Hi, Benchis. We hope you're having a wonderful spring equinox feeling restored and blessed with love and light.

Speaking of love and light, we recently interviewed my fake big sister, Slash, mentor, figure, Slash, real adult woman, Cat Keen,

for our most recent bonus episode on Patreon about her experience with Ayahuasca.

We also talk about her rejection of cultural scripts, romantic relationships, and her experience of just coming into adulthood generally.

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I just was completely fully bathed in bright celestial light.

Like there was a huge aspect of like the astral plane or something, and I felt actively like I was being healed.

Wow.

And I felt, and then sometimes it would be a starry sky, and it was kind of both at the same time and like light and dark together.

And I felt like this message about joy was like this very important thing.

That like all there is is joy.

And that was like the overwhelming thing that happened to me more so than like this other person's journey was this feeling of this light.

And yeah, and the other some of the other it was kind of like yeah, it's what you thought.

Like it's it's funny to me because I have friends who went into the experience being atheist and came out spiritual.

And I mine was just kind of like yeah, it's like that.

It's like it's like yeah, it's what you thought.

Like your spirituality is correct, like yeah, and you were right queen.

Everything you thought was right.

You know, that's like hilarious, but it was kind of like no.

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