//媽媽！外國記者報導我的演講跟工作坊ㄟ！//

我累到都忘了有被好多人採訪，看到報導好開心😁關於我的薩滿學習心路歷程的演講，以及茶與舞踏的工作坊反應很好很開心，我做的薩滿鼓賣到歐洲也很開心！🥳
喜歡記者最後一句話，因為這就是我對儀式的認知「一個人進入儀式，從儀式出來之後就變成了另一個人」，這是之所以儀式令人著迷的原因！

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麗純、茶與舞踏

我和一群人站在一起，等著和麗純一起參加茶和舞踏儀式。

我昨天參加了 Marina Li Chun 的講座，她在演講開始時放映了一張她神聖的相思樹的照片，然後吟唱將我們與她的樹聯繫起來。她向我們介紹了她的植物醫學之旅、她的台灣傳承以及她從她的相思樹和她稱之為“誰”的其他樹中得到的指導。她低調而真誠。

我們走進房間，麗純穿著一件樸素的芥末色套頭衫坐在地板上，茶和茶杯放在她面前。我們被要求脫掉鞋子，自己找一個墊子，在地板上找一個座位。

在我們喝茶之前，麗純給我們介紹了一些背景知識並分享了一些茶文化。我們了解了中國農業之神，人們認為他發現了茶葉。在傳說中，他有一個透明的胃，所以他可以看到植物在他消化時對他的內部做了什麼，以及植物治愈或傷害了身體的哪些器官。我們還看看茶的漢字“茶”，字的頂部代表草，中間代表人，底部代表樹。

現在我們了解了一些傳承，我們開始品茶。

今天我們喝的是一棵1000年樹齡的普洱茶。茶經過發酵並陳化了 超過10 年。它既稀有又昂貴是天然寶藏。

麗純用一把茶刀從雜餅上切下茶葉，一塊黑色的大實心茶磚。小茶壺和茶杯用於泡茶和盛茶。麗純冷靜而專注地倒茶泡茶。我們每人拿一個裝滿熱茶的小杯子。

“我們要延長時間，”她輕聲說，“用茶。”

她要求我們用我們所有的感官將茶和它來自的 1000 年古樹聯繫起來。

茶聞起來有泥土味。

它很熱並且接地。

我開始感到平靜和溫暖。

喝了幾杯茶之後，房間裡似乎平靜了一些。現在我們聽說了舞踏，也被稱為黑暗之舞，一種最近出現的現代日本傳統，誕生於戰爭的暴行和一種要求舞者放下自我和自我的舞蹈形式，成為一個空殼去使他們能夠接收周圍的靈。正如麗純解釋的舞踏，一段視頻的背景是舞踏舞者處於恍惚狀態。眼睛呆滯而空洞。

麗純告訴我們，我們要用我們喝過的茶結合舞踏來模擬 DMT 體驗，經歷我們自己的死亡和重生。

“大家都同意嗎？”她平靜地問道。

房間安靜下來，儀式開始。

麗純安靜而令人安心的聲音引導我們完成這個動人的冥想。我閉上眼睛，讓自己被帶走，我的身體慢慢地扭動著。

首先，我能感覺到其他身體在我周圍慢慢移動。最終他們消失了。

我感到看不見的能量在牽引著我，明亮的燈光溫暖著我的臉，最黑暗最深的絕望之洞在我腳下裂開。

我們被要求質疑我們自己的好與壞，光明與黑暗，我們的存在，我們在萬物中的位置。

我們被帶回房間。當我慢慢睜開眼睛時，我看到人們在擦眼淚。有痛苦的淚水，也有欣喜的淚水。

我們重生了

我感到平靜

新的

發呆

卻充滿活力。

一切都很慢

“你的時間變長了嗎？”麗純問

我們都離開了房間，當我們走進去時，不同的人。

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Li Chun, Tea and Butoh

I am stood with a group of people waiting to take part in a tea and Butoh ritual with Li Chun Marina Lin.

I attended Marina Li Chun’s lecture yesterday where she began her presentation by projecting a photograph of her sacred Acacia Tree and then chanted to connect us with her tree. She took us through her journey with plant medicine, her Taiwanese heritage and the guidance she has received from her Acacia tree and other trees that she refers to as who’s. She is understated and genuine.

Li Chun © Bex Phillips
We enter the room and Li Chun is sat on the floor in a plain mustard jumper with the tea and tea cups laid out in front of her. We are asked to remove our shoes and help ourselves to a cushion and find a seat on the floor.

Before we take the tea Li Chun gives us some context and shares some of the culture of tea. We learn about Shujun, the Chinese god of agriculture who is believed to have discovered tea. In legend he has a clear stomach so he can see what plants do to his insides as he digests them, and which organs of the body the plants heal or harm. We also look at the Chinese character for tea, ‘Cha’, how the top part of the character represents the grass, the middle part the people and the bottom part the trees.

Now we understand some of the heritage we begin to take the tea.

Today we are drinking Pu Erh tea from a 1000 year old tea tree. The tea is fermented and has been aged for 10 years. It is rare and expensive. A natural treasure.

Li Chun cuts the tea from a cake, a large black solid brick of tea, with a tea knife. Small tea pots and cups are used to brew and serve the tea. Li Chun calmly and purposefully pours and brews the tea. We each take one of the small cups filled with the hot tea.

‘We are going to expand time’ she says quietly ‘using the tea.’

She asks us to connect with the tea and the 1000 year old tree it came from with all of our senses.

Li Chun – tea ceremony © Bex Phillips
The tea smells earthy.

It is hot and grounding.

I begin to feel calm and warm.

After a few rounds of the tea the room seems calmer. We are now told about Butoh, also known as the dance of darkness, a recently modern Japanese tradition, born from the atrocities of war and a dance form which requires the dancer to let go of themselves and their ego, to become an empty husk to enable them to receive surrounding spirits. As Li Chun explains Butoh, a video plays in the background of a Butoh dancer in a trance-like state. Eyes glazed and empty.

Li Chun tells us we are going to use the tea we have drunk in combination with Butoh to simulate a DMT experience, living through our own death and rebirth.

‘Is everyone OK with that?’ she asks calmly.

The room is quiet in agreement and the ritual begins.

Li Chun’s quiet and reassuring voice guides us through this moving meditation. I close my eyes and let myself be taken, my body twists and contorts slowly.

To begin with I can feel other bodies moving slowly around me. Eventually they disappear.

I feel unseen energy pulling me, the feeling of bright lights warm my face and the darkest deepest holes of despair open beneath me.

We are asked to question the good and the bad in ourselves, the light and the dark, our very existence, our place amongst everything.

We are guided back into the room. As I slowly blink my eyes open I see people are wiping away tears. There were painful tears and also tears of joy.

Li Chun – tea ceremony © Bex Phillips
We are re-born

I feel calm

new

dazed

yet enlivened.

everything is sloooooooooower

‘Did time expand for you?’ asks Li Chun

We all leave the room, different people to when we walked in.

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