Ayahuasca – A discussion

[YinYang]

i can't imagine ayahuasca to feel any different than any other psychadelic

Actually there's a very big difference, Ayahuasca is the strongest hallucinogenic known to man.

i think it's important to be able to consider each chakra and make sure each one is well address before trying to do anything that is related to this.

I tend to lean more to it being the other way around. Ayahuasca is a tool for healing, so chakra blockages I would imagine are often cleared with Ayahuasca.

It reminds me a little of something in Art of Meditation (which I'm busy reading now again, so it's all fresh):

Frequently the question of diet in relation to meditation is raised. Is there any special diet which, if followed, will enhance one's spiritual capacity? Are certain foods to be avoided by the aspirant on the spiritual path? Should one refrain from the eating of meat? At every stage of our unfoldment we are tempted to believe that something we do or think in the human realm will help us in the development of our spiritual awareness. This is a false assumption. On the contrary, it is the development of our spiritual awareness that changes our everyday habits and mode of living. As the aspirant progresses along the spiritual path, he may find himself eating less and less meat and, ultimately, may reach the point of being unable to eat any meat at all. Let us not, however, believe that there is virtue in some act of omission or commission, that some form of material sacrifice will increase our spirituality. Spirituality is developed through the reading of spiritual literature, the hearing of spiritual wisdom, the association with those on the spiritual path, and through the practice of meditation. The kingdom of God is found by inner realization. The outer transformation in one's dietary habits is a direct result of an inner spiritual grace; it is a result of the spiritualizing process taking place in consciousness. Abstaining from the eating of meat is not a means of developing inner spiritual grace; but the development of inner spiritual grace leads to the renunciation of such things on the outer plane.

You don't fix yourself before you start meditating, it's the meditation that does the fixing, rather than the other way around, and I think Ayahuasca is the same. I think many people take it to clear blockages that they have been unable to clear themselves.

also don't do it on an empty stomach in case it lasts a while.

Ayahuasca is always taken on an empty stomach, the fasting beforehand is very important. Also many other foods and things to avoid. Anti-depressants is probably the most important thing to not have in your system when taking Ayahuasca. Fortunately I'm anti pill of any kind.

From Ayahuasca in My Blood

But for those suffering emotional and spiritual issues, la purga is equally effective. Normally, it's recommended that a person drinking ayahuasca fast for at least several hours and often for a full day before drinking. That ensures an empty stomach. But it won't diminish the purging effects.

The difference in the purge on an empty stomach, however, is that instead of vomiting lunch, the participant will have a chance to vomit some of the bile of their lives, things they carry around which clutter up their mental and spiritual arenas uselessly. Most of us don't even realise what we are carrying.

Ayahuasca's spirit reaches down into the depths of your soul and roots around for those things, then brings them to the surface - in the frightening moments of ego-dissolution - in a wretched reliving of them. It's not like vomiting at all: It's as if great chunks of physical matter are explosively hurled from the bottom of your bowels - the vomiting often sounds like a waterfall in reverse, the water rushing up the rocks and violently cascading from your mouth. My guests swear they vomited heaps; in truth they rarely vomit more than a few ounces of ayahuasca they drank as they have nothing physical in their stomachs to eliminate.