Ayahuasca and Spiritual Parasites: Understanding Energetic Attachments and Protection

What if the fear of spiritual parasites isn’t irrational… but incomplete?

In this episode, I take you into a moment in ceremony where I felt something on my body that I could not remove. Not with breath. Not with force. Not with will.

And what became clear in that moment changed how I understand this work completely:

you don’t remove what’s feeding. you close what’s open.

We go into what people call spiritual parasites, energetic attachments, or entities. Not as belief, but as lived experience. Because the real question is not what’s out there. It’s what in you is available.

This episode breaks down:

• what actually happens to your system when it opens in ceremony
• why sensitivity without structure creates vulnerability
• why most people know how to open, but not how to close
• how breath regulates and stabilizes your field
• how fear and resistance amplify what you’re trying to get rid of

And where this led me was not outward, but inward.

An abandonment wound.
Still active. Still shaping my behavior.

I share how that wound has been driving anxiety in my body for years, how I’ve been regulating it through food and distraction, and what happened when I stopped avoiding it and stayed with it long enough for something to shift.

There’s also a teaching from the shaman that reframed everything:
if the wound is open, something will come.
heal the wound, and it stops.

Toward the end, I go into what it actually means to protect, cleanse, and close your system after working with ayahuasca. Not as theory. As responsibility.

And I speak about the decision that came out of this.
To go deeper. To stay inside the work.

If you’re walking this path, this is part of it.

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