Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Topics - brenthebdog

Pages: 1
1
Sharing of the Healers / Colorado Kambo Ceremonies
« on: December 21, 2012, 04:27:13 PM »
I started a Kambo page on Facebook for the Colorado area:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rocky-Mountain-Kambo/560793813934071

There are pictures of my points and Kambo face during the 2'nd ceremony.

2
Application / Straight to the neck!
« on: December 15, 2012, 08:41:53 PM »
Wow!

Yesterday was quite a ceremony, I applied Kambo to three people then myself. 5 points to the biggest guy in the group absolutely wrecked him, whereas 11 points on myself did very little as far as physical effects go. My personal application pattern went like this: 7 points in a cross configuration on my left pec, 3 points on my right ribcage, and 1 point on the left side of my neck. My experience was much different this time around because I felt such a unique heat sensation at the base of my spine and 2 chakra/genital region. I was almost convinced that I was in fact pissing my pants.

Kambo is getting less scary to work with no that I understand what to expect as far as administration is concerned. That familiar "I just took frog venom and the back of my throat is swelling up" feeling is perfectly normal, as is the intense face swelling. Kambo is wild, I love the experience. Thank you to the Kambo frog and to those who collect the venom!

3
General Discussion / What do you tell people about your Kambo points?
« on: November 06, 2012, 11:43:31 PM »
I've been getting the question more often these days and I became curious about how my fellow Kambo practitioners address the question. It generally comes up in the form of "what are those things on your arm, are they burns?" To which I reply "they are Kambo points." From there I describe the medicine and the process of administration. To say that Kambo and the desire to administer the medicine is not understood would be a massive understatement. But inherent to this lack of understanding is an undeniable power of conviction that comes from being a Kambo initiate and knowing that it is not a dangerous poison used by some backward jungle savages. Kambo is good medicine, it is fire medicine, it is hunter medicine.

The coolest feeling that Kambo has imparted in me is that I can count myself as one of the few who share the lineage of knowledge. This however, this does not mean that I claim to be a great shaman or medicine man with the keys to the universe. I just feel that Spirit has called for me to participate in the use of Kambo and certain visionary plant teachers so that I may know a very esoteric truth about the nature of reality. As a tourist in the plant world I was allowed to traipse through ignorantly taking anything I could get my hands on. But that way of thinking has abruptly come to an end; plants are every bit as sentient as humans are, they just perceive reality in an entirely different capacity. Kambo is not just a frog, I have yet to understand what Kambo truly is because of my in-experience. But I know for sure that Kambo is not a toy or some simple inebriant to approach without due respect and consideration.

I feel proud to have "points" and refuse to hide them or change the topic, they are marks of honor and courage.

How do you feel about your Kambo points?

4
I've been curious about Nu-Nu after seeing it in the product list of a website that many of us are familiar with. At this point I know that taking the "curiosity killed the cat" approach to jungle medicine would be wise in light of my recent experience with Iboga. However, I believe that Nu-Nu is more akin to Kambo (secondhand sources) and desire to incorporate sacred tobacco into my ceremony process.

Being that Mapacho and Nu-Nu are integral to Amazonian medicine and complementary to Ayahuasca, San Pedro, and Kambo. I think it would be great to have some firsthand accounts of the more esoteric healing tools. Being that I don't have any personal experience, I feel reticent to make any comments. Has anyone used either Nu-Nu or Mapacho in conjunction with Kambo or as a stand-alone modality with success?

5
The Glow (After Effects and Affects) / Serenity Now...
« on: October 24, 2012, 01:47:03 AM »
Bear with me for the next few sentences there is a point to the tangent. I love the Seinfeld episode where Kramer starts using Lloyd Braun's "serenity now" to deal with anxiety and anger. Eventually, he goes crazy and trashes all of George's computers because "serenity now" is a diversionary technique. Personally, I am an angry dude; even worse I am a muscular and MMA trained dude who has mild autism and severe ADHD. When my patience meter runs out, it is catastrophic. Lifting, running, and going to the library to study have been how I've maintained my sanity for the past six years.

Originally, I found out about Kambo through an Iboga forum; what attracted me to Kambo specifically was the concept of "Panema." According to the medicine men of the Katukina and Matses "panema" is bad luck, saturation of bad energy, inability to hunt and find a woman. Westerners and mestizos have equated "panema" with depression, but I believe Amazonian Indians would thoroughly disagree. In the jungle they don't have the luxury of moping around feeling sorry for themselves and making excuses for why they aren't seizing the opportunities that life is giving them.

After my two Kambo ceremonies I have felt a subtle and surprising shift in my psychology and life. Opportunities are re-appearing, people are re-appearing, I feel friendlier and more inclined to be social than I have in the past two years since the first major romantic relationship and breakup I have ever experienced in this life. The more personal the pain the more universal the experience applies to everyone's first major breakup. I had a complete nervous breakdown and fell into the worst symptoms of autism. Picking up the pieces after that was impossible; what I've had to do is rebuild myself completely. This has been the most tremendous undertaking of my life because it has forced a complete and unwavering honesty to honoring the genuine core of my soul. Kambo is proving to be useful and unique teacher in this task, no more no less.

Kambo is not some jungle Wellbutrin, or Xanax; it is frog venom that you administer by burning your skin. This is how Kambo Kampu showed the jungle medicine men to administer his venom, this is how I administer the venom. Pain is part of the process, it is my offering to the frog spirit to learn from and receive his blessing. The glow that I experience is knowing that I am powerful enough to use this esoteric and extremely rare frog venom. As the number of points on my shoulder increases, so does my confidence in myself and Kambo.

For those of us with visible points, there is the inevitable question:
"What are those things on your shoulder, are they burns?

But the subtext is, "are they self mutilation?"

NO!

They are Kambo points; at this point there are 23 of them on my shoulder and they hurt like hell and simultaneously felt incredible! They are a mark of pride for the Indians, they are a rite of passage for hunters. If I belonged to one of these tribes there would be no awkward conversation and explanation.

I have received Kambo, I am a hunter, simple as that.

This is the glow, defending yourself, defending your beliefs and convictions unwaveringly.

-B-
 

6
The Process / So this is Kambo
« on: October 15, 2012, 03:31:32 PM »
My experience was quite unlike Bruce Parry’s or any other video I have watched. First off I am not built like them, I am muscular like a jaguar and my metabolism and biochemistry are extremely strong. According to the Kambo I am very powerful, more powerful than I realized.

This is my first Kambo ceremony:

I began with a shower and meditated on my reasons for asking for the Kambo’s help. I feel guilty as a white man for personally subscribing to a materialistic culture and know that I am accountable for what happens in the Kambo’s and Ayahuasca’s home. I asked for help to become a healer and the power to help the world, the power to defend the Kambo’s home. I dried off and put on my warrior clothes, MMA trunks to be precise. For the next 15 minutes I smudged with the Santo Palo and Copal that came with my Kambo (thank you to the website that included the gift) and relaxed. Once I felt ready I made five burns on the anterior portion of my left deltoid and picked off the top layer to expose the application site. I then proceeded to the bathroom where I was going to administer the Kambo and prepared the medicine with my saliva. The consistency was that of nasal mucus and was able to stick to the tip of the knife without running off. At that point I applied the Kambo to the five burns.

What you see in the videos is a fairly accurate account of what it feels like for a skinny dehydrated and malnourished white guy who has been in the jungle for the past few days. Personally, I didn’t feel that level of effect even after I made two more burns and applications. The way the experience progressed for me was an initial burning and swelling sensation at the application site. This was followed by the pounding pulse feeling in the back of my head and a swelling sensation in the back of my throat. Finally, I felt my face swelling up tremendously, according to the mirror it was. A total of 7 burns for my initial experience and the effects were fairly mild.

I just followed up with 9 more burns an hour after the first application and the effects were even milder than the first. What I do feel is extremely tired, yet very strong. I don’t feel like the 3X3 ceremony today so I’m ending with 16 burns for my first time.

I am ravenously hungry, so I need to get that taken care of.

Thank you Kambo for your blessing!

-B-

7
Kambo & Iboga / Kambo then Iboga Rootbark micro dosage?
« on: October 05, 2012, 07:46:57 PM »
I am curious if there are any veterans of the combination who have some insight into the combined usage of Kambo and Iboga rootbark. It would be great for me personally and I'm pretty sure anyone contemplating their first treatment and scouring Google for all the information they can find would also be grateful!

This will be my first dosage of these two medicines and this is what I am going with:

Katukina 3X3 dosage of 5 dots the first hour, 7 the second,  then 9 the third followed by ~2gr of rootbark. This healing ceremony will be conducted alone which is why I have chosen to micro dose the Iboga in order to establish a familiarity with the plant and flood at a later date.

As a side note; my family radically disagrees with my approach to healing and medicine, and philosophical ethos in general. Therefore asking them to be sitters during an Eboga flood would be out of the question unless I had just dosed and informed them that I would be unavailable for the next 20hrs and don't call an ambulance because I happen to be vomiting significantly more than usual.

 Also, I picked up some Sangre de Grado for the burns and a great liquid multivitamin for after I have purged. I have read that you need to drink at least 2 liters of water between Kambo doses to stay hydrated which I was going to augment with gatorade to keep my electrolytes balanced.

Is there anything else I need to address that anyone can think of?

-B-

Pages: 1