Talking Yagé, Ayahuasca, Spirits and Ecology | Jonathon Miller Weisberger
Rune Soup
Gordon White
4.7 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2021
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Ethnobotanist, ecologist, author and teacher Jonathon Miller Weisberger joins us this week.
We talk about growing up in Ecuador, living among various Amazonian nations, ecology, eco-spirituality, environmental activism and the difference between ayahuasca and yagé -among many, many other topics (including being dispatched by Terence McKenna to buy a paddleboat).
This is an amazing and lengthy chat which I have wanted to have since reading Jonathon's book, Rainforest Medicine, a few years ago. And we are having the conversation now because Jonathon is convening three upcoming series of yagé ceremonies at his amazing facility in Costa Rice known as Ocean Forest Ecolodge in April, May and June 2021. I mention it at the opening of the audio-only version of the show and then we discuss it again toward the end of the episode in both the audio and video versions.
Details and dates in the show notes!
Show Notes
- Details on Rainforest Medicine the book, as well as the yagé ceremonies.
- April 24 – May 1 (option to add 3 days til May 4)
- May 29 – June 5
- June 6 – June 12
- Learn more and book your ceremony.
- Don Pablo's copal ceremony.
- Ocean Forest Ecolodge video tour.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do you have a favorite? Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored. |
| 0:12.0 | All the broken and shunned creatures. |
| 0:17.0 | Someone's got to care for them. |
| 0:19.0 | Who shall it be if not us? |
| 0:45.3 | Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas for living in this world, coming to you from 43 degrees south on a small farm in deepest Tasmania. |
| 0:49.2 | My name is Gordon and I shall be your host. |
| 0:51.4 | This week we welcome to the show Jonathan Miller Weisberger. |
| 0:54.2 | Jonathan is an ethnobotanist, ecological and indigenous activist, author, teacher, |
| 0:59.7 | and the founder of an amazing facility in Costa Rica called Ocean Forest Lodge. |
| 1:04.6 | Now Jonathan has some Yage ceremonies coming up at the Lodge this month and again in May and |
| 1:10.1 | June, the details of which you will find in the show notes. |
| 1:13.6 | I've wanted to speak to him for a while, |
| 1:16.4 | having read his book, Rainforest Medicine, a few years ago, |
| 1:19.1 | but we are having this chat now |
| 1:21.2 | so that people who may feel called to sit with the medicine maybe this is that time |
| 1:26.1 | for you details of course are all in the show notes there is a sizable discount for |
| 1:31.2 | premium members so if this is your time to sit with the medicine and |
| 1:36.0 | have a listen to this show and you know go on that journey then it's definitely |
| 1:41.9 | worth it's definitely worth the $30 to join. |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah, if not if this isn't your time that's all good. |
| 1:50.0 | This is nevertheless an amazing discussion on spirits and indigenous sovereignty and Amazonian adventures and much, much more. |
| 1:57.6 | Oh, and we recorded this as a video discussion if you'd prefer to watch Jonathan's smiling face as we chat, but if you'd rather not |
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