What if all the looping isn’t in the brain, the brain is just translating it into awareness? From the perpective of Andean Energy Medicine we are configurations of conscious living energy. Perhaps we need to look at how to re-configure disruptive forms of consciousness rather than dancing with their manifestations.

After the ceremonies are done… and the egg is craked open… How do you put yourself back together again? Moving from the jungle to the mountains, a spiritual path for the initiated…

You think you have to earn your worth, prove your worth. You think you deserve love accordingly… What if you skipped right over your intrinsic value on your way to the top?

You can't see it directly. You sense it by its absence — the hollowness behind your brilliance, the emptiness that makes intimacy quietly unbearable, the vacancy you paper over with another achievement, another late night, another thing done well. When shame is your operating system you find success but not joy.

We are rewired in a traumatic event –how we process it determines whether we are left in a freeze response, or nurtured and rewired into holding elevated perceptual gifts.