AN INVITATION TO GIVE A
BREAKTHROUGH LECTURE
Awake.net is seeking mentors and masters with entheogenic or other transformational wellness experience from clinical, shamanic and therapeutic disciplines to donate a Breakthrough Lecture in their area of expertise to our inaugural class of FEAT applicants starting January 2023.
WHAT IS FEAT?
FEAT is the Fund for Entheogenic Addiction Treatment, a charitable program administered by Awake.net, a 501c3 social impact network with the core mission of ending opioid addiction by providing a Healing Grant of up to $8k per individual to pay for an ibogaine or other entheogenic treatment, a series of integration sessions with various providers, and a nine-month online course called Change Your Character: Nine Hexagrams for Rebirth, based on the I Ching.
WHAT IS IBOGAINE?
Some people call it the most powerful psychedelic known to us. Ibogaine HCL is a white powder extracted from the Tabernathe iboga tree or the Voacanga plant. Ibogaine HCL can reliably interrupt opioid and other hard addictions in a single clinically administered flood-dose treatment. Ibogaine HCL can be made from the Voacanga plant at scale and so it gives us, as a society, a way to create a treatment pathway to end opioid addiction without creating sustainability issues for the Bwiti, who use the Iboga tree as their sacrament for their Rites of Passage.
WHY THE I CHING?
Change is the only constant, says the I Ching, an ancient philosophy originating in China that is relevant to our time because it gives us a way to understand human behavior and the nature of reality. The 64 hexagrams that form the iChing are built of four binary pairs, just like the letter codons AT UC GT AG which form the entire 64 pair DNA sequence. If the DNA code is a blueprint for Life, the I Ching seems to be a blueprint for Consciousness. Another relevance to our time is that Liebniz, the man who discovered the 01 binary code that forms the basis of computing derived it from the I Ching. Could the I Ching structure be then, the technology of consciousness?
Hi, I’m Lakshmi Narayan, creator of this course and lifetime I Ching student. Ten years ago I was introduced to nine hexagrams for character development. During my several year study of these nine hexagrams, I had many epiphanies, insights, and transformations, and gained valuable self-knowledge that molded me as a person. These hexagrams will form the backbone of this course. Each month/week we will read and discuss in class one hexagram and it’s six offshoots. We will study nine such hexagrams in sequence as a framework and philosophy for change and right-action, and as a way to ground the transformations initiated in the altered state into a new way of being in the world.
ENTHEOGENIC INTEGRATION
Integration is the pain point with ibogaine or any deep dive entheogenic experience. Ibogaine works reliably given the right dosage to interrupt opioid or other addictions and offers a three-month cushion in the form of nor-ibogaine slow-released in the fat cells. However, in order to sustain the amazing rebirth and freedom from addiction that ibogaine has delivered, the person has to have an actionable plan for change, often this might include — change of address, change of environment, definitely change of self — and this is where the community of mentors and masters and fellow journeyers come in. We need community to support our own radical change.
This process of change and grounding the transformation in one’s day-to-day life and way of being is the promise of integration, and the promise of the Change Your Character program with its access to both local and global mentors and masters and their collective wisdom. Together we can save lives and help transform society.
BREAKTHROUGH LECTURES
In addition to the I Ching courses taught by myself, the nine-month program will be populated by Breakthrough Lectures given by mentors and masters from the entheogenic community. The lectures fall into four broad categories: Preparation, Navigation and Integration, I Ching and are intended to quickly create a body of collective knowledge that can give people not only self-healing tools but access to teachers, guides, therapists, nutritionists, breath workers, energy workers, bodyworkers, philosophers, poets, integration coaches and last but not least entheogenically experienced doctors.

Each box on this chart represents one spot for a Breakthrough Lecture during the nine-month period from March to November 2023. The overarching I Ching hexagram associated with that month/week is highlighted in the yellow boxes to the left. There are seven spots each month for a Breakthrough Lecture in five tracks, 1. Preparation, 2. Navigation, 3. Treatment, 4. I Ching, 5. Other. You can align with the hexagram’s message or keywords provided to decide what topic you want to speak on, but its not necessary. You can simply use the blocks for calendaring purposes. Either way we will let synchronicity arrange the syllabus. Click on the GIVE LECTURE button in the box where you want to give your lecture and it will take you to a sign-up form where you can add details. If you are planning on giving a series of lectures then please click on the box for the first lecture and from there you can indicate the Lecture number – L1, L2 etc on the signup form. We are looking forward to this co-creation and it’s transformative power. Thank you! |
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JANUARY 2023 |
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L1 Lecture by Lakshmi Narayan Intro to the I Ching, Creating a True Intention, Yin and Yang: Binary Principles of Life, The I Ching & DNA
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L2 Jan week 1 Strengths and weaknesses Mapping the Obstacle Course Know the Black, Keep the White
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L3 Jan week 2 Set & Setting, Cleansing Detoxification, Purification, Initiating a Sacramental Experience
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L4 Navigating an ibogaine Flood Dose Experience Awakening the Inner Shaman What’s Happening in my Brain and Body? The Metaphysical Journey
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L5 Surrender and Receptivity The Masculine and Feminine Forces of Creation and Creativity The Art of Death & Resurrection
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L6 Reconnecting with Unconditional Love Joy as Discipline A Disciple Uses Discipline, an Adept Adapts. What are you adept at? |
L7 Inner oppositions Outer oppositions Maleness and Femaleness the Cosmic Pair
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FEBRUARY 2023 |
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Feb week 1 L8 Lecture by Lakshmi Narayan Balancing the Extremes that Cause Social Discontent , Creating A Plan for Success |
Feb week 2 L9 The Broken Word Profile of an Addict Childhood Trauma and It’s Effects
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Feb week 2 L10 Transcending Trauma with Entheogenic Journeying Lucid Shock: Healing not Reliving |
Feb week 2 L11 Re-sept or 7 The Hidden Half The Power of Gentlenessss Surrender to Receive
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Feb week 3 L12 When not to push The Power of Love and Rectification |
Feb week 3 L13 Traversing Blocks along the Way Finding New Techniques |
Feb week 4 L14 The Power of Non-Doing Desisting Gaslighting: Why Do We Do It? |
MARCH 2023 |
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Mar week 1 L15 Lecture by Lakshmi Narayan Integrating the Return in Small and Large Ways |
Mar week 2 L16 In-tuition, Letting Yourself be Drawn, The Strength of Your Surrender
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Mar week 2 L17 The Many Ways Unresolved Trauma Shows Up in Your Life Fear is the First Door |
Mar week 3 L18 Facing the Shadow during a journey After-effects Aliens & Entities Good, Bad, and Indifferent Astral Attacks |
Mar week 3 L19 Gut Feelings & the Microbiome Looking at It Obliquely: How to Address a Psychological Problem with a Physical Strategy or vice versa Shock-ra
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Mar week 3 L20 •Repetition Strengthens Habits •A Right Beginning Leads to a Right Ending •A Strategy for when you feel hopeless Back to Intention
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Mar week 4 L21 •Changing a Lesser Habit •Make Food Thy Medicine •You Are What You Eat •Physical detox protocols for Heroin, Suboxone, Crystal Meth etc |
APRIL 2023 |
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Apr week 1 L22 Lecture by Lakshmi Narayan Eternity of the End Being the Change Continuous Refinement of Character Enduring Setbacks Making Relationships Last |
Apr week 1 L23 Aligning with Greatness Consciously Making Your Word Good Integrity and Tensile Strength
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Apr week 2 L24 Humiliation creates Humility A Rogue Ant When should you advance and when should you lay low. The Power of non-Resistance
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Apr week 2 L25 What Happens During The Active Stage of an Ibogaine Experience?
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Apr week 3 L26
Online Breathwork Sessions Online Guided Meditation Session Online Yoga Class Online Cannabis Ceremony Online Dance Class |
Apr week 4 L27 Using a Physical Cleanse or Enemas to Releasing Excess on All Levels Overthinking and Underthinking-how to recognize it |
Apr week 4 L28 Emotional Alchemy Dietas and Their Purpose Surrendering to Intuition In-tuition– an evolving faculty |
MAY 2023 |
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May week 1 L29 Lecture by Lakshmi Narayan What Can You Reduce? What Will You Gain? |
May week 2 L30 You don’t know what you don’t know. ONLINE: Breathwork Session Guided Meditation Yoga Class Cannabis Ceremony Dance Class
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May week 2 L31 Ibogaine Detox Protocols Cleanses Meditations |
May week 3 L32 The Greater Nourisher Art Therapy Session Writing Worshop
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May week 3 L33 The O-position Understanding the Cosmic Forces Archetypes: What Are They? |
May week 4 L34 Accessing Clarity by Silencing the Mind Raise Your Resonance |
May week 4 L35 Joint Approach: When Yin & Yang, Left & Right act as one whole brain |
JUNE 2023 |
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Jun week 1 L36 Lecture by Lakshmi Narayan Expanding the Accordion Fate & Fortune, Power & Purpose |
Jun week 2 L37 Looking at the Hologram from a High Place. Remembering the View when in a Low Place Understanding Ritual in the Moment Sacrament: Sacred Mind
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Jun week 2 L38 Epigenetic Healing The Entheogenic Understanding of Religion Christianity Buddhism Taoism Judaism Hinduism Islam
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Jun week 2 L39 Relationships and their Effect on Us Family Embryo of Society The Fragmented Family The Isolated Child
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Jun week 3 L40 Acting Often to Let Synchronicity Find You Energy Experiences Sweat Your Prayers
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Jun week 4 L41 Physical Emotional Spiritual What Work Would Feed All Three?
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Jun week 4 L42 Phoenix Rising Hero Returns Home A Cyclical Return
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JULY 2023 |
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Jul week 1 L43 Lecture by Lakshmi Narayan Overcoming Gloom & Doom with Intention Victim & Oppressor: A Dual Dynamic Within and Without |
Jul week 1 L44 The Nervous System Nervousness or Nirvana Cessation of the Ego Attention, Presence & Joy |
Jul week 2 L45 Communication & Community: Essential Parts of Healing |
Jul week 2 L46 “Pass around superfluous plates to those who have already had too much.” Taoist koan
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Jul week 3 L47 Being True to Yourself When You Are in the Abyss Just do the next thing |
Jul week 3 L48 “Deliver yourself from your great toe and then the companion comes.”
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Jul week 4 L49 Turning to a Just Arbiter Highhanded vs Cunning Meeting in the Middle |
AUGUST 2023 |
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Aug week 1 L48 Lecture by Lakshmi Narayan Reaching All the Way to the Water of Life What I learned about my Psyche from Fractals & Sacred Geometry
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Aug week 1 L49 Waiting for the Miracle to Come MDMA and Self-Love
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Aug week 2 L50 Be like Water, allow your level to rise. |
Aug week 3 L51 The cycles of Darkness and Light in the seasons and in the Self. How to be a Shepherd of your own Darkness.
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Aug week 3 L52 26 THE TAMING POWER OF THE GREAT Ayahuasca, the Little Vine of Death
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Aug week 4 L53 The Noribogaine period and how to maximize its effects
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Aug week 4 L54 Develping a relationship to Nature, the Elements, Mushrooms and Nature
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SEPTEMBER 2023 |
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Sep week 1 L55 Lecture by Lakshmi Narayan The Power of Forgiveness Integrating Christ Consciousness
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Sep week 2 L56 The Femi-nine Containing Chaos
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Sep week 2 L57 Lifelong Refinement Rediscovering Joy Everyday Cannabis as Entheogen |
Sep week 3 L58 Ice Flows that Separate Melt and Become One Again
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Sep week 3 L59 Meeting Evil Before It Manifests Noticing the Energy of Things |
Sep week 4 L60 18 WORK ON WHAT HAS BEEN SPOILED Reverse Operation of the Sages
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Sep week 4 L61 When the Ego Dies It Doesn’t Hurt Reaching Deep Enough. Drawing it Up. Dispensing the Water of Life.
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