The Modern Shaman Mystery School

A Global Online Gathering of Shamans

Profound Healing, Authentic Power, Divine Purpose, & Awakened Prosperity

Through Visionary Medicine, Shamanic Tools & Ancient Indigenous Wisdom

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Are You a Modern Shaman?

Are you someone who regularly accesses expanded states of consciousness in order to gain knowledge & insight, communicate with spirits, or journey in multi-dimensional realms, so that you can receive guidance, optimize your potential and affect real change in your life, as well as in the world?

Shamanism is the oldest spiritual tradition on Earth, a path of direct revelation that is indigenous to many regions of the world, and wide-ranging in cultural expression. In some parts of the world, shamanic practices are closely tied with honoring the spirits of the Earth, seasons, and elements. In other places, shamanism can appear like an organized religion, with codes of conduct, belief in higher powers, and a complex pantheon of deities who are worshiped through elaborate rituals.

This resurgence of interest in ancient ways, coupled with the proliferation of visionary medicines beyond their native geographic regions and traditional, cultural uses, is presenting a unique opportunity to humanity to rapidly awaken and evolve.

Never before are record numbers of people accessing so quickly the exalted states of consciousness that were once the closely guarded secrets of esoteric mystery schools, unlocked after years and decades of rigorous spiritual training.

However, there are many, many risks that can arise in this wild west world where cultures, medicines, beliefs, practices, and techniques are being mixed and mashed into unique expressions of neo-shamanism.

Inexperienced, unscrupulous shamans and facilitators, dangerous mixing of medicine, unexpected intuitive openings, extraordinary sense perceptions into multi-dimensional reality and intrusive paranormal experiences are some of the things that one can encounter in the world of modern shamanism.

Navigate the World of Modern Shamanism Safely

The mission of the Modern Shaman Mystery School is to advocate for the safe and responsible use of medicines, and provide practical shamanic tools to navigate visionary states of consciousness and multi-dimensional reality, while living in a complex, modern, industrialized world.

And to direct you to the true message of visionary experiences, which are an invitation for you to heal your shadow, discover your own soul’s purpose, claim your unique gifts, and become a visionary agent of change yourself, if you choose to heed the calling.

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Yours free when you register for the Modern Shaman Mystery School, the Modern Shaman Playbook gives you an overview of the “Global Shamanic Revival”, the entire event program, and provides a study guide for you to deepen your inquiry into the various aspects of modern shamanism and neo-shamanism that call for integrity.

You also get access to dozens of FREE mind-expanding downloads provided by our speakers, from guided meditations, video trainings & entire courses just for being a part of this global online gathering.

Your Shamanic Guides

Expert Speakers from diverse cultures share their wisdom on how you can work with visionary medicines safely, as well as how to use shamanic practices to enhance your life, connect you to your purpose, and become a visionary leader & change agent of light, in complex modern times. Mouse over each Speaker’s photo to view their bio.

Lorna is a new media strategist to sustainable brands, social ventures and visionary entrepreneurs, helping them attract their tribe and ignite a movement around their mission-driven businesses.

Lorna Liana

Ayahuasca Activism & Awakened Entrepreneurship

Rudy Randa, Co-Founder of Boa Foundation and Co-Founder of the Aniwa Community, is an adventurer, healer, writer, and bridge between worlds.

Rudy Randa

The Indigenous Cultural Renaissance & De-Colonialization of Medicine

Jocelyn, a spiritual guide for the modern world, transformational life & business coach, is the founder of Sacred Planet, a global community for the many people all around the world who are waking up, raising their consciousness, and listening to their intuition.

Jocelyn Mercado

The Ancient Mother Goddess Consciousness

Tony is a visual and recording artist, event producer, and founder of I.AM.LIFE, a non-profit event production company focused on interconnectivity. His work is a synthesis of passions in art, spirituality & science.

Tony Moss

Ayahuasca and the Racial Divide

Yamile Yemoonyah is a certified spirit guide medium who has been featured on CNN and the author of the upcoming Spirit Guide Book. During her readings and courses, she helps her clients connect and consciously communicate with their own spirit guides.

Yamile Yemoonyah

The 7 Kinds of Spirit Guides & How to Consciously Communicate with Yours

Mallku is an international lecturer and teaches about the Ancient Culture of the Andes, promoting a Shamanic experience as one of the Paths of Liberation for the present generation.

Mallku Aribalo

The Andean Master Path: Power Plants & Wisdom of the Ancestors

Elayne Kalila Doughty, MA, MFT, has been on the path of passionate service for the past 20 years. She is an ordained Priestess and the founder of the Priestess Presence Temple.

Elayne Kalila Doughty

The Modern Priestess Path of Sacred Leadership

Peter Gorman is an award-winning investigative journalist and former Editor-in-Chief of High Times magazine. He has also spent part of each of the last 34 years exploring northwest Amazonia.

Peter Gorman

Kambo – The Rise & Risks of the Amazonian Frog Medicine

Voices from the Amazon

Activists & Indigenous leaders from the Brazilian Amazon share their thoughts on shamanism, tribal culture, what we can learn from the indigenous people & why citizens of a modern, hyper-connected world should care about what happens to the Amazon.

Benki Piyãko

Pajé & Award-Winning Environmental Activist

Haru Kuntanawa

Pajé & Vice Coordinator of the Juruá River Indigenous Peoples Organization

José Carlos Meirelles

Indigenous Specialist & Expert on Isolated Tribes

Leticia Yawanawá

Coordinator, Organization of Indigenous Women of Acre

Niraj Naik aka The Renegade Pharmacist is a pharmacist turned a holistic health expert, musician and an author on a mission to help people become truly healthy, happy and strong by unlocking the power of their inner pharmacy.

Niraj Naik

Power of Breath to Transform Your Life

Elizabeth Bast serves as a holistic life coach specializing in entheogenic medicine integration, addiction recovery, and women’s empowerment. In addition, Bast is a writer, poet, yoga & meditation teacher, performance artist, healing artist.

Elizabeth Bast

The Wisdom of Iboga Integration

An American living in Peru, Carlos Tanner has been studying the science of plant spirit healing in the Amazon Rainforest since 2003. He currently works as the program director for the Ayahuasca Foundation, a non-profit organization based out of Iquitos, Peru.

Carlos Tanner

Ayahuasca: In the Amazon & Around the Globe

Nicki Scully has been teaching alchemical healing, shamanic arts, and the Egyptian mysteries since 1983. She founded Shamanic Journeys, Ltd., and continues to guide inner journeys and organizes spiritual pilgrimages to Egypt.

Nicki Scully

Accessing the Ancient Egyptian Mysteries

Jennifer Sodini is a creative and resourceful conscious media entrepreneur.She is the founder of Evolve and Ascend, a media platform dedicated to inspiring conscious evolution, Phenomenalisms.

Jennifer Sodini

Becoming Fluent in Dream Language

Itzhak Beery is a leading shamanic teacher, healer, speaker, community activist and author. For over 21 years Itzhak bridges the spiritual and practical wisdom his indigenous teachers entrusted in him.

Itzhak Beery

What the Yachaks of the Andes Can Teach Us

Lola Medicine Keeper

Connect with Your Shamanic Lineage and Heal Ancestral Shame

Dr Marie Mbouni is an anesthesiologist and full spectrum healing artist and ceremonialist. She is passionate about bringing together science and spirituality.

Marie Mbouni

A New Approach to Soul Retrieval

Shamanism, Racism & Cultural Appropriation in a Multicultural World

The worldwide expansion of sacred plant medicine ceremonies beyond their cultural boundaries has been coined a “global shamanic revival”. Increasing numbers of Westerners are traveling to the Amazon, Central America, and Africa to participate in tribal ceremonies, initiations and festivals. This heightened interest in indigenous culture has fueled an indigenous cultural renaissance in the Amazon and elsewhere.

At the forefront of this “Global Shamanic Revival” are Western teachers of shamanism, facilitators of plant medicine ceremonies, and neoshamans. Western participants in these events don feathers and face paint, often applied by the indigenous themselves. Yet underneath this fascination with indigenous culture, the roots of racism, colonialism and cultural appropriation persist. How can Western ceremony facilitators offer and be compensated for their services, without perpetuating colonialism. How can Western practitioners of shamanism embrace indigenous culture, without appropriating it? How can those who walk the path of plant medicine shamanism do so in right relation to the people who are the cultural guardians of these medicine traditions?

Michael Stone

Lola Medicine Keeper

Tony Moss

Carlos Tanner

Jan’s experience in the area of soul retrieval and depossession is extensive. She has dedicated her professional career to these shamanic processes and has performed over 3500 soul retrievals. That amount of experience has given her literally thousands of case studies.

Jan Engels-Smith

Soul Retrieval and Depossession: The Cornerstones of Shamanism

L.R. Heartsong is a healer, author, and earth mystic. After undergoing an extreme healing crisis that led to a shamanic initiation and an apprenticeship with sacred plant medicines, River has stepped fully into his visionary work as a medicine man and spiritual guide.

L.R. Heartsong

The Shamanic Path: Initiation, Evolution and Enlightenment

Tricia is a pioneer in the psychedelic renaissance. Eastman’s holistic approach incorporates eastern philosophy, bio-hacking, soul retrieval, archetypal mapping, meditation, somatic therapy, shamanism.

Tricia Eastman

Bufo Alvarius & Neo-Shamanism – A New Path of Awakening?

Joe Tafur, M.D., is a Colombian-American family physician originally
from Phoenix, Arizona. After completing postdoctoral research at UCSD, he lived and worked in the Peruvian Amazon at the traditional healing center Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual.

Joe Tafur

Ayahuasca Healing – Biology, Emotion, Spirituality & Epigenetics

Julian Palmer has been deeply exploring psychoactive plants for the last 17 years and has spoken at conferences on this subject over the last 13 years. He facilitates non-traditional spaces for psychedelic plant medicine work and is also the inventor of ‘Changa’.

Julian Palmer

DMT, Ayahuasca & Paranormal Protection

Sitaramaya Sita, has traveled and worked in the Amazon for the past 17 years, is a spiritual herbalist, pusangera and plant wisdom practitioner formally trained in the Shipibo ayahuasca tradition. She is the founder of PlantTeachers.

Sitaramaya Sita

Dieta – Ayahuasca, Master Plants & Plant Perfumes (Pusangas)

Maria Teresa Chavez is a Holistic Health Coach and Educator with 14 years of expertise in the nutrition, fitness, and holistic lifestyle fields as yoga instructor, personal trainer, nutrition consultant, life and spiritual coach.

Maria Teresa Chavez

Preparing for Plant Medicine & Ibogaine Therapy

Creatrix and visionary writer at The Goddess Circle, author of The Astro Forecast and facilitator of The Inner Priestess Awakening Journey, Ara is a modern day mystic channeling guidance using spiritual, cosmic and natural energies.

Ara Campbell

Using Natural Energy for Clearing, Grounding & Protection

Sex, Sacred Medicine & the Psychedelic Patriarchy

Sexual assault and misconduct among shamans has long plagued the plant medicine shamanism community, resulting in prolonged physical and emotional trauma for ceremony participants, rather than healing. But is it “wrong” for a shaman to sleep with a ceremony participant? When do accepted cultural behaviors transgress into sexual addiction and predation? And is it all okay if the participant indeed wants to have sex with the shaman?

Beyond the misconduct of individual shamans & medicine facilitators, how is it possible to address pervasive sexist attitudes in the greater culture? From the Amazon basin to the Psychedelic community, how can men and women address patriarchy and sexual predation in a way where male leaders hold themselves accountable and experience appropriate and meaningful consequences for misconduct, in a way that doesn’t perpetuate victim-shaming or professional pariah-hood for women who speak out?

Leaders in the psychedelic & shamanic community discuss the Importance of a code of ethics in ceremony spaces.

Jan Engels-Smith

Jennifer Sodini

Tricia Eastman

Oriana Mayorga

Amber Zuckswert helps people transform, heal and awaken to their inherent power and purpose. She specializes in coaching heart centered leaders to design their unique dream businesses and lifestyles while making big impact on those they serve.

Amber Zuckswert

Creating Deeply Transformative & Healing Retreats

Jonathon, author of the book Rainforest Medicine, was raised in Ecuador and currently lives in Costa Rica. He organizes bi-annual Rainforest Medicine Gatherings devoted to assisting people on the path of renewal.

Jonathon S.M.W

Ancient Spirits & Mysticism in the Upper Amazon

Emily Stroia is a spiritual teacher and author of several books including her latest, Into the Light. She teaches and speaks on how to create a fulfilled life through intuition and metaphysical tools.

Emily Stroia

Creating a Spiritual Practice through Intuition & Mediumship

Guillaume is a shamanic practitioner, medicine carrier, dedicated to self-transformational work. He is supporting individuals to facilitate their own healing and rediscover their power.

Guillaume Gauthereau

Healing Trauma & Remembering Your Soul Purpose with Plant Medicine

Vivien used to be a model when she received a deep spiritual calling. She realized she was disconnected from her essence and dedicated her life to healing ever since.

Vivien Vilela

The Power of Initiation for the Urban Soul

Born in Mexico, Sinaloa, Oscar is an anthropologist who has been studying the culture and spirituality of the Wixarika (Huichol) people for the past 13 years.

Oscar Matzuwa Valdez

The Traditional & Medicinal Use of Peyote in North America

Stephen Gray is a teacher, author, ceremony leader, and conference organizer on spiritual subjects, including entheogenic medicines. He has worked extensively with Tibetan Buddhism, the Native American Church, and other sacramental medicine traditions.

Stephen Gray

Cannabis and Spirituality: The Revival of an Ancient Plant Spirit Ally

Kevin has made a name for himself in the transformational workshop/retreat space combining NLP, microdosing, NVC, Tantra & Iyengar-style yoga, traveling around the world exploring the practice from Goa to Los Angeles.

Kevin Orosz

Bridging the Gap: Modern Ancients & Microdosing

Deanne Adamson is the founder and president of Being True To You, which provides addiction-recovery-coaching and preparation & integration services surrounding addiction treatment, and transformational experiences- such as entheogenic therapies.

Deanne Adamson

Addiction Recovery with Sacred Plant Medicines

Jerry B. Brown, Ph.D., is coauthor of The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity (Inner Traditions, 2016). He also served as founding professor of anthropology at Florida International University in Miami.

Jerry Brown

Psilocybin & the Psychedelic Gospels

Rachel Harris, PhD is the author of Listening to Ayahuasca. Rachel was in private psychotherapy practice for thirty-five years and research for ten. She received a National Institutes of Health New Investigator’s Award.

Rachel Harris

Listening to Ayahuasca

Michael Stone is a Shamanic practitioner, teacher, author, transformational coach and organizational development consultant. His award winning radio show, KVMR’s Conversations, focuses on environmental, spiritual, and social justice issues.

Michael Stone

The Connection Between Quantum Physics & Shamanism

Tayria Ward, Ph.D., has worked intensively with dreams for more than 40 years, and is passionate about reawakening indigenous ways of knowing and being. She established Bridging Worlds, a center to help bridge waking with dreaming.

Tayria Ward, Ph.D.

Dream Work, Heart Work

Kyle is the co-founder of Psychedelics Today. His interest in exploring non-ordinary states of consciousness began at the age of 16 when he suffered a traumatic near-death experience.

Kyle Buller

Psychedelic Integration & Cognitive Liberty

Julie D. Megler, NP is a psychiatric nurse practitioner. Her practice focuses on mental health and integration of non-ordinary states of consciousness. She is chair of the board of directors for ERIE .

Julie Megler

Healing Trauma with Entheogens

Amanda Elo’Esh is Founder of the Living Wisdom mystery school, medicine woman, and master Shipibo shaman. She’s the author of “Unlock Your Success Code,” and the “Go Ask Alice Oracle & Tea Party Game.

Amanda Elo'Esh

How to Build A Prosperous Spiritual Business of Integrity

Nan Akasha CHT, Dhom, MM is a Cosmic Shaman and Fairy Godmother according to her clients. A spiritual teacher, master LightBody™ Healer and hypnotherapist and seven time #1 Best Selling Author, she founded the LightBodySchool.com.

Nan Akasha

Multidimensional Mastery: Accelerate Healing, Manifesting and Soul Alignment

Creator of ReNaturing™, Mellisa Bottali, is a woman with a unique connection to Nature and Source. Her personal spiritual development programs & retreats combine ancient wisdom and nature’s laws to support women in realizing their uniqueness.

Mellisa Bottali

Shamanic Medicine Journey without Taking the Medicine

ICEERS: Ethnobotanical Education, Research & Service

ICEERS is an international non-profit organization dedicated to transforming society’s relationship with psychedelic plants. They provide support and information to promote safe psychoactive plant use, advocate for public policies based on human rights, and build bridges between traditional knowledge and science to address some of society’s most challenging health conditions at their roots.

Benjamin De Loenen

Transforming Society’s Relationship with Psychoactive Plants

Jerónimo M.M. is an ayahuasca community activist and independent researcher. In the past decade he has produced, written and directed two documentaries about ayahuasca.

Jeronimo M.M.

Ayahuasca Traditions, Ayahuasca Tourism & The Ethics of Intercultural Encounters

José Carlos Bouso

Psychedelics, Shamanism & Potential Risky Admixtures

Telecommunication Engineer, Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist, MSc in Integrative and Strategic Psychotherapy. Marc is trained in the therapeutic use of Non Ordinary States of Consciousness.

Marc Aixalà

Integration of Psychedelic Experiences: A Psychotherapeutic Approach

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About Your Host

Deep in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, Lorna Liana discovered her purpose and her divine calling while drinking visionary plant medicines with indigenous shamans. She was given a mission:

“To leverage emerging technologies to preserve indigenous traditions, so that ancient wisdom can benefit the modern world, and technology can empower indigenous people.”

In pursuit of this mission, Lorna became a new media strategist to sustainable brands, social ventures and visionary entrepreneurs, helping them attract their tribe and ignite a movement around their mission-driven businesses. Through podcasting, video blogging and social media, she shares the stories of both indigenous people and the world’s foremost experts in psychedelic science, modern shamanism, and consciousness research to inspire each and every one of us to explore the depths of our minds, spirits, planet…and evolve.

For the past 4 years Lorna has built her business as a digital nomad, living in Thailand, Bali, Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica, Hawaii, and Spain. She helps intuitives become visionary leaders, and visionary leaders inspire a movement.

About The Artist

Anderson Debernardi was born on the 12th of June ,1968 in Orellana (Distrito de Vargas Guerra) a small town near Ucayali river in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest . When he was 5 years old his family moved to Iquitos. A particularly gifted student during primary and secondary school, Andy won many local art competitions.

Andy was one of founding students of the Usko-Ayar Amazonian School of Painting which was established in 1988 in the city of Pucallpa by Pablo Amaringo and Luis Eduardo Luna. He held key roles in the project as the financial administrator as well as one of the main teachers. In 1992 he was invited along with Pablo Amaringo and two other members of the Usko-Ayar School to Tampere, Finland. In 1995 Andy painted a large 20 square meters mural for the South American Building of the Helsinki Zoo. Andy was later commissioned to paint 16 murals in the South American and African building over the course of 5 years. This work has been presented many times in Finland, where Andy is a very well-known artist. Along with numerous exhibitions in Peru, in cultural institutions and diplomatic circles, his work has also been shown in the United States. He has also participated in different editions of the Noche de Arte en Lima organized by USAFIS. His international activity is quite well known in Washington, Wyoming (Cheyenne), Colorado (Denver), Japan, England, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Colombia.