I have had an amazing personal journey with ayahuasca, via Santo Daime church, travelling shamans and healers, and local shamans, and discovered a vast universe of ayahuasca within Brazil that is not at all apparent from the surface. I haven't decided yet to what degree I want to share that here on Steemit. ;)
As regards your friend offering to bring you some... hrrmmmm. I'm very skeptical about people taking the medicine without guidance of a shaman or someone else who is appropriately positioned to guide and protect. Whilst it is the master of all master plants and has the potential for amazing benefits and I could wax lyrical about it till the cows came home, you are also opening yourself up literally to other dimensions and it is not to be played with lightly. Maybe you can find someone where you are to lead a ceremony?? Please treat it (Her) with respect, if you don't you might get a smack from the Mother.
Interestingly, on a tangent, I was reading about how anthropomorphisation of nature increases a person's "connectedness with nature" and it got me reflecting on how it is a norm within the ayahuasca community to refer to Mother Aya as an independent agent. It feels like it makes total sense, and I naturally assume that practice, and yes it does feel as though it increases inter-connectivity with Nature and the whole. And it does feel as though the plant is an independent agent. Need to reflect on those thoughts!
Ummm...if you go ahead, please research and at least prepare yourself appropriately. There's loads of info on the internet about the "ayahuasca diet", that includes meditation and being nice to people (be an authentic being of light) by the way.
Peace out!
sound advice that...peace out...in
Good luck - I'm sure whatever you do in the end it will all be perfect :)
and you...wherever your bound for...I'll do you the courtesy of not taking the bait with the word "perfect" ...I'll just say that such an ideal is debatable...another time perhaps?
peace out...in
I meant in the sense that in my experience, with occurrences around ayahuasca, it seems everything always works out in a way that is perfect in its own way. Even if it seems at the time everything went wrong, usually there is some lesson that did good to be learned. To be honest I actually hadn't noticed that you weren't therealpaul as it appeared as a continuation of the conversation thread. I wasn't trying to be provocative!
ohhh...but you are...in a very wholesome and organic way
please excuse my thread crashing...just have some thoughts on the subject myself...perhaps another time...do not wish to intrude
~be~
Maybe you can write a steemit post on the topic
yes, of course...I have not yet begun to write!
~may all hated cease...let there be peace~
Thanks for saying that, and while my friend runs an ayahuasca retreat in Costa Rica, and he seems to know the proper preparatory diet and all of that, I don't feel comfortable about the idea for some reason, and I'll most likely wait until the right time for such an important journey. I do hear a lot of the real medicinal plants referred to as being feminine entities too, and that makes sense to me- they spring from the mind of mother Earth!
Well it's not as simple as that, there's 'masculine' plants and 'feminine' plants :)
Do you have some sort of intention? Something that you wish to work with the Aya? Or would you be doing it out of curiosity? The latter not recommended.
But... if you're feeling the call... it does seem as though the universe is conspiring to bring it to your very doorstep! Ayahuasca isn't so easy to get a hold of, you can keep it in a fridge for quite a while. You might be surprised at who you could find where you are (America I presume?) to lead a ceremony, although I've never even been to America so what do I know? But if you put some feelers out with the Santo Daime community you might have some luck.