John Sarvis

Sarvis recommends that ayahuasca be taken with a shaman who knows how to move energy.

“it's a very special medicine very powerful medicine and it has to be done with a shaman really it should be because someone really knows how to move the energy”

Seekers of the Eternal: #56 ~ John Sarvis ~ Secret Smile Sanctuary (Dec 11, 2024) · Listen from 16:54

Sarvis says ayahuasca experiences are highly individual, so no one can predict another person's ceremony.

“every person's experience is different so one person can't tell you what you're going to experience in ceremony they can only tell you what they've experienced”

Seekers of the Eternal: #56 ~ John Sarvis ~ Secret Smile Sanctuary (Dec 11, 2024) · Listen from 15:44

Sarvis argues the medicine revealed how media and society had programmed him to believe he was flawed.

“It becomes so evident of how I was programmed. And how I was taken away from self and molded into this belief system that I'm flawed”

Seekers of the Eternal: #56 ~ John Sarvis ~ Secret Smile Sanctuary (Dec 11, 2024) · Listen from 12:19

Sarvis says ayahuasca did not make him quit smoking and drinking by effort, but that the habits fell away on their own.

“Like some of the things like smoking and drinking, I'm not going to say I quit any of that. It kind of quit me”

Seekers of the Eternal: #56 ~ John Sarvis ~ Secret Smile Sanctuary (Dec 11, 2024) · Listen from 12:49

Sarvis says that for him ayahuasca was mostly not psychedelic but more like torturous cleansing work.

“highly psychedelic it was more like uh torture i mean you go through it it does some cleansing”

Seekers of the Eternal: #56 ~ John Sarvis ~ Secret Smile Sanctuary (Dec 11, 2024) · Listen from 12:19

Sarvis proposes a daily good-news show compiled from short positive reports by people around the world.

“having a good news station where we kind of plug into some different people around the planet on a daily basis”

Seekers of the Eternal: #56 ~ John Sarvis ~ Secret Smile Sanctuary (Dec 11, 2024) · Listen from 1:01:06

Sarvis recommends that people stop watching the news and listen to calming music instead.

“number one thing if you want to feel better in life stop watching the news folks cut the news off put on some nice music”

Seekers of the Eternal: #56 ~ John Sarvis ~ Secret Smile Sanctuary (Dec 11, 2024) · Listen from 1:00:18

Sarvis says Florida went from two ayahuasca churches to one, which he hosts.

“How many ayahuasca churches are there in Florida? There used to be two. Now there's one”

Seekers of the Eternal: #56 ~ John Sarvis ~ Secret Smile Sanctuary (Dec 11, 2024) · Listen from 35:06

Sarvis recounts that after his latest ceremony the Taita told him his DNA had been rearranged to prepare him for what was coming.

“His DNA had been rearranged and put back together for big things that are coming”

Seekers of the Eternal: #56 ~ John Sarvis ~ Secret Smile Sanctuary (Dec 11, 2024) · Listen from 23:06

Sarvis argues that with practice, reframing irritations becomes an automatic reaction.

“When things start irritating you, it'll almost become a knee-jerk reaction to rethink it another way”

Seekers of the Eternal: #56 ~ John Sarvis ~ Secret Smile Sanctuary (Dec 11, 2024) · Listen from 56:31

Sarvis believes daily cold-water immersion is helping him lose weight by activating brown fat.

“I think it's activating my brown fat, eating up all my white fat”

Seekers of the Eternal: #56 ~ John Sarvis ~ Secret Smile Sanctuary (Dec 11, 2024) · Listen from 40:48

Sarvis says he learned that stilt houses like his were exempt from post-flood rules requiring damaged homes to be raised or demolished.

“He says, all the stilt houses are exempt from that. I was like, really?”

Seekers of the Eternal: #56 ~ John Sarvis ~ Secret Smile Sanctuary (Dec 11, 2024) · Listen from 23:47