Alberto Roman

The mindstream now must be luminously fluid, adaptable, steady, capable of morphing, assimilating, reconfiguring, and releasing. We are in a new animism where our digital devices have agency just as plants, stones, and animals have personhood for other people on the planet. Our relational condition is way more complicated in an age whose ordinates we are stammering and stuttering to encode and decode. We dwell on a new cultural edge where the power to affect and be affected is hyper realized. The talisman, the sacred fetish at the altar is disc ernment. How to keenly cultivate this power that differentiates and orders to optimize our sentience, cognition, and efficacy. The entire Cosmos is alive with information. Personally, the ongoing challenge and practice is how to liberate joyous affects and put them in circulation. To get to joy requires a very individualized process of coming to terms with the terrible savage beauty that surrounds us and we are part of. We a...

Because of the singular process that an Ayahuasca Ceremony provides, for you, specifically, my stance is one of an unyielding trust in your deep intelligence to bring you to your Deep Bright over time:  Trust, in this authentic, direct, open source, the ground of all lineages, the many transmissions as we know them, and of more to come, to align what is best for you as you commune with ancient and novel allies. A few words are in order, nevertheless.  Drinking Ayahuasca is a very special undertaking. You are allowing yourself to go for a major ontological/life changing experience when you embark upon this particular shamanic practice.  Treat yourself with love and respect.  Eat sanely. Clean Foods. Move your body. Hydrate. Prepare yourself at least a couple of weeks before drinking with us. Be at ease as you approach the ceremony as best you can.  Meditate. Stay buoyant.  Listen to what shows up in your awareness. All the content previous to and aft...

Shamanism as I cultivate it is a new form of complexity without a set definition because We are inside its very evolution. It is not a neo paleolitic revival as a response to the encroachment of dominant technological, political, economic forces although practices can go that way. Our responses, however, are embedded within 21st century historicity and constructed within the available artistic, scientific, and affective resources that contemporary culture offers. Shamanism is the embodied exploration of interdependence. Interdependence is "dimensional" since we investigate/advance ontological, epistemological, and ethical ripostes across various platforms. Shamanism reformulates, invents, revolutionizes forms of subjectivity, collective formations and hyper riffs on Love.