IQUITOS, PERU — Kevin Simmons, a 28-year-old Chicago native, said he “was stuck” — depressed, locked away in his home and taking more than a year to even open his e-mail.
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Ayahuasca Documentary
Latter-day Ayahuasca
Mar 31, 2025
After losing my mother to suicide at 16 and struggling with emotional disconnection despite outward success, I followed a spiritual prompting that led me to the Amazon rainforest of Peru. This documentary follows my journey alongside my brother Ezra and my Catholic friend Ramiro as we work with Master Shaman Hamilton Souther through four Ayahuasca ceremonies.
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Metamorphosis
Aug 5, 2014
Metamorphosis follows a group of Westerners experiencing Ayahuasca, and the story of Hamilton Souther, whose awakening led him to the Amazon to train as an Ayahuascero. He guides us through the ceremonies and their meaning.
Podcasts
Paul Chek Podcast
Hamilton Souther: Shamanic Consciousness
Feb 13, 2024
Take a deeper dive into the primordial science that is Shamanism with Hamilton Souther, chairman/founder of the Peru-based Blue Morpho, in this mystical Living 4D conversation.
Paul Chek Podcast
Hamilton Souther: Plant Medicine Essentials
Mar 28, 2023
Explore plant medicine ceremonies with an open mind and heart and how to experience them safely with Hamilton Souther, chairman/founder of Blue Morpho a Peruvian-based company specializing in ayahuasca retreats, in this how-to Living 4D conversation.
Aubery Marcus Podcast
The Warrior Ethos Of An Astral Traveler With Maestro Hamilton Souther
Nov 23, 2022
A prerequisite for shamanic healing is having the ability to create a protected space in which the healing can take place. Maestro Hamilton Souther is a veteran ayahuasquero who has spent decades in the amazon training these specific set of skills. Skills that include both healing and defending the healing space from dissonant or malicious energies. In today’s podcast, we talk about the nature of consciousness, and the imperative of having protective skills when working in depth with plant medicines.
Chris Williamson
A Master Shaman's Guide To Ayahuasca
Nov 19, 2020
Expect to learn what it’s like to learn shamanism from the greatest masters in history, why plants have a place in a medicalised modern world, what sort of life a full time shaman lives in the jungle, Hamilton’s full length description of how plant medicines work and much more…
Aubery Marcus Podcast
The Psychonaut’s Guide To Ayahuasca | Unbeleivable Stories
Sep 23, 2020
Maestro Hamilton Souther is one of the most pre-eminent Western born Ayahuasqueros in the world. This founder of Blue Morpho has been my shaman in many different ayahuasca and plant dieta journeys. The stories from his days deep in the jungle battling against sorcery in the name of love and medicine are worthy of a science-fiction saga.
Articles
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Q&A with Hamilton Souther, Mystic & Technologist
Jun 08, 2025
At first blush, Hamilton Souther seems like a walking paradox. The same guy who launches web3 and AI projects also happens to have spent years living off the land in the Amazon (the rainforest, not the company). But Hamilton sees no contradiction. To him, ayahuasca and AI are both powerful technologies designed to expand consciousness and solve complex problems.
Metro
High on ayahuasca and surrounded by other people’s vomit
Aug 11, 2024
I’m lying on my back on a thin mattress deep in the Amazon jungle. Within arm’s reach is a small torch, a plastic tub, and an ominous roll of loo paper.
I stretch my fingers out to reassure myself it’s all still there, when I hear it: ‘Blergh!’ and a vomit chain reaction hits the room as others begin to follow suit and hurl.
Opera Daily
How a Group of Healers in Peru Helped Me Discover a Miracle - Within Myself
Mar 21, 2019
Broccoli. That’s the word that comes to mind as my plane descends into Iquitos, Peru. From my window, the Amazon jungle appears to be made up of countless bunches of flowering broccoli heads. I have never seen anything like it—neither the broccoli trees, nor the snaking tributaries of water that weave between them. Looking back, I think my brain was trying to make sense of the landscape as I landed in a part of the world where I had never been. But I have not come for the scenery. I have come in search of a miracle.
Nailed magazine
Interview: Master Shaman Hamilton Souther
Apr 15, 2014
Master Shaman Hamilton Souther, founder of the Blue Morpho Ayahausca and Shamanism Center in Peru, has seen countless lives transformed through ayahuasca, the powerful South American hallucinogenic beverage prepared from the bark of the Banisteriopsis caapi vine and the leaf of Psychotria viridis (often called charcuna). He says his new cannabis-oriented discipline is “on par with people’s ayahuasca experiences.”
LA Weekly
This Dude Was Going to Be a Pro Golfer. Instead, He Lived in the Jungle for 12 Years
Mar 11, 2014
Inside one of those anonymous high rises on Wilshire in Westwood, there is a bedroom in which all of the windows have been darkened and the walls covered in padding. The space is low lit and filled with electronics; it’s been converted into a recording studio. EDM is blasting from the speakers.
Yahoo Finance
Master Ayahuasca & Cannabis Shaman Hamilton Souther Unveils Blue Morpho Cannabis Shamanism
Jan 28, 2014
Hamilton Souther Has Developed a New Shamanic Discipline, Accessed via Cannabis, Which Creates a Direct Visionary Experience With the Healing Power of Traditional Native Ceremonies.
The Washington Post
In Peru, a mystery tour of the mind
Aug 20, 2010
The road to recovery, he said, came deep in the Peruvian jungle, in the form of a sludgelike concoction the Indians call “the sacred vine of the soul.”
Npr
In The Amazon, Potion Offers 'Window Into The Soul'
Aug 18, 2010
Visitors are flocking to the Peruvian Amazon to sample ayahuasca, a potion with hallucinogenic properties made from jungle vines and considered sacred by indigenous tribes. Lodges catering to “ayahuasca tourism” are attracting travelers who hope the concoction will help soothe a range of woes.
Time
Down the Amazon in Search of Ayahuasca
Apr 8, 2009
Although his parents urged him to study medicine, Jimmy Weiskopf dropped out of college and in the 1970s moved to Colombia, where he eventually began to focus on a different kind of elixir. The New York City native became an early advocate for the hallucinogenic plant mixture ayahuasca. For centuries, Amazonian Indians have been drinking ayahuasca, also known as yaje — a combination of the ayahuasca vine, tree bark and other plants — to achieve a trancelike state that they believe cleanses body and mind and enables communication with spirits.
National Geographic
Peru: Hell and Back
Mar 1, 2006
I will never forget what it was like. The overwhelming misery. The certainty of never-ending suffering. No one to help you, no way to escape. Everywhere I looked: darkness so thick that the idea of light seemed inconceivable. Suddenly, I found myself swirling down a tunnel of fire, wailing figures calling out to me in agony, begging me to save them. Others tried to terrorize me. “You will never leave here,” they said. “Never. Never.”
The New York Times
The Vision Seekers
Sep 12, 2004
Here’s the truth: I have traveled more than 4,000 miles to the middle of the Peruvian Amazon to be “cured” by shamans. It’s nighttime. The riverboat I’m on plies dark waters, the jungle thick on either side, emitting loud reptilian sounds that drone on like police sirens. I see no lights, no villages anywhere.
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