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Volume 007: Lessons from Ayahuasca. Love, Leadership, Devotion and Humanity - Watch Video

Table of Contents

1. The Stash - by Adam Lewis

2. 📆 My Event Picks Column

3. Lessons from Madre Ayahuasca

   1. The Magic of a Beginner’s Mindset

   2. Be ready and prepared - then the opportunities wil …

   3. An ever-opening heart is infinite. Love is truly a …

   4. Protect and preserving our humanity

   5. Leadership.

   6. To be continued.

📆 My Event Picks Column

Lessons from Madre Ayahuasca

I don’t know if any form of content can ever truly do justice and honour what this sacred medicine has truly done for me in this life. It’s been over 10 years since I first sat, and now +20 sits under my belt. I don’t really talk about it very much, despite this medicine being such a huge influence on my life - so now I think it is time to honour it by sharing what it has shown me. Not out of any spiritual aggrandizement like I’m sure you’ve seen after a lot of people’s first time sitting - but now after 10 years of being with medicines, I feel fully convicted in my sharing of the beautiful insights I have gained, starting with some of the notable ones that came through from this past weekend.

So here we go! PS may this also be a reminder to continue to practice writing by hand.

Handwriting activates significant alpha and theta brainwave patterns that are critical for memory and learning. Typing did almost nothing in comparison.

The Magic of a Beginner’s Mindset

I realized how absolutely energized I am in my day-to-day as I am building a new business and approaching it as a real student and learning every day. I feel so vitalized by the opportunity to learn and grow and it makes getting out of bed and getting after it 100x easier. While many of us are so busy tracking HRV, REM Sleep and lord knows what else that is supposed to tell us if we’re sleeping well or not - my measure of success is how energized and clear I feel in the morning.

No wearable I’ve used can has captured the rapturous enthusiasm that I approach my days with to learn, evolve and build. By adopting this beginner’s mindset, and learning, I am opening my Life Force channels. It is like the channels are closed until a worthy mindset and challenge is presented for them to be used for. This energy is nor quite dormant, but perhaps more avoidant until it knows it will us channeled appropriately - and this energy carries an intelligence, one waiting to be actualized by me as a conduit.

Be ready and prepared - then the opportunities will come

I’ve found that the best opportunities have come to me when I am most prepared to receive them. Hence why the lifelong learning is always important. Never done, continuously refining and sharpening - knowing that the universe will meet me halfway when I do my work to be able to show up and then be able to seize an opportunity that would otherwise be invisible to me if I did not have the faculties to capture it.

An ever-opening heart is infinite. Love is truly abundant.

If you’re looking to connect more with abundance in your life, I’ve got news for you. The best way to do so is to familiarize with that feeling so you can then draw it in. And there is no better place to learn what true abundance feels like than in the process of opening ones own heart as the space it may expand into is truly abundant - a prime example of the infinite and limitlessness available to us.

Protect and preserving our humanity

As we collectively seem to be sprinting towards this AI goldrush of automating and shortcutting our everything - we are also in so may ways running away from ur critical thinking, originality, connection to source and Self that often gives us our greatest ideas and triumphs. There hasn’t been a warning label put out yet so here it is - if you don’t use it you lose it. And for this I am referring to our human faculties like critical thinking, creativity inspired by boredom, authentic relating and more. So my lesson and now life’s mission is to preserve LIFE and our humanity at all costs. I hereby declare and decree my devotion to remaining a pillar and representation of reminding us all of our humanity. To be a radical humanitarian and preserving that which is so sacred.

Leadership.

I’ve been a leader my whole life. From captaining sports teams in elementary school to leading a movement of men in the present day. It’s in my DNA and a part of my I am so proud to claim. I treat leadership as sacred. It is not a title, it is not about power, ego or influence. It is a truly sacred responsibility to things greater than myself that I devote my service to. Leadership is not based on titles that are given. Leadership is earned. Earned through the way I can selflessly show up for others. I’ll never let titles mask the real essence of a person who earns their respect through their actions and truth. I have an uncanny ability to see through that in people as I examine myself daily in staying in that truth, myself.

To be continued.

I have about 4 more pages of this from this weekend and so much more from previous ceremonies that I think I will share more of. Let me know if this stuff is interesting for you. It’s as original as it gets as these are my downloads that I rush to jot down into my notebook IMMEDIATELY after each ceremony ends in my attempt to capture the delicious transmissions while they’re still fresh.

This will be all for writing this week - I am currently doing a week long off-site with my co-founding team of my new company. I am so inspired and excited about what we’re doing and cannot wait to share it with you all.

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🙏 Special Thanks This Week:

To grandmother Ayahuasca. You have shown me so much, healed me in so many ways and time and time again humble me. My gratitude is infinite and honoured in how I will continue to walk this earth.

Thank you, I love you all ❤️ 

Adam