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Ayahuasca Spiritual Development Articles
Meghan’s articles, from applied spiritual development in the Medicine, ego work to integration…
Ayahuasca Ceremony #100: What is Ayahuasca Really? (Updated)
by Meghan Shannon Elder | May 12, 2009 | Ayahuasca-Focused Articles | 2 Comments
Ayahuasca in Everyday Life: Applying the Medicine Wisdom
by Meghan Shannon Elder | October 15, 2010 | Ayahuasca-Focused Articles | 0 Comments
Energetics of Personal Internal Ayahuasca Medicine
by Meghan Shannon Elder | May 1, 2013 | Ayahuasca-Focused Articles | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Shamanism: An Apprenticeship Perspective
by Meghan Shannon Elder | March 13, 2014 | Ayahuasca-Focused Articles | 0 Comments
What Exactly is Ayahuasca Integration for the Spiritual Path?
by Meghan Shannon Elder | January 13, 2019 | Ayahuasca-Focused Articles | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Spiritual Development vs a Spiritual Experience in Ceremony – What is the Difference?
by Meghan Shannon Elder | February 25, 2019 | Ayahuasca-Focused Articles | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Emotional Purging (After Ceremony and at Home)
by Meghan Shannon Elder | March 4, 2019 | Ayahuasca-Focused Articles | 3 Comments
Is the Blind Spot of Spiritual Arrogance Slowing Our Process?
by Meghan Shannon Elder | March 18, 2019 | Accelerated Spiritual Development Articles, Ayahuasca-Focused Articles, Foundation Spiritual Development Articles | 0 Comments
Two Sides of the Training Coin: Spiritual Development and Shamanic Apprenticeship
by Meghan Shannon Elder | April 22, 2019 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Ayahuasca-Focused Articles, Phase 4 - Working in Tandem for Accelerated Spiritual Development | 0 Comments
Meghan reflects on her fifteen years of spiritual development work and Ayahuasca shamanic apprenticeship, as well as the nature of intimacy in its purest form…
Beginning of the Personal Journals
2007. Peruvian Andes. Before it all began…
Coca Leaf Reading in the Andes
by Meghan Shannon Elder | July 30, 2007 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Beginning of Apprenticeship (2007), Phase 1: Initiation Into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship | 0 Comments
Phase One: Initiation into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship
July 2007 – July 2008. Small village in the Peruvian Amazon
First Journey to Peru: Unknowingly Headed Towards Ayahuasca Shamanic Apprenticeship
by Meghan Shannon Elder | July 31, 2007 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 1: Initiation Into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship | 0 Comments
First Ayahuasca Ceremony: The Holy Shit Hour
by Meghan Shannon Elder | August 1, 2007 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 1: Initiation Into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Ceremony #2-5: Life Has Changed Forever
by Meghan Shannon Elder | August 6, 2007 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 1: Initiation Into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Ceremony #6: In the Village of the Shamans
by Meghan Shannon Elder | August 7, 2007 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 1: Initiation Into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship | 0 Comments
Post-Ayahuasca Crash (No Magic Pills)
by Meghan Shannon Elder | October 31, 2007 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 1: Initiation Into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Ceremony #7-11: First Emotional Purge
by Meghan Shannon Elder | January 15, 2008 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 1: Initiation Into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship | 0 Comments
Falling Fast Towards Ayahuasca Shamanic Apprenticeship and Love
by Meghan Shannon Elder | January 25, 2008 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 1: Initiation Into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship | 0 Comments
Formally Begin Ayahuasca Apprenticeship
by Meghan Shannon Elder | February 15, 2008 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 1: Initiation Into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Ceremony #12: Jealousy Builds
by Meghan Shannon Elder | March 1, 2008 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 1: Initiation Into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Ceremony #13: Jealousy Purges
by Meghan Shannon Elder | March 5, 2008 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 1: Initiation Into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Ceremony #14-19/Plant Diet #1: The Reality of Village Life Sets in
by Meghan Shannon Elder | March 15, 2008 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 1: Initiation Into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Ceremony #20: Village Gossip Brews a Storm
by Meghan Shannon Elder | April 1, 2008 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 1: Initiation Into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship | 0 Comments
Searching for the Truth
by Meghan Shannon Elder | June 15, 2008 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 1: Initiation Into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Ceremony #35: Apprenticeship Rite of Passage Initiation
by Meghan Shannon Elder | July 1, 2008 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 1: Initiation Into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship | 0 Comments
Hindsight from the Future (2012)
by Meghan Shannon Elder | July 5, 2008 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 1: Initiation Into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship | 0 Comments
Phase Two: Deep into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Between the Amazon and Home
August 2008 – August 2011
Reaching New Levels of Understanding
by Meghan Shannon Elder | August 1, 2008 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 2: Deep into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Between the Amazon and Home | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Ceremony #180-184: Purging the Western Consciousness
by Meghan Shannon Elder | January 15, 2010 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 2: Deep into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Between the Amazon and Home | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Ceremony #185/Plant Diet #5: The Hardest Ayahuasca Purge So Far…
by Meghan Shannon Elder | January 27, 2010 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 2: Deep into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Between the Amazon and Home | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Ceremony #190: Breaking Through Insecurity
by Meghan Shannon Elder | February 13, 2010 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 2: Deep into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Between the Amazon and Home | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Ceremony #191/Uchu Sanango Diet #2: Know When it is Time to Walk
by Meghan Shannon Elder | February 24, 2010 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 2: Deep into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Between the Amazon and Home | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Ceremony #197: Observing Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Pitfalls
by Meghan Shannon Elder | May 26, 2010 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 2: Deep into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Between the Amazon and Home | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Ceremony #203: Shedding the Serpent Skin
by Meghan Shannon Elder | June 12, 2010 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 2: Deep into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Between the Amazon and Home | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Ceremony #207: Money Ego Judgement, Abilities Rise
by Meghan Shannon Elder | June 22, 2010 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 2: Deep into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Between the Amazon and Home | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Ceremony #211/Plant Diet #6 with Crystals: Belief Systems Popping Loose like Weak Rubberbands
by Meghan Shannon Elder | July 6, 2010 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 2: Deep into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Between the Amazon and Home | 0 Comments
Gossip Sucks
by Meghan Shannon Elder | August 6, 2010 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 2: Deep into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Between the Amazon and Home | 0 Comments
Holier Than Thou Pushes Anger to the Edge
by Meghan Shannon Elder | August 24, 2010 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 2: Deep into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Between the Amazon and Home | 0 Comments
Riding the Tide into Heart Wounds
by Meghan Shannon Elder | October 30, 2010 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 2: Deep into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Between the Amazon and Home | 0 Comments
Another Wave – SOOO Done with Annoying Defense Mechanisms!
by Meghan Shannon Elder | December 7, 2010 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 2: Deep into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Between the Amazon and Home | 0 Comments
Large-Scale Heart Purge/Relationship Training
by Meghan Shannon Elder | December 30, 2010 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 2: Deep into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Between the Amazon and Home | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Ceremony #216/Plant Diet #7 with Crystals: Substances
by Meghan Shannon Elder | January 19, 2011 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 2: Deep into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Between the Amazon and Home | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Ceremony #221/Plant Diet #8: Cement Layers of US Consciousness Cracking
by Meghan Shannon Elder | February 2, 2011 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 2: Deep into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Between the Amazon and Home | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Ceremony #225/Plant Diet #8: Do What it Takes
by Meghan Shannon Elder | February 27, 2011 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 2: Deep into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Between the Amazon and Home | 0 Comments
Rebelling Against Myself
by Meghan Shannon Elder | April 1, 2011 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 2: Deep into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Between the Amazon and Home | 0 Comments
Six-Month Collective Consciousness Purge Completion: A Humble Wow
by Meghan Shannon Elder | May 20, 2011 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 2: Deep into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Between the Amazon and Home | 0 Comments
The Layer Above My Soul: New Relationship, Old Triggers
by Meghan Shannon Elder | July 17, 2011 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 2: Deep into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Between the Amazon and Home | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Ceremony #230: Time to Fly (Releasing Fear of Failure)
by Meghan Shannon Elder | August 29, 2011 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 2: Deep into Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Between the Amazon and Home | 0 Comments
Phase Three: Ayahuasca Apprenticeship at Home (without Ceremony): Ground Level Society Consciousness Work (Pregnancy, Marriage, Divorce)
September 2011 – March 2019. DC Metro Area, United States
Pregnancy Week 6: The New Level is Arriving
by Meghan Shannon Elder | September 20, 2011 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 3: Ayahuasca Apprenticeship at Home (Without Ceremony): Ground Level Society Consciousness Work | 0 Comments
Pregnancy Week 7, Day 3: Shamanic Reading for Baby
by Meghan Shannon Elder | September 30, 2011 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 3: Ayahuasca Apprenticeship at Home (Without Ceremony): Ground Level Society Consciousness Work | 0 Comments
Pregnancy Week 9, Day 5: Emergency Road Trip Saves the Day
by Meghan Shannon Elder | October 16, 2011 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 3: Ayahuasca Apprenticeship at Home (Without Ceremony): Ground Level Society Consciousness Work | 0 Comments
Pregnancy Week 9, Day 6: Thoughts on Selfishness
by Meghan Shannon Elder | October 17, 2011 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 3: Ayahuasca Apprenticeship at Home (Without Ceremony): Ground Level Society Consciousness Work | 0 Comments
Pregnancy Week 13, Day 5: Returning from Crazy Pregnant Lady Land (I Hope!)
by Meghan Shannon Elder | November 13, 2011 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 3: Ayahuasca Apprenticeship at Home (Without Ceremony): Ground Level Society Consciousness Work | 0 Comments
Pregnancy Week 14, Day 3: On Mothers and Daughters
by Meghan Shannon Elder | November 18, 2011 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 3: Ayahuasca Apprenticeship at Home (Without Ceremony): Ground Level Society Consciousness Work | 0 Comments
Pregnancy Week 15, Day 3: On Prenatal Training, Deep Fear Release and Living Authentically
by Meghan Shannon Elder | November 25, 2011 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 3: Ayahuasca Apprenticeship at Home (Without Ceremony): Ground Level Society Consciousness Work | 0 Comments
Pregnancy Week 15, Day 6: Nurturing the Wild Side
by Meghan Shannon Elder | November 28, 2011 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 3: Ayahuasca Apprenticeship at Home (Without Ceremony): Ground Level Society Consciousness Work | 0 Comments
Pregnancy Week 16: Refining My Rebel
by Meghan Shannon Elder | November 29, 2011 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 3: Ayahuasca Apprenticeship at Home (Without Ceremony): Ground Level Society Consciousness Work | 0 Comments
Pregnancy Week 16, Day 2: On People-Pleasing, Judgment, and Being Human
by Meghan Shannon Elder | December 1, 2011 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 3: Ayahuasca Apprenticeship at Home (Without Ceremony): Ground Level Society Consciousness Work | 0 Comments
Pregnancy Week 18, Day 3: Past Life Stranglehold
by Meghan Shannon Elder | December 16, 2011 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 3: Ayahuasca Apprenticeship at Home (Without Ceremony): Ground Level Society Consciousness Work | 0 Comments
Ayahuasca Ceremony #236/Pregnancy Week 24: A Gift from Mother to Mother
by Meghan Shannon Elder | January 17, 2012 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 3: Ayahuasca Apprenticeship at Home (Without Ceremony): Ground Level Society Consciousness Work | 0 Comments
Creation and Home Waterbirth Spiritual Ceremony
by Meghan Shannon Elder | May 10, 2012 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 3: Ayahuasca Apprenticeship at Home (Without Ceremony): Ground Level Society Consciousness Work | 0 Comments
Internal Struggle of Women: Lilith vs Eve
by Meghan Shannon Elder | March 11, 2019 | Accelerated Spiritual Development Articles, Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 3: Ayahuasca Apprenticeship at Home (Without Ceremony): Ground Level Society Consciousness Work | 0 Comments
Phase Four: Working in Tandem on a Whole Other Level
March 2019 – Current. DC Metro Area, US. Please note – Zach’s post are omitted here but on the front page…
Personal Spiritual Development Journals Return: The Whirlwind of Accelerated Learning, Healing and Unconditional Love
by Meghan Shannon Elder | April 8, 2019 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 4 - Working in Tandem for Accelerated Spiritual Development, The Whirlwind: Tandem Spiritual Process with Zach and Meghan | 0 Comments
Meghan experiences the opening of a crazy spiritual whirlwind with her co-worker turned friend Zach. Neither one of them had any idea what was in store…
Crumbling Massive Structures: Co-Dependence and Femininity
by Meghan Shannon Elder | April 15, 2019 | Accelerated Spiritual Development Articles, Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Foundation Spiritual Development Articles, Phase 4 - Working in Tandem for Accelerated Spiritual Development, The Whirlwind: Tandem Spiritual Process with Zach and Meghan | 0 Comments
Through this new process, Meghan begins to recognizing a long-standing pattern of co-dependency underneath her relationships, and how that structure is messing with the purity of the connection. Also newfound discovery of internalized misogyny that was messing with her ability to see herself and sexuality…
Two Sides of the Training Coin: Spiritual Development and Shamanic Apprenticeship
by Meghan Shannon Elder | April 22, 2019 | Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Ayahuasca-Focused Articles, Phase 4 - Working in Tandem for Accelerated Spiritual Development | 0 Comments
Meghan reflects on her fifteen years of spiritual development work and Ayahuasca shamanic apprenticeship, as well as the nature of intimacy in its purest form…
Healing Core Beliefs (and new techniques we are learning!)
by Meghan Shannon Elder | April 29, 2019 | Accelerated Spiritual Development Articles, Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Foundation Spiritual Development Articles, Phase 4 - Working in Tandem for Accelerated Spiritual Development, The Whirlwind: Tandem Spiritual Process with Zach and Meghan | 0 Comments
Meghan has a huge emotional purge in regards to her feelings for Zach (and the old deep beliefs that come with it). Zach has a deep healing of an inner child who felt he had to “do” for others in order for him to be loved. Plus new spiritual techniques they both learned in the process…
The Impact of Deep-Seated Insecurity and Body Image Constructs
by Meghan Shannon Elder | May 13, 2019 | Accelerated Spiritual Development Articles, Ayahuasca Apprenticeship Personal Journals, Phase 4 - Working in Tandem for Accelerated Spiritual Development, The Whirlwind: Tandem Spiritual Process with Zach and Meghan | 0 Comments
Sexual Energy Lockdown and Body Image Constructs
by Meghan Shannon Elder | August 1, 2019 | Phase 4 - Working in Tandem for Accelerated Spiritual Development, The Whirlwind: Tandem Spiritual Process with Zach and Meghan | 0 Comments
Meghan discovers her trapped sexual feelings towards Zach on lockdown – leading down the rabbit hole to body image constructs needing attention
New Type of Earth Relationships? Cups Runneth Over…
by Meghan Shannon Elder | August 12, 2019 | Phase 4 - Working in Tandem for Accelerated Spiritual Development, The Whirlwind: Tandem Spiritual Process with Zach and Meghan | 0 Comments
Meghan releases a huge amount of jealousy in order to reveal her truth underneath of what unconditional love and connection really looks like, no matter what earth bodies we may inhabit…
I Dont Owe You My Body: Two Old Structures Collide
by Meghan Shannon Elder | August 16, 2019 | Phase 4 - Working in Tandem for Accelerated Spiritual Development, The Whirlwind: Tandem Spiritual Process with Zach and Meghan, Zach's Posts | 0 Comments
Meghan inadvertently purges a neediness regarding affection all over Zach, playing out an old pattern. This in turn, provokes an old one in his about his gayness once again getting in the way of connecting. Do they make it through healing the clash of such deep-rooted, painful structures?
Uncovering Roots
by Meghan Shannon Elder | October 27, 2019 | Phase 4 - Working in Tandem for Accelerated Spiritual Development, The Whirlwind: Tandem Spiritual Process with Zach and Meghan | 0 Comments
Meghan discovers where her “original rescuer” is born from, as well the craving for physical affection
Coming Out Bisexual
by Meghan Shannon Elder | April 5, 2020 | Phase 4 - Working in Tandem for Accelerated Spiritual Development, The Whirlwind: Tandem Spiritual Process with Zach and Meghan | 0 Comments
The Shadows of Fears Illusion
by Meghan Shannon Elder | April 26, 2020 | Accelerated Spiritual Development Articles, Phase 4 - Working in Tandem for Accelerated Spiritual Development, The Whirlwind: Tandem Spiritual Process with Zach and Meghan | 4 Comments
Meghan discusses the difference between energetic constructs that are actually there, vs what is a fear of what used to be…
Resources I Trust
Chacruna.net – General Ayahuascsa information
Tina Kat Courtney – Shamanic Life Coaching for Shadow Work, Spiritual Crisis, and the Preparation and Integration of Plant Medicines
Sarah Alviar – Advanced IAKP Kambo Practitioner, Spiritual Life and Integration Coach