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Welcome to the deeper you go, the weirder it gets

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I'm your host, Garett Renon.

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So this episode is an update on the journey of the Ayahumero. And so I'm gonna give you a brief overview of my journey and also talk about the rookie year and part of the sophomore year. So this episode is long overdue and I hope you enjoy it. But before we get into it, as always, I have some announcements. If you are enjoying the show, please like it, share it, subscribe to it and leave a review.

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Okay. So it's been a while since I've done an update on the As promised, I wanna talk about the rookie year of the Ayahumero . So I recommend that you go back and listen to the podcast titled Return the Ayahumero which will give you a little bit more context. But in order to make this a stand alone episode, I'm gonna do a little bit of I'm gonna lay the foundation a little bit. So in January 2023, I decided to embark on a year long sama.

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Now, up until that point, I had been working with Ayahuasca for five or six years and I had done several samas. I had been assisting in ceremony and I'd just kind of been progressing along. And then I made the decision to go deeper and to take on the path of practitioner. And so in order to do that, you need to do a year long SAMA. And so for those of you that don't know, a SAMA is, so well, let me step back and say that the word SAMA, diet, and dieta kinda mean the same thing.

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And so oftentimes, I will use those words interchangeably. So just know that SAMA, dieta, and Diet are essentially the same word. And I'll explain what this means. So a Sama is essentially a process in which you form a very strong energetic connection with a particular plant or tree. So the reason it translates to the word diet or dieta is because you consume that plant or tree physically, but you are also consuming it energetically.

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And this diet is also not about what you take in, but it's also about what you restrict, right? Just like any diet. And so the restrictions for this are very intense. So for a year, there's no salt, no sugar, no oil, no spices, no red meat, no alcohol, no marijuana, no sex, no input, no stimulus I should say, no stimulus. So basically the only thing you can consume and also no plant other plant material.

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So the only thing you can consume is fish, chicken, rice, lentils, some bananas or plantains. That's essentially it for an entire year. And now if you understand body chemistry, no salt for a year, not to mention all the other things that suck, right? This is definitely no fun. But no salt for a year is not healthy at all.

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Salt is a necessary nutrient. And so I was always wondering why the no salt? And it's essentially because it's unhealthy for you and the purpose of that is to break you down physically and it was extremely hard. So you have to remember that we operate on three levels of consciousness, right? Physical plane, the mental plane, and the spiritual plane.

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And so no salt and a very limited restrictive diet breaks you down and weakens you physically, and so the idea is that to compensate, you will grow spiritually and mentally. And then the idea is that after you close the diet, you then build yourself back up physically and your whole being, all three planes of you've leveled up on all three planes of consciousness. So that year was extremely hard. It was one of the hardest things I'd ever done. I lost over 40 pounds, which if you know what I look like, I don't have 40 pounds to lose.

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I've never had 40 pounds to lose. So I lost a lot of muscle, I got very sick, I got very weak, I completely wrecked my digestion. And the last few months of my diet, I was just hoping and essentially praying to God that I didn't do myself permanent physical damage because I just felt absolutely horrible. So the whole half of the IU Meadow was extremely fascinating because I never set out to do that. In fact, I had no idea that something like the IU Meadow actually existed.

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Typically, when people do a year long sauna, they do multiple plants or multiple trees over the entire year. So they will diet for a year, but they may swap out some things here and there. And it makes a lot of sense, and that's what I thought I was gonna do because every time you have a successful sauna with a plant, especially when you're in this practitioner role, it's like getting a new, you make a strong relationship with a new plant ally, and then you also, it's like you get a new tool for your tool belt. And so with that being said, you think like every time I diet, I get a new tool, and the more tools I have, the better work I can do. And at least that's the logic and it makes a lot of sense.

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So that's what I thought I was gonna do. But I started my year long Sama with Ayauuma, I wasn't quite sure what else I was gonna do, but I started for three months. So as I was progressing through this diet, and I should say that Ayauuma has a reputation for being extremely hard. It's a very strong, powerful tree. It's highly respected.

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It might be it's hard to put a hierarchy, but I would put it as the top. It's the hardest diet by far, strongest diet by far, and it's funny that people who have done it for a month or two months or three months, they always make a sound. They ask you, What are you dieting? And you say, Ayahuma. They always go, Oof.

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Because they know it's hard. Anyway, I started off with ayahuma for three months and progressing along. It was hard and I was doing my thing and maybe about two or three months into it, I heard about I overheard someone talking about the IU Meadows and that obviously piqued my interest. So I said, what are you talking about? Tell me a little bit more.

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And he basically said, well, to be honest with you, I don't know much about them. I just know that they are a group of individuals who solely work with Ioma, and that obviously piqued my interest for two reasons. One, I was dieting ayahuma, and two, for all the reasons I just mentioned. Right? Like, it always seemed like the more plants and the more trees you can do, the better.

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So why would somebody just kind of commit to one tree? So my interest got piqued and I started to look into this a little deeper. So I was starting to search the Internet. I was I was looking for everywhere to find some more information on these IU meadows. I couldn't find anything.

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So I did what you're actually supposed to do in this situation and that is ask your plant. So or your tree. So I asked Ayumu, what are these Ayahumeros? What can you tell me about them? And Ayumu came back and said, if you do your entire Sama for one year with me, I will show you.

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So at that point, was basically like, alright, I'm in. This sounds super interesting. And once I made that commitment, things started to shift. And I started to have this even deeper relationship with Ayahuma. And then maybe about eight months in or so, I got this message, which I know sounds very egotistical, but it is what it is, right?

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I got this message from IOLUMA that said, You are gonna help bring the Ayahumeros back. And I was taught and I was told that the Ayumettoes were this ancient warrior slash shaman type people who were essentially almost equivalent to like the Jedi. And they were very strong and they were very powerful, and for some reason, they've essentially gone extinct. And I was told that you were gonna help bring this back and that the ayahumeros are needed now more than ever. So, obviously, that got me really excited, and I don't know what that means.

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Right? Am I gonna turn into a Jedi? Am I gonna have a lightsaber? Am I gonna be able to do force chokes? Hopefully.

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But but anyway, that's what I was told. And at that point, I was in. I was all the way in. I was excited, but also this was at the point where the diet got extremely hard, and I started to get really sick and just essentially was hating life. Then I'm coming up to a year of being in this diet and I close my diet and then I have this experience with iOoma after I close the diet where I just feel the presence and the power and the entire universe and just how big the world ayahuma is.

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It just came in and it completely overwhelmed me, but it was amazing. And after that moment, I remember thinking, oh, I get it. I get it now. I completely understand why somebody would solely commit to this tree. Because what I felt, and I also knew that I was only scratching the surface, but what I felt was unlike anything I had ever felt before.

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And it felt like this infinite world of knowledge that I was gonna have access to. Not given to, but access to. Like, this was good. This is I wanna make this clear. Like, this is an ever going journey.

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Right? Nothing is given to you, but I was granted access into this world. Like I said, I was in and excited to further my journey with iOoma. So I then wrap up the year long diet, come back home, which presented challenges, a whole bunch of other challenges. See, one, like I mentioned, the year long diet was one of the hardest things I've ever done, But then integrating back into society was just as hard, if not harder.

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Because one aspect of doing the year long SAMA while it was hard, you kind of get this free pass of like, hey, well, that's all I'm doing. Right? All I gotta worry about right now is getting through this diet. I just have to take things step by step. But then once you are done with the diet, then then you're back in the real world.

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And not that my problems went away during the year, but all of a sudden you get get flooded back with what real life is. It's almost kinda like the equivalent of graduating high school or graduating college. Right? Like, your senior year of high school, you're the man, you're the woman, and you're on top of the world, and you're the cool guy, and all this stuff. And then you graduate, and then all of a sudden you get thrust into the real world, and you're like, don't know what to do with myself.

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So that's essentially how I felt. Not to mention, I also had to kind of rebuild my body and regain my strength. So I started so this essentially began what I would consider my rookie year of being an ayahumero because one of the reasons I did all of this was not only for personal growth, but so that I could lead ceremonies. And if you think about sports, the rookie year is kind of the perfect analogy because you think about all the best athletes in the world, Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Tom Brady, you name it. Right?

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All of those are the best, but none of them necessarily had a good rookie year. Nobody has a good rookie year. It's the jump from high school to college to the professionals, the professional league is is an extremely large jump. And then not to mention you're essentially like this kid who is now competing with adults. And that's exactly what it felt like for me.

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I started to lead ceremony and it was extremely hard and I felt out of my league. But like all good rookies, see, a good rookie year is usually summed up by the fact that you're going to make a lot of mistakes. It's expected of you to make mistakes. But what people want to see from you and how they know you're going to be a good professional and how they know you're going to make it is that you learn and you adapt from these mistakes and you start making less and less mistakes and you have moments of greatness, moments of, okay, I see that you get it and you feel that you get it. And that's, without going into a lot of detail, that's essentially how my rookie year went.

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Every ceremony I did, I would struggle, but I would adapt, and I would grow, and I'd get better, and I'd get stronger. And it was an amazing process, but it was extremely hard. And so one of the things that would happen, was both cool and was very hard at the same time, was I started to become way more sensitive to energies. So what I mean by that is when I was in ceremony, I would start feeling everybody's stuff. I would start feeling everybody's energy.

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And then when someone would come up and sit in front of me, I would completely go into their entire world and I'd feel all their sadness and all their trauma and all their fears. And it was cool because I was completely tapped in and it gave me and allowed me to do very good work because if I was feeling something, I would direct my energy towards that. And I knew I was making progress because as I started to feel better, they started to feel better. So it was really cool to be able to feel that and see that, and it made me realize I was making a lot of progress. But the negative side of that is I was taking on way too much and it was wrecking me and it was a lot and I was really getting beat up energetically and struggling.

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And I remember after one ceremony in particular, I got extremely sick after a ceremony. I went up to my room and I thought I was gonna die. I just, I felt absolutely poisoned. In fact, I had been working on someone who was suffering from cancer and I could feel all the cancer in my body and I could feel it saturating my cells and I just, I never felt so sick in my entire life. And I kinda had this moment of like, I don't know what I'm gonna do because I'm down for the cause, I'm down for this journey, and I'm down to help people.

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I've been helping people my entire life. Right? And I want to do this, but I don't know if I can because if things keep progressing the way they're going and I keep taking all this stuff on, I'm going to die. And this is not being dramatic. I essentially had this moment of where I was well, I turned to my plants and to my tree, and I asked Iooma, I said, hey, man.

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We gotta we gotta figure something out here because I said, I'm down I'm down to bring the Ayahumero's back, but we can't keep going down this path. This is too much. So the message I got was, okay. You are going to do another Sama with me. So ayahuma was like, you're gonna do another Sama with me, but the difference is you are opening it up yourself.

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See, one of the things when you do a year long sama and you after you complete it, have the ability to open up samas for yourself and for other people. And I almost like, we're gonna get this straightened out. You're gonna open up a diet with me. And so I did this in December, which was basically almost a year. So I completed my whole first rookie year.

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So I did this Samoa with Ayuma and it was extremely eye opening and everything has changed since then. Basically, what I got was, I know this sounds crazy and weird, but this is the best way to describe these things, that I was essentially gifted a suit of protection and it was like this Iron Man suit. And if you think about Iron Man, if you're if you know of how the comics work, Iron Man suit is extremely protective, but it's also technologically advanced. Right? Because I didn't see, didn't wanna lose the sensitivity because the sensitivity was teaching me and showing me how what energies I needed to dress and wear.

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So I don't wanna lose that, but I didn't wanna get beat up. And so this Ironman suit was this blend of both worlds where I had the suit of protection, but it was technologically advanced where I had sensors and I could feel things. It was like sensors going off to work here and do this and do that. And after I completed that, Sama, my protection shot through the roof and I started to feel way stronger and I had an even deeper connection with IUMA. And each ceremony since then, the growth has been more and more, and it's been fascinating and extremely exciting.

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So that essentially wrapped up the the rookie year. It was a very I would say it was a very hard year and very stereotypical rookie year. And now I'm six months into my sophomore year and things have shifted so much more for the better. And obviously there are still struggles and I'm still learning and I'm growing, but if you're going back to that sports analogy, it's always a big transition. See, the rookie, everyone, when someone's a rookie, you're not really a threat, right?

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But after your rookie year, you start all of a sudden, you become a solid member and a contributing member of the team, and you start becoming a threat to other teams. And it's super interesting because about a month ago, so it'd be about halfway point into my sophomore season, after a ceremony, I had this very crazy vision. So I went back into my room and was laying there and I saw all these practitioners from around the world working in ceremony and I saw like their, and it's hard to explain, but I saw their spirit form and everyone has unique gifts and unique personality and I could see this in their spirit. And so everyone's kind of doing their own thing and they're all these masters of their craft, so to speak. And I see them all over the world.

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And then I see myself emerge into that world and it was like I came online and all of a sudden, now you are in the world and I became aware of them and they became aware of me, which again, I don't know, right? It sounds crazy and so essentially that's where I'm at. So that's the rookie year update with six, seven months into the sophomore year. And I wanna say one thing about this episode, hopefully this is entertaining for you and you're getting a lot out of it and you're learning. I'm doing this essentially on the fly.

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Obviously I know my story but my thoughts are a little scattered but I'm trying to do this as I'm driving to be more efficient with my time and be able to get more content out there. So thank you for listening and thank you for being on this journey with me. And thank you, big thank you to all the people who have supported me on this journey, especially the people that have been with me since the gym days. Right? And you've trusted me for all these years and you continue to work with me and I thank you.

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That's it. Sophomore season going strong and the journey continues. See on the other side.