WHY ARE NEGATIVE REVIEWS EXACTLY AS THEY SHOULD BE?
It seems like a paradox that we receive both the most moving and enthusiastic reviews and some of the most angry and vehement reviews. Most of the negative reviews about TierraMitica, the Mythic Voyage and Mikis personally come from people who have neither ever been here nor participated in a Mythic Voyage, usually by people who want money back for changing their minds and not showing up. These are easy to discount, there is a contract people accept when they register and that governs how late they can change their mind and get a refund, and one can be as angry as they wish or blackmail us with bad publicity, we do what we and the terms deem right and good for TierraMitica and the participants. We used to not even require a down payment and found out that many people get cold feet and cancel, thus missing out on work we are proud to be offering, and many people agree with us by enthusiastically declaring that it changed their lives.
On some few occasions however, somebody that has actually been here and participated in a Mythic Voyage and has not managed to complete it, or on extremely rare occasions, somebody has finished it enthusiastically and changed their minds later, write a bad review. Why would people quit a workshop, and why would they be angry and hateful about it? The answers lie on the essence, techniques and purpose of the Mythic Voyage. What makes people quit, many times in anger? And people do quit, sometimes up to fifty percent, sometimes as low as ten percent, but there has never been a Mythic Voyage where nobody has quit, and this is exactly as it should be. Why? Because if nobody quit, it would mean that we brainwash people, and the Mythic Voyage is about celebrating our divine gift of choice.
The Mythic Voyage is based on years of learning, experience and research that have proven- and we provide the proof during the course of the Voyage- that every single thought and emotion, every energy that passes through us, is due to a particular set of beliefs. Furthermore, our beliefs about who we are, what we are capable of and what we are incapable of, actually define who we are, same as our beliefs about the world around us define the way we experience the world.
Not only are our thoughts, emotions and energies directly connected with our beliefs, but every disagreeable thought and emotion is caused by a paradox; two or more contradictory realities, actions or beliefs that are mutually exclusive but are held in us at the same time. This phenomenon is called in psychiatry and psychology Cognitive Dissonance. If for example, you are hurt and angry at your father because he told you that you are and will always be a lazy loser, but at the same time you believe that some of the things he shouted at you are true, you are both a victim and guilty at the same time. Same thing happens to victims of sexual abuse by a member of the family where they are conflicted between being an abused victim and suffering from recurring guilty and shameful thoughts such as “maybe I deserved because I was a bad child, maybe I provoked it by being a slut, maybe I was competing with my mother, maybe, maybe, maybe..” These unresolved internal paradoxes and conflicts of beliefs and perceptions cause the deepest psychological problems, depression, anger and misery. During the Mythic Voyage we help solve issues that years of psychotherapy, self-improvement techniques and alternative practices have not healed, because instead of trying to resolve trauma, we help people see their internal paradoxes and make choices and thus transcend trauma altogether. In order to achieve this, we use every useful technique and practice from the pool of human knowledge and civilization, from the shamanic to gestalt therapy, from the contemporary scientific to the ancient or indigenous. And of course, with the wisdom of the grandmother Ayahuasca that speaks from the truest depths of our hearts, but with specific techniques, so that we can navigate precisely the ceremony experience, in order to obtain insights and answers that can practically help us in our lives rather than a great hallucinogenic and heart opening experience that often leaves us with abstract rather than clear and applicable answers.
Why do people quit? Well, if you are a single mother with a five year old with no other responsible adults around and make your living off an illegal activity and risk that your child is raised by people who did not make that choice out of love, but cannot choose to change, if you are a depressed man drowning in obligation with a wife you no longer want to be with, in a job you hate and you are too afraid to consider the alternatives, if you find out that you have been a freeloading parasite that never wants to do anything considered work, if you are a victim by everyone in your life and it is always the other party´s fault why relationships never work, but are not willing to acknowledge your choices and your responsibility for what is happening in your life, then in the Voyage you will be confronted by unavoidable truths that you do not wish to hear. People quit, are angry and blame Mikis and the Mythic Voyage as part of a pattern of needing something to blame for everything: everything is somebody else´s fault, yet at the same time they live lives of self-hatred, shame, guilt and regret.
To achieve the spectacular results that so many people report in just ten days of the Mythic Voyage is necessarily a fast, deep, confrontational at times incision into our personal stories, and the techniques used ensure that nothing can remain hidden. We work in a group 12 hours a day and then have ceremonies on some nights and it is a hair raising emotional, perceptual and energetic rollercoaster; it is a true adventure into our internal worlds and the universe, and those who are determined to face the challenges emerge with open hearts, enthusiasm and vision for their lives, inspired and full of ideas and plans. We declare: it is not for the faint hearted, and any kind of work that pushes boundaries is bound to be controversial. We push boundaries all the time, and we are proud to be controversial. We help provide real life insights and solutions, not just an experience. As for people that enthusiastically complete a Mythic Voyage and become negative after a year or a few months, if they did not follow the path that they personally chose for their lives and if they did not initiate the changes that they promised themselves they would, than the only solution is “sour grapes”: “It was all bullshit anyway!”
TierraMitica vows to do our best for any participant that trusts us and comes to be helped by going as deep as possible, guiding them to explore and reexamine everything, by helping them break the habits of the body and the mind that keep them captive from a beautiful life of creativity, inspiration, vision and love. That means if nobody quits, we need to go deeper. This also means that we accept that the occasional hateful review is not only inevitable but also welcome, because it means we are doing our vocation and job to the best of our ability and we are not willing to sacrifice our work to please everybody. If one wants comfort, let them go to a psychotherapist or do some reiki; If one wants true change, not in ten years but right now, they must be able to take perceptually and emotionally the discomfort that everybody accepts on the physical level by any surgeon or dentist. Actually, pulling out harmful beliefs such as “I do not deserve anything”, “I am good at nothing”, “nobody truly loved me” or even “life is a burden and a struggle” sometimes is much more painful than pulling teeth. Should you blame the dentist if you stop the extraction of a rotten tooth mid way?
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