This is 4g of Syrian rue tea, 10min later 35g of ACRB tea, followed by chewing on 8 datura stramonium seeds.
I’m trying to put this Ayahuasca experience into words. You have to be very mentally prepared, this is extremely confrontational, it is a mental challenge. I know others have explored her (later I’ll explain why I use the term her) much more deeply and I can only fathom the knowledge and wisdom of traditional Shamans. I write this with utmost respect and regard.
I would like to reiterate the experience is as far from recreational as can exist, it is an integration with nature, connecting deeply with the universe, experiencing deep self-knowledge, exploring the ontological reality of existence. At some points it was extremely satisfying in a self-reflecting way, because you figure things out, so you’re like ‘ah huh, I get it’, you burst into laughter at your naïveté, it’s so obvious. Other times I was in tears, not in sadness, it was more of a release of mental blockages. I don’t want to say the experience was fun, it was, what’s the word...gratifying. At the same time I can see this being terrifying if you don’t understand the delicate balance between energy you have to find. You have to let go of all your delusional beliefs and ideologues, forget what your parents, the Church, and authority has taught you, otherwise you won’t survive. I know a lot of ignorant individuals who have been broken by the experience, at the same time many individuals who have greatly benefited. The individuals who will have a very tough time in this journey are those who are greedy, selfish, narcissistic, abusive, materialistic, and/or have unshakable monotheistic beliefs. You need to be ready, a true mental maturity. I will try explain the experience and what to expect, at the same time it is important to go in the experience without any predetermined expectations. If you have prejudices be prepared to have them shattered and see the world in a new light. You experience a universal unconditional love of others and yourself, if you understand what’s happening. You have to discard the manmade egotistical delusions of bad and good, virtuous and evil, right and wrong, there is masculine and feminine, ignorance and wisdom, order and chaos. I cannot stress enough, if you want to ‘see things’ this is most definitely not for you, take LSD or Psilocybe mushrooms, she does reveal visions, hallucinations, and other spiritual realms, but this is just an insignificant side effect of the experience, it is not the purpose, you need a healthy intention and great respect.
I prepared throughout the week, fasted, and did all my pre-ceremonial rituals. I was as prepared as possible physically, psychologically, and spiritually.
As the experience started I felt intense euphoria, objects around me were shimmering and shaking in preparation to take off. I had a pocadot patterned pillow. The pocadots were moving around in circles and ‘took off’. I purged very violently. Instantly following the purge I blasted away, and started seeing shapes, geometry, and fractals. Even though I blasted off I felt like I didn’t move. Hard feeling to explain, more like a transcendence rather then traveling or projecting.
When I transcended what I was seeing stopped being visualised, it was still there in mental flashes, but at the same time not founded in reality. She was telling me telepathically (or maybe it was my own projection), that I was well truly beyond physical hallucinations, they would only serve to distract me. Instead I was fully aware and awake, it was as if other spiritual realms were overlaid over reality.
Before I delve into what I was seeing, I have to discuss this energy balance. I would loop through, purging, looking at the emesis, seeing very detailed fractals and patterns in it, trying to comprehend the fractals, realised I was sick, worried I took too much, looked at the clock, tried to deduce the time (but there were multiple hands, it was very difficult, I couldn’t do it the first few loops), I analysed the whole situation biochemically, assured myself I was fine, thought ‘I wanted to experience this, this is part of the journey’, said to myself ‘I am ready, bring it on’. Then the most incredible thing happened to me, I had to find this delicate balance between needs and wants, desire and discipline, happiness and depression, anxiety and mania, pragmatic and dogmatic beliefs (of both myself and others), the needs of others and myself, altruism and self-indulgence, selflessness and selfishness, individuality and collective consciousness, the energy in nature and the universe. I can describe the entire experience as brinking on the edge of totalitarianism and nihilism. I felt total insanity but at the same time total cognitive coherence, I was fully in control. I kept having visions of the Greek Titan Atlas, who in Greek Mythology was punished by Zeus to balance the Heavens on his shoulders (represented by a globe) as redemption for leading the Titanomachy (the Titans into war) against the Olympus Gods for control of the Heavens. Also, very vivid visions of my intentions being weighed on the Scales Of Truth, the feather of Ma’at, the Ancient Egyptian Goddess of truth. When I found this balance I burst into laughter, saying, ‘I’m such a fool it was so easy all along’. Then I would purge again, burst into tears, the entire loop would start again. Each loop would get easier to navigate through until I truely found this balance and it was permanent. No longer a calculation. I purged a total of 10-16 times, each purge as violent as the last one. Though the second half of the purges produced no emesis, rather a thick white foam that combusted into very detailed geometric fractals when it hit my purge bowl. The last few purges were void of anything, it was just the action and sound. When I found this balance I can only relate it with spiritual teaching systems I’m familiar with and have studied; Buddhism and Alchemy. In Buddhism this is called walking the middle-path. In Alchemy this is Coagulation, finding the balance between masculine and feminine energy as androgyny.
With each purge came a sense of mental clarity, more easy to find the balance, and more exposure to other spiritual realms. Around my reality was an overlay of this flickering and glitching control room. With alien-like beings minding their own business, some facing away from me working, some looked like they were analysing and doing observations on me. Nothing invasive though. I felt like an experiment. It felt like I was one of them, that this reality is some kind of initiation, when you reach enlightenment, or ascension, or Gold, or whatever the spiritual discipline calls it. I feel like They will remove the goggles, shake your hand, congratulate you, laugh at you, and say ‘it took you long enough’. This overlay was feint, I only saw glimpses here and there, at the same time it felt so familiar, I just couldn’t put my thumb on it.
Throughout the purging a strong feminine energy was teasing me with her presence, hence referring to Ayahuasca as a her. She would sporadically appear here and there, but nowhere, never long enough for me to get a good look. I knew that I had to find the balance before she would engage with me (I don’t know how I knew, I just knew it as intrinsic Truth). When I found the balance I started coming down, about 3 hours. There was no negative comedown, just a lot of information to process, comprehend, and integrate. She’s longing and calling for me to explore her further.
“The art of alchemy is like a psycho-spiritual multi-vitamin and mineral elixir secreted by the cosmic mind to help heal the collective madness that has infected our world.”
“If the prima materia contains poison, then the more virulent the poison, the more powerful are its potential healing qualities. Accomplished alchemists are able to transmute the poison into a healing nectar.“