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Mind EscapeMatthew Pallamary: Psychedelics, Writing, and Consciousness Episode #331Author and psychedelic ambassador Matthew Pallamary returns to Mind Escape: New Telos to explore the intersection of writing, metaphysics, and psychedelics. We discuss his visionary works, ayahuasca and shamanism, the metaphysical implications of altered states, and how to bring ineffable experiences into art and daily life. Check out his books the link is at the bottom 👇 Full Episode link:https://youtu.be/ugh20kiEk1M?si=fjot7hd-eZP7NW3g📖 I recently archived a lot of older episodes to our patreon page which you can watch or listen...
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Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Santa Barbara Writers Conference 2024 - Nonfiction PanelMatthew J. Pallamary, moderator, is an award-winning writer, musician, and sound healer who’s been studying shamanism all his life. He has books covering several genres. His latest story collection is The Thinning Veil: 13 Twisted Tales. He explores how art imitates life and reflects our human condition.G. Brian Kurtz is an intuitively-guided medical empath, energy healer and author of Access the Real You: Touching Your Divinity and Applying its Wisdom to Your Life. As a speaker and teacher, he has brought his message to more than 2,500 people from six countries. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, wh...
2025-07-2850 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionAuthor Matthew Pallamary's 7th appearance on Coast to Coast on President's Day, Monday February 17, 2025 - Shamanic ExperiencesShamanic Experiences on Coast to Coast AM February 17, 2025Shamanic explorer Matthew J. Pallamary discussed the universal appeal and foundational significance of shamanism across cultures, including the use of ayahuasca. He pointed out similarities between South American indigenous beliefs and those found in various global religions, including the legend of the Great Flood. Calling shamanism "the world's oldest spiritual belief system," he said its roots are deeply embedded in prehistoric spirituality. Shamanism, he continued, encompasses the roles of healers, teachers, and therapists. They serve as guides, "going to the other worlds or the other realms... to find the kn...
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Curious DimensionHolographic Universe, Psychedelics, & Shamanism, - Psychonaut & Author Matthew Pallamary Ep 33Welcome to episode 33 of Curious Dimension. Holographicosmic Man: The Holographic Heart of the Golden Mean" by Matthew Pallamary is an interdisciplinary exploration that weaves together quantum physics, mathematics, geometry, ancient texts, and various scientific disciplines to illustrate the pervasive presence of the Golden Mean—a mathematical representation of a hologram—throughout the universe. The book delves into how this ratio manifests in the microcosm and macrocosm, connecting them into a unified whole without beginning or end. Pallamary examines the legacy of ancient wisdom and its alignment with modern quantum discoveries, providing a blueprint that bridges the gap between past insi...
2025-01-2749 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Santa Barbara Writers Conference 2024 - Short Story Panel Moderated by Karen Ford, including Max Talley, Matthew J. Pallamary, Melodie Johnson Howe, Catherine Ann Jones, and Lisa CupoloModerator Karen K. Ford, SBWC workshop leader, is an award-winning author of short fiction whose honors include top prizes from Narrative and bosque. Her work has been shortlisted for the Tobias Wolff Fiction Award and the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Prize and anthologized in Ginosko. Karen lives in Southern California, with her rescue mutt, Dude, where she is a freelance editor and writing coach.Max Talley has had 70 stories and essays published since 2015. His writing has appeared in Vol.1 Brooklyn, Atticus Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, Litro, and The Saturday Evening Post. He won the 2021 best fiction...
2024-12-091h 03Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionAuthor Matthew Pallamary's 6th appearance on Coast to Coast on Monday June 17, 2024 - Shamanistic PracticesAuthor Matthew Pallamary discussed shamanic practices and ceremonies in the jungle, including the use of psychedelic plant medicines like ayahuasca. He detailed a 10-day program he does in the jungle that involves a cleansing diet and various visionary plants. "Your perception gets more refined. It gets very clear. You start having telepathic experiences. And you really feel like you become a part of the jungle," he said of the experience. Highlighting the importance of altering one's perception to gain new perspectives and understandings, he noted that insights from ayahuasca can be similar to what is gleaned from some types of...
2024-06-2546 min
The Written SceneEpisode 59: Matthew PallamaryAuthor and shaman Matthew Pallamary is always paying attention. His writing deserves it. In this episode of The Written Scene, Matthew talks being a one man show after working in publishing, the origin of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, having a foot in several different writing genres, why porn for the sake of porn is boring, being regular with writing, how to accomplish conflict in short/micro stories, getting the ah-ha moment in short stories, leading readers down the path and frustrating their expectations, traveling to the Peruvian Amazon to study shamanic plant diets, using mind-altering chemicals...
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Ascension of the Chessmen#193 - Altered States of Existence w/ Matthew PallamaryMatthew Pallamary is a Multiple award winning author Matthew (Mateo) J. Pallamary's historical novel, Land Without Evil, received rave reviews along with a San Diego Book Award and was adapted into a magical stage and sky show, which was the subject of an EMMY nominated episode of a PBS series,“Arts in Context.” Matt has eighteen books in print in multiple genres and has taught a Phantastic Fiction workshop at the Southern California Writers’ Conference, the Santa Barbara Writers’ Conference, and numerous other venues for over 25 years. His memoir, Spirit Matters, detailing his shamanic adventures took first place in the San Dieg...
2024-04-241h 22Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Santa Barbara Writers Conference 2023 - Podcasts and Audiobooks Part 2 with Lois Phillips, Yvette Keller, Claudia Dunn, and Matthew J. PallamaryPodcasts & Audiobooks with Lois Phillips, Yvette Keller, Claudia Dunn, and Matthew J. PallamaryAudiobooks and podcasts are a fast-growing area of publishing. Join this team for an insightful seminar on how to accomplish the goals of getting your book
2024-02-011h 17Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Santa Barbara Writers Conference 2023 - Podcasts and Audiobooks Part 1 with Lois Phillips, Yvette Keller, Claudia Dunn, and Matthew J. PallamaryPodcasts & Audiobooks with Lois Phillips, Yvette Keller, Claudia Dunn, and Matthew J. PallamaryAudiobooks and podcasts are a fast-growing area of publishing. Join this team for an insightful seminar on how to accomplish the goals of getting your book
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Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionAuthor Matthew Pallamary's 5th appearance on Coast to Coast on Tuesday November 14, 2023 - Consciousness BoundariesHosted byGeorge NooryGuest:Matthew PallamaryTuesday - November 14, 2023About the showAuthor, editor, and shamanic explorer Matthew Pallamary has been searching the globe for the truth about reality. In the latter half, he spoke about the nature of expanding consciousness, as well as why he believes the veil between the worlds is thinning and giving rise to more chaotic forces. Consciousness, he said, is the awareness of our thoughts, memories, or feelings, and the sensations in our environment, but it's a subjective ex...
2023-11-191h 00Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Santa Barbara Writers Conference 2023 - Elinor LipmanKnown for her wry social commentary, Elinor Lipman is the author of 14 novels, including her latest, Ms. Demeanor, which has received praise from authors Tom Perrotta, Wally Lamb, and Cathleen Schine. In 2008, her debut novel, Then She Found Me,(1990), was adapted into a film starring Matthew Broderick, Colin Firth, Helen Hunt, and Bette Midler. She served on the 2006 literature panel for the National Endowment for the Arts and was a fiction judge for the 2008 National Book Awards. She lives in Manhattan and part-time in Homes, NY.
2023-08-2841 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Santa Barbara Writers Conference 2023 - Author Websites & Social Media with Lisa Angle and Matt PallamaryAuthor Websites & Social Media Lisa Angle & Matt Pallamary. This Monday afternoon panel from June 19, 2023 discussed how to deploy an effective book marketing plan and how to design an author website that is integrated social media strategies. Lisa worked as stage crew for Ensemble Theatre, produced a weekly newsletter for the Santa Barbara County Film Commission (2004-08), and written articles for Montecito Journal, The Independent, and Examiner.com. As a Production Assistant at The Santa Barbara Channels (now TVSB) she learned video production, and produced videos for Association for Women in Communications, the SB Zoo, and the SB Writers...
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Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMatt Pallamary on the Fade to Black radio show with Jimmy Church - July 25, 2023Tonight, Tuesday on FADE to BLACK: Mathew (Mateo) Pallamary is with us to talk about shamanism, visionary experience, entheobotany, plant medicines, consciousness, and altered states of consciousness.Matthew J. (Mateo) Pallamary frequently visits the mountains, deserts, and jungles of North, Central, and South America pursuing his studies of shamanism and plant medicines for over twenty five years. He has eighteen books in print in multiple genres and has taught a Phantastic Fiction workshop at the Southern California Writers Conference and the Santa Barbara Writers Conference for thirty five years.Mateo has also lectured at a nu...
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Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionAuthor Matthew Pallamary 4th appearance on the Coast to Coast on Sunday July 2nd - Shamanism & DeathShamanism & DeathAuthor, editor, and shamanic explorer Matthew Pallamary has been searching the globe for answers to the truth about reality. In the first half, he discussed his visionary experiences, shamanism, and writing, as well as his work on attitudes about death. His book "Death: A Love Story," was published at the outbreak of the pandemic, and is written in the 'first person' as Death itself as a character. "If you want to know the truth, I'm not your death, but you are mine," he wr...
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Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMatt Pallamary Midnight Coast to Coast Interview About Holographicosmic Man With George Noory - December 14, 2022COAST TO COAST SHOW NOTESAuthor, editor, and shamanic explorer Matthew Pallamary has been searching the globe for the truth about reality. In the latter half, he spoke about his latest work looking at how various sciences, disciplines, nature, and ancient wisdom relate to the idea of the Golden Mean (the middle between two extremes). Through his visionary experiences with ayahuasca, he became fascinated by sacred geometry, and eventually realized that the Golden Mean is a model for holographic reality. "Everything is infinitely connected both in the inner world and the outer world," he remarked, and we're al...
2022-12-1646 min
Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionPart 2 of Night Dreams Talk Radio show interview with Matt Pallamary "On Crazy Things In The Paranormal" by host Gary AndersonWe had a great Part 2 show on Friday night 8/12/22 on Night Dreams Talk Radio with Gary Anderson interviewing Matthew J. (Mateo) Pallamary "On Crazy Things In The Paranormal".On the show they discussed altered states of consciousness and psychedelic substances, among them DMT, Psilocybin, LSD, Cannabis, and Ayahuasca, as well as shamanic plant diets in the jungles of the Amazon.
2022-08-121h 37Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionAnne Lamott: "Bird by Bird" - Santa Barbara Writers Conference - Mystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - 1996Anne Lamott is an American novelist and non-fiction writer whose nonfiction works are largely autobiographical. Lamott's writings, marked by their self-deprecating humor and openness, cover such subjects like alcoholism, single-motherhood, depression, and Christianity.Her best selling Bird by Bird had just been published when she spoke to the 1996 Santa Barbara Writers Conference.On Amazon's page it says: From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author: An essential volume for generations of writers young and old. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this modern classic will continue to spark creative minds for years to come.La...
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Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionDEATH: (A Love Story) - Audiobook Excerpt*DEATH: (A Love Story) is an Award Winning Finalist in the 2020 International Book Awards.*WARNING! YOU COULD DIE LISTENING THIS BOOK! When's the last time you had an intimate heart to heart chat with your death? Have you ever? Now is your chance. Hi, I am your Death and I am here for you. No wait, don’t go! Aside from the fact that you can’t get away, I’m not here for you in that way, at least not now, although to be honest...
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Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionHealing And Spirit Possessions With Matthew J. (Mateo) Pallamary On Night Dreams Talk Radio With Gary AndersonMatthew J. (Mateo) Pallamary frequently visits the mountains, deserts, and jungles of North, Central, and South America pursuing his studies of shamanism for over twenty five years. He has seventeen books in print in multiple genres and has taught a Phantastic Fiction workshop at the Southern California Writers Conference and the Santa Barbara Writers Conference for over thirty years.Mateo has also lectured at a number of other conferences and conventions throughout the United States and was a featured lecturer and performer at the Mysteries of the Amazon exhibit at the Appleton Museum and other venues throughout F...
2022-06-261h 05Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionCharles (Sparky) Schulz: "Charlie, Snoopy, and Me" - Santa Barbara Writers Conference - Mystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - 1995Charles Schulz the creator of Peanuts and all the unforgettable characters he created was a regular at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference and was known to everyone by his nickname "Sparky".He loved writers, writing, and the creative process, and spent the whole week at the conference for many years. Aside from showing support for all the regular talent, a big part of Sparky's attendance was in support of his son Monte.After a few years of bumpy transition that brought the SBWC close to the edge of extinction Monte stepped up to the plate and...
2022-06-2147 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionBob Kane: "Batman and Me" - Santa Barbara Writers Conference - Mystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - 1995Robert Kane (born Robert Kahn October 24, 1915 – November 3, 1998) was an American comic book writer, animator and artist who co-created, with Bill Finger, the DC Comics character Batman. Kane was inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1993 and into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1996.In early 1939, DC's success with the seminal superhero Superman in Action Comics prompted editors to scramble for more such heroes. In response, Bob Kane conceived "the Bat-Man." Kane said his influences for the character included actor Douglas Fairbanks' film portrayal of the swashbuckler Zorro; Leonardo da Vinci's diagram of the o...
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Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMatt Pallamary Midnight Coast to Coast Shamanism Interview About Visionary Experiences With George Noory - May 4, 2022Author, editor, and shamanic explorer Matthew Pallamary shared his visionary experiences, and information about psychoactive plants, shamanism, and spirit possession. He described how the ritual of taking the ayahuasca brew in South America likely dates back to primitive times, and that the plant spirits serve as allies or emissaries. When you ingest them, "you literally become the jungle," he remarked, adding that the shaman guiding the ayahuasca trip helps people modulate the energy during the experience and release traumas stored inside the body as a kind of purification. Related to plant allies is the notion of animal sp...
2022-05-051h 00Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionJonathan Winters: "Writing Is No Laughing Matter" - Santa Barbara Writers Conference - Mystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - 1988Here is another entertaining talk from Jonathan Winters titled "Writing Is No Laughing Matter" from the 1988 Santa Barbara Writers Conference. Jonathan was a regular in the humor workshop formerly run by Ian Bernard of Laugh In fame, now run by Ernie Witham and he was a poet who attended SBWC Poetry Workshops run by the inimitable poetry workshop leader Perie Longo.Jonathan also published a great short story collection titled Winters' Tales..
2022-04-261h 11Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionArianna Huffington - Santa Barbara Writers Conference - Mystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - 1994Arianna Huffington is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, businesswoman, and the co-founder of The Huffington Post, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, and the author of fifteen books. She gave a lively talk as one of the keynote speakers at the 1994 Santa Barbara Writers Conference has been named to Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people and the Forbes Most Powerful Women list.
2022-04-0254 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Robert B. Parker - Spenser and I - 1993Listen to Robert B. Parker speaking about himself and Spenser, his most well-known character at the 1993 Santa Barbara Writers Conference. Parker was an American writer, primarily of fiction within the mystery/detective genre. His most famous works were the 40 novels written about the fictional private detective Spenser. ABC television network developed the television series Spenser: For Hire based on the character in the mid-1980s; a series of TV movies was also produced based on the character. His works incorporate encyclopedic knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area. The Spenser novels have been cited by critics and bestselling authors as influencing...
2022-03-151h 03Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionJames Ellroy - Santa Barbara Writers Conference - 1993 - Mystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters SeriesListen to James" Ellroy, an American crime fiction writer and essayist speak at the 1993 Santa Barbara Writers Conference. Aside from his great talk, he was a lot of fun. Ellroy is known for his telegrammatic prose style where he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987), The Big Nowhere (1988), L.A. Confidential (1990), White Jazz (1992), American Tabloid (1995), The Cold Six Thousand (2001), and Blood's a Rover (2009).
2022-03-011h 00Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionRobert James Waller - Santa Barbara Writers Conference - 1992 - The Bridges of Madison County - Mystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters SeriesRobert James Waller (August 1, 1939 – March 10, 2017) was an American author best known for The Bridges of Madison County, an enormously successful book in 1993. He was also a photographer and musician.Robert James Waller Jr. was born in Charles City, Iowa, and grew up in Rockford, Iowa. Waller received his BA ('62) and MA ('64) from University of Northern Iowa (then known as Iowa State Teachers College). He received his PhD in business from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University Bloomington in 1968.Later that year he returned to UNI and began teaching management and economics, and in 1977 be...
2022-02-101h 06Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionSteve Allen - Santa Barbara Writers Conference - 1990 - Mystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters SeriesSteve Allen was an American television personality, radio personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, and writer. In 1954, he achieved national fame as the co-creator and first host of The Tonight Show, which was the first late-night television talk show.Though he got his start in radio, Allen is best known for his extensive network television career. He gained national attention as a guest host on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. After he hosted The Tonight Show, he went on to host numerous game and variety shows, including his own The Steve Allen Show, I've Got a Secret, and The New Stev...
2022-01-141h 02Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Janet Roach - Santa Barbara Writers Conference - 1986Janet Roach is an American writer , producer and filmmaker, best known for her collaboration with Richard Condon in the black comedy Die Ehre der Prizzis , both of which were nominated for an Oscar in 1986, the same year she spoke at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference. With the documentary When Women Kill Roach made her debut in the film business in 1984. She wrote the template and the script for the independent film, which Lee Grant accompanied as a narrator. Roach wrote the screenplay for the 1985 mafia film The Honor of the Prizzis together with Richard Condon , the author of the novel. Both were nominat...
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Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionPicaflores: The Nerve Endings of GOD - Audiobook ExcerptARE HUMMINGBIRDS THE NERVE ENDINGS OF GOD? Picaflores: The Nerve Endings of GOD is available as an e-book, a full color special print edition, a black and white print edition, and as an audio book.Matthew J. Pallamary’s magical, otherworldly, intimate connection with the spirit of Picaflor comes from two decades of visionary journeys experienced within the context of shamanic plant diets in the Peruvian Amazon where he says it was first gifted to him by the spirit of Condor. Pallamary relates to the Spanish name of Picaflor which means to bite or sting flo...
2021-12-2004 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Julia Child - Santa Barbara Writers Conference - 1986Julia Child was an American cooking teacher, author, and television personality recognized for bringing French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her subsequent television programs, the most notable of which was The French Chef, which premiered in 1963.When it was first published in 1961 by Alfred A. Knopf, the 726-page Mastering the Art of French Cooking was a best-seller and received critical acclaim that derived in part from the American interest in French culture in the early 1960s. Lauded for its helpful illustrations and precise attention to detail, and for m...
2021-12-0637 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Jonathan Winters - Santa Barbara Writers Conference - 1986Here is a second talk from legendary comic Jonathan Winters titled "I'd Rather Be Writing" from the 1986 Santa Barbara Writers Conference. Jonathan was a regular at the SBWC and he was a dedicated writer. He sat in on the humor workshop formerly run by Ian Bernard of Laugh In fame, now run by Ernie Witham and he attended Poetry Workshops with the utmost seriousness.He also published a well-written short story collection titled Winters' Tales.Jonathan was a joy to be around socially. When you talked to him in a "normal" conversation he would go thro...
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Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionLand Without Evil Audiobook ExcerptJourney back in time to a long forgotten world, where nature speaks through plants, and song pours forth from cascading waterfalls as breathtakingly as a church choir sings Ave Maria. A place where the rhythm of a feathered rattle is believed to bring you closer to your creator. A world where mysticism and innate spirituality conflict with Christianity.Avá-Tapé, raised in the traditions of the Guarani Indians of South America, then Mission educated by the Jesuits, sees the truth and beauty in both worlds, but he can only live in one. Neither the Jesuits, nor his fa...
2021-11-0605 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Nicholas Meyer - Santa Barbara Writers Conference - 1985Nicholas Meyer is an American writer and director, known for his best-selling novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, and for directing the films Time After Time, two of the Star Trek feature films, the 1983 television film The Day After, and the 1999 HBO original film Vendetta.Meyer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), where he adapted his own novel into a screenplay. He has also been nominated for a Satellite Award, three Emmy Awards, and has won four Saturn Awards. He appeared as himself during the 2017 On Cinema spinoff series The Trial, during w...
2021-11-021h 22Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Scott Berg - Santa Barbara Writers Conference - 1989Scott Berg gave a great keynote talk about writing the biography of Goldwyn when it first came out at the 1989 Santa Barbara Writers Conference.After graduating from Princeton University in 1971, Berg expanded his senior thesis on editor Maxwell Perkins into a full-length biography, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius (1978), which won a National Book Award. His second book Goldwyn: A Biography was published in 1989.Berg's third book Lindbergh, a highly anticipated biography of aviator Charles Lindbergh was published in 1998, becoming a New York Times Best Seller, and winning the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. In 2003 Berg published K...
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Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionPICAFLOR Audiobook ExcerptPICAFLOR is the sequel to SPIRIT MATTERS, a San Diego Book Award winner and an Award-Winning Finalist in the National Best Book Awards.PICAFLOR chronicles the two decades since of Matthew (Mateo) J. Pallamary’s adventures in SPIRIT MATTERS through the mountains, deserts, and jungles of North, Central, and South America pursuing his studies of shamanism and visionary experience working with plant medicines and shamanic plant diets, among them Ayahuasca, Peyote, San Pedro cactus, and many more.PICAFLOR is also a road map of Mateo's lifelong search for truth, healing, and transformation that further explores the way...
2021-09-2905 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Dominick Dunne - Santa Barbara Writers Conference - 1989Dominick John Dunne (October 29, 1925 – August 26, 2009) was an American writer, investigative journalist, and producer. He began his career in film and television as a producer of the pioneering gay film The Boys in the Band (1970) and as the producer of the award-winning drug film The Panic in Needle Park (1971). He turned to writing in the early 1970s, and after the 1982 murder of his daughter Dominique, came to focus on the ways in which wealth and high society interact with the judicial system. Dunne was a frequent contributor to Vanity Fair, and from the 1980s, appeared regularly on television discussing crime.Dun...
2021-09-201h 05Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Joe Wambaugh interviewed by Chuck Champlin - Santa Barbara Writers Conference - 1989Joe Wambaugh, Jr. is a best-selling American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United States. Several of his early novels were set in Los Angeles, and its surroundings, and featured Los Angeles police officers as protagonists. He has been nominated for four Edgar Awards (winning three), and was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.The son of a police officer, Wambaugh was born in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He joined the United States Marine Corps at age 17 (an element he works into several of his novels) and married...
2021-09-071h 15Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Christina Crawford - Santa Barbara Writers Conference - 1989Christina Crawford (born June 11, 1939) is an American author and actress, best known for her 1978 memoir, Mommie Dearest, her account of growing up with her adoptive mother, film star Joan Crawford.Christina Crawford was born in Los Angeles, California in 1939, to an unmarried teen. According to her personal interview with Larry King, her father was married to another woman and supposedly in the Navy; her mother was unmarried. Crawford was adopted from a baby broker in Nevada because Joan was formally denied an adoption by social services for being an unfit candidate in California in 1940 (due at least in part to her...
2021-08-231h 05Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - John Saul - Santa Barbara Writers Conference 1988John Saul, an American author of suspense and horror novels spoke at the 1988 Santa Barbara Writers Conference . Most of his books have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller List.Prior to the start of his bestselling thriller career, Saul had around 10 books published under pen names, the first of which he wrote in one weekend after unexpectedly losing his job. His first book sale earned him just $200. Today he has over 60 million books in print.In 1976, Dell Publishing contacted him about his writing a psychological thriller. The resulting novel, Suffer the Children, appeared on all th...
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Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMatt Pallamary Full Moon Midnight Coast to Coast Shamanism Interview With George Noory - July 21, 2021Author, editor, and shamanic explorer Matthew Pallamary has been searching the globe for answers on the truth about reality. In the latter half, he discussed his studies of shamanism and visionary experience and working with plant medicines like ayahuasca. Shamans have traditionally offered a bridge between the spirit and physical world, and could be considered the first doctors, healers, psychologists, and teachers, he noted. The root of the word shaman comes from Siberia, and refers to "one who knows." In South America, shamanic practices and working with plants have passed from generation to generation, literally back to prehistoric times, he...
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End of the Road Podcast (Immanence = Transcendence)Episode 190: Matthew Pallamary: Ayahuasca/Picaflor(Hummingbird) Empathy/Shamanic MirrorMatthew J. Pallamary is an award winning writer, musician, and sound healer who has been studying plant medicines and indigenous practices of Central and South America all his life. He has 15 books in print that cover several genres including science fiction. Matt has adventured numerous times into the jungles, mountains, and deserts of North, Central, and South America pursuing his studies of shamanism and ancient cultures. Through his research into both the written word and the ancient beliefs of shamanism, he has delved into the heart of what his story really is, and by extension, provides resonances for...
2021-07-211h 07Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Hal Kanter - Santa Barbara Writers Conference 1988Hal Kanter started out writing variety shows and revues for television in the early 1950s. He turned to screenwriting in the mid-1950s, specializing in comedies (he wrote for Bob Hope and Martin & Lewis) but also turning out dramas such as The Rose Tattoo and Let's Make Love. He directed a few movies, and although they met with success and acclaim, he returned to television. In the 1970s he was the executive producer of the landmark series All in the Family (1971),among a dozen others.Here is his talk from the 1988 Santa Barbara Writers Conference.
2021-07-141h 12Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Charles (Sparky) Schulz - Santa Barbara Writers Conference 1989Charles Schulz the creator of Peanuts and all the unforgettable characters he created was a regular at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference and was known to everyone by his nickname "Sparky". He loved writers, writing, and the creative process, and spent the whole week at the conference for many years. Aside from showing support for all the regular talent, a big part of Sparky's attendance was in support of his son Monte, a novelist.After a few years of bumpy transition that brought the SBWC close to the edge of extinction Monte stepped...
2021-06-2945 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionPICAFLORPICAFLOR is the sequel to the award winning SPIRIT MATTERS that chronicles the two decades since of Matthew (Mateo) J. Pallamary’s adventures throughout the mountains, deserts, and jungles of North, Central, and South America pursuing his studies of shamanism.PICAFLOR begins in the jungle where Spirit Matters ended which is the same place where SPIRIT MATTERS began.Here is a taste of that timelessness:
2021-06-2504 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Nicholas Meyer - Santa Barbara Writers Conference 1985Here is an inspiring talk at the 1985 Santa Barbara Writers Conference by Nicholas Meyer, known for his best-selling novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, and for directing the films Time After Time, two of the Star Trek feature films, the 1983 television film The Day After, and the 1999 HBO original film Vendetta.Meyer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), where he adapted his own novel into a screenplay. He has also been nominated for a Satellite Award, three Emmy Awards, and has won four Saturn Awards. He appeared as himself during the 2017...
2021-06-141h 22Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic Fictionn0thing and his group integrate their first Ayahuasca experienceAs a bookend to the fictional account of first time Ayahuasca drinkers based on over two decades of observed experience from the Award-Winning n0thing, this excerpt gives an account of their integration the morning after their ceremony. In this sequel to DreamLand , science, technology, psychology, neurochemistry, and cutting edge brain research combine with shamanism, mythology, visionary experience, and the paranormal in this once and future archetypal tale.HTTPS://MYSTICINKPUBLISHING.COM
2021-06-0215 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Barnaby Conrad - Santa Barbara Writers Conference 1986The beloved Santa Barbara Writers Conference which is responsible for fostering many best selling writers will celebrate its 50TH birthday in June of 2022 and it would not exist at all if not for the inimitable Barnaby Conrad, artist, best selling author, nightclub proprietor, bullfighter, boxer, and American Vice Consul to Seville, Málaga, and Barcelona from 1943-46. While in Spain, Barny studied bullfighting with Juan Belmonte, Manolete, and Carlos Arruza. In 1945 he appeared on the same program with Belmonte and was awarded the ears of the bull. He is the only American male to have fought in Spain, Mexi...
2021-05-241h 04Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic Fictionn0thing drinks Ayahuasca for the first timeThis is a fictional account of first time Ayahuasca drinkers based on over two decades of observed experience and is an excerpt from the Award-Winning n0thing, titled after Jordan (n0thing) Gilbert, a top tier international eSports champion along with another real life co-star, renowned psychologist Dr. Stanley Krippner.In this sequel to DreamLand , science, technology, psychology, neurochemistry, and cutting edge brain research combine with shamanism, mythology, visionary experience, and the paranormal in this once and future archetypal tale.HTTPS://MYSTICINKPUBLISHING.COM
2021-05-1514 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Sue Grafton - Santa Barbara Writers Conference 1985A regular at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, Santa Barbara resident Sue Grafton was the author of the "alphabet series" ("A" Is for Alibi, etc.) featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California which was modeled after Santa Barbara. The daughter of detective novelist C. W. Grafton, she said the strongest influence on her crime novels was author Ross Macdonald. Before her success with this series, she wrote screenplays for television movies.
2021-05-1242 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionHow We Created the Non-Sense Prison We Live In In the 21st century we find ourselves living in a paradoxical technological age where we are all connected with near instantaneous text and video communication as well as access to a vast storehouse of information both good and bad that spans the globe. In spite of this abundance of data, many of us spend our time alone on social media watching cat videos or some other silliness, or raising our blood pressure from divisive politics or some kind of social injustice. Not only are we more disconnected, isolated, and alienated from each other, evident in the way so many of us, ev...
2021-05-0213 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionLost in TranslationLOST IN TRANSLATIONMany indigenous cultures worldwide, particularly the Apache of North America and the aborigines in Australia, which are the least technological of human cultures, we find the most intimate relationship between land and human language. In this context language is inseparable from song and story and songs and stories in turn, are inseparable from the shapes and features of the land. In these cultures the chanting of any part of a song cycle links the human singer to one of the animals or plants or powers within the landscape and binds the...
2021-04-2309 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionAshleigh Brilliant speaks at the 1984 Santa Barbara Writers ConferenceAshleigh Brilliant is an author and syndicated cartoonist born in London, UK, and living in Santa Barbara, California. He is best known for his Pot-Shots, single-panel illustrations with one-line humorous remarks, which began syndication in the United States of America in 1975. Brilliant became a naturalized American citizen in 1969.During the "Summer of Love" in San Francisco in 1967, Brilliant gave daily lectures near the Haight Street entrance of Golden Gate Park. He released a live album recorded in Golden Gate Park in 1967 on a small Hollywood, California record label, Dorash Enterprises. The album, Ashleigh Brilliant in the Haight-Ashbury, is rare...
2021-04-201h 22Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionThe Answer Is Blowing in the Wind THE ANSWER IS BLOWING IN THE WINDElemental spirits are universally revered in shamanistic cultures and one of the most respected among them is the Wind, an invisible force that can be harnessed as well as storm out of control, leaving death and destruction in its wake. The fact that it is capable of delivering so much power, yet has no substance, defines it as not only a direct link to spirit, but spirit itself; formless, invisible, energy. If we remain still, we have no perception of air when it is at rest and we perceive and...
2021-04-1217 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Harlan Ellison - Santa Barbara Writers Conference 1985Harlan Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) was remembered for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction, and for his outspoken, combative personality. Robert Bloch, the author of Psycho, described Ellison as "the only living organism I know whose natural habitat is hot water".His published works include more than 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, comic book scripts, teleplays, essays, and a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media. Some of his best-known works include the 1967 Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" (he subsequently wrote a book about the experience that includes h...
2021-04-0941 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionShamanic Mirroring and the Wizard of OzThe people in our lives mirror our different aspects and sub-personalities, providing us with reflections of our inner world and the outer world is a reflection of the inner, much of which is shadow, good and bad. Some of the reflections can be beautiful, but many are undesirable and denied. This circular diagram from Robert McKee’s Story provides an excellent map of the zones and levels of personal conflict we can experience. Any zone can interact with any other zone in any number of ways, providing ample opportunity to discover the complexity of our inner and outer relationships. ...
2021-04-0314 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Anne Francis - Santa Barbara Writers Conference 1984In this keynote talk from the 1984 Santa Barbara Writers Conference, workshop leader Cork Millner interviews legendary actress Anne Francis who was known for her role in the science fiction film Forbidden Planet and for starring in the television series Honey West from 1965–1966, which was the first TV series with a female detective character's name in the title. Anne won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role in the series.
2021-03-211h 05Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series -Elmore Leonard - Santa Barbara Writers Conference 1984Elmore (Dutch) Leonard was a talented novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which were adapted into motion pictures.Among his best-known works are Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Swag, Hombre, Mr. Majestyk, and Rum Punch (adapted as the film Jackie Brown). Leonard's writings include short stories that became the films 3:10 to Yuma and The Tall T, as well as the FX television series Justified.Dutch came to the Santa Barbara Writers Conference for a day and love...
2021-03-121h 15Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Jonathan Winters - 1982Legendary comic Jonathan Winters was a welcome regular at the annual Santa Barbara Writers Conference and in spite of his massive success as an actor and a comic, Jonathan was a serious writer. He sat in on the humor workshop formerly run by Ian Bernard of Laugh In fame, now run by Ernie Witham and he attended Poetry Workshops with the utmost seriousness.He also published a well-written short story collection titled Winters' Tales.Jonathan was a joy to be around socially. When you talked to him in a "normal" conversation he would go through...
2021-03-041h 06Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionChapter 2 of n0thing - the sequel to DreamLandBased in the near future, n0thing is the long awaited sequel to DreamLand, written by Pallamary and the late legendary DJ Ken Reeth. In DreamLand, the creators of computer generated dreaming hoped to conquer the stigma of death so people could die in vivid, pre-programmed dreams until the dream of DreamLand was shattered by the profit-seeking backer who made the miracle of programmed dreaming into the ultimate theme park. When a mysterious force took the dreams in unexpected directions, the boundaries between what is real and what is imagined became permeable. In the aftermath of the tragedy, the me...
2021-02-2405 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Dennis Lynds - 1982Dennis Lynds was a generous, thoughtful, and prolific by every sense of the word writer that most writers only dream about becoming and was a mainstay at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference for many years along with Ray Bradbury, Charles M. (Sparky) Schulz, and many other artistic and literary lights.Dennis was so prolific, he wrote under multiple pseudonyms. Michael Collins is his best-known pseudonym.Over four decades Dennis published some 80 novels and 200 short stories, in both mystery and literary themes. He was a recipient of the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America ...
2021-02-161h 20Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionAre the Inmates Running the Asylum?The Stranger was singer-songwriter Billy Joel's fifth studio album, and it remains his best-selling non-compilation album, ranked number 70 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In the opening lines of the title track of the same name Joel tells us that, "We all have a face that we hide away forever and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone, some are satin, some are steel, some are silk, and some are leather, they're the faces of the stranger, but we love to try them on."Hear it here...
2021-02-1214 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters Series - Alex Haley - 1982Prior to his massive success with Roots Alex Haley was another unknown struggling writer until the Santa Barbara Writers Conference founder Barnaby Conrad connected him with the right people and became responsible for getting Alex published. Barnaby was a bestseller at the age of twenty nine for his novel Matador and he bought a bar in San Francisco that he named The Matador after his book and his career as a matador. Before his success, Alex went into the Matador and asked Barnaby if he could touch his arm. When Barnaby said yes, Alex did...
2021-02-081h 21Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMom and Dad: The Asexual Parent Answers the CallIn The Psychology of the Transference Jung articulated a shamanic perspective where he describes therapist and patient as sharing a single soul between them that has the quality of a deceptive guide that embodies the native American archetype of coyote the trickster. Jung called this guide that shares virtually identical qualities with Mother Ayahuasca in Amazonian cultures Mercurius, a Hermes-like spirit that has the unitary perspective of the Holy Ghost of Christianity and the destructive and fragmentary quality of the serpent of chaos. For purposes of this discussion Mother Ayahuasca and Mercurius can be considered one and the same...
2021-02-0514 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionRay Bradbury - Santa Barbara Writers Conference Keynote - 1983 - Something Wicked This Way Comes - Mystic Ink Publishing Voices of the Masters SeriesLegendary science fiction writer Ray Bradbury inspired thousands of writers with his opening keynote speeches at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference which he kicked off from its humble beginnings in 1972 for 37 years until his passing.This talk is from 1983 which was the 11th year of the conference.Ray was a pillar of the conference and I was blessed to be mentored by him. I was asked to contribute the following essay in a limited edition hardcover tribute to him which I have republished in my short story collection titled "A Short Walk to...
2021-01-301h 21Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionDISSOLUTIONFortyDissolutionI spent the next two months assimilating all the new information that flooded into me after my psychospiritual death and rebirth. The knowledge gained in my spiral through Hell left me humbled, with a deep respect for the power of the plants and their ability to catalyze profound transformation. After my night of darkness I steered clear of visionary experiences and went through my tasks at work as if moving by remote control, feeling blessed with the simple miracle of awakening each morning filled with new found clarity and wonder. Eve...
2021-01-2409 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionFinding Our Way HomeAs discussed earlier, by paying attention we can cultivate witness consciousness and discover the meaning of the expression, "Where your attention goes, there your energy goes," which comes from our self-created focal point that is responsible for our thoughts and actions.Hear it here - https://bit.ly/centerpallamaryLearn more from the author at https://bit.ly/mattpallamaryVisit Mystic Ink Publishing at https://bit.ly/mysticinkpublishingFor narration information visit Russell Newton at https://bit.ly/VoW-homeFor production information visit Newton Media Group LLC at https...
2021-01-1013 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionHow the Cosmic Father and Mother Give Birth HOW THE COSMIC MOTHER AND FATHER GIVE BIRTH Gurdjieff stated that pure knowledge cannot be transmitted, but by being expressed in symbols it is covered by them as by a veil, but for those who desire and who know how to look this veil becomes transparent. Regardless of the multiple forms of verbal expression throughout the world, geometry is solid, observable self-apparent truth in a universal language that articulates itself in dynamic unfolding progressions that map the pathways of manifesting reality.Learn more from the author at https://bit.ly/mattpallamary
2021-01-0113 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionHow Plants and Animals Communicate with Us In a shaman's world view, everything is energy, and for them the word spirit and energy have the exact same meaning. If you look at things from this perspective, how do plants, animals, and insects communicate with us and each other? On an olfactory level, plants call out to us from a distance by their varied aromas that form the basis for many scents and perfumes that are attractive to humans, often to the point of stimulating a resonance between lovers. Additionally they are used as powerful tools in aromatherapies to induce recall, reinforce powerful emotio...
2021-01-0112 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMorphic Resonance and Morphic FieldsBiologist and author Rupert Sheldrake is best known for his hypothesis of morphic fields and morphic resonance that leads to a vision of a living developing universe with its own inherent memory. Over the course of fifteen years of research on plant development he came to the conclusion that for understanding the development of plants, their morphogenesis, genes and gene products were not enough.Morphogenesis also depends on organizing fields. How does a massive oak grow out of an acorn?The same arguments apply to the development of animals. Since the 1920s many developmental biologists...
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Connecting MindsAyahuasca and Shamanic Exploration w/ Matthew Pallamary - Connecting Minds Podcast Ep13Episode shownotes: https://christianyordanov.com/13-matthew-pallamaryWatch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/JECvEsw5hqwMatt Pallamary (Mateo) is an award winning writer, musician, and sound healer who has been studying shamanism all of his life and incorporates shamanic practices into his daily life as well as into his writing and teaching.In this episode we talk about Mateo’s exploration of shamanic cultures and their medicines, including Ayahuasca. We also talk about other cool stuff, so tune in as there are many gems of wisdom from Mateo’s decades-long study of shamanism, sound healing, and...
2020-12-171h 42Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionGetting In TuneBy learning to master the energies of altered states shamans embrace a multitude of experiences that alter their perception of reality by changing their subjective experience the same way a radio receiver changes the station it receives by tuning in to different carrier frequencies. The concepts of resonance and synchronization play a big part in shamanic thought and experience.In physics, resonance is a phenomenon in which a vibrating system or external force drives another system to oscillate with greater amplitude at specific frequencies. Frequencies at which the response amplitude is a relative maximum are kno...
2020-12-1107 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionA COSMIC FLASH On June twenty first, nineteen seventy six, the day of the summer solstice, at the age of twenty one I had a profound mystical experience that transformed me to the core of my being and changed my life’s direction forever. The battle between the energies inside of me that I thought of as good and evil had reached fever pitch, flip-flopping back and forth endlessly during the course of a day, driven by the fury of my frustrated anger. Both good and bad, Terry had procured many novel substances for me that I had yet to experience, among them...
2020-12-0710 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionTHE SYMPHONY WITHINNeural oscillations or brainwaves are rhythmic or repetitive neuralactivity occurring in the central nervous system. Neural tissue cangenerate oscillatory activity in many ways, driven either by mechanismswithin individual neurons or by interactions between neurons. Inindividual neurons, oscillations can appear either as oscillationsin membrane potential or as rhythmic patterns of action potentialswhich produce oscillatory activation of post-synaptic neurons. At the level of neural ensembles, synchronized activity of largenumbers of neurons can give rise to macroscopic oscillations which
2020-11-2720 min
Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionChapter 1 of n0thingn0thing is titled after Jordan (n0thing) Gilbert, a top tier Counterstrike champion. n0thing pushes through the boundaries of story, genre, and reality itself while redefining literary tradition by putting real life celebrities into a fictional story.The other real life co-star in this tale is renowned psychologist Dr. Stanley Krippner.Based in the near future, n0thing is the long awaited sequel to DreamLand, written by Pallamary and the late legendary DJ Ken Reeth. In DreamLand, the creators of computer generated dreaming hoped to conquer the stigma of death so people could...
2020-11-1705 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionALL PATHS LEAD TO SUSTENANCEAll of our senses, including our sense of touch ultimately bring us to the mouth, our organ of sustenance located below and intimately connected to the nose, which is directed by retronasal smell, retronasal olfaction, or mouth smell, giving us the ability to perceive the flavor dimensions of foods and drinks. Retronasal smell is a sensory modality that produces flavor best described as a combination of traditional smell (orthonasal smell) and taste modalities that create flavor from smell molecules in foods or drinks shunting up through the nasal passages as one is chewing. When people use the term smell, they are...
2020-11-1412 min
Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionDreamLandCHAPTER oNEA fuzzy sensation blurred Tom’s thoughts and numbed his body.His vision clouded as a cool gray haze enveloped him, soft and shimmery, like meadow mist, then his surroundings snapped into focus, sharp and clear. He smelled the fresh scent of pine, heard songbirds warbling in the conifer thicket across a sun dappled pond. A dragonfly, fanning crystalline wings, sunned on a twig at the tip of a half-submerged log at the water’s edge. Tom filled his lungs with sweet morning air and grinned at the five-year old beside him. Ha...
2020-11-1205 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionHow We Perceive Reality in the Physical WorldIn a mechanical medium sound vibration is perceived in the motion of a tuning fork, a reed in a woodwind instrument, a harmonica, or the cone of a loudspeaker. In the audio spectrum, sound or pressure waves are generated by the previously mentioned vibrating structures, and in our own bodies by the vocal cords, our main transmitting instruments of communication. These pressure waves induce vibration in the structures of our ear drums, our primary mode of receiving communication. Hearing range describes the range of frequencies that can be heard by humans and other animals. The human range is...
2020-11-0617 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionEVERYTHING IS ENERGY AND THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO IT The genius inventor Nikola Tesla is quoted as saying, "If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.", which is something shamans have known intuitively since time immemorial. Another quotation often attributed to Albert Einstein, is widely believed to come from a channeler who assigned the words to an entity named Bashar, who stated, "Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosop...
2020-10-3011 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionThe World's Oldest ProfessionThe World's Oldest Profession is not what we have been told by popular culture. The real world's oldest profession is shamanism, which is an amalgam of the world's oldest professions with roots that range well beyond our historical stereotypes of witch doctors, wild men, and demonically possessed primitives. Among other things, shamans were the first doctors, performing artists, musicians, storytellers, teachers, priests, psychologists, and magicians, who performed critical functions in their societies.Magicians, whether modern entertainers or indigenous tribal sorcerers work with the malleable texture of perception.Hear it here - https://bit.ly/centerpallamary
2020-10-2210 min
Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionIntroduction to The Center of the Universe is Right Between Your Eyes Who or what are we really? How do you define yourself? Good? Evil? Sinner? Saint? Lover? Fighter? Christian? Muslim? Buddhist? Atheist? Conservative? Liberal? Anarchist? Executive? Artist? Lawyer? Musician? Firefighter? Cop? Gay? Straight? Transgender? Polyamorous?Hear it here - https://bit.ly/centerpallamaryLearn more from the author at https://bit.ly/mattpallamaryVisit Mystic Ink Publishing at https://bit.ly/mysticinkpublishingFor narration information visit Russell Newton at https://bit.ly/VoW-homeFor production information visit Newton Media Group LLC at https://bit...
2020-10-1609 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionBurning Down The House Two Burning Down The House I have a yellowed cartoon cut out from The Dorchester Reporter titled “The Power of Perception,” by an artist named Gus D’Angelo that characterizes Dorchester well. It shows a clean cut guy in a suit and tie extending his hand in greeting, saying, “Hi! I’m from Dorchester.” Beside him a wide-eyed guy with his hair standing on end has dropped his paper and has his hands in the air, yelling, “Don’t shoot! Don’t Shoot!” In nineteen-sixty, before I turned six, we moved into a five room...
2020-10-1211 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionPrelude to Spirit MattersA Waking Dream I am outside of time and space where the normal rules of perception no longer apply. Colors with hues that defy description bombard me, then unfold in multicolored geometric progressions that could be microcosmic quantum expressions, or unfolding galaxies. Within these realms I have lived as an insect devoured by still bigger insects, which have in turn been devoured by lizards and snakes with long ethereal stomachs that have passed me into non-rational dimensions that both amaze and terrify. Outside of my physical body the frogs, birds, insects, jaguars, and ot...
2020-10-0704 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionDying to LiveCompletely still and almost silent, the only hint of sound coming from the softwhisper of liquid nitrogen pumping through the storage banks. Dark, except for the muted red glowof digital readouts blinking in the surrounding blackness like so many eyes. Solitude, the wayNorton liked. Peace and quiet. A break from the bitchiness of his never happy wife, Vera.
2020-09-1727 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionJoyrideLeroy leaned back against the wall in the shadows of the underground parking structure and admired the shiny red paint, sleek lines, and chrome of the brand-fucking-spanking new car. The little antenna in the back told him it had a phone. He’d never seen one of these. Didn't even know the make and model which made him want it all the more. He pictured himself behind the wheel calling Janika and letting the bitch know how much class he had tooling around in one of the baddest sleds to ever hit the streets.
2020-09-1012 min
Mystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionTrick or Treat TRICK OR TREATI’m wearing my ghost costume tonight. Of course I always wear my ghost costume. It's dark and the cold wind’s blowing dead leaves around my feet, but I don't notice the cold. What leaves are left on the trees rattle on the branches like whispering monsters. It's really spooky. There's even a full moon. I love Halloween. It's the only time I get to come back to my old neighborhood. It hasn't changed that much in all this time. My Dad’s house hasn't changed at all. It looks broken down and crotch...
2020-09-0603 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionAnimal Attraction“Look at the cute little bunnies, Terry.” His mom pointed to the pen and Uncle Will's backyard. Terry ran to it, leaving his mother behind to talk to Uncle Will.He stared at the four little puffs of fur nuzzled against their lop-eared mother. The rapid upand down movement of the air tiny ribs fascinated him. He reached in and picked one up...
2020-08-3112 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionJessieI can hear the beep of the life support and the soft rhythm of its pumps from somewhere behind me. Only a visit from Jessie can make them go away. I hope she comes back like she promised.
2020-08-2708 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMind GamesLOST IN A DEAD END JOB? BORED? LONELY? WANT TO MEET MEMBERS OF THE OPPOSITE SEX? MAKE NEW FRIENDS? DO YOU WANT TO FREE YOURSELF FROM A MINDLESS EXISTENCE? IF YOU ANSWERED YES TO THE PRECEDING QUESTIONS, DIAL 1-900-FREEDOM. NO FEE!John read the ad, thought about his job, his boss, and his ex...and figured, “What the hell, I’ve got nothing to lose."
2020-08-2433 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionDog GoneJack's Better Half contends with Man's Best Friend.
2020-08-2123 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionThe Small Dark Room of the SoulWhat they needed was an original, not something like thins. This thing was a poor imposter - it was cleverly done, but too clever. Too neat. A legitimate Jivaro tsantsa is held closed with coarse fiber, not neatly sewn like this.But Rodrigo said he knew where to get the real ones, and Vasquez was just desperate enough to ...
2020-08-1821 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionNo ChoiceAmanda struggles with a life or death decision, as her memories haunt her. An emotional story about the choices we make, their consequences, and how we must face them.
2020-08-1611 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionPartsEric stepped back, admiring the old hearse. A gleaming silver '63 caddy with a black vinyl top. Cherry, if not for the engine problem. Though the car acted strange, he had no doubt he'd find what was wrong. Eric had a way with cars.He wiped his finger on his sleeve before caressing the fender. "Nothing I can't fix, old girl. That's why you ended up here. Everyone knows I'm the best."
2020-08-1409 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionPresto ChangoThree weeks ago, David stole cash and ran away from his drunk, abusive father and helpless mother. Now, he finds himself enthralled by The Great Mephisto performing seemingly real magic in the park.
2020-08-1228 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionBlind FaithAs Marie grew up, her eye-sight faded as her "intuition" grew stronger. Atlthough her ability allowed her to make a meager living, she grew bored of using her ability only to help people find lost rings. She hated the sessions and resented her clients, but nonetheless did what had to be done.Then, one day, an officer knocked on her door.
2020-08-1116 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionHigh Altitude CookingLarry took that $500 bet, and in a week found himself in the sun and wind of the trail head, looking up at the mountain peaks above. And, just like Ken said, once you get a taste at high altitude, you can never go back.
2020-08-1117 minMystic Ink, Publisher of Spiritual, Shamanic, Transcendent Works, and Phantastic FictionMoon DanceCollete was swept off her feet by Frank's loving attention. Romance, courtship, and marriage seemingly from a romance novel. So, what could be more fitting than dancing in the moonlight on their anniversary?
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