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What I’ve Learned Living in the Amazon Jungle for Two Years
After my profound healing of an incurable autoimmune disease over two years ago, I continued living in the Amazon and traveling around Peru. How is it that I’m still the biggest cynic when it comes to spirituality, despite my own incredible healing?
Healing and finding a spiritual path have become entwined with New Age spirituality, creating a type of hippie culture that may resonate with some, but not everyone.
New Age spirituality is filled with endless catchphrases of manifesting what you want, or telling people to change their life with these 5 easy steps. Two-second cutesy soundbites are all over Facebook and Instagram, spiritual wisdom that is dumbed down to Hallmark quotes for marketing or sensationalist hype.
It’s made me hesitate to write anything about my own healing.
At what point does sharing become bragging? Are you only going to a spiritual retreat to post a selfie of yourself meditating as soon as you are back online, and then counting the likes?
It’s been two years since my healing and I’m still integrating so much of the work I did with the plants. It takes time. I’m reminded on a regular basis that I know nothing, but here are some things I’ve learned so far.
