I was walking on the beach, 3 months prior to my journey to Costa Rica. I was going through a tough time emotionally after a break up, and being out in nature was helping lift my spirits, or my vibration as I now like to say. I was searching for ways to heal myself, and I did not want to go the traditional route of visiting a doctor and being prescribed some drug to take 3 times a day. I am so glad I did not. My real awakening started there. I got home, and started researching alternative healing methods. I have always been a very spiritual person, and from a young age I always searched for the truth.

I watched a Ted Talk about how psilocybin mushrooms were being administered in a medical environment, and that patients were receiving amazing results. I started researching and being interested in natural psychedelics, and their healing benefits. Our society is quick to label natural psychedelics as a terrible thing, but I learned that if you respect it, and understand the energy of the plant, it can do wonders to expand your consciousness and heal yourself. That was the beginning of something amazing. While I was searching for plant medicine retreats to attend, with the main intention of healing myself, I learned about Ayahuasca. Ayahuasca is a brew made out of 2 plants: a vine plant which grows abundantly in South America, and a leaf that also grows in the same region. The natives in the area call Ayahuasca by a few names, typically they say Mother Ayahuasca, Yage (pronounced Yah-Hay), or Medicina. I researched Ayahuasca for 2 months before I finally took the plunge and booked my retreat. They say the medicine calls those who are ready.

For someone reading this, some of my words may not make sense to you, but try your best to follow along, and read it all the way to the end. Ayahuasca is an incredibly high vibrating energy. It has a very motherly, healing energy to it, hence why the natives refer to the medicine as Mother Ayahuasca. At the time, I had no idea how people can say that this “drink” calls you, but now I do. During my retreat, I learned the plants are absolutely much more conscious than we are. It felt like the plant was communicating with me for months, sending me small synchronicities, to send me to Rythmia. Rythmia is a licensed medical facility regulated by the Ministry of Health in Costa Rica to practice plant medicine based healing. These synchronicities came in many shapes. For example, I gave up on searching for retreats for a month, and then I kept getting urges in my heart that this is something that I needed to do. When I booked my retreat, the time was 11:11, I was absolutely growing through a spiritual awakening. Even though it was hard to swallow at the time, I always knew ever since my first awakening in 2012, that my life’s challenges were triggers my soul created for me to awaken. These challenges are part of my soul agenda, to wake me up, and have the experiences on this planet.

I finally booked my retreat a month prior to my check in date at the retreat. Fast forward one month, and I am landing in Costa Rica. I make eye contact with the driver holding the Rythmia sign, and gather with a group of like minded individuals going on a journey for self-healing. In the car ride to the facilities, I immediately make my first friend, Charles, who has been to Rythmia before. He told me to strap up because I’m going for a ride. We chatted it up, the whole hour and a half we were driving. Some people would think Charles is crazy, saying some of the things he was saying, but I clicked with him immediately because I knew exactly what his words meant, and this is how you know you’re on the same frequency as another individual. We get to the retreat, and they have doctors give us a medical evaluation to clear us for the plant healing ceremonies. I was all good, I checked into my room. They give us a whole schedule and lots of different activities to do such as yoga, meditation, colon cleanse, all these things which are recommended prior to the ceremonies. I finished them all.

Fast forward 2 nights later, it’s 5:30pm and time for the 1st ceremony of 4. We walk into the Maloca, the area where the ceremonies are held, and I see about 65 beds, all with a blanket, pillow, and a bucket. The facilitators tonight are 2 females, both thin, absolutely healthy and beautiful women. The facilitators explain the procedures, and what the medicine will do. Prior to attending, I did all the research, so I knew exactly what I was in for. They explain this medicine is healing you, by healing your traumas/psychic impressions stored in your subconscious mind. I’ve done this before. I’ve attended few spiritual retreats where my Teacher working with sacred energy which does something similar. In these retreats, people tend to cry, shout, experience fear, and all sorts of emotions. I’ve always felt so healed and light afterwards. Except this, well this was a little more get your hands dirty type of retreat for me. In my previous spiritual retreats, you can’t vomit or experience diarrhea in the middle of a hall, but Rythmia takes care of you through various forms of purging.

The facilitators are starting to administer the medicine, and everyone lines up. She asked me if I was scared. I said no, then she asked what my intention is for taking this medicine, so I responded saying, “I want the medicine to heal me.” She handed me a large shot glass full of a dirt textured medicine, and told me to hold it with 2 hands and drink it. I said a quick prayer, and invoked my Teacher, my spiritual guides, and divine beings to protect me and help me heal. I expressed gratitude towards Mother Ayahuasca for calling me and bringing me to Costa Rica. Then I drank it, and It tasted not so great. After that moment, I was never the same. I evolved into something much better.

They say Ayahuasca takes on the spirit of a jungle snake. The snake is a very sacred animal in the spirituality world. It’s the kundalini energy, the energy of awakening, represented by the caduceus in western medicine. With 2 snakes, representing the Ida and Pingla nadis in our body. The shaman explained that the first time you drink the medicine, you will not feel anything for an hour or so. It’s like the medicine is going through all your body with a broom and dust bin, and sweeping all of the negative psychic impressions and karmas into a dustbin. About 2 hours pass after I drank the brew, I started getting visions of sacred geometry, and also a green and brown snake, like a python, just flowing through my body like a river. I was not scared, I knew this was the medicine and it was working. I spoke to it, and said, “I allow you to heal me. I request please pull out all of the things which do not serve me.”

Another hour later, I started to feel extremely nauseous. I was lying down in my bed, jolted up, and immediately put my face in my bucket. I gagged a few times. I remember the facilitators instructing us on the proper vomiting procedures. Hands and knees on the ground, and aim for the bucket. So, I did, and I vomited 3 times. It was red, and fleshy, and smelled bad. I asked the medicine what that was that I released, and without saying a word, I received nonverbal communication, almost just telepathy like, saying something along the lines of, “This was your toxicity. This was your anger. This was your short temper.” After I vomited, or purged is the term the Shamans like to use, the Shaman wearing a traditional outfit of colorful feathers, amazing gear, he started fanning me with this instrument. I took my shirt off and he applied this amazing smelling scent on me. It smelled almost like Sandalwood and was very sweet.

The rest of my night was amazing. I felt so good, like I just released a huge weight off my shoulders. I stood up, and looked around for a second. I can still remember how exactly how I felt. When I stood up, I looked around, and I just took in how amazing of a thing this was for humanity. I will never forget this moment. I’ve always believed the Earth was undergoing an ascension period, where the frequency of all things on Earth is rising, and causing a a purge. Souls are incarnating on this Earth to ascend, and grow. And as I stood up, I witnessed 64 souls, all came to the same place, with the same intentions of healing themselves. I understood why they call it a ceremony. Not all at once, but everyone was crying, vomiting, pooping, twitching, yawning, and purging in many different ways. This place is a spiritual hospital. It was a beautiful thing seeing this, because it reminded me why I am here. If you would have sent a traditional western doctor, he would have freaked out seeing this, but perception and reality is based on your consciousness. Two people can see the same exact thing, but their consciousness will perceive it based on their frequency/vibration. It was definitely an amazing thing to witness. I brought my notebook and a pen to jot down thoughts. I felt like this is what I was always supposed to do. I used to play this video game, I played it for many years. When I was creating my character, I thought long and hard of what to name it. Something that embodies my personality, something that is deep, and meaningful. I chose the name Chakra Scientist. I felt the energy of Chakra Scientist came alive that night.

I stepped outside, I saw this incredible ring of light around the moon. I was seeing the moon like I’ve never saw it before. The sky looked amazing. I looked up at the sky, and saw this cloud formation. It looked like it was almost waving to me, so I gave it a wink with my right eye to acknowledge that I see you! Right after I winked, there was this incredible lightning flash I saw in the sky. I was overwhelmed by this feeling that the universe just acknowledged my presence. I felt for the first time in my life that the universe was alive, and I was communicating with it. For the rest of the evening, I sat outside the Maloca, mostly thinking to myself and having some conversations with the other guests. I learned every single thing is made up of energy. Wealth, feelings, emotions, physical objects, you name it. And energy is abundant. There is an infinite amount of energy. The universe has an infinite amount of energy which all things are made of. There are only 2 emotions in this world, fear and love. Being present in the moment is love. Working your whole life at some job you hate, thinking about the future, it might seem weird, but it’s all fear based. Fear that you might experience unpleasant things in your life. Life is like peaks and troughs, there will be good times and there will be bad times. People work away all their lives, in fear of experiencing the bad things, but once you let go of that fear, you realize how beautiful life is. There will always be good, then bad, then good, then bad. That’s life. But when you let those fears go, and trust that the universe is conscious enough to move you around where you need to be, your life changes.The only thing we really have to do is make sure we are keeping up with the same vibrations of the Earth. We have cells in our body, our bodies are cells of the earth, the earth is a cell in the galaxy, and so on. It goes infinitely inward, and infinitely outward. And consciousness is the real wealth in this. Consciousness is how beings evolve and navigate through the universe. Our souls choose to incarnate on this Earth to experience both good and bad things.

The rest of the night, I spent my time outside the Maloca on the steps and in the grass. I was receiving and downloading so much wisdom from the universe, I understood consciousness. The plants are absolutely alive, and they are playing an incredibly important role in this ascension process. They are helping heal the souls incarnating. We see a tree as a tree, but the plant kingdom is communicating with all of us on a very telepathic and deep levels. It might sound weird, but it’s true, and I experienced it. After every ceremony, Rythmia does everything they can to strengthen you back up for the next night. During the day they feed you amazing raw food, super high frequency food, lots of coconut water and pineapple juice. Amazing stuff. The staff at the cafeteria was so amazing, they always knew that I would ask for like 6 or 7 glasses of coconut water so they would always just keep some there. It was all complimentary included in the retreat fee.

Fast forward to the next night, it was called Going Deeper with Brad. The facilitators made jokes based on the name they chose for the ceremony lol. The two shamans were males. The same ceremony procedures were used, lined up, asked for intentions, said a prayer, and drank the medicine. Mother Ayahuasca is incredibly intelligent, in the sense that she knows exactly what you need to heal. Even if you do or don’t. The medicine is absolutely unpredictable, and different for everyone, every time they take it. I didn’t physically purge on the second ceremony, but I processed so much emotionally. They tell you, and also my Teacher tells us during previous spiritual retreats, that when we do this type of healing, we will get flashbacks of traumas stored deep in our subconscious minds. And the only way to release them fully, is to experience those emotions, and not fight it. Everything that comes up to the surface during the retreats or Ceremonies is being released. The second ceremony, I saw the root cause of my addictions. When I say addictions, I don’t mean drugs and alcohol. People have all types of addictions. Food is also an addiction. Keeping your guard up is also an addiction. The choices I made, that shaped me into the person I have become. It was really hard stuff to see, but it was the best therapy I’ve ever gotten in my life. I saw how I passed away in my past life, I saw the root cause of my knee issues. You’d be surprised, but even things like sports injuries, they may not be random. I feel like every illness, disease, or discomfort has some sort of connection to previous emotions or traumas. I started thinking there are no random events, only syncronicities. From cancer to torn ACL’s, literally everything manifests slowly through energy/thoughts/emotional traumas, into physical illnesses. My Teacher has said it, and I never understood the true meaning because I was never at the same frequency of his expression of words. But I experienced what he meant.

I went outside and I told Scott the things I saw. Scott is one of the two Shamans. I told him that consciousness was a beautiful thing, and I felt like the energies of the recent solar event woke me up. Scott told me that August 1 was a new birthday for me, that that’s the date when I truly woke up, and he told me Happy Birthday and gave me a big hug. He is a amazing person. I felt like a white blood cell in the body of the Earth that had just woken up to start healing. We chatted it up for almost 30 minutes, and then he had to go make his rounds around the Maloca to check on all the other patients. I sat outside, and this beautiful woman sat next to me. We talked and connected so deep for hours. I wouldn’t be surprised if we were great friends in a previous life. She recommended two books, that I’ve started reading. We discussed consciousness, the world, how the universe puts us in places we are meant to be, so many things from an absolutely high vibration perspective. She absolutely understood me, and set the new standard for what I will look for in a partner. One of the shamans said all the people here, we were all connected on a soul level somehow.

We discussed how these energies are increasing the frequency in humans, and when that happens, karmic issues below those frequencies get brought up to the surface as issues. These may be family issues, health issues, or whatever, but it’s your responsibility to purge these issues gracefully, otherwise they will continue to persist. Solar events are bringing in massive amounts of high frequency energy, the earth is getting hit with. And each of these rays shakes up issues within us that need to be released. My Teacher always says during the spiritual retreats, “I would give you a lot more energy, but you would not be able to handle it.” And I learned the meaning behind it, it’s because the more energy we get, the more difficult the purging process is. Whether it be social, emotional, physical, there are many ways emotions are released.

Okay, I hope you aren’t getting tired of reading this just yet. The third and fourth ceremonies were incredible as well. Please continue all the way to the end! The third ceremony was called Lady’s Night. The medicine was prepared by females, and they said it would have a very motherly nurturing healing take place. Same process, reflect on intentions, prayer, invoke divine beings, and heal yourself.

The lady’s night ceremony I asked all the questions I had (to myself), and received so many answers. I asked what my soul purpose was, and I also asked lots of other things. This night, it felt like the universe just took a bucket of information and dumped it on my head. I was shown the problems of the world, and how Old Souls, Lightworkers, and Indigo’s incarnating on this planet are changing this. The Earth is going through an ascension, meaning increasing in frequency. We can see this manifest on so many levels. Take for example the global financial system, currently it’s a big scam run by central banks. Things get better by introducing higher frequency alternatives that will eventually take over. For this, I believe it is the crypto financial system. I had this strong sense of truth that this was one of my soul purposes. Is to help usher in a better financial system. I was attracted to cryptocurrencies for a reason, and it’s because the energy behind the crypto developments is made with much more love, more passion, meaning higher frequency than the current low vibrating financial system.

The next thing revelation was a little difficult to process. Ever since I was young, I always had something against traditional Western Medicine and the Doctors that blindly prescribe/inject drugs. The issue is: Western medicine & pharmaceutical companies train physicians to diagnose self-healing/purging as symptoms, and sell prescription drugs to further prevent that healing taking place. The executives at the highest levels know this, and many of the physicians, pharmacists, PA’s invest years of their lives into learning inferior methods of healing, thinking that it’s the best way. The same people pushing these frequency lowering drugs are the same ones creating the curriculums which the doctors are learning to diagnose. It’s almost laughable how they try to assign every dis-ease or discomfort a medical name. What’s happening here is that pharmaceutical companies are suppressing alternative medicine the same way big energy suppresses renewable energy methods. Many people have successfully used these types of retreats and divine energies to treat their illnesses including cancers by plucking out the roots of the issues in days, vs suppressing symptoms using drugs/chemo. It’s not some crazy conspiracy, it’s the truth. Again, it goes back to awareness and consciousness to see things like this. More and more people are awakening, and more people will become aware of this. They don’t teach things like how drugs affect the aura, vibrations, your 4 bodies, and things like that in medical school. But they will one day. Don’t get me wrong, if someone has an infection, antibiotics will always be useful. If someone tears their ACL, surgery will always be necessary. But these things do not heal the root cause of the illness, instead they are pain management procedures. My theory is until the root cause is healed, these issues will keep reoccurring in a cycle. Again, my intention of writing this isn’t to insult anyone of their profession, I’m only sharing my experience and things I learned. I love everyone with good intentions. But our western medicine needs to evolve, our doctors are blindly prescribing drugs to people as soon as the patients state their symptoms. Doctors need to educate themselves spiritually to grow in their profession of healing.

But fear not! During a discussion with the founder of Rythmia, we discussed how this is an amazing time to be alive. The frequencies will always continue to rise, and low frequency health care systems will be replaced with higher frequency health care systems like things like these kinds of retreats, Ayurvedic medicine, plant medicines, and natural forms of healing. Hospitals and things like that will always be good for pain suppression, but until they start treating the root cause of these illnesses, they won’t fully cure the patients. Consciousness is creating profound shifts in the way humans look at health care. It’s becoming body, mind, spirit care. A 360 approach. Rythmia is a licensed medical facility regulated by the Ministry of Health in Costa Rica. They have doctors onsite 24/7. The founder said, this is absolutely going to be an increasing trend for healthy healing. Rythmia is the first medical facility of its kind, and they are profitable. The incentives are beneficial for everyone, from patients receiving true healing to owners turning profits. Current doctors have a great opportunity to help bring about a beneficial change to increase the quality of the health care that patients can receive. It’s not all physical, true healing takes place at the body, mind, and spirit.

I received answers to many of my questions during that ceremony. I feel like I learned what my soul purpose is. I can fulfill my purpose by just being me, and keeping my frequency high. That causes a chain reaction. And that’s how the Earth is ascending. There are light beings helping, the plant kingdom is helping, the Earth itself is healing. Everything is one. We are all one. Might not make sense, but I think it’s true. And that’s why you look at the news and see all these bad things, but in reality, it’s a worldwide purge that’s happening as frequencies and energies continue to increase. We are so blessed to be alive in this time, our souls chose to be here during this time to help facilitate this transition. That is the bigger picture for me. Consciousness is the biggest kept secret on this Earth, there are many forces doing everything they can to keep our society asleep, distracted, and drugged. People are awakening, and it’s the most beautiful thing to witness. There are no words for describing consciousness, it’s just amazing how the universe works.

Okay! You got to the final ceremony. This one was really cool. It was conducted by an awesome human being. He incorporates Shamanism, Ayurveda, Spiritual Healing, Yoga, Breathing Techniques, Deep Shamanic Prayer, Meditation, Relaxation, Purification, Detoxification and Nutrition. And most important fun! He learned this medicine from his master that is 110 years old and still living, and has been preparing this medicine in his family through his lineage. He explained how this type of healing methods are over 10,000 years old, and tried and tested. Our western medicine is less than 100 years old.

Fourth and final ceremony started on the last night, and Leo warned us that it was a very strong purgative. I didn’t vomit, but I had diarrhea 3 times. But this night was the most life changing experience, and I don’t even know why. I was laying down doing deep breathing exercises, and then I felt like I left my body and I was merged with my soul. I was this ball of light, I can’t even explain it, but I knew I became my soul for a few minutes. The shamans say when you drink this medicine, if you fall asleep through the entire ceremony, it happens to maybe 3–4 out of 100 people, that the medicine is going into your family lineage and healing many lives. This is called a Nada, and I think I experienced it. I fell asleep for maybe 5 hours, and then they woke me up to enter into a healing circle with all the other men. But right after they woke me up, I saw this vision of this old woman, like a grandmother or ancestor for sure, with 2 pigtails, and she was smiling at me. One of the facilitators said that people who experience Nadas, their ancestors are dancing because they are so happy for you. That’s exactly what it felt like. So, I got up to go to the healing All the guys took their shirts off, and the shaman blessed us all. They did a healing ritual on us, but it was the best thing ever. There was Leo, and 2 female shamans that showered us in love. They did this with all the females after. I was feeling absolutely drained before, and then all of a sudden regained my energy. I went outside, and we talked about our experiences.

At the end of every ceremony, everyone sits in a circle around the Shaman to express their gratitude towards the medicine. And during the fourth and final ceremony, the only ceremony that went on till Sunrise, I started feeling so sick after the ceremony ended. I was with everyone while they were eating, but I couldn’t eat. I felt weak. I was sweating, and crying, and very nauseous. It’s not even weird because everyone knows that we are purging, so they encourage you to cry and release it, and don’t disturb you or make you feel awkward. My friends brought me a banana and some pineapple juice. They all stayed with me for almost 1 hour. Then I started to regain my strength, and started walking around. I’m not sure what the final purge was, but it must have been something really big, especially because I fell asleep and I never did during the other ceremonies. As soon as I regained my strength back, I felt like a million bucks and took a dive straight into the pool to cool myself off. It felt amazing.

Throughout 7 days, there were 4 plant medicine ceremonies, 3 breathwork ceremonies, 5 yoga classes, 7 days of amazing healthy meals, amazing fresh fruit and fruit drinks, and lots of activities in between. Overall a lot of healing took place. And that was it. The final day, everyone said their goodbyes. I was so sad leaving. I bonded with these group of people like I haven’t with anyone before. I made friends that all understood the things I did.

My experience at Rythmia was the most healing, and beneficial thing I’ve ever done in my life. I have absolutely let all my guards down and I feel I can be my authentic self. I love myself like I’ve never before. I am motivated to keep my body clean. I am much more aware of the choices I make, and I am focusing more and more on fitness. Rythmia was one of the best things that happened in my life, and I am so grateful for the universe for sending me there to heal myself. My intention of this article is to share the benefits of plant medicine. Rythmia is an amazing place, and I have only wonderful things to say about it, but it’s not the purpose of this article. The purpose of this article is to share my experience with the plant medicine.

It’s a little odd, because being in a very high frequency place like this, with like minded individuals, and then going back into the real world is definitely a transition. If I struck up a conversation in line at Subway, and started talking about ascension and soul contracts, people would probably think I was a mad man. When in reality, we’re just at different levels of awareness. It’s important for me to be around people who understand these concepts, and making conscious choices in their every day life to vibrate their being at the highest frequency possible.

Postface: I don’t have all the answers. I am forever a student. There is much more I don’t know, than what I do know. Maybe all of this is wrong, who knows? Taking plant medicine requires a deep understanding of spirituality before you jump into a world you know nothing about. Tread carefully. Do your research. Meditate. Seek answers. Seek the truth. Heal yourself. Increase your frequency. Meditate some more. Manifest your dreams. Awaken. Ascend. Evolve into the spiritual being that you are.

It’s an amazing journey. Good luck!