"Friends" Is Not A Strong Enough Word

I got up early full of energy needing little sleep and headed down for the sunrise. What an amazing journey this whole thing has been. What a wonderful gift. I'll never be the same person again.


When I got back to my room I found a new roommate. I was glad to see him here and not in the Ayahuasca space.


We all gather early this morning knowing our time together was coming to an end. Not one of us would be leaving as the same person who arrived a week ago. We talked and took some group pictures before boarding the boat to head back to Iquitos. Having received permission from them both here are my mat buddies.


I then said goodbye to Pedro.


We all thanked Malcolm for this wonderful gift, as well as all the other Blue Morpho staff as they are all truly beautiful people. I watched the lodge disappear from the boat and thought this was the single most amazing and beautiful experience of my life, and it was also the hardest and most frightening thing of my life. It was the very definition of duality.

We got back to the hotel and I checked in. I said goodbye to the people who were heading to the airport to catch a plane. We weren't just friends, we were part of the same soul group, connected forever. The rest of us headed out for lunch on the good side of town.




Now that we were outside of the lodge we took a group picture after lunch. While lunch was good it was nowhere near the level of Blue Morpho’s kitchen. I'll see you all at our first reunion in January.

After lunch we walked around town and just enjoyed the day together.








Back at the hotel a few more peeled away to reintegrate with their lives or start new ones. I headed up to bed wondering how was I going to return to the life I once knew. I was a different Chris now and I didn’t even see the world the same anymore....