Anyone tried Ayawaska?
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Anyone tried Ayawaska (also witten Ayahuasca)?
Ayawaska is a shaman psychoactive extract prepared from a mixture of two plants native to the Amazon Rainforest. It is used for undergoing profound shamanic and religious experiences.
I am considering participating in a shaman ceremony in which you drink this extract.
I will love to hear your spiritual / psychological experiences with it, positive or negative.
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Usually I am against drugs
Usually I am against drugs and other shortcuts but ayawaska is a quantum leap for spiritual development.
Just go with a free mind, no reason to worry. The ayawaska will take care of you, you will understand what I mean...
There is sometimes some vomiting and a certain diet to follow in the preceding 24 hours to minimize this vomiting.
Make sure the ceremony is organized by a recommended group with experienced shaman, helpers and musicians.
Ayawaska is a blessed thing!
It opens the subconscious in a way you cannot believe. It opens your senses to dimensions you cannot believe. It opens your heart so wide you cannot believe. It destroys your ego in a way you cannot believe.
Highly recommended. I can regard my first ayawaska experience as one of my prime spiritual turning points. All my prior meditations and spiritual practices seem like some spiritual masturbation.
Don't worry about the vomiting, it is part of the energetic cleaning, you will notice this without any doubt.
Beware
It's nice to hear people's positive experiences, but you should also be aware that there are casualties.
I have met quite a few. Not everyone can cope with this type of experience. It is no doubt extreme, if you are attracted to extreme experiences, but I haven't seen much evidence of ensuing mental peace or stability.
It may give you the key to the cosmos, but you will undoubtedly find that when you try to go back, the lock will have changed.
Depends whether voluntary psychosis is a risk you are willing to take.
Can agree with you regarding other drugs
I can agree with what you wrote regarding other drugs but my experience with Ayawaska was different.
I feel that aywaska is not a drug or a root, it is a living entity.
Ayawaska was my deepest spiritual experience and its effects remain with me to date long after the experience ended the same way the effects of a vipassnana retreat remain etc.
It enabled me to have a glimpse into my deep deep subconcious sewage which I had had no clue of its existence, it guided me in my path in a way no guru or book have ever managed to do. Indeed it wasn't easy but I felt that the intensiry was tailored exactly to what I can take plus a little bit more... so I trusted it and surprisingly had no fear.
I heard over the years similar accounts from others and never never heard of someone who flipped out because of Ayawaska and I am very aquainted with some folks who are involved with it as a way of life and read researches and professional reports prior to my first experience (including the famous report of the Israeli scientist, forgot his name).
Ayawaska is more than just a root. It is an entity. For skeptics it may sound strange... but you cannot remain skeptic after experiencing ayawaska...
Beyond your own experiences
Very happy for you and your friends, but it doesn't change the fact that some people do indeed flip out or have problems adjusting to life after taking Ayawaska. I have met a few personally, one was a close friend.
OK sorry
OK, sorry I didn't know about such cases. Good to know and important that people will be aware.
I hope your friend is OK now.
He's still a bit wobbly
He's still a bit wobbly sometimes but time is a good healer.
Don't get me wrong, I think this type of substance is awesome, but it pays to be aware that if you have a sensitive mind, it may not be the best course of action. I'm sure that it's only a very very small percentage who react badly, but if it happens to be you then it's a bit of a disaster. At least on the surface, who can tell?
there are also people who flipped from vipassana
I heard over the years also about people who flipped from vipassana or after going into seclusion.
I think ayawaska, vipassana, seclusion and other powerful tools are not the cause but the trigger as they go deep into the psyche and there they may trigger a mental problem that would come up anyway.
This is why anyone who is unstable, has some mental problem or takes psychiatric drugs better not do any of these but if you are ok with no mental record, you have no reason to be afraid from ayawaska.
That's pretty much what I
That's pretty much what I wanted to say.
It's funny though, I have been surprised to find that writing here has proved quite a mirror for me. I came to realize that I was holding a bit tightly to old views, based on past experiences that are not necessarily relevant now.
I hear very positive reports about ayawaska taken in the right context.
I am reconsidering my position and may well give it a go if the timing feels right.