Thought: distinguish between the two characteristics or effects of hoasca. Force and light.
Force: brought on by the ayahuasca vine itself, or any of one of many other plants; the force is generally attributed to the MAOI. MAOI allows certain chemicals to live longer in your body. Among these are seratonin, melatonin and N,N-DMT. All are naturally made in the body. The result is that more of those chemicals are available to your brain. So you feel different. The difference is hard to explain, but I find it easier to meditate, my worries about trivial matters falls away, and sense of well-being dominates. Also music is richer, colors too.
The light: brought on by the leaf, chacrona, or other plants that contain N,N-DMT. This contributes more N,N-DMT to your brain. Again, N,N-DMT is made by all brains. We all have it. When the "extra" N,N-DMT is added to the natural N,N-DMT, you have "light". This can take many forms -- shapes, colors, patterns, and then full-on light shows inside your eyelids, in which you seem to "see" fantastic things: I have climbed up a ladder toward a blinding light only to soon "realize" that the ladder was my spinal column and the light was coming from my own brain, and when I reached the light, oh, it was a brighter light that you see with your eyes.
I think it might be important to note that the "force", which comes (probably) from the MAOI is legal. And also to note that because it (probably) allows more of your natural N,N-DMT to linger in your brain, you have some more of your natural "light". And I've experienced this. Imbibing only the ayahuasca vine, I've "seen" a lightshow behind my eyelids. Nothing compared to when I add the "light". But, still. A pleasant effect, and a legal form of mental health treatment.
Thoughts?

My contributions

Another point to touch upon is the possible production of endogenous MAOI's in the human body in either ordinary, or excited/rare cases of human biology. In the "Spirit Molecule", Dennis McKenna commented on the fact that we have both the key components to form DMT floating in the body and produced in the brain. With this said, I feel intuitively we may also have the key components to, in the right conditions, produce a form of Endogenous MAOI.

Or, this might be totally pseudo-scientific bullshit ramblings with lack of proper research into Mammalian Biology. However, I feel that more research into the underlying concentration of possible MAOI's in cerebro-spinal fluid should be conducted, just the same as has been done with the discovery and isolation of endogenous DMT and bufotenine in human bodily fluids from blood to urine. It would only make sense!

My two cents,


Light and Love
Earthdweller

Hey Earth Dweller,

I was just reading a MAPS article about this, earlier; it was discussing this very topic.

http://www.maps.org/news...ters/v04n2/04230cal.html

Peace

Awesome article Wizard, thanks for the share! This is some nice mind candy i'll be chomping on for the next week or so, I'm sure Very beneficial to the thread, and the argument for a production of both "Endogenous Force and Light" being supported by even reputed associations such as MAPS is awesome to see. Nature never ceases to amaze me!

Meat (incl. human) does have beta-carbolines in it. It's got to come from somewhere.... These, according to some research, (also harmine, harmaline??) can become carcinogenic mutagens under the influence of certain preservatives (nitrite, sodium nitrite....etc). One moar reason to avoid eating processed meat (salami, peperoni, bacon, ham, toast with marmaid spread, tabasco hot sauce...) before/during and/or after haoma/ayahuasca?

Tobacco has even moar harmane/norharmane then meat - we think the reason it be used as substitute for human/animal sacrifice and flesh eating/disease causing spirit/ghoul currency derives from this....?? It would also explain why the burning of harmal cuts the evil eye...(it's got harmane in it)

Perhaps it be best (prior to haoma) to eat that which is considered safe (boiled rice, cooking plantain, certain 'above ground' boiled veggies) rather then eat normally while trying to avoid 'bad foods, spices and condiments'?