just kind of flying in the air.

So obviously, they, like... you see them moving, but they... it's a different... w- like, it's, it's kind of like swimming in the sky is kind of how I describe it.

Even in ancient Armenia, there's a historical person named Vahagn, and he's known as the dragon slayer.

Had a lot of, a lot came up for me around rivers last year, and I just kind of thi- a funny thing I always think about my years is kind of having themes, and the kind of glimmers of, like, the year ahead start to emerge in the, in the previous, the current year.

And, um, last year I had this moment in May where I was in Peru, and I was hiking in the Sacred Valley, and I came across this river.

And I sat in front of the river, and I just wept.

I felt like that river was just flowing straight into my soul, and I just, I just wept, and I had no idea why.

I sort of died, didn't know where I was, completely, like, gone.

And then I came back from that state, and I was on a mat in this room in Peru, in, in, in the Sacred Valley, it's called, which is near Machu Picchu.

And I came back screaming like a, a newborn into the world, um, literally flopping off the mat onto the floor, immediately sweating and hyperventilating.

But Tami, I had this, uh...

And then as always, if you're interested in working with myself, um, you can find out more information on my website, which is nicotianarustica.org, uh, integration work, um, health protocols, and my main work, which is running plant dietas, uh, with my colleague Merav Artsy.

Uh, when this is released, we should still have one more retreat, which is in November in the Sacred Valley of Peru, and you can find more information about that on my website.

So I think that's it for the intro, and without further ado, here's my conversation with Haquel.

Running out from the maze.

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And then finally, if you're interested in working with myself, you can find out all of that information on my website, which is nicotianarusstica.org. My work with tobacco, integration work, consultation work, uh, health protocols, and, um, all of that you can find there.

When this is released, we should still have one plant medicine dieta in the Sacred Valley of Peru in November.

We still have spaces for that that are still available, and again, you can find information about all of that on my website.