The Cacao Connection

  • Cacao hOMe
  • Cacao Ceremonies
    • What Are Cacao Ceremonies?
    • Medicine of the Heart ~ Chocolate & Chanting
    • Chocolate & Chanting Full Moon Rise Cacao Ceremony
    • Some Memorable Gatherings >
      • 2023-01-21 Aquarian Super New Moon Soul Insight Meditation Cacao Ceremony
      • Seeds of Gratitude ​New Moon Inspired Cacao Ceremony in Novato
      • 2022-11-05 Chocolate & Chanting Mantra Meditation Cacao Ceremony
      • New Moon Forest Bathing Wisdom Meditation Cacao Ceremony
      • Full Moon Rise Soul Song Cacao Ceremony
      • 2022-08 New Moon Wisdom Meditation Cacao Ceremony
      • 2022-08-13 Remember In Nature New Moon Cacao Ceremony @ Bald Hill
      • Tantara SF Cacao Ceremony in San Francisco
      • 03/22 Soul Support Sunday ​Online Cacao Connection Circle
      • 03-07 - Full Moon Morning Cacao Ceremony & Song Sangha
      • 02-22 ~ Truth of the Heart Cacao Council
      • 02/08 - Cacao Ceremony & Song Circle
      • 01-25 ~ Truth of the Heart Cacao Council
      • 01/12 Cacao & Sound Vision Quest
      • 01/11 Full Moon New Year Cacao Kirtan
      • 12/14 ~ Full Moon Cacao Ceremony and Song Circle
      • 11/23 - Cacao Kirtan Gratitude Gathering
      • 11/10 ~ Sacred Sound Sunday Cacao Ceremony
      • 09/28 New Moon Cacao Ceremony & Life Celebration!
      • 09/21 - Soul Harvest Cacao, Yoga, and Chant Ceremony
      • 09/14 ~ Full Moon Cacao Ceremony and Song Circle
      • Mt Tam New Moon Cacao Ceremony
      • June Gemini Cacao Ceremony & Life Celebration!
      • New Moon Spring Awake Cacao Ceremony
      • Mid-Winter Imbolc Cacao Ceremony
      • New Moon, New Year, New Possibilities!
      • December 2018 Holy-Days Cacao Ceremony
      • New Moon Cacao Ceremony and Kirtan
      • Equinox Cacao Ceremony and Nature Awakening
      • Cacao Ceremony & Full Moon Rise Hike
      • Fairfax Ecstatic Dance Cacao Ceremony
      • February 2018 Heart Medicine Cacao & Nature Connection
      • January 2018 Cacao Connection Empowerment Circle
      • December 2017 Holy-Day Cacao Connection Chant Circle
      • Soul Medicine Cacao Ceremony
      • Key Tea Cacao Ceremony
  • Cacao Market
    • Ceremonial Cacao ~ Retail
    • Wholesale Cacao
    • Chaicao! Chai & Cacao Instant Ceremonial Elixir
  • Cacao Roots
  • Cacao Contact
  • Cacao hOMe
  • Cacao Ceremonies
    • What Are Cacao Ceremonies?
    • Medicine of the Heart ~ Chocolate & Chanting
    • Chocolate & Chanting Full Moon Rise Cacao Ceremony
    • Some Memorable Gatherings >
      • 2023-01-21 Aquarian Super New Moon Soul Insight Meditation Cacao Ceremony
      • Seeds of Gratitude ​New Moon Inspired Cacao Ceremony in Novato
      • 2022-11-05 Chocolate & Chanting Mantra Meditation Cacao Ceremony
      • New Moon Forest Bathing Wisdom Meditation Cacao Ceremony
      • Full Moon Rise Soul Song Cacao Ceremony
      • 2022-08 New Moon Wisdom Meditation Cacao Ceremony
      • 2022-08-13 Remember In Nature New Moon Cacao Ceremony @ Bald Hill
      • Tantara SF Cacao Ceremony in San Francisco
      • 03/22 Soul Support Sunday ​Online Cacao Connection Circle
      • 03-07 - Full Moon Morning Cacao Ceremony & Song Sangha
      • 02-22 ~ Truth of the Heart Cacao Council
      • 02/08 - Cacao Ceremony & Song Circle
      • 01-25 ~ Truth of the Heart Cacao Council
      • 01/12 Cacao & Sound Vision Quest
      • 01/11 Full Moon New Year Cacao Kirtan
      • 12/14 ~ Full Moon Cacao Ceremony and Song Circle
      • 11/23 - Cacao Kirtan Gratitude Gathering
      • 11/10 ~ Sacred Sound Sunday Cacao Ceremony
      • 09/28 New Moon Cacao Ceremony & Life Celebration!
      • 09/21 - Soul Harvest Cacao, Yoga, and Chant Ceremony
      • 09/14 ~ Full Moon Cacao Ceremony and Song Circle
      • Mt Tam New Moon Cacao Ceremony
      • June Gemini Cacao Ceremony & Life Celebration!
      • New Moon Spring Awake Cacao Ceremony
      • Mid-Winter Imbolc Cacao Ceremony
      • New Moon, New Year, New Possibilities!
      • December 2018 Holy-Days Cacao Ceremony
      • New Moon Cacao Ceremony and Kirtan
      • Equinox Cacao Ceremony and Nature Awakening
      • Cacao Ceremony & Full Moon Rise Hike
      • Fairfax Ecstatic Dance Cacao Ceremony
      • February 2018 Heart Medicine Cacao & Nature Connection
      • January 2018 Cacao Connection Empowerment Circle
      • December 2017 Holy-Day Cacao Connection Chant Circle
      • Soul Medicine Cacao Ceremony
      • Key Tea Cacao Ceremony
  • Cacao Market
    • Ceremonial Cacao ~ Retail
    • Wholesale Cacao
    • Chaicao! Chai & Cacao Instant Ceremonial Elixir
  • Cacao Roots
  • Cacao Contact

Cacao Roots

"According to both archeologists and Mayan spiritual elders, the Cacao Spirit was one of the most powerful deities in ancient Mayan cosmology.  While the ancient Mayans and Aztecs of Southern Mexico and Guatemala are best known, there are contemporary Indigenous cultures in Central and South America who continue cacao use in shamanic ceremony, preferring it to locally available psychedelics.  With today’s psychedelic buzz, you may not have heard much of them.  Although one of this world’s finest spiritual or shamanic partners, cacao was ignored in the ‘60’s resurgence of medicine plants because it does not act like a psychedelic – it does not take you on its trip, but facilitates your own. I trust the profound opportunities should be obvious, or would become so on sampling some ceremonial grade cacao.  As a major overlooked entheogen that many are already deeply connected with, but are not using in these ways… Chocolate is calling… as the magical partner it is." ~ Keith The Cacao Shaman

The Cacao Spirits have spoken! In 2009, I found myself attending an all night fire ceremony on a magical piece of land in Western Massachusetts. On that evening my life changed for ever. My friends Ambe and Moses, now known as Heartblood Cacao, offered us a delicious cacao drink made from ceremonial cacao from Guatemala as a way to begin our transition into sacred space and support us in accessing deeper states of consciousness, presence, and lots of good energy to carry us into the night and towards the sunrise. I was amazed at how good I felt and that this feeling of heart opening presence came from drinking chocolate! I was hooked! 

Fast forward two years later, in 2011 I found myself  living in and exploring Central America which included a stay at the village of San Marcos in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. This is the home of Keith Wilson, a.k.a. The Cacao Shaman, who is so generous in his knowledge and sharing of cacao for the good of all beings everywhere. Keith is filled with wonderful stories about cacao and how the Cacao Spirit had guided him to Guatemala to help bring back this sacred plant medicine that he considers to be "food for the shift". And shifting we are towards the awareness that we are all one global human family connected with all life, everywhere. "The force that guides the stars, guides you too." 
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