Time to embrace and share my weird! In December 2025 I appeared in Awakened Souls Magazine. Honestly, I don’t feel comfortable sharing this with the public, so I guess it’s time to step outside of my comfort zone. It also feels a little to me a little egotistical to appear in a magazine with this title, almost with a “better than” stance – which is absolutely the last thing I ever want to portray. I chose to be featured to share what has actually been a rather lonely journey for a few years, with a view to inspire / encourage. More recently I have become aquatinted with an organization to help me to hone these skills – that we all have. I hope this is an enlightening read…. it’s certainly “out there.”
I have collated some footage at the foot for you to peruse.
Beyond Seven Years of Ayahuasca: The Night My Body Became a Vessel for a Higher Intelligence
After seven years of sitting with ayahuasca – witnessing visions, purging, healing, and countless journeys through the architecture of consciousness – nothing prepared me for what happened on November 5, 2023.
This wasn’t another ceremony. It was an initiation.
My body became a channel – an instrument of consciousness – through which an intelligence far greater than “me” began to move, breathe, and dance.
On November 5, 2023, something profound happened. The ceremony wasn’t planned – a friend invited me in passing at a restaurant in Todos Santos. We were four plus our shaman, Aguila – “Eagle” – gathered around a fire beneath the Baja stars.
After Rapé cleared our minds, the ayahuasca began to move through us. By the third cup, my body was alive. I lay back as invisible hands took over — breath changing, muscles twitching, energy surging up my spine. It felt like psychic surgery: head thrown side to side, fascia releasing, trauma leaving through movement.
At one point, I was on all fours, carving infinity symbols in the dirt exactly as Aguila had done earlier, our gestures mirror-matching across time. Later, I rose to dance — graceful, ecstatic, every motion precise, almost balletic. I wasn’t dancing to the music; the music was dancing me.
When the medicine settled, I looked across the fire, palms pressed together in gratitude. The shaman met my eyes and nodded. I sensed an initiation had taken place – something ancient remembered through my body.
The Continuation
A few weeks later, my girlfriend and I shared a mushroom journey at home. As the medicine opened, I saw energy coiling at the base of her spine and asked if she’d like some hand healing. She said yes.
The moment I hovered my palms a few inches from her back, I noticed her body begin to move in response to my hands. Subtle shifts in my hand position seemed to manipulate the energy along her spine — a dynamic I’d come to know intimately within my own body. What I was witnessing in her felt like the same activation expressing through me, mirrored and magnified. Kundalini flashed into my mind.
The second round took us deeper: my right hand started tracing circles, the left balancing it, clearing and cleaning energy with a precision that wasn’t mine. My breathing slowed, my voice dropped into a deep, ancient register. Sounds poured through me — Native, shamanic. It felt like coming home — unfamiliar, yet familiar.
I kept checking in; she was smiling, surrendered.
At one point she leaned forward and my hand travelled up her spine, tapping rapidly near the top. I could see electricity. When the current eased, I hugged her from behind. We laughed, wide-eyed: “So… that’s not happened before.”
Then the energy surged through me. I stepped outside, dropped to all fours on the Baja dirt, and grounded it into the earth. Instantly it released. She joined me and said softly, “This feels like our spiritual home.” And it did.
The Solo Journey
A week or two later, I sat for a solo mushroom journey — and everything amplified.
The familiar activation began: subtle tremors in meditation, jolts up the spine, my right arm alive, then the left, until my whole body was fully embodied by that same intelligence. I stood and began to dance — really dance — moving in ways I never had before. Each spin and landing was exact, choreographed by something far greater.
Soon my body guided me outside. Where are we going now? I wondered as my legs led me to a flower bed. Lying on my front, I realised I was not only grounding but connecting with the mycelium itself — the living network beneath us. It felt electric.
Moments later I was on all fours again, animalistic, senses heightened. I stood, cat-like, and began spinning like a whirling dervish, then dropped low, moving like a ninja — fluid, precise, fearless. It felt like The Matrix training sequence performed by nature. My body knew exactly what to do.
I kept glancing at the eight-foot wall beside me, asking, Am I meant to climb that? On the second attempt, I scaled it effortlessly and balanced on top, held by an unseen force. Medicine music blared from inside; I danced on the wall, wide-smiled, fully alive. When a car passed, like a startled cat, I leapt down, rolled perfectly, and crouched — half-human, half-something else.
For hours I moved this way – spinning, flowing, embodying energies beyond comprehension. At one point I thought, No wonder I’ve never fit in. I’m not even human.
When the night finally stilled, I sat down and journaled, heart racing with awe. Whatever this activation was — this language of movement, breath, and electricity — something awakened within me. My body was no longer just mine. It was an instrument of consciousness — of a Greater Intelligence. I was like a puppet being moved by Spirit.
The following day, I recalled a shamanic healing session I’d received in 2018 – no medicine involved – where the Shaman had told me to look into shapeshifting, as it was “in my field.” Something clicked. (Optional for deletion in final edit.)
The Integration
What’s most exciting is that I intuitively knew this activation would eventually begin happening without medicine – and sure enough, it has. I’ve come to understand that the medicine helps us embody a frequency, and once integrated, we no longer need the medicine to access it.
Alongside more mushroom journeys, I’ve found that during meditation, breathwork, and especially through dance, the same current now moves through me naturally. It began at an ecstatic dance in Baja at the end of 2024.
The frequency of the music is everything. Some tracks open the channel instantly, while others shut it off like a switch. During one particular session, the DJ dropped a sequence of tribal medicine tracks that completely activated me. My body began to move in that familiar way — spontaneous, precise, alive — only this time there was no ayahuasca, no mushrooms, just rhythm, breath, and surrender.
Since then, I’ve attended other ecstatic dances and held my own private “dance meditations,” where stillness dissolves into movement as the music dances me. I felt activated again in Egypt this summer and hosted a few more impromptu dance journeys — one of which I shared online.
Over the past two years, I’ve been recording much of this – countless hours of footage capturing these spontaneous activations, including one filmed session just yesterday with a somatic-channeling practitioner I connected with on Instagram.
If you’d like to witness how this energy expresses through movement, you can find glimpses of this journey on: 👉 Instagram.com/NeilCannonVitality
Closing Reflection
What began as ceremony is slowly becoming a way of life – remembering that the Divine speaks through movement, through stillness, through every cell.
I often wonder what will happen as more of us remember this truth – as we awaken the dormant capacities that have always been within us. We all carry these subtle, supernatural gifts; they simply sleep until something – a practice, a breath, a song, a moment of surrender – awakens them.
Psychedelics aren’t the only doorway. They’re one of many ways to activate the pineal gland, to open the third eye, to remember our connection to Source. I’m simply excited to see what unfolds as more of us begin to dance with that Intelligence – no longer searching for the divine outside of us, but letting it move through us.
Neil Cannon is the author of The Vitality Code and The Vitality Secret, a Vitality coach exploring the intersection of energy, consciousness, and embodied healing. His work bridges science and spirit, helping others rediscover the innate intelligence of the body – with a root cause and “Body Electric” approach – a pathway to vitality and awakening.
Primary Links
The viral one… (Egypt Aug 25)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQveIuWEcKU/?igsh=Z2lva2puNmFuMTZu
Just the upper body… (Baja April 25)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQ-_zYMiBcT/?igsh=MThuYjFxdzFqZmMwbg==
Being Danced (Baja, April 25)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQ2KrNHElHc/?igsh=OXIwc3EybzF4M21m
Spontaneous dance activation, Baja April 25
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DI9t41LzYM6/?igsh=OW9sd2V3MTJxNjd4
Egypt Spontaneous Personal Dance Party, Aug 25
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMlc3dhNZW-/?igsh=MWZocnI2MXVldzB0NA==