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The Mystical Secrets of Medicine vs Sorcery: The Untold Story of Ayahuasca Part 1
Based on real life events, The Mystical Secrets of Medicine vs Sorcery - The Untold Story of Ayahuasca Part 1, follows Hamilton Souther on his journey into the depths of the Amazon in search of Mystics and their ancient knowledge. He befriends Master Mystic Julio Llerena Pinedo and is accepted into a traditional apprenticeship. While apprenticing, he faces the facts behind Ayahuasca and its traditional uses, both as a medicine and a powerful tool of sorcery. The mystical knowledge, shared in this book, will awaken your understanding of Ayahuasca and Amazonian shamanism. You will learn what it takes to follow a traditional apprenticeship and how to survive the treachery of the world’s fiercest sorcery.
134 pages, Paperback
Published February 12, 2021
About the author
Hamilton Souther
4 books1 followerMaestro Hamilton Souther is a pioneer of the global plant medicine movement and the psychedelic renaissance. He is the founder of Blue Morpho, where for over 23 years he has led more than 10,000 individuals through transformative plant medicine ceremonies.
A trained anthropologist and graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder, he apprenticed in the deep Amazon forest under Don Julio Llerena Pinedo and became the first Westerner ever recognized as a Maestro Medico Vegetalista.
His work has been featured in TIME, The New York Times, National Geographic, The Washington Post, NPR, and Oprah Daily. Today, he is also a pioneer of transformative technology, applying his expertise to advancing our understanding of Artificial Intelligence. Through a new health model—rooted in nature, data, and dignity—Maestro Hamilton continues to guide people toward results-backed transformation.
A trained anthropologist and graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder, he apprenticed in the deep Amazon forest under Don Julio Llerena Pinedo and became the first Westerner ever recognized as a Maestro Medico Vegetalista.
His work has been featured in TIME, The New York Times, National Geographic, The Washington Post, NPR, and Oprah Daily. Today, he is also a pioneer of transformative technology, applying his expertise to advancing our understanding of Artificial Intelligence. Through a new health model—rooted in nature, data, and dignity—Maestro Hamilton continues to guide people toward results-backed transformation.
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July 23, 2021
Consciousness, doctors, scientists, artists, and plant lovers unite!!
I absolutely enjoyed this book! Let me tell you, this author seems like a powerhouse of wisdom. What we classify as Medicine in today's western world is not like in the Jungle, yet Nature is still around us, happening all of the time, in the stuff around us too, whether we notice it or not. What makes this book dazzling and exciting is the magical way the author answers to the universe. When you are called on a quest of all-time meaning, and say yes.
This story taught that Sorcery happens with or without us knowing too, and we as a society in 2021, have to make ourselves more wise to that. We cannot be naive or ignorant to our senses any longer. We have to open up to the idea that lying and manipulation is also a form of sorcery and to no longer accept it into our daily experience, whether from the radio or the news, to the food we eat or to the music we listen to. Otherwise we have forgotten our responsibility to our core nature, and that would be trouble.
In this story, when he is betrayed, the way it all goes down, I would wonder how someone trusts ever again after that.
At one point in our lives, we have all put full trust into someone, and felt crushing betrayal. It all seems trivial when the terror gets into our dreams though. To be chased, even in dream space, unable to sleep, to be dripping with fear at every moment, the way the body and mind would suffer. It is not something that I would like to experience, and to imagine it is chilling. Hamilton Souther brought courage and the totality of himself to see the shaman apprenticeship through, despite doubt showing up many times. It seems like he has wonderful mentors who anchor him near and afar through this journey too. We can be that change inside our own selves too. To see that we are never alone. To seek out teachers that can help us answer our calling.
The author gives brilliant visuals of the jungle experience, especially emotions that rise up when he hunts monkeys and other animals for the first time. He paints the description of Peruvian culture and community as mysterious and testing, and at the same time inclusive and adaptable.
What this book also helped me realize me over the past few months, is the idea that what is classified as medicine is everywhere too. Medicine is in the plants, we just have to search it out to understand it. Medicine is even in the meaningful moments. In the daily rituals. Medicine is when we see what we are made of. Medicine is in the test and deliciousness of when things really work out. Medicine is in truth. Our bodies have Medicine. How miraculous is that?
This book calls on me to ask: What am I made of, what aspect of life have I been missing out on, and have we all been blinded/muted this whole time?
We are pieces of a puzzle, and each piece has a whole world in it. We are all in this story.
Get this book.
I absolutely enjoyed this book! Let me tell you, this author seems like a powerhouse of wisdom. What we classify as Medicine in today's western world is not like in the Jungle, yet Nature is still around us, happening all of the time, in the stuff around us too, whether we notice it or not. What makes this book dazzling and exciting is the magical way the author answers to the universe. When you are called on a quest of all-time meaning, and say yes.
This story taught that Sorcery happens with or without us knowing too, and we as a society in 2021, have to make ourselves more wise to that. We cannot be naive or ignorant to our senses any longer. We have to open up to the idea that lying and manipulation is also a form of sorcery and to no longer accept it into our daily experience, whether from the radio or the news, to the food we eat or to the music we listen to. Otherwise we have forgotten our responsibility to our core nature, and that would be trouble.
In this story, when he is betrayed, the way it all goes down, I would wonder how someone trusts ever again after that.
At one point in our lives, we have all put full trust into someone, and felt crushing betrayal. It all seems trivial when the terror gets into our dreams though. To be chased, even in dream space, unable to sleep, to be dripping with fear at every moment, the way the body and mind would suffer. It is not something that I would like to experience, and to imagine it is chilling. Hamilton Souther brought courage and the totality of himself to see the shaman apprenticeship through, despite doubt showing up many times. It seems like he has wonderful mentors who anchor him near and afar through this journey too. We can be that change inside our own selves too. To see that we are never alone. To seek out teachers that can help us answer our calling.
The author gives brilliant visuals of the jungle experience, especially emotions that rise up when he hunts monkeys and other animals for the first time. He paints the description of Peruvian culture and community as mysterious and testing, and at the same time inclusive and adaptable.
What this book also helped me realize me over the past few months, is the idea that what is classified as medicine is everywhere too. Medicine is in the plants, we just have to search it out to understand it. Medicine is even in the meaningful moments. In the daily rituals. Medicine is when we see what we are made of. Medicine is in the test and deliciousness of when things really work out. Medicine is in truth. Our bodies have Medicine. How miraculous is that?
This book calls on me to ask: What am I made of, what aspect of life have I been missing out on, and have we all been blinded/muted this whole time?
We are pieces of a puzzle, and each piece has a whole world in it. We are all in this story.
Get this book.
April 1, 2021
Very Insightful
An awesome look at the deep aspects of ayahuasca shamanism with many great carry-overs into everyday life. Your decision determines your path, forget about plan B. Powerful stuff! Definitely looking forward to part 2. Thanks Hamilton, we are blessed to be able to receive from such involved study and experience.
An awesome look at the deep aspects of ayahuasca shamanism with many great carry-overs into everyday life. Your decision determines your path, forget about plan B. Powerful stuff! Definitely looking forward to part 2. Thanks Hamilton, we are blessed to be able to receive from such involved study and experience.
September 23, 2022
great
Wonderful read. Very grateful for this shared knowledge and experience y Hamilton Souther. I recommend this book to anyone who may find it interesting.
Wonderful read. Very grateful for this shared knowledge and experience y Hamilton Souther. I recommend this book to anyone who may find it interesting.
April 22, 2025
Refreshingly easy to read, great story, great insights, valuable and centered perspective on a topic everyone has their own opinion about.
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