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AYAHUASCA
The Grandmother of all plants. It is a medice that helps you to find the sorces of evil both internal and external. It will show you the solution and help you to cure the evils.
This ancestral medicine is only used by shamans to heal a variety of illenesses and to give initiations to people, to help them in their process of personal development and growth.
The name "Ayahuasca" comes from the shipibo language "nishi rao" which means "Medicine Rope" and in Quechua, "Death´s Rope" ( Aya=Death and Huasca= Rope).Scientifically, the ayahuasca is known as banisteriopsis caapi and is is an ilarian plant wich only grows in the amazonian region ( Peru, Brezil, Ecuador and Colombia).
The Ayahuasca´s preparation is exclusively done by shamans; it is boiled for several hours along with other plant like the chakuruna. This process is accompanied by shamanic chants or "Iqaros" ( prayers or mantras typical of the amazonian Shipibo culture), Which convert the ayahuasca into apawerfull medicine.
To take ayahuasca is to enter the primordial source of the existence and the establishment of the real social order ruled by the laws or nature and the universe.
Throughout the Amazon region, Ayahuasca is known by different names. In Ecuador it is called "natema", in Brasil it is know as "jurema", "chá", or "daime", and in Colombia it is "yagué".
Traditional Use
Ayahuasca can be used to cure diseases and dysfunctions in general, to make important decisions, to ask direction from the divinities, to resolve personal conflicts -between families and between tribes-, to communicate with the different forces of nature, to develop your capacity for wisdom and understand the mysteries of the universe and nature, to solve thefts and disappearances, and to indentify the intentions of people and enemies.
It is used to harmonize various aspects of life such as lover, family, social, health, economic, career or profession, spiritual, consiousness and many others.
It is also used negatively as a means to inflict harm, using spells and negative energies during the trance, which is only done by witches.
Ayahuasca hasn't been included an any list of prohibited substances (thanks to the fact that it doesn't lead to any type of dependence and isn't toxic. TAKI WASI
Why is Ayahuasca necessary for man in these times?
Man has moved away from his natural roots and split into a terrible materialistic confusion. He has broken the harmony with the intrensic root of the universe (God).
The results are physical, psychological, and spiritual illnesses such as stress and more. We have illnesses at the global level and we don't realize it. Ayahuasca helps us to see the most unconscious part of a person and shows us the negative aspects and how to change them.
The Ceremony
The most important thing is to make a firm decision about why you want to take ayahuasca and what you want the ayahuasca to help you with, keeping faith in the fundemental power of the universe, in medicine, and in the forces of nature.
The ayahuasca ceremony is lead by the master healer or master "ayahuasquero". Because of tradition and custom, the ceremonies are carried out at night and two or three ayahuasca sessions can be done in one week.
PREPARATION BEFORE THE SESSION
Why do you fast before the session and why are there strict instructions?
Ayahuasca is a delicate plant which doesn't just require spiritual and mental perparation, but also physical. Certain combinations can result in chemical shock which can be dangerous.
It is strictly instructed that you don't consume drugs, alcohol, coffee, or chocolate for three days prior to the ayahuasca ceremony. Avoid canned goods, red meat, pork, processed meat like sausage, and excess salt and sugar. You shouldn't consume prescriction drugs, antibiotics, injections, pills and other medications for three days before the ceremony. You also must abstain from sex and masturbation for one day. Women who are menstrating or pregant shouldn't participate.
Why can't you have sex before the ceremony?
You lose energy and your visions under the effects of the ayahuasca aren't as strong. Losing bodily secretions weakens the body and the mind and causes you to be sleepy and exhausted when you ingest the medicine.
The day of the ceremony the patient must fast which facilitates the absortion of the ayahuasca and leads to better physical cleanling, stronger "mareación" (being under the effects), and better concentration which reduces the nausea.
The Start Of The Session
The session starts between 7 or 8 pm. The participants sit on pillows and cushions on the floor, against walls of the room. The session lasts three or four hours.
First, iqaros are chanted to the whole bottle of ayahuasca to purify it and ask for protection when opening the world of the ayahuasca. "Mapacho", a strong tobacco, is smoked to help clean the room and the body. Afterwards, a dose is served depending on the person's physical make-up and their problems.
The patient receives the ayahuasca while sitting a meditation position. Later, the master healer gives them perfumes and mapacho to help with their "mareacíon" and their concentration, opening the world of the ayahuasca in their body. These both enter the body through smell.
After 20 to 30 minutes the patient feels the effects. Later, the patient starts to feel the "mareación" which increases gradually. It can be accompanied by shivers, exhaustion, weakness, sleepiness, nausea, relaxation, teary eyes, aches or cramps. Vomiting and diarrea are also normal side-effects. Ayahuasca is a medicine that expells everything unclean from the body. It cleans the body and the inner being. If it is the first time taking ayahuasca, puking is always a side-effect.
The patient will always be meditating with eyes closed but not sleeping, instead concentrating. The room will be dark to help their vision and their concentration.
Keep control, relax and concentrate, keep quiet to be able to contact the inner being. When concentration is lost, the vision is too.
Let others concentrate, too. Ayahuasca heightens the senses. The position helps maintain good concentration and good vision.
The tobacco, "mapacho", gives more strength and clarity to the ayahuasca and keeps the patients relaxed.
Iqaros
Iquaros are chants, engery from the plants, from nature, of the universal power, all iqaros contain energies. They can be sung in Aimara, Shipibo, Asháninca, Quechua, and Spanish. People who want to learn sing in their own language. The science is absolute and has no end.
Iquaros are chanted to open the world of the ayahuasca and with these chants the patientes are guided. They are taken and brought back. If the "mareación" is too strong it can be controlled and lowered. The Iquaros also clean the body and the inner being, in the session, the energy flows through everyone.
The ayahuasquero can't see the same vision as the patients. Everyone has different visions but the ayahuasquero can see their problems and their worries. According to what is seen, the right Iqaro is chanted so the body can cleanse itself.
Visions
It's important to emphasize that visions are different from simple hallucinations for several reasons: a trance has internal coherence, time-space relationships are lost, nor is consciousness. Visions can be superficial or very deep, introducing the subject to a world made-up of their own capacity for "sight".
Visions are a reading of personal history. They come from the unconsciousness and must be translated into consciousness to receive the message.
In visions you can see negativity both internal and external and know how to make it positive.
A person won't always have the visions that they want to have but will have a cleansing and an heightened consciousness.
As the effects disappear, a the patient returns, little by little, to a normal state but with weariness and weakness. They will feel joy from their cleansing, peace at heart, traquility, love, and happiness. Some cannot stop smiling and they laugh and laugh. Some don't recongnize themselves and don't know who they are. Having transcended their unlimited potential, they feel liberated from their being and recognize their inner being of love.
To end the session, the ayahuasquero uses perfumes to harmonize the aura like in aromatherapy, and to help the patients feel calm and to relieve everything.
Later, the patients can go to sleep or, if they want to share their experience, they can stay in the room. Others prefer to simply keep it to themselves like a secret between them and the ayahuasca.
After finishing the session, the participant won't eat until breakfast the next morning.
The Experience
The expansion of the consciousness.
Until a person has a spiritual experience, they aren't conscious of their true consciousness, the true infinite, eternal potential that each person has. The universal consciousness.
Self-Acceptance
Recognize that you are bigger than the Universe.
Long-Term Effects
The first beneficial effects will be 7 days of natural trance. This state of total spiritual transcendence makes the brain produce diverse substances.The patient will have a clearer conscience and vision of life. Some effects take 2 months to a year, with these the patient will have a positive inner transformation that will bring happiness and victory to their life. Their experience gives them a starting point for their growth, which has no limits. Inner transformation happens everyday and everyone should work towards their growth throughout their life. Or as the druids say, "The heart never finishes being born." Botanical, Chemical, and Pharmacological Aspects of Ayahuasca Ayahuasca is unique in that its pharmacological activity is dependent on a synergistic interaction between the active alkaloids in the plants. One of the components, the bark of Banisteriopsis caapi, contains ß-carboline alkaloids, which are potent MAO-A inhibitors; the other component, the leaves of Psychotria viridis or related species, contains the potent short-acting psychoactive agent N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT). DMT is not orally active when ingested by itself, but can be rendered orally active in the presence of a peripheral MAO inhibitor – and this interaction is the basis of the psychotropic action of ayahuasca (McKenna, Towers, & Abbott, 1984). http://www.psychonautdocs.com/docs/mckenna_aya.pdf http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/aya_01.htm
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