I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1435 - Ayahuasca, a New Round of My Medicinal Tea Blends, and Subtle Shifts - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Tuesday, June 23, 2026

I live naked and barefooted, very close to Earth and Nature, in an 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i, and I have for more than 7 years now. Although there are many challenges, I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

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Yesterday was not a very enjoyable day at all, in part due to the cloudy, rainy weather, and because of a few things that triggered some of my deep unresolved, unhealed inner wounds. With that being the case, I decided to take the opportunity to go back to the Flow House to drink a small batch of ayahuasca that was collected from the land by two people living here, which they prepared in an atypical raw manner in coconut water, and that they gave to me several days ago. After drinking it, I just laid down on my bed for a while, maybe a bit more than a hour. While I definitely felt it, its outward effects were not particularly strong, for which I was quite thankful, especially considering my very-intense experience from working with it many years ago, when I lived in Arizona.

I didn't even notice much last night, as I went through my Hive notifications. This morning, however, I feel much more inner calm and relaxation in my body, which is very welcomed. I'm also noticing some interesting inner shifts. I'm feeling strongly called to collect and prepare a new batch of my medicinal tea, which I haven't done in quite a long time indeed. I already put together a list of plants to collect, though I'll have to wait until tomorrow to do so, since I have a session today.

I'm also feeling the desire to change up how I prepare and drink my superfood fire coffee a bit, which I began putting into practice today, and to good effect. I want to start collecting and making regular batches of my medicinal tea once again, and to begin alternating between that and my superfood fire coffee during the week, as I feel called, rather than keeping myself locked into making and drinking my superfood fire coffee every day. That feels better, and more balanced to me.

I'm really looking forward to getting back into the regular practice of collecting and preparing my medicinal teas from the land. It's been years since I've done so, and I've missed it that whole time. I'm just starting out again with a handful of significant plants, to make it simple, quick, and easy for me to fit into my always-busy weekly schedule and daily routine. My daily routine might see some adjustments as well.

On a slightly different topic, I did a bit more research last night into the best methods of running larger LLMs on my laptop using llama.cpp and two of its forks, and in the process I discovered a far better way than I've tried so far. It will take a bit or setup, but it promises to make the whole process much simpler, easier, and quicker to swap, run, and test different run flags with different models. I'll likely start putting this together over the next few days. There definitely seem to be some subtle, though notable changes and shifts in the air, and in multiple areas.

Yesterday, Tuesday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by just after 2 PM. With the rain, I didn't feel inspired to do any photography for my posts, though thankfully I was still a few days ahead, so it wasn't overly necessary. I chopped and dumped bad/used coconuts at the upper coco bar, I harvested a rack of ripe bananas, and I resolved someone's internet issue, but other than that, I didn't do much else in terms of jungle-community tasks, opting instead to take time to myself to work with ayahuasca, as mentioned above. I finally wandered down to Wabisabi by a little after 6PM, to make myself some food, and to collect my leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, before heading back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got through all my notifications quite early, by around 8:45PM, and after the above-mentioned bit of llama.cpp research, and scanning my X feed, I went to bed by about 10:15PM. I woke up just before 7AM, having slept quite well, and feeling quite good, heading to Wabisabi to prepare my superfood fire coffee, then returning to the Flow House to decide on which plants to include in my upcoming new medicinal tea blend, and to write this post. It's now just after 12:30PM, so it's a great time to wrap this post up, so that I may attend to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before preparing for a session that's scheduled for 1:30PM. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's expression of these posts! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2026 Life Goals

1.) Do regular integral practices again, alone or with others.

2.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again.

3.) Make my plant nursery, and the gardens, beautiful again.

4.) Begin learning relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute to the sovereignty-driven technologies where I am active, like Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon.

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Play 2024 Android Phone.

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