Green Earth Foundation

Ayahuasca Serpent Vision

I pray to the serpent vine of visions:

Help me heal the ancient wounds.

Slowly, the glittering snakes glide and slide,
Insinuating intimately into my deepest roots.
I’m inside the Serpent Mother now,

Coiling, writhing, turning, squirming,

Our bodies merged – one skin, one spine.

The space within expands to spaciousness,
Our little band of travellers on the spirit boat,
Are in the house, on the river, in the snake,
Sailing serenely along the darkening stream.

The Great Serpent’s body expands once more,

Encompassing now the River of Time,
The barque of human civilizations:

Whole villages & towns, I see, temples & palaces,
Pyramids & towers, kingdoms & nations:
Egypt, Rome, India, America,
Carried by the currents of collective fate,
Through the millenia, one great stream, one great Snake.

Now - continents & oceans, cloud montains, I see,
Vast deserts, rain forests, river dcltas,
Are only the shimmering body of Diamond Rainbow Serpent,
Mother of All Organic Life on Earth.

And now -- the Earth with all her sibling planets,
Companion worlds, Moon, Mercury and Mars,
Spinning and whirling in stately serpentine orbits,
Around Primordial Mother-Father Sun.

The barque of hundreds of millions of years sails on,
Great Cosmic Star Sun Serpent,
Wheeling majestically around the Milky Way
Galactic Center, Dark Source of All Radiance.

--Ralph Metzner
(Manaus, August 03)

Green Earth Foundation
Ralph Metzner
PO Box 327
El Verano, CA 95433