13. From Heroin Addiction to The Alchemy of Prayer with Stuart Adam

As a native New Yorker, Stuart’s career in the arts took a turn when he first experienced ceremonial plant medicine. Exploring the esoteric arts, he spent the past 13 years traveling the world, working with different plant medicine lineages – time on the Red Road (Native American Tradition), in Peru with the Shipibo and with the Columbian Tiatas. He served plant medicine for years helping people heal. Now he is sharing his lifelong wisdom with students and clients – working with plant spirits, teaching the Alchemy of Prayer and offering spiritual, shamanic and integration guidance in New York and around the world. He continues to study and deepen his wisdom through devotional practice with elements, plants and the cosmos.

In this episode, Michaela Carlin and Stuart Adam discuss …

• Stuart’s work helping people use prayer to create a new personal operating system
• How Stuart came to work so deeply with prayer
• Stuart’s debaucherous life as a downtown NYC artist back in the 90s
• Stuart’s first ayahuasca journey while still being a heroin user
• The process of healing his heroin addiction on his own and how much he learned about addiction on a vibrational level
• Using tobacco to clear the vibration of addiction out of the body
• How the “grabby” energy of addiction can move from one substance or habit to another without being resolved at a deeper level
• Stuart’s journey developing his capacity to serve ayahuasca
• The building blocks of prayer and nuances of teaching clients how to pray
• Can you manifest with prayer?
• Stuart's practice working with fire and how it has transformed him
• A way to work with the element of water through a special morning prayer practice
• Learning to trust your prayers and in so doing, yourself
• Working with tobacco to heal addiction
• Stuart's process of working intentionally with tobacco for a period of 40 days to help heal his addictions, which he now teaches to others
• The relationship between plants and prayer
• Do we need heroic doses of psychedelics or even psychedelics at all to transform?

Stuart Adam’s Links

• Website: https://thealchemyofprayer.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stuart_alchemyof/