Ayahuasca – A discussion

[YinYang]

I finally got around to reading your post, SMC. Ayahuasca to me is a lifting of the veil, that is my speculation after all the literature about it that I have consumed. Given that I haven’t taken it yet, I cannot say if this is a partial lifting of sorts, or even if it is lifted more for some than others.

The duality is our reality, so naturally it is ‘that way’ when ayahuasca is consumed as well, possibly even intensified. Sometimes I even toy with the idea of whether it’s 4th density that is penetrated. People often say that they simply cannot convey in words what they’ve seen or experienced, and the colours are unlike any they’ve seen on earth. And the message of Oneness is a constant one, leaving some with unspeakable joy.

I am a proponent of entheogens being legalised, (marijuana has just been legalised here in Cape Town) and letting the chips fall where they may. I don’t smoke marijuana, but I’m happy that those who wish to, have the freedom to do so. It is their free will and their right if they wish to do so, the earth belongs to us all. No-one has the right to control the use of these substances. My interests just lie specifically in DMT.

As always, just choose your “shaman” well. They naturally also come in the STO/STS variety. The baddies in the Amazon are called brujos, which are sorcerers and black magic practitioners. Fortunately there are also many goodies as well, you just gotta find them, and it’s easy. People posting about their ayahuasca experiences also give the where and whens. Google is your friend, the world is online, and it’s a bit late to try and close the stable doors after the horse has bolted. :-) Exciting times!

This is just a new frontier for Westerners, after an unfortunate era of those trying to control the use of these substances. The more widespread it becomes, the better, which is where I disagree with the author of the article you posted. I love that you don’t necessarily have to fly to Peru and go on a jungle excursion to partake in a ceremony. Many don't have the financial means to do so.

The positive testimonials with ayahuasca outweighs the negative astronomically. The negatives are just a blip on the radar. I love what is happening, the world needs it. I’m busy reading Alan Watts’ Joyous Cosmology, about his experimentation with DMT and the insights he gained. It’s a great read! Like all things in this duality we find ourselves in, this tool has fallen in good hands and bad hands. Find the good ones, they are in abundance and outnumber the bad ones by a sizeable margin.

Here's the book:



A classic account of the psychedelic experience

The Joyous Cosmology is Alan Watts’s exploration of the insight that the consciousness-changing drugs LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin can facilitate “when accompanied with sustained philosophical reflection by a person who is in search, not of kicks, but of understanding.” More than an artifact, it is both a riveting memoir of Watts’s personal experiments and a profound meditation on our perennial questions about the nature of existence and the existence of the sacred.

Includes Watts’s article “Psychedelics and Religious Experience”