Alberto Roman

  Ouhaya Ouhayaya.  May we attain perfect enjoyment through the magical display of spontaneous emanations!  Welcome to the Mystic Cafe.  Luck is shinin'.  Together We get to instigate Love once again.  We get to be in  right alignment with what is!   What an exquisite night is ahead.  A night made from Sun Stones, Flower Songs and Rain. Ouhaya.....Let there be beauty and truth this evening. In the lineage of Xochipilli,  The Prince Flowersof MesoAmerica, Flower Songs are poetry,  music and dance that  are offerings of Gratitude for this sweet one sweet precious life you get to uniquely manifest. Ouhaya Ouhayaya.  May there be heart nectar . May there be Healing, Power, and Delight.  Sun stones are markers of tranmissions.  Rain is the nourishment from unbound subtle energies released through this here and now.  Let it be said here and now that, we, tonight, stopped the apocalypse from coming....

Please find the link to the Empire Online coverage of Talking With Spirits - http://www.empireonline.com/ festivalsandseasons/ I enclose the review for your interest. I hope you find it respectful and warmly impressed. David P Confirming Hamlet's contention that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in the average philosophy , Michael Wiese's  Talking With Spirits  is a personal and highly specialised insight into the Balinese concept of Niskala or the `unseen world'. Accompanied by shaman-philosopher Alberto Roman, Wiese returns to the villages he has visited periodically since the 1960s to seek spiritual enlightenment and a possible cure for the Parkinson's Disease that is limiting the use of his hands. The generosity of the priests and healers to share their secrets is astonishing and Wiese amassed over 20 hours of unique footage. On his arrival, he had the project blessed by high priest Ida Bagus Aji and took advice from performing ar...

Romy, one of my failings is a failure to realize when someone is trying out something on me that sounds convincing when they are really only trying to convince themselves.  I keep thinking about our conversation the other day when I was running the dogs and want to say to you that it hit me later that I should be saying to you:  Don't act on those impulses you are having.  You know that only misery can come from it.  The illusion of intimacy is no substitute for the real thing.  It is in fact terribly heartbreaking.  These youngsters have no idea what they are playing with when they tantalize you.  They are children with children's sophistication and play with matches in innocence.  You are lonely and that is partly because you have learned about false paths and are not distracted by the lure of illusory satisfaction.  That's a good thing.  Do not give in to what you know is going to cause you pain.  You are seasoned and wise beyond...

Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, RN, Brazil; Division of Radiology, Onofre Lopes University Hospital (UFRN), Natal, RN, Brazil; Ribeirao Preto School of Medicine and National Institute for Tanslational Medicine (INCT-TM, CNPq), University of Sao Paulo (USP), Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil. draulio @ neuro.ufrn.br . Abstract The hallucinogenic brew Ayahuasca, a rich source of serotonergic agonists and reuptake inhibitors, has been used for ages by Amazonian populations during religious ceremonies. Among all perceptual changes induced by Ayahuasca, the most remarkable are vivid "seeings." During such seeings, users report potent imagery. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging during a closed-eyes imagery task, we found that Ayahuasca produces a robust increase in the activation of several occipital, temporal, and frontal areas. In the primary visual area, the effect was comparable in magnitude to the activation levels of natural im...

The ayahuasca Ceremony is an Event: instantaneous productions intrinsic to interactions between various kinds of forces. As I sit with the other shaman we collectively experience an emergent ontology. All of us there, with our celestial hierarchies, deconstructed selves, feminist theologies, shadow sides, redemptive myths, deity generators, vessels for the plant's medicinal becomings, lovers of the divine, healers healing, all of us, with our unique developmental histories and singular bioenergetic configurations constitute the genesis and productive potential of the Ritual/Real. This dynamism of the confluence of forces is the actualisation of the event. The combination of all the forces and what other potentialities subsist generate the moment's affective tonalities, expansivities and depths. The Ceremony experience is qualitative, multi dimensional and inclusive. It is the sonic directions I compose, it is temperature, it is the jungle, a breeze, the way the partic...

The three terrible oaths: Whatever happens may it happen; Which ever way it goes, may it go that way; There is no purpose.