Okay, so many years ago, I think it was 2006, I first heard about ayahuasca, from this National Geographic article – Peru: Hell and Back
And I have been fascinated with it ever since, although I have never taken it. Not long after I learned about it, I read Peter Gorman’s book Ayahuasca in My Blood: 25 Years of Medicine Dreaming.
Now I don’t know if any of you have read it, but he was quite a cowboy with the medicine. Lots went wrong (and right), but there’s a tremendous amount of black magic in the book. It is also an extremely honest book, he holds nothing back, and it’s the kind of book that you just cannot put down. I have read it twice now.
So a few years ago I researched online to see if there is somebody in my country (South Africa) who does ayahuasca ceremonies, and I found a group who has regular ceremonies. I wrote to the guy who founded the group, and we have chatted on and off over the years via email, and I joined their facebook group. I just really wanted to check out this group thoroughly before I get acquainted with them. So I always read their posts on Facebook, where everyone writes about their auahuasca experiences, and it’s all predominantly positive. I also read all his blog articles, just to see if we’re at least philosophically more or less on the same page, and that’s a yes. His favourite book is Oneness by Rasha. He's also very humorous and light-hearted, which counts big points with me.
I will definitely do it with this group if and when I do it. I had to find a local group, because out currency has pretty much reached junk status, so a Peruvian adventure is not on the cards any time soon, will cost a fortune, and it looks to me like Ayahuasca tourism has led to many opportunists in Peru, so all in all very murky waters to navigate over there! This group puts a huge amount of energy into a ceremony, with drumming, didgeridoos and fire choreographers, to get the festive juices flowing, before they administer the medicine, switches off the lights and then start singing icaros.
I guess some of the things I wonder about is this: would a wanderer not be a target in those realms? And is Auahuasca not the lazy man’s path to enlightenment, albeit briefly before you return to planet earth?
While this group predominantly works with ayahuasca, I looks like they occasionally experiment with Iboga and San Pedro as well. Don’t ask me how they get it into the country…
Interestingly, we have an Ibogaine Wellness Centre close to where I live, where they administer ibogaine intravenously to drug addicts and trauma victims. Because Western countries are so tight on DMT, foreigners fly in from all over for treatment at this clinic. Much like ayahuasca, iboga has a very good track record with drug addiction.
Sooo, has anyone here taken Ayahuasca? What was it like? Has it changed your life?
Something tells me Ayahuasca and wanderers go together like strawberries and cream!
And I have been fascinated with it ever since, although I have never taken it. Not long after I learned about it, I read Peter Gorman’s book Ayahuasca in My Blood: 25 Years of Medicine Dreaming.
Now I don’t know if any of you have read it, but he was quite a cowboy with the medicine. Lots went wrong (and right), but there’s a tremendous amount of black magic in the book. It is also an extremely honest book, he holds nothing back, and it’s the kind of book that you just cannot put down. I have read it twice now.
So a few years ago I researched online to see if there is somebody in my country (South Africa) who does ayahuasca ceremonies, and I found a group who has regular ceremonies. I wrote to the guy who founded the group, and we have chatted on and off over the years via email, and I joined their facebook group. I just really wanted to check out this group thoroughly before I get acquainted with them. So I always read their posts on Facebook, where everyone writes about their auahuasca experiences, and it’s all predominantly positive. I also read all his blog articles, just to see if we’re at least philosophically more or less on the same page, and that’s a yes. His favourite book is Oneness by Rasha. He's also very humorous and light-hearted, which counts big points with me.
I will definitely do it with this group if and when I do it. I had to find a local group, because out currency has pretty much reached junk status, so a Peruvian adventure is not on the cards any time soon, will cost a fortune, and it looks to me like Ayahuasca tourism has led to many opportunists in Peru, so all in all very murky waters to navigate over there! This group puts a huge amount of energy into a ceremony, with drumming, didgeridoos and fire choreographers, to get the festive juices flowing, before they administer the medicine, switches off the lights and then start singing icaros.
I guess some of the things I wonder about is this: would a wanderer not be a target in those realms? And is Auahuasca not the lazy man’s path to enlightenment, albeit briefly before you return to planet earth?
While this group predominantly works with ayahuasca, I looks like they occasionally experiment with Iboga and San Pedro as well. Don’t ask me how they get it into the country…
Interestingly, we have an Ibogaine Wellness Centre close to where I live, where they administer ibogaine intravenously to drug addicts and trauma victims. Because Western countries are so tight on DMT, foreigners fly in from all over for treatment at this clinic. Much like ayahuasca, iboga has a very good track record with drug addiction.
Sooo, has anyone here taken Ayahuasca? What was it like? Has it changed your life?
Something tells me Ayahuasca and wanderers go together like strawberries and cream!
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