Study Abroad

Master Class in the School of Life

“When we look back at the extraordinary cultural transformations of the past forty years, there is one ingredient in the recipe of social change that is consistently and inexplicably expunged from the record. And that is the fact that countless thousands, indeed millions, of young at some point in their lives lay prostrate before the gates of awe having taken a psychedelic.’

–Wade Davis, Award Winning Anthropologist, Ethnobotanist, Filmmaker, Author, and Photographer, Explorer-In-Residence at the National Geographic society.

When the student is ready, the plant teacher will appear. Much has been written and romanticized about brave souls who vanish into the jungle in search of wisdom and transcendence, but nothing can truly capture the experience of a guided adventure curated by allies who have done it themselves. A destination like Brasilia, with it’s colors and near-lethal motorcycle traffic, or Tokyo, with its unique collision of ubiquitous technology, stunning food, and kaizen-to-the-bone work ethic, are psychedelic atmospheres in themselves. SPIRITWALKER™ specializes in Transformational travel experiences that are an extension of the pillars and practices we establish in our Readings and Privates. There is nothing remotely like this on the market today.

In his two volume masterwork, Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs, Dennis McKenna catalogs over 400 plants that interact with humans in ways that invite access to Divine Consciousness. So…there are options.

SPIRITWALKER™ brings clients directly to Wisdom Keepers of these powerful teacher plants, practitioners who have refined their lineage over generations. These partners call the secret places of the world home.

SPIRITWALKER™ Study Abroad excursions are an epic Multi-Dimensional Adventure, a Master Class in the School of Life.

ADVENTURE CALLS!

SPIRITWALKER™ has cultivated an international network of clairvoyants, mediums, plant medicine practitioners and evolutionary astrologers who work to serve the Ascension of Humanity, the restoration of the Sacred Feminine and the activation of the Divine Fire within for those who seek it. 

When the time is right, we bring clients on organized excursions to international destinations, where they word directly with Wisdom Keepers who are experts in traditional medicines and modalities.

SPITIRWALKER™ Study Abroad offerings are the ideal place to explore what you’ve learned and to have experiences that reward your hard work and intention with real-world Transformation, guided by the finest Practitioners in the world.

With SPIRITWALKER™ Study Abroad, the world becomes your Divinity School and the incredible people you meet become your Tribe. Your Life becomes a work of art.

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DESTINATIONS

Destination: Japan

Teacher: The Golden Orchid

Energy Centers: Solar Plexus and Root

SW Core Values: Dignity and Authenticity

In the decades since the birth of rock and roll and the postwar automobile boom at home, Japan has been America’s finest mirror – here they go all in with an idea. They do it masterfully and with a precision that shows us gaijin how much better our creative ideas could be if only we had the discipline to make them ever more perfect. The Japanese have a word for this: kaizen. It means innovation tied to production endlessly refined. It’s why your Honda Civic will be running long past the Rapture.

We travel to the southernmost island in the Japanese archipelago. One of the world’s five blue zones, this is a place where the average age of people is over 100 years. The life philosophy here is called ikegai: a practice centered on belonging, moderation, family and life purpose.

We come to sit with the Golden Orchid.

The Golden Orchid was first mentioned in the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, a five-thousand-year-old book that is the highest authority of traditional Chinese holistic healing.

When prepared correctly, the Golden Orchid is highly psychoactive- the experience can be said to illuminate the body. Since we hold trauma in our body, sitting with the Golden Orchid can be a high impact and very powerful reset of the body’s Divinity. Herbologists who know the way to bring the terpenes forward guard their secrets closely, and they have agreed to prepare the Orchids for us on condition of anonymity and respectful devotion for the experience.

As we work here, we spend time with the local centenarians and receive their wisdom on how to live a long and healthy life. Once our bodies are illuminated by this alien flower, however, another dialogue emerges. Time becomes a medium that can bend like light in gravity or sound in proximity. Our bodies become causal nodes, receptive surfaces, stars in The Divine Field. A person can navigate from this place once they learn to fully occupy their avatar. Then it becomes possible to bend time around oneself like a prayer flag and make one’s life a work of art.

Japan is a land where a correct response to the challenges of life is found in doubling down on things that work- like tradition, ritual and efficiency. Done strictly in the service of technology, something is lost. Done in the service of joy, friendship and community, something is gained.

Destination: Mexico

Teacher: Peyotl

Energy Centers: Pineal and Heart

SW Core Values: Adventure and Community

Lopophona williamsii is a small spineless cactus that grows in the Chihuahuan desert from San Luis Potosi, Mexico, to the Rio Grande. It is host to 57 alkaloids, the most mythically famous being mescaline. A necklace of cactus buttons was found in the Shumla Caves near Coahuila, Mexico and dated to 8500 BC, making peyotl the oldest hallucinogen known to have been used by human beings. The Nahuatl name peyotl means ‘‘divine messenger”.

The cactus has been, since earliest times, a dynamic and integral part of indigenous life. Mothers give it to their children, and it is employed for a wide range of religious and social reasons. People use it to find lost items and salve wounds. It protects them against adversity. Some say it sings to them when they pray to it for guidance. When the conquistadors arrived in Mexico in the 16th century, the native Huichol tribe escaped to the High Sierras to protect their religion and preserve their culture. The Catholic Church was threatened by a plant that offered acolytes a direct relationship to an all-encompassing worldview, one in which human beings enjoyed reciprocal relationships with a large number of supernatural deities.

All of this in mind, it is impossible to experience the transcendent revelations of peyotl without bearing witness to the persistence of a people that have honored their relationship to it in the face of pressure from invaders, mining companies, and wild-eyed, over-harvesting Huxley junkies.

Peyotl teaches generosity and the power of the Relational Field. It is only to be experienced with initiated Wisdom Keepers whose lineage is unbroken going back millennia.

Additionally, peyotl is a protected teacher plant. This makes ceremony with the Huichol is a very sacred invitation, and, in keeping with SPIRITWALKER™ core values, one to be treated with the utmost respect and reverence.

Destination: Peru

Teacher: Noya Rao

Energy Centers: Crown, Pineal, Heart, Sacral and Root

SW Core Values: Divinity, Adventure, Community, Respect and Authenticity

Iquitos is the largest city in the world that cannot be reached by road- it is only accessible by river and air. It’s the cultural and religious center of eastern Peru and the staging point for access to the Amazon. It is fed by three rivers, the Amazon, the Nanay and the Itaya. Despite centuries of missionary activity and a rubber boom, the local people preserved their cosmology and religious practices, and their matriarchal society is one of the highest-regarded plant wisdom traditions in the world.

The Shipibo are the indigenous people of Peru, numbering about 26,000 according to the most recent census. The tell a story about a tree that appeared in the jungle, out of nowhere, because the earth had achieved the proper vibration to receive it. This tree can only be found at night because the fallen leaves and bark are bioluminescent. They glow in the dark. The tree is also home to the most poisonous snake in the jungle, the infamous Shusupi or Bushmaster snake. One bite from this snake and you are done. To find the tree you have to search for it in darkness and even the local indigenous do not favor such an idea.

The tree is called Noya Rao. Consuming an elixir from the roots of this tree teaches the language of the forest and connects one to the Divine Intelligence of Nature.

Noya Rao is Shipibo for ‘Flying Medicine’. In the Shipibo tradition, this tree is the pinnacle of master plants and second in spiritual power only to God. She is one of the ‘Five Doctors’, or five master teacher plants sacred to curandismos in the Amazon. The tree is believed to travel dimensionally, to appear or disappear in relation to the structure of the forest and the people living there. Even the masters have the most profound respect for the plant and call it ‘the path of the truth’.

In ceremony, it responds to song and blooms when approached with a spirit of humility and reverence. Once the experience is underway, the medicine does not plunge a person into darkness. Instead, it shows each person in perfect light, in their purest form. There is benevolence and mystery, a revelation of life force. It is an experience unlike any other. Instead of trauma, there is love, joy and beauty.

This excursion is a rare opportunity to document a direct source point of natural wisdom and share her teachings with the world.

Destination: Mexico

Teacher: Tepezcohuite

Energy Centers: Root

SW Core Value: Authenticity

A symbol of ethnic resistance and tribal resurrection, Tepezcohuite saved its people from cultural extinction and total poverty.

The plant is abundant in Mexico and rumored to be more vibrationally sympathetic to North Americans than yagé. The preparation combines harmel benefits with a strongly visionary and cathartic element. The morning after use, the visionary effects are gone, but the deeper effects of the experience are longer lasting: a powerful anti-depressive quality, a clarity of thought and purpose, a freshness and a general feeling of goodwill toward oneself and others. Tepezcohuite reveals what hides in the corners of the mind.

Central to the ceremony is the concept of ‘encantado’, or the ‘enchanted’. Visiting spirits are enchanted, so one must enter into enchantment itself to be able to speak to them. Tepezcohuite is the vibrational bridge. Contact is made through songs. The ceremony, entitled “Toré Of The Enchanted”, is primarily focused on healing, tribal bonding, spirit possession, and the divination of messages from the spirits and ancestors. A Toré is held on Saturday night in a large dance space. Men women and children dance together in long lines. Spirits arrive and the dance shifts to the possessed dancers. Those channeling can be interviewed.

Tepezcohuite brings Divine Realms to Earth, and anchors the Root of sitters in their experience of a Divine being piloting a human body. It teaches and anchors Home. All of us are searching for the homeland inside. Tepezcohuite will raise a flag and illuminate the way. 

Destination: Peru

Teacher: Wachuma

Energy Centers: Crown, Heart and Solar Plexus

SW Core Value: Divinity, Community and Dignity

Surrounded by the Vilcanota River high up in the Andes, in the shadow of the regal Macchu Picchu, is Salumpunku, known to gringos as the Temple Of The Moon.

We travel here to sit with Wachuma, a cactus that has been used for divination and healing by curanderos and curanderas in the north coastal region of Peru for millennia.

Wachuma is a powerful plant teacher that illuminates patterns of thought and understanding, the Domain of Mind, helping sitters witness what is for their benefit and process patterns that hold them back. It has been called Grandfather, and with good reason. Imagine Wachuma as a conversation with a benevolent but firm older man who has wisdom to impart. A beautiful aspect of Wachuma is that it is neuro-regenerative, meaning, as Explorers learn to align heart and mind during the course of the work, it ‘rewrites’ and rewires those pathways in the mind. That is how it heals.

Wachuma teaches a return to personal integrity by restoring the spectrum of choice to lived experience. It is the Master Of Tools, of Power Centers, and Homecoming. 

Destination: Brazil

Teacher: Umbandaime

Energy Centers: Crown, Pineal and Heart

SW Core Values: Divinity, Adventure and Community

Alto Paraiso is the world’s most biologically rich savannah system, featuring hundreds of waterfalls that are so clean one can drink from the pools that collect below them. It’s wild and beautiful, as if Hawaii collided with the Serengeti. It sits on the world’s largest crystal bed, one so luminous that it can be seen from space. Forty mystical communities call this place home, from exiled Oshoists to a community of mediums called Vale do Amanhecer, who channel extraterrestrials for acolytes that journey here from all over the world for the experience.

We travel here to experience Umbandaime.

Umbandaime is a syncretic Brazilian religion that combines African traditions with Catholicism and the practice of channeling benevolent spirits, or ‘Orixias’. The ceremonies center around the consumption of daime, a preparation of local plants that saw its origin with the Santo Daime church in the 1920s.

Umbandaime ceremonies feature live musicians who play short songs with lots of repetition that change form as the ceremony evolves. There are mediums who move through the crowd, constantly tuning the experience for each person they encounter. Umbandaime teaches spiritual navigation through music in the context of the Divine Field above, below and within.

A key pillar of the SPIRITWALKER™ Mission involves allowing oneself to be seen as complete in sacred space. By doing that a person can come to understand that how one is born is nothing to be ashamed of, it is a gift. Nothing eradicates shame like dancing with spirits under a Brazilian moon with one’s future best friends. In those moments we can only be what we are and the honesty of the Absolute Now blasts us awake. Those who sit for this experience often become illuminated, and follow that golden exit sign out of the matrix.

Destination: Africa

Teacher: Peganum Harmala

Energy Centers: Crown, Pineal and Solar Plexus

SW Core Values: Divinity, Adventure and Dignity

This is the magic plant that Hermes brought to Odysseus to break the spell of Circe. The King Of Medicines. Pollen from this plant was found in the Shroud Of Turin. Highly regarded since ancient times, archaeology has shown a human relationship with this plant for at least 7,000 years. It has many names. It grows along trade routes as a marker of human passage, and seems to have traveled across the east, from China through the Levant into North Africa, along the Silk Road where its appellation changed from hou hui to Peganum Harmala.

Wildly popular across Europe, Asia, and North Africa, this perennial plant contains the same beta-carbolines harmine and harmaline that are found in Banisteriopsis caapi.

This is a perfect teacher plant for Psychics. Peganum Harmala is said to help activate psychic forces and protect the soul when work requires well-defined boundaries, clarity and responsibility. It aids discrimination and empowers a person’s will to be true to themselves. It is said that when the ‘gifted’ receive visions from the plant, what they see initiates them into a worldview that balances reason and vision across dimensions. It facilitates unity and an awareness where reality meets the world of dreams in equal measure. A perfect tool for traveling through worlds, and something desperately needed in these times.

On this excursion, we are guests in the minaret palaces of the North Africa. We hear stories of revelation in the chaos din of markets older than recorded time. Our new allies will share their mythology and practices. Bridges will be built. In the end, we may find that we are not that different after all.

Lightworkers have a primal need to belong; to illuminate others as we are illuminated. In Western culture this desire to be welcomed has been manipulated and generally used against itself. Especially for intuitives. We don’t fit the dominant cultural narrative (buy! sell! die!), and because we are different, this often leads to isolation.

Study Abroad offers a place to be our fullest selves, in a sacred context where we can share our gifts with our peers and receive support for the places where we are developing.

Study Abroad guides people to experience their uniqueness from a place of self-love, kindness, compassion and sovereignty. Among the most rewarding moments in this work are the breakthroughs where a client comes to understand how his or her Connection is a core defining element in every context, from the social to the trans-dimensional. The more enjoyably oneself a person is, the more that joy permeates one’s life. The more free we are, the more free we get to be. Our community of outsiders elegantly encircles a person falling in love with him- or herself. What an incredible way to become who you are meant to be.

Answering the Call to Adventure expands our Divine Connection and proves, beyond doubt, that our gifts are real.

The Return Home

You’ve taken the leap, answered the call of the Mystical Wild and had congress with angels and jungle spirits in places where awe is the only word to describe a territory you will spend your life finding words for.

Your intuitive abilities received an overhaul in God’s kitchen. Your Connection is humming and your guide family is celebrating. You are so excited to flex your skills and test drive the Wisdom you were given.

Then you get off the plane. Now what?

After all the fireworks and the wonder recede into daily life, never lose touch with what is most important. The greatest part of the adventure, the prize without price is this: You have a tribe. You walked straight into the unknown with absolute strangers who told you their secret dreams around a fire after a night of astonishment. And you told them yours. Together you are central to an Awakening without precedent in recorded time. You know for sure that when we look at the stars, the stars look at us. We confirm each other. We belong together. We are never alone.

So share what you have learned. Use your tools to spark that Divine Fire in others. You may find that you are evolving in very profound ways that draw people to you. People who are curious and don’t really understand what you are doing but want to be around it. Honor them as you have been honored. Welcome them as you have been welcomed. Demonstrate that they belong.

Bring them into the Tribe.

“It is not easy to describe with accuracy what Matt does-- to call him a psychic or a healer or a shaman does not do him justice. Matt is a pathworker-- he is able to connect with you on multiple dimensions and work with the different frames of existence that are necessary to work in concert together in order for personal transformation to stick. But one does not need to track Matt to receive these gifts. You can simply lay back and receive the experience and let it unfold. My most memorable session with Matt involved connecting me to a future energetic version of myself that was farther along my path as an actor, letting me connect with the talent and skills and confidence that I have in the future. This gift is a beacon that I can now navigate with as a way of speeding up the process.

Working with Matt is a major part of my shamanic practice.”

Patrick Lewellyn

Actor and Shamanic Coach
Los Angeles, CA