The Light of the Darkness

5 day intensive retreat with Victor Sanchez

Since 1984 I have been creating and developing programs that provide a healthy and non-threatening context for exploring altered states of awareness without the use of any drug or psychotropic.

Despite fashions, trends and the popularity of wanting to look for altered states through "easy doors" (drugs), or wanting to become a fast-track “shaman,” at AVP we insist on remaining faithful to one of our most powerful areas for personal development: the controlled access to heightened states of awareness through practical, healthy and effective techniques in a safe and contained environment.

During all these years, we have developed and share shamanic techniques to better be ourselves with all that we are, rather than to pretend to be important through wearing fashionable titles.

Because it does not make sense and is even dangerous to look for hallucinations or strange perceptions just for the sake of it, we have developed techniques to access the non-ordinary reality through  practices that strengthen our soul and make our mind clearer.

By doing so, our lives are empowered, our relationships improved, our actions more effective, and our hearts happier. This is what in the indigenous communities we are connected with they call: "To find the real Magical Deer" (as oppose to the "false deer" that the mere use of psychoactive plants may bring). The difference -they say- is that while the real Deer makes you stronger and changes your life for the better, the false deer gives you the illusion of wisdom but makes your body, mind and life weaker and isolated.

The Light of the Darkness is one of this healthy ways to explore altered states of awareness in the search of a vision that will strengthen your soul and will improve your life.

This 5-day intensive retreat consists of spending extended periods of time in complete darkness, combining blindfolding with other shamanic techniques to induce heightened states of awareness.

Staying in the dark in this program does not mean remaining passive, bored or scared. We create a safe environment in which participants encounter the light of the darkness through a series of exercises and dynamics during which we realize that we and the others are much more and much different from what the neurotic mind is always telling us. It is liberating and revealing.

Working in my traditional small group context (maximum 12 people), we are able to connect with each other in ways that transcend the social patterns and limitations. What is even greater is that our expanded connection does not finish with each other, but encompasses connecting with the Great Spirit through interaction with the forces of nature or Big Poderios, which are its visible face.

With the mind quiet, the controlling ego out of the way and our attention heightened the doorway to the other self and to the separate reality opens and the learning process takes place beyond words.

The Light of the Darkness is an excellent opportunity for those wanting to have a first hand experience of what silent knowledge means.

Come to share in this advanced program and you may well have a life-changing experience.

Participation in previous retreats with VS is required  but this requirement could be waived with the instructor's authorization.

For those who dare to disclose the veil of the darkness to find the unique light that shines there, rest assured that I will be supporting you along your magical journey…

VS

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