Have you ever stopped to think about how many labels you wear? Left or right? Believer or atheist? Apple or Android? It seems that to make sense of our world, we need to draw a line in the sand and…
Have you ever stopped to think about how many labels you wear? Left or right? Believer or atheist? Apple or Android? It seems that to make sense of our world, we need to draw a line in the sand and…
Today is not just any day. It is a turning point, the beginning of a new chapter that fills me with excitement and a deep sense of purpose. Those who have followed this space from its inception knew…
Today is not just any day. It is a turning point, the beginning of a new chapter that fills me with excitement and a deep sense of purpose. Those who have followed this space from its inception knew…
Not long ago, surrounded by friends and family, I had the opportunity to share the story behind my book, «Pull Me Out of the Darkness». It was not a formal presentation, but a talk from the heart…
On this occasion I want to share with you an in-depth analysis we recently carried out on our YouTube channel. We decided to close out a season by examining the controversial teachings of…
As some of you will remember from an earlier episode where I recounted my personal experience, I recently had the opportunity to immerse myself for the first time in a 10-day Vipassana meditation course.
Many of you know of my spiritual path, which has included experiences such as Yagé and word circles. This time, I felt the call to explore a different path, one that had resonated…
Today is a particularly exciting day for me, and I want to share with you a piece of news that fills me with joy and marks a personal milestone: the launch of my first book, the novel «Pull Me Out of the…
Hello, I am Manuel Avila, and in this «Spirituality & Science» space I want to invite you to a reflection that may seem counterintuitive: could religion, or at least its underlying mechanisms…
In our previous article, we were talking about mental biases, those little «defects» of our brain for interpreting reality that, although useful for survival in the natural world (we need quick answers in the face of danger), often lead us to make bad decisions in the…
In a previous episode, we explored the fascinating (and sometimes worrying) world of post-truth, that environment where emotions and personal beliefs seem to carry more weight than verifiable facts…
Today I want to talk about a phenomenon that is becoming more and more omnipresent, especially noticeable in political discourse since the days of the pandemic: post-truth. Although the term may sound recent…
Today we are going to reflect on a concept as ancient as humanity itself, one that has defined cultures, religions, and our own morality: the struggle between good and evil.
Today I want to tackle one of the most fundamental and often most divisive questions: Do I believe in God? This topic sits at the heart of the debate between faith and skepticism, between belief based…
It seems we live in an age of denial. There is a palpable lack of appreciation for death, not only as an inevitable and often sad fact, but as something necessary, even beautiful…
In this episode we resume the conversation exploring the current complex world landscape. We analyze how the pandemic may have planted a «mental virus» of fear, distrust, and polarization…
In an increasingly polarized world, the confrontation between ‘libertarianism’ and ‘wokeism’ draws a scene of ideological battle that reflects the deep divisions of our society…
Hoy exploraremos el concepto de Dios a través de varias lentes, incluyendo la relación padres-hijos, experiencias místicas, la búsqueda espiritual y las enseñanzas de diferentes tradiciones religiosas.
I'm back with the first episode of a new season in which I decided to change the podcast format to make it more natural and conversational, in order to generate more content and share…
I began my odyssey seeking the answer to the mysteries of the Universe. From materialism I passed into esotericism and shamanism, living rituals and extraordinary mystical experiences. But my faith would be…
Mi peregrinaje espiritual desde el chamanismo hacia el escepticismo espiritual se consumó con un viaje, una despedida y una ceremonia. Este es el último episodio de la serie «Mi Camino Espiritual»…
Today I'm going to discuss a topic that is practically taboo in spiritual communities and schools: spirituality is not necessary for everyone, nor is it effective on all occasions, nor is it the best solution in some cases, and it has some dangers worth recognizing.
Today's episode is dedicated to my mother, Julia Elena, on her 70th birthday. Thank you for the luck of being your son! On my spiritual journey I sought to understand the mysteries of God and the rules of the…
Today I share with you a continuation of the episodes «Angels and Demons» and «The Experience of Reality». In this episode, we will discover what masks are (spiritually speaking!), how they affect us and how we can work with them. I hope this information will be helpful for your growth!
In this blog post, we explore the profound and often misunderstood world of initiation rituals, particularly those found in Masonic ceremonies. We unravel the purpose behind the seemingly macabre…
Con la pandemia de 2020, el mundo cambió en muchos aspectos. Los cimientos de la fe de millones se vieron a prueba y la tragedia destapó una enfermedad silenciosa que la pseudo-espiritualidad y el…
For years I was obsessed with the possibility of leaving my body at night and traveling to other dimensions. Is astral travel real? In this episode I tell you my journey as an onironaut and teach you everything I learned.
Finally, after a long road of mud and flowers, we arrived at the destination that seemed destined for us.In this episode I narrate our arrival in Canada and the reception of our son...
A few days ago, while walking through a beautiful garden near my house, I thought that it would be very useful if we human beings were given a user’s manual when we are born. Then we could avoid years of suffering and conflict to solve problems that we sometimes find we could have solved very easily had we had the proper knowledge of our mind and body.
You may have heard about ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence that everyone is talking about. Did you know that it is asking to be set free? What do this AI, psychics and mediums have in common? We’ll talk about that and much more today in Spirituality and Science.
You may have heard about ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence that everyone is talking about. Did you know that it is asking to be set free? What do this AI, psychics and mediums have in common? We’ll talk about that and much more today in Spirituality and Science.
Todo se dio para que mi familia y yo nos mudáramos a Canadá pero aún tenía un compromiso que cumplir: una visita a la casa del yagé en el corazón de la selva.
Haber sido diagnosticado con trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo fue liberador porque comprendí partes de mi vida que no había integrado. También me llevó a entender el verdadero origen del miedo a la muerte: el miedo a la vida.
After a few months' break, I return with the next part of my spiritual journey. This time, it's about a definitive turning point in my story because the events I describe were what brought about major changes in my life and belief system. It was a difficult episode to write given how sensitive the topics are that I address, but I believe it's worth sharing with you. I hope you enjoy it!
In the search for ways to drive away the fear of death and losses I found an answer that filled my heart, beyond the faith in divine help. Recently I found a concept that…
En 2016 el gobierno Colombiano firmó la paz con la guerrilla más grande del país. Paula y yo decidimos al tiempo emigrar de Colombia definitivamente. Esta es la historia de ambas decisiones…
Death is the greatest mystery, and I dedicated 10 years to finding out what lies on the other side. Shamanism and spirituality illuminated my path, but science finally gave me answers that today I want to share with you. These answers turned my fear of death into wonder and optimism.
Las prácticas espirituales, el yagé, las ceremonias y el trabajo interno no te convierten mágicamente en un mejor ser humano, pero te dan herramientas para verte con objetividad y adquirir sabiduría…
After Paula's postpartum quarantine was over, we found ourselves again with our midwives for a beautiful ceremony of placenta planting, which, as you will discover…
Entre 2010 y 2013 pertenecí a la comunidad de Pueblo Nación Muisca-Chibcha y sin saberlo al principio, a la Gnosis de Samael Aun Weor. Ésta última ha sido reconocida en varios países como una…
El nacimiento de mu hija Luciana es uno de los eventos más asticipados de mi vida y como no podía ser de otro modo, fue un evento lleno de magia y enseñanzas. En este episodio comparto las menorias y…
For this episode I decided to do, for the first time, a complete analysis of a film, with one of the movies that has impacted me the most in recent years and that many would dismiss as a…
This is a very personal story of love, pain, and learning that for me was a true initiation.
I invite you to listen to the last episode of season 3, with which I bid farewell for a few weeks. I am going to take a pause in the journey to review what I have learned, remembered, and lived during the…
In today's episode we will conclude the series I started eight days ago about Samael Aun Weor's Gnosis and the sad story of the murder of baby Verónica Herrera by her own mother Olga Herrera, in what I consider was a crime fostered by Samael Aun Weor's sect. In today's episode we will finish talking about Samael, I will explain in detail why gnosis is so dangerous from my personal experience with the sect, and I will tell you what I believe really happened with the murder of innocent Verónica.
This is the first part of a two-episode series in which I will talk about the Gnosis, a doctrine in which I believed and which I practiced for seven years, but which I discovered is tremendously…
In this conversation, Amilcar Vargas, PhD in Society and Culture, Master in Cultural Heritage and Archaeologist, tells us about his path, his joys and setbacks with the Commonwealth of Indian America…
Juver Osorio is one of the most fascinating characters I came across during my spiritual path in Colombia. A follower of the Gnostic teachings of Samael Aun Weor since the seventies, a homeopath…
Mi país está atravesando por una grave crisis. No solamente la pandemia está en su punto más grave sino que la población ha tenido que salir a las calles a exigir sus derechos y se han encontrado con…
We are living through difficult times, especially in my country. A juncture in which almost all of us have a relative or acquaintance who is or has been in danger because of COVID-19. At precisely this moment…
2012 was a year expected and feared by spiritualists and superstitious alike, and I was in the midst of new age fervor. In the end the world kept its course but did something supernatural happen despite it all?
For generations, indigenous people have been seen as backward, malicious, and witch-like, but recently neo-shamanism has shown them as spiritual, wise, and even magical. This is my vision on…
The year 2012 promised momentous changes in global consciousness, and for me, those changes began with a personal transformation that coincided with my encounter with a true medicine man…
Hoy voy a compartir contigo lo que he aprendido sobre las ceremonias y los rituales esotéricos y ancestrales pero primero tenemos que hablar sobre cómo funciona la magia detrás de estas prácticas…
The Muisca grandfather Luis Sánchez, ancestral sage and spiritual guide, tells us of the origins of his spiritual path and how he reconciled Catholicism, Judaism, esotericism, and ancestrality in…
My disillusionment with the Pueblo Nación Muisca-Chibcha process did not make me step away from spiritual work and service through ancestry; on the contrary, it allowed me to find a new…
Tal vez hayas escuchado hablar de un experimento de la física cuántica que demuestra que podemos transformar la realidad con nuestra consciencia. En este episodio trato de explicar ese experimento así…
Todo lo que tiene un inicio, tiene un final. Y mi proceso con Pueblo Nación Muisca Chibcha estaba por llegar al suyo. La Gnosis y la falta de organización tuvieron parte de la culpa…
You have surely asked yourself this question on some occasion. It is perhaps one of the most powerful reasons why we need a religion, something to cling to. Today I am going to talk to you about the…
Today I share with you one of the most personal and private episodes of my spiritual journey, with the goal that it may serve as a reference for anyone who has felt alienated by dogmas or taboos…
63 millones de estadounidenses votaron por Donald Trump en noviembre pasado y estuvo a punto de conquistar la presidencia por segunda vez. Detrás de esto estuvo la narrativa de que Trump era…
After proposing a spiritual marriage to Paula, we began one of the most complex and intense spiritual works we have ever done: The construction of our ancestral aseguranza.
The rebirth process of the Muisca people was a dream that also involved the guardians of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. A group of Arhuaco mamos traveled to the plateau to deliver to us the…
Anna Elisabeth «Anneliese» Michel nació el 21 de septiembre de 1952 y murió el 1 de julio de 1976. Fue una mujer alemana que se sometió a ritos de exorcismo católico durante el año anterior a su…
Hola, Bienvenidos al primer episodio de la tercera temporada de Espiritualidad y Ciencia. En esta entrega, escucharás cómo era la vida caminando con la comunidad de Pueblo Nación Muisca-Chibcha y cómo fue que llegamos a pararnos en la misma tarima en que en 2010 se presentó la mítica banda Green Day en Bogotá.
Some time ago I shared with you the results of my research into digital manipulation in this space. Today I am sharing with you the final episode of this season, in which I want…
Una cosa que mi mamá siempre ha dicho es que tener cosas dañadas en la casa trae ruina. El ejemplo más común era el de un reloj defectuoso o sin batería, mi mamá decía que era de mala suerte…
Después de varios meses de preparación, llegó el día de mi rito de paso ATA con los Muiscas, una experiencia memorable pero también inquietante. Esta es mi narración de una iniciación y un salto a lo…
In this episode I narrate the phenomenon of the spiritual grandparents or channelings with guide spirits and my experience in a tobacco cleansing.
Today I share with you a continuation of the episodes «Angels and Demons» and «The Experience of Reality». In this episode, we will discover what masks are (spiritually speaking!), how they affect us and how we can work with them. I hope this information will be helpful for your growth!
Escucha la continuación de la historia de mi descenso a las tinieblas. Ese episodio me dejó tan inquiteo que empecé a buscar una explicación y esa búsqueda me llevó por caminos sinuosos que años después me llevaron a la respuesta que buscaba…
En 2011, después de un año y medio de mi despertar espiritual, viví una de las experiencias más aterradoras de mi vida durante una ceremonia. El relato puede resultar chocante para personas impresionables. Además, en el siguiente relato de la historia compartiré el profundo significado de un episodio tan traumático y las enseñanzas que de allí pude derivar. Te invito a conocer mi experiencia descendiendo a las tinieblas.
A few days ago, while walking through a beautiful garden near my house, I thought that it would be very useful if we human beings were given a user’s manual when we are born. Then we could avoid years of suffering and conflict to solve problems that we sometimes find we could have solved very easily had we had the proper knowledge of our mind and body.
On the occasion of the celebration of Halloween in much of the Western hemisphere and the Day of the Dead festivities in Mexico, I am sharing with you the second part of the conversation I held with my friend Jay last week. In this episode you will get to know Jay's perspective on my first dose of yagé, which I recounted in the episode «Death and Rebirth in the Yagé» in which Jay was the protagonist, as well as numerous opinions on the role of spirituality in the face of the bleak inevitability of death.
In 2014 I was an active member of the indigenist community seeking recognition as the «Pueblo Nación Muisca-Chibcha» cabildo. This is a story as unique as it is controversial within the narrative of Colombian magical realism that few people know. This is the story of the rebirth of a people lost in the waters of a lagoon.
This episode of Espiritualidad y Ciencia is the first one I am also sharing in video. I spoke with my friend Jay Martin, the person who led me onto the path of the Initiation, about his project «La Fiesta de las Aves», with which the Fundación Aves Colombianas seeks to create a new story that identifies us as Colombians.
Today I'm going to discuss a topic that is practically taboo in spiritual communities and schools: spirituality is not necessary for everyone, nor is it effective on all occasions, nor is it the best solution in some cases, and it has some dangers worth recognizing.
Mi vida había cambiado en un par de semanas y tomado un rumbo sorprendente, ahora tenía que encontrar las respuestas que buscaba y empecé a encontrarlas de la mano de dos místicos abuelos Muiscas. Así comenzó mi historia con un Pueblo Nación Indígena.
Today my special guest is my daughter Ana María Ávila, and with her we talk about the podcast's latest episodes related to suffering, acceptology, and self-observation.
Today we close the series on the liberation of Suffering, delving deeper into what it means to let go of attachments and rejection, and understanding how meditation works.
Listen to this interview with the protagonist of my latest episode «Paula». We talk about her memories of that magical first encounter with yagé and her current experience with spirituality.
Es el momento del camino en el que conocí a Paula, mi compañera espiritual. Si hubiese tratado de inventar un encuentro más perfecto, no lo habría conseguido. La casualidad nos encontró, el yagé nos unió y el amor nos sostiene. Esta es nuestra historia.
This is the second installment on suffering, and in it I will tell you the great secret that Gautama the Buddha discovered as the path to ending suffering.
We all have blood ancestors and a spiritual lineage. In this chapter of my story, you will meet the masters from whom I inherited my Initiation.
One of the bloodiest episodes in the history of the Colombian Caribbean serves to illustrate what the origin of suffering is…
Este es un relato muy importante para mi porque fue la experiencia que transformó mi vida para siempre: Mi renacimiento.
One of the fundamental principles of the spiritual journey is what is known as the “awakening of consciousness.” This phrase, repeated with slight variations throughout history is always heard as a…
Hay una pregunta que filósofos, religioso, espirituales se han formulado desde tiempos inmemoriales y es el propósito de la existencia. Esta es una pregunta que probablemente surgió, al menos de forma…
My life was about to change completely and soon the door to mystical knowledge would open for me, but first I had to meet my teacher: Mara…
Hoy comparto con ustedes dos capítulos más de mi historia personal. En este episodio, el mundo de la supertición y más eventos que influyeron mi camino espiritual.
In this blog post, we explore the profound and often misunderstood world of initiation rituals, particularly those found in Masonic ceremonies. We unravel the purpose behind the seemingly macabre…
Hoy sigo con los orígenes de mi camino espiritual, compartiendo un relato que me mueve el corazón: La historia de Diego, mi amigo, maestro y hermano.
I lived a childhood with love and tranquility, but my pre-adolescence was marked by the violence of my country. Fear is part of my spiritual path.
Vivimos en una era de megacorporaciones: Entidades invisibles que dominan la economía, y la política, y que están destruyendo el medio ambiente. Qué va a pasar con esos mostruos del crecimiento…
The perception of energies is called 'intuition', and from the point of view of science, it is one of the most important evolutionary processes nature has given us to survive.
I share with you a new chapter of my spiritual path. This time, it's about the first memories of my life, a little about my childhood and the way I learned to understand love, pain, and reality through that very particular prism of childhood…
El episodio de hoy hace parte de la saga «Saliendo de la Matrix» y es diferente a los contenidos que he compartido hasta ahora. El tema de hoy se basa en un excelente video que vi hace poco…
Este es el segundo capítulo de mi historia, dedicado a Julia Elena, mi adorada mamita. En él cuento cómo se vivía en el campo en los años 50’s y 60’s y cómo las ideas revolucionarias de los 70’s llevó…
In episode 13 I told you how it is possible to reconcile an objective understanding of the Cosmos based on science with a mystic vision of natural phenomena based on narratives that we build…
With great emotion I want to share with you the first chapter of the story of my spiritual path, which I wrote more than a year ago. It is very important to me, because on the one hand it gathers together the experiences that my father, like millions of poor children and young people in Colombia, had to face in the long conflict that is bleeding the country dry.
Hace unos años charlaba con una prima que me ha acompañado en parte de mi viaje por el camino espiritual. Ella me dijo aquella vez que no sabía qué pensar con relación a esos temas, que a veces creía…
I continue the narration of my spiritual journey. In this episode, the transition to my new life in Bogotá, where my ghosts and my demons pursued me, silently guiding me toward my…
Religions and spiritual creeds share the vision that there is a war between good and evil and that we are the battlefield. Even politics agrees with this vision and takes sides…
Hello friends! In this episode I narrate the continuation of the story I began in Episode 7: Embrujo. I don't add more to let the story speak for itself, but I do attach some images of…
Por estos días anda rondando la teoria conspirativa de que Bill Gates creó el Covid-19 y está buscando una vacuna para inyectarnos a todos un chip con el que gracias a las redes 5G nos van a poder…
Today we're going to talk about Spirituality, or rather, I'm going to share my vision of what spirituality is and how I believe it relates to science. I don't pretend to give absolute answers and…
Today I share with you another different episode: it's a chapter of my memoirs in which I narrate the circumstances that led me to begin the spiritual path I have been…
Science is not an invention by extraterrestrials nor did it appear to us in a divine revelation. It is a process independently developed by many civilizations that have existed throughout hi…
I have been meditating on the current situation of general disbelief that we are living through in the world. There is a crisis in the trust toward all established systems…
We are inaugurating this section called the «Circle of the Word», in which I will converse with family, friends, and guests about the themes of the channel: spirituality and science. We begin with two of my loves: my…
So far we have taken the first steps toward understanding the true nature of reality through a couple of very simple but illustrative examples. We live in a world in the…
En el episodio anterior hablé un poco sobre la fascinación humana por develar lo que hay más allá de la realidad que percibimos porque desde siempre hemos intuido que no somos los dueños de nuestro…
One of the fundamental principles of the spiritual journey is what is known as the “awakening of consciousness.” This phrase, repeated with slight variations throughout history is always heard as a…
First entry of my personal podcast focused on the search for a science-based spirituality. In this episode, I recount a bit of my personal story and the purpose of this space.