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On the way to Lion Safari

Claire shares some of the visions she had post-Ayahuasca ceremony after leaving Peru (2018)

By claire kellyPublished 5 years ago 2 min read
Sacred medicine inspired tapestry, Shipibo 2018

Lion Safari, Miami, Florida 2018

In the car;

On the way to 'Lion Safari'.

I close my eyes

And start to drift.

I'm one week fresh outta the jungle

The city still feels so foreign to me.

Food is fun again, I'm eating sugar with glee once more, trying not to make myself sick from eating too many Reece's peanut butter cups.

Cold concrete, vacant buildings

Remind me of the harsh influence of man - taking over the planet, destroying all that is living

Cars and shops like out of a toy story movie, beeping around

Plastic bodies shining everywhere I look.

I'm still making my way back into the '3D' world

While my soul keeps exploring in the trance state, in the spirit realm.

I keep getting flashbacks from visions in ceremonies

All of a sudden

I feel terror

See misfigured bodies, people running in my mind's eye

The word “Barcelona” appears

I hear a bomb blast, red flashes, lights

Police, ambulance sirens wailing.

Screams so loud my eyes jolt open

I feel an explosion rock my body

and my world,

Yet it is not my body

But it is my world.

More visions of past

London

Paris

Bali

More explosions

Screams

Tears

Pain

Blood

I see buildings falling

Our world as we know it

Disintegrating before our very eyes

sheer terror

dismembered bodies

children crying, bleeding

bones

mess

At that moment I realise

Grandmother Aya is showing me

What a state our world has become

How, if we do not change our behaviours

Humanity and planet earth is on a fast track to total destruction.

Many do not know how

How to recover from such traumatic events

How to heal from witnessing murder, abuse, torture, genocide, rape, brutality, poverty

When they’ve had soul loss

deep physical and emotional pain,

suffering

Most people use drugs, addicted to sex, food

Alcohol

To numb the pain

To NOT feel

To block,

To survive

Yet this way of being is not ‘survival’

This way is not living

It is merely existing

Fading away slowly

Killing the Body Mind

I am no longer afraid of dying

But I am afraid of not living my highest expression.

You see it’s the visions

That really haunt them

Like those I see in ceremony now sometimes haunt me

Energy beyond the conscious mind

Beyond the physical

Only panther can find

We can’t un-see brutality or mass destruction

We can’t un-hear sounds of death and torture

We can’t undo the past

Yet, we can, change the future

Grandma Aya continues to show me why she is needed in this world

Why her true message must come out

Why she is, illegal, in most parts of the world

Not because she doesn’t work

NO

Because she does

Then she shows me , how in my ‘world’ of course she would cause problems in big business

The money is in the pain

The government don’t want people to heal themselves.. with plants??

NO

The drugs

The prescriptions

All worth BIG $$$$$

The whole system could fall

I understand even more now why I have been led to her

And why, I am being shown what I am

I wipe my tears

Take a breath

And get ready for Lion Safari

recovery

About the Creator

claire kelly

Yoga Teacher | Body Mind Therapist | Shamanic Practitioner (Following mountain shamanism QERO/ Plant Medicine Shipibo)

I am in the process of finishing my first book in my plant medicine trilogy series - Meeting Grandmother Ayahuasca.

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