I didn't want to be a silent, cowering, unarmed, bullied, cannabinoid-deficient, over-taxed victim, unable to effect change in my own life, let alone the life of others.

But that's exactly who I was being.

I interrupted that pattern, and that life, by coming to Acapulco this past February, to attend a really special anarchist conference called Anarchapulco. When you register, you can TAKE 10% OFF your final ticket price by typing the coupon code "defiance" without quotes, at checkout.

I didn't know a soul when I came.

It's now six months later, I'm still here...

... and feeling very fortuned to live among a group of talented, informed, principled anarchists. I'm learning through new friendships, language and culture, expatriation, tequila, risk, living out my ideals. All-night philosophical debates, along with plenty of laughs and foolishness. Telling the truth. Hearing the truth. Growing, man. And having a great time while doing so.

I did not see that coming... living with so much agility, joy and deep connection. My previous environments were steeped in life's hardship, moreso than the accessibility of dreams. I now regularly let loose my vivid sense of possibility... and am actually encouraged, rather than called crazy. That's a very nice change! A resonant community can undo years of social harm and damage.

Psychedelic means 'to make visible, to reveal; mind manifesting.'

This is the opposite of the impaired, debilitated trip the uninitiated wrongly presume about psychedelics. Psychedelics SHOW, to help you KNOW. Just like 3D glasses shift your optic vision... psychedelics shift your inner vision.

In my introductory post I explained that forests made themselves known to me at an early age. I instinctively understood the natural things going down in forests, and think it helped pre-acquaint me with Aya. I prepared myself for her, and her True Brew, my entire life.

Ayahuasca DOES ROOT WORK. She works with your roots. Your core. Your quintessential self. This is why, I believe, her medicine is often:

• misunderstood
• underestimated
• perceived as scary or intimidating

Your roots, like plant roots, are not visible. They are submerged in dark depths, and their health or sickness, is reflected in the outward leaves of your life. Makes sense, right?

Ayahuasca does not coat green color over yellowed or diseased leaves. She is not a cosmetic, surface solution. She is a root-working soul solution.

The chemical-compound-spirit-molecule that is Ayahuasca, will work with your roots. Clarify your understanding of Who You Are. She will help you include, and transcend, the arbitrary land you first breathed on, and the random womb you portaled in through. Your particular geographic and nucleic facts are interesting, to a degree. But the most important thing she makes clear is that YOU WERE MEANT FOR MORE. You were meant for more than struggle or alienation, friend.

Come to Anarchapulco.

Mingle with free, kind, smart, peaceful, self-possessed, liberated people, and see if it doesn't have a great effect on you. Anarchapulco is more than a conference. It is an INTEGRATIVE EXPERIENCE with just the right information, people and circumstances that could actually change your life. Or show you how to create a new one (bravery required, though).

I'm humbled and honored to be a NeverGetbusted facilitator assisting @barrycooper with the administration of the largest Ayahuasca ceremony in history! The mass growth of consciousness will be held March 1st through March 3rd, right after the Anarchapulco conference. The cost per participant is only $350USD. No one offers an Ayahuasca experience at such an affordable price. Barry is basically covering their cost. If you sense Aya's call to partake, I look forward to meeting you, and supporting your transformation.

** Register through me here + take 10% off! **

AT CHECKOUT, TYPE THE COUPON CODE: "defiance"

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If you liked this, then please add me to your feed by following: @erikaharris. I had an agenda, but lost it on a strange walk home one day... after having a sunlit chocolate-milk-sacrament. I'm curious about using language as a catalytic + restorative liberation technology, and am experimenting with that here on Steemit. Happy to be here with ya :-)

To Our Free + Feral Selves!
Erika