Ayahuasca Wisdom

27/04/2024

I'm presenting tonight at the Women in Psychedelics online conference—sign up for free below! Lots of brilliant presenters. I'll be speaking at 7 pm PT on "The Goddess and the Plants: Psychedelic Mysteries and Feminine Wisdom." Love to see you there!

Women in Psychedelics is an extraordinary virtual gathering of medicine women, lawyers, doctors, public interest entrepreneurs, researchers, therapists, authors, activists, historians, and others. They will spend 24 hours at the end of April discussing issues and featuring success stories relevant t...

25/02/2023

I'm organizing a special ayahuasca retreat in Peru's Sacred Valley in July, drawing on the many, many practices I've found valuable in working with the medicine. Be in touch if you're interested. https://ayahuascawisdom.com/ayahuasca-retreats

25/02/2023

This was a fun one to write:

Often, too often nowadays, people expect ayahuasca to be some sort of magical potion, instantly reformatting them into a completely healed state. When this doesn’t happen, they feel resentful…

18/05/2021

Here's an interview I did recently with Jason Grechanik of The Universe Within—really enjoyed our lengthy conversation about integration, plant medicine, Dharma, and much more. Below is a brief clip; here's a link to the full episode on YouTube:

Universe Within Podcast Ep 48 - Kerry Moran - Tibetan Buddhism, Psychotherapy, Medicine, IntegrationHey everybody! Episode 48 of the show is out. In this epi...

02/02/2020

Join the Thank You Plant Medicine campaign— they're aiming for 100,000 stories coming out 2-20-2020 with the hashtag

Our mission is to raise global awareness about the benefits of entheogenic plant medicines such as psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca, cannabis, pe**te, huachuma, and iboga, as well as psychedelic-assisted therapy with M**A and L*D. We are preparing a viral gratitude campaign to draw the attention of t...

21/11/2019

Come to Urubamba Saturday for a lively discussion of plant medicine and psychedelic integration! Sat. Nov 23, 1-3 pm at Amaruanka Healing Center.

21/11/2019

Exploring the difference (is there one?) between ancestral memories and past-life experiences with ayahuasca.

30/04/2019

Here's a new post on the mysteries of dieta:

During my last half-dozen or so plant dietas, I’ve been experiencing a phenomenon I call ‘unfolding.’ It has something to do with the way my normal life, much of which is spent staring at a laptop …

31/03/2019

I've got a new article on Kahpi: The Ayahuasca Hub, about times when ayahuasca seems to trigger trauma.

Psychedelic integration therapist Kerry Moran describes how people sometimes feel more distressed and disoriented after drinking ayahuasca.

23/02/2019

An incredibly wise and nuanced article by Gayle Highpine:
"Amazonian indigenous people are not concerned about the ethnicity of practitioners. They are concerned about the degradation and devaluation of their profession and the bastardization of their traditional ceremonies by practitioners they consider imposters, regardless of skin color."

Surely there could not be more blatant examples of cultural appropriation of indigenous cultures than the ayahuasca tourism industry and the international ayahuasca shaman industry?

22/01/2019

Newish blog post - "On the mysterious language of teacher plants."

Work with Amazonian plantas maestras or teacher plants is almost always enlightening, but the process can be confusing, too. The language of plants is not exactly straightforward or clear-cut. They…

10/01/2019

A video game based on the Kaxinawa universe, developed with the Huni Kuin -- love this!

"We want to put our stories inside the Internet and show them for the world, for this society to understand better that we, Huni Kuin people, we are citizens as well as human beings, we have wisdom, we have our stories, we have this beautiful identity to show for the world..."

Although electronic games are now one of the most popular forms of entertainment, the layers of the meaning embedded in them may not be immediately apparent. Electronic games have practical effects on the creation of meaning, and can be powerful tools for the circulation of content. The purpose o