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.
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.
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, transformations, and gained valuable self-knowledge that molded me as a person. These hexagrams will form the backbone of this course. Each month we will read and discuss in class one hexagram and it’s 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.
INTEGRATION
Integration is the pain point with ibogaine treatment. 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 integration 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
The nine month Change Your Character course will be populated by Breakthrough Lectures given by mentors and masters from the entheogenic community. The lectures fall into three broad categories: Preparation, Navigation and Integration, 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, breathworkers, 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 January to September 2023. The overarching I Ching hexagram associated with that month is highlighted in the yellow boxes to the left. There are seven spots each month for a Breakthrough Lecture. You can align with the hexagram’s message or keywords provided to decide what topic you want to speak on, or simply use the blocks for calendaring purposes. Either way we will let synchronicity arrange the syllabus. | ||||||
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Jan week 1 Lecture by Lakshmi Narayan Intro to the I Ching, Creating a True Intention, Yin and Yang: Binary Principles of Life, The I Ching & DNA |
Jan week 2 Strengths and weaknesses Mapping the Obstacle Course Know the Black, Keep the White |
Jan week 2 Set & Setting, Cleansing Detoxification, Purification, Initiating a Sacramental Experience |
Jan week 3 Navigating an ibogaine Flood Dose Experience Awakening the Inner Shaman What’s Happening in my Brain and Body? The Metaphysical Journey |
Jan week 3 Surrender and Receptivity The Masculine and Feminine Forces of Creation and Creativity The Art of Death & Resurrection |
Jan week 4 Reconnecting with Unconditional Love Joy as Discipline A Disciple Uses Discipline, and Adept Adapts What are you adept at? |
Jan week 4 Inner oppositions Outer oppositions |
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Feb week one Lecture by Lakshmi Narayan Balancing the Extremes that Cause Social Discontent , Creating A Plan for Success |
Feb week two The Broken Word Profile of an Addict Childhood Trauma and It’s Effects |
Feb week two Transcending Trauma with Entheogenic Journeying Lucid Shock: Healing not Reliving |
Feb week three Re-sept or 7 The Hidden Half The Power of Gentlenessss Surrender to Receive |
Feb week three When not to push The Power of Love and Rectification |
Feb week four Traversing Blocks along the Way Finding New Techniques |
Feb week four The Power of Non-Doing Desisting Gaslighting: Why Do We Do It? |
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Mar week one Lecture by Lakshmi Narayan Integrating the Return in Small and Large Ways |
Mar week two In-tuition, Letting Yourself be Drawn, The Strength of Your Surrender |
Mar week two The Many Ways Unresolved Trauma Shows Up in Your Life |
Mar week three Facing the Shadow in Your Entheogenic Journey Aliens & Entities Good, Bad, and Indifferent Astral Attacks |
Mar week three Fear is the First Door Gut Feelings & the Microbiome Looking at It Obliquely: How to Address a Psychological Problem with a Physical Strategy or vice versa |
Mar week four Repetition Strengthens Habits A Right beginning leads to a Right ending A Strategy for when you feel hopeless Back to Intention |
Mar week four Changing a Lesser Habit Food for Body, Mind and Spirit You Are What You Eat Physical detox protocols for Heroin, Suboxone, Crystal Meth |
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April week one Lecture by Lakshmi Narayan Eternity of the End Being the Change Continuous Refinement of Character Enduring Setbacks Making Relationships Last |
April week one Aligning with Greatness Consciously Making Your Word Good |
April week two Humiliation creates Humility A Rogue Ant When should you advance and when should you lay low. The Power of non-Resistance |
April week three What Happens During The Active Stage of an Ibogaine Experience? |
April week three Online Breathwork Session |
April week four Using a Physical Cleanse or Enemas to Releasing Excess on All levels |
April week four Emotional Alchemy Dietas and Their Purpose Surrendering to Intuition In-tuition– an evolving faculty |
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May week one Lecture by Lakshmi Narayan What Can You Reduce? What Will You Gain? |
May week one You don’t know what you don’t know. |
May week two Ibogaine Detox Protocols Cleanses Meditations |
May week two The Greater Nourisher Art Therapy Session |
May week three The O-position Understanding the Cosmic Forces |
May week three Accessing Clarity by Silencing the Mind Raise Your Resonance |
May week four Joint Approach: When Yin & Yang, Left & Right act as one whole brain |
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June week one Lecture by Lakshmi Narayan Expanding the Accordion Fate & Fortune, Power & Purpose |
June week two Looking at the Hologram from a High Place. Remembering the View when in a Low Place Understanding Ritual in the Moment Sacrament: Sacred Mind |
June week two Epigenetic Healing The Entheogenic Understanding of Religion Christianity Buddhism Taoism Judaism Hinduism Islam |
June week three Relationships and their Effect on Us Family Embryo of Society The Fragmented Family The Isolated Child |
June week three Acting Often to Let Synchronicity Find You Energy Experiences Sweat Your Prayers |
June week four Physical Emotional Spiritual What Work Would Feed All Three? |
June week four Phoenix Rising Hero Returns Home |
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July week one Lecture by Lakshmi Narayan Overcoming Gloom & Doom with Intention Victim & Oppressor: A Dual Dynamic Within and Without |
July week two The Nervous System Nervousness or Nirvana Cessation of the Ego Attention, Presence & Joy |
July week two Communication & Community: Essential Parts of Healing |
July week two “Pass around superfluous plates to those who have already had too much.” Taoist koan |
July week three Being True to Yourself When You Are in the Abyss Just do the next thing |
July week three Deliver yourself from your great toe. |
July week four Turning to a Just Arbiter Highhanded vs Cunning Meeting in the Middle |
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August week one Lecture by Lakshmi Narayan Reaching All the Way to the Water of Life What I learned about my Psyche from Fractals & Sacred Geometry |
August week two Waiting for the Miracle to Come MDMA and Self-Love |
August week two Be like Water, allow your level to rise. |
August week two The cycles of Darkness and Light in the seasons and in the Self. How to be a Shepherd of your own Darkness. |
August week three Ayahuasca, the Little Vine of Death |
August week three The Noribogaine period and how to maximize its effects |
August week four Develping a relationship to Nature, the Elements, Mushrooms and Nature |
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Sept week one The Power of Forgiveness Integrating Christ Consciousness |
Sept week two The Femi-nine Containing Chaos |
Sept week three Lifelong Refinement Rediscovering Joy Everyday Cannabis as Entheogen |
Sept week three Ice Flows that Separate Melt and Become One Again |
Sept week three Meeting Evil Before It Manifests Noticing the Energy of Things |
Sept week four Reverse Operation of the Sages |
Sept week four When the Ego Dies It Doesn’t Hurt |
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