Ayahuasca Puns

I've never come to a forum like this...but I want to compare other peoples experiences with Ayahuasca to my own.

I did 7 sessions of Ayahuasca in Peru in November 2019. 4 sessions were in the jungle, and 3 were in the Andes. According to the Shaman, Mother Aya sometimes reaches out to people before they've even drank the medicine. I am certain this happened to me. In late July 2019 I was considering going on an Antarctic Cruise to which I had no intention of returning from. I was at work on the nightshift and around 2 in the morning, and I had been looking at Antarctic cruises again and was nearing a decision on when to go. Out of the blue, like an electric shock in my brain, this idea entered my thoughts from no where. About 12 years earlier I had read a book where the author talked about a spirit journey in the jungle using a potion. I remembered reading about it, and I remember I meant to look into it further - but for some reason, I didn't. With this sudden memory I hopped on Google and within a minute I found the name AYAHUASCA and I realized that was what I was looking for. Shortly after that I located the retreat I would end up going to. The retreat had a testimonial on the front page that seemed like I was supposed to see it. A man who had struggled with PTSD and depression his whole life was ready to end his life but decided to try Ayahuasca first as a last ditch effort.

I spent the next week researching Ayahuasca and I liked what I was reading so I began making preparations to go. I had planned to go to Peru in January 2020 but this strange nagging sensation, - like a chorus of voices (but not quite) kept bugging me to go to Peru as soon as possible. I wasn't sure why that was, but I decided to trust the message. The earliest I could go was November as I had to come off my antidepressant...so that is what I did. As soon as I decided to go to Peru in November, the nagging sensation stopped.

Even with my trip booked it felt like something was working against me, like I wasn't supposed to go - or something else was trying to prevent me from going. I had to buy two airline tickets due to an error when buying the first ticket and buying no insurance and my smoke alarms went into full alarm twice 90 minutes before getting out of bed to go to the airport for Peru. They never did that before or after...really strange.

Anyway, strangeness aside, I made it to Lima and then on to Iquitos where I would meet the retreat.

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My boyfriend left to do ayahuasca a few days ago in Peru, his first ceremony is tonight. I’ve tried to be super supportive leading up to it, participating in the dieta with him and helping him pack everything he’d need.

I have never done Ayahuasca and doubt I ever will - but I respect my boyfriend’s decision to do it and support him unconditionally. For context, our relationship has always been about growth and we’ve supported each other with such love and care, trying to better ourself for our own and the relationship’s benefit. Our relationship couldn’t be stronger right now and we are looking forward to our future together so much.

However, I am worried and feel anxious all the time that our relationship won’t be the same. I’m looking for some advice for partners of Ayahuascans / vice versa who had a happy ending? All I hear on the internet are stories about break-ups, and I want to welcome my boyfriend back next week with open arms without fear of change.

Also any advice for helping his integration?

Hi. I am 34 years old been on SSRIs for a while for my anxiety and OCD and depression. I am a professional overthinker, very analytical and have compulsive thoughts and im often conflicted and stuck in my head through the day. I'm on 10 mg Escitalopram (so fairly low dose). I spoke to a teacher at one of the ayahuasca retreats and she said the requirement would be to be off SSRI's for atleast two weeks before a retreat and consumption of the medicine. I understand why she said that. I wanted to know your opinion on whether its a good idea for the likes of me to do ayahuasca at this point because I feel the experience will bring out a lot of deep seated fears within me and I have to stay with that without resisting. Even if I manage to do that, I feel the integration might be difficult and my monkey mind will not let me view the experience clearly and question its validity . I'm worried the conflicts and confusion in my head will worsen. I'd appreciate it if someone can give their point of view.

I kick myself for not having asked this question to my shaman while on retreat in Peru and I can't find any literature on the subject.

Many would say that Ayahuasqueros have an extensive knowledge of the spirit world and can seemingly navigate different realms through the use of sacred plants and communicate with various otherworldly entities. I appreciate that each tribe will have their own perspectives on the matter but generally speaking, what do shamans say about what happens when we die? Do we become one with a universal consciousness or get reborn in a different realm..? And is there any guidance on how to live well as with modern religions? Like, do they live by a certain doctrine based on wisdom gleamed from interacting with plant spirits?

It would be great to see some literature, interviews or documentaries on this topic! :)

For context, I’m very content and stable with my life and have been for a long time. I was initially planning on doing Ayahuasca while I’m living in Colombia, but read more about how the original intention was for healing and medicine. I do not feel like I need healing and medicine because I really like where I am in my life right now. Do you think curiosity / novelty is enough reason to do it?

So, i allways had this question on my head. Is one capable of going there with ayahuasca? If yes, how does it differ from smoking for example some really good changa breaktrough hit?

Hello dearest people I am an unexperienced psychonaut from Switzerland and was wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to get this stuff shipped here and how the postal service or customs will handle it. (Thanks in advance) Kay

I'm going to Peru pretty soon and I'm feeling burned out.

Nothing super major happened. I guess it's just a "death by a thousand cuts" for the last two years. A surgery. Remote school for kids due to Covid. Onboarding new team members remotely at work and lacking personal contact with colleagues. Mostly staying at home due to Covid and working from home. Not feeling comfortable in a mask (I'm from the state that requires masks indoors). Having some anxieties around upcoming state move and re-settling in a new place (how will kids settle? will I have enough energy to support them?).

Basically, I'm tired and feeling like I'm not good enough (not good enough as a parent, as a wife, as a manager...). I hope that Ayahuasca can help me here. But on the other hand - how can it help? It won't babysit my kids or write documentation at work or pack my belongings for the move. Maybe it will burn me out even more because lets be honest - it's a pretty intense experience, definitely not a "vacation".

I'm not cancelling the trip now of course (if nothing else, I can just sit in a jungle without drinking Ayahuasca doing nothing and it would be a pretty good vacation by itself). But wanted to hear your thoughts - if you drank Ayahuasca while being "tired", did it help?

From a very Christian upbringing. Have an ayahuasca retreat planned a month from today. Definitely nervous but also just wondering what I’m opening myself up to.

I grew up learning that anything “not of God” is of the devil, and that opening yourself up to the spirit realm can be dangerous.

Not sure if anyone can relate. I truly want to do ayahuasca for the personal and spiritual development.

Thanks in advance for the advice :)

I never got to try ayahuasca however I was a volunteer at the first treat in the US. I felt the people running this retreat were not following the Shamanic code and rules strict enough and it made me uneasy and I didn’t sit with mother because of this, has anyone else ever felt this way before a ceremony and backed out?

Last Wednesday I was talking with a practitioner at a Daime-like church (not the official Santo Daime organization) who told me "daime" is different from ayahuasca. I always thought ayahuasca and daime were the same thing. I've searched on the web and other but I haven't been able to find a clear explanation about the differences in the concoction and the typical outcomes of each.

I'm very green regarding ayahuasca. Perhaps some more experienced people can tell me?

I’m heading out for a 2 month retreat tomorrow and am packing my supplement bag. I know ayahuasca can be muted by marijuana- is this true for cannabinoids like CBD, CBG, and CBC? I usually take them but will leave them behind if they can also potentially mute my experiences. Thanks

I understood that the most common way of taking ayahuasca is a ceremonial ritual setting. I was also aware of the risk that taking such a powerful medicine alone had. But I just felt that this was something between me and myself. I did not want the energies of other people interfering with this deep examination into my own psyche. If I was to go that deep within and take out the trash, I wanted to do it on my own terms without any external filters. In fact, I did not even listen to music.

How it went, was that I did end up having to face some pretty hard stuff by myself. And I did have to deal with the process of purging, all alone. The setting could have been better as well but I couldn't help that. I got an intense fear of going mad near the beginning and at the same time I felt that some entities were probing me for the darkest things they could find in my head and throwing them at me rapidly.

And yet, some aspect of myself deep within me stepped up to guide me. It was the man I wanted to be, the man I knew I could be if I addressed the issues this medicine was bringing to the light. It was my "higher self", and it was speaking to me the whole way through, encouraging me to face it all down and be brave and that I will be ok in the end. And I was.

I don't recommend everybody do this. I think you know if you can or can't. But I believe for some, this is just as legitimate a way as doing it at a ceremony.

Have any of you done it alone? How did it go for you?

Hey, I wanted to share this writing a did many years ago for the Ayahuasca Erowid experiences vault, as I've enjoyed reading experiences here, so I thought to share one of mine ..

It's a bit long and peculiar, describing visiting the 11th dimension, meeting a Lizard being, being called by a Satanic Cult, rescuing part of my sons soul and ultimately feeling what it is to transform into a GPU (Wut! :D).

Would be interested in hearing if you have had similar types of experiences with Ayahuasca, especially contact with high level entities or transforming completely into something else .. Anyway, hope you enjoy reading it ! Was definitely a strong experience, my 6th time drinking Ayahuasca together with my friend who had studied the medicine in the jungle ..

Just want to preface this a little bit that I am very sensitive to energies, and also being in these states has always been a natural thing for me, like I already always remembered how to work in altered states of being. Shamanism and the medicine path has also called me strongly during my life, and I have some innate skills how to navigate these realms. I am also a software developer and engineer, always interested in how things work on a deep level .. just giving some context to these experiences.

The Setting
It had been 6 months since I had last drank Ayahuasca. I had been blessed to know people who have trained in the art of brewing and working with the spirit of Ayahuasca. I had never visited the jungles of Amazon, but I know a person who has, and with him, I’ve been lucky enough to have to experiences in my home country, many times in a summer cabin in the middle of the woods, by a lake.

My friend contacts me. How about some healing session this weekend? I hesitated for a while. My friend suggested we do it the day after tomorrow. I was thinking of doing some LSD that weekend, like I had done the past two weekends. Just some slight introspection and maybe making music.

But Ayahuasca, now that’s a completely different thing. Back of my mind I had a memory of that first time, the roughest experience I’ve gone through in my whole life. It had burned itself into my retinas, the healing that happened that night was something so deep and in my face that I will never forget it. I let go a lot of darkness that night.

I said ‘sure, let’s say a pre-emptive yes’. He asked, ‘Maybe we can go the summer cabin?’. It was beginning of summer here in the northern parts of the world, plants s

Kan man smide ayahuasca shots i fryseren uden at det tager skade? Vil høre jer ad, inden jeg gør det.

Has anyone had any experience with Ayahuasca Retreat Haven? (https://ayahuascahaven.com/)

I sent these people 899 for a 3 day retreat and nobody has responded with acknowledgment or a receipt. Thanks

Hi all, I am going to be in the Yucutan Peninsula in Mexico in a couple weeks for a couple weeks. I have been researching Ayahuasca recently and am curious to try it though I've never done it or anything like it before. I don't use drugs i general.

Does anyone have a shaman they have personally used that they recommend? Or any advice for me?

For those who have done both, how is a standard dosage of Ayahuasca compared to a 5g dose of Mushrooms If at all?

Hi there, I will be in Peru next Feb and I’m looking for an Ayahuasca retreat of 3-4 days. Any recommendation? I was thinking either in Iquitos or Cuzco.

Thank you!

Så jeg besluttede mig for at lave nogle ayahuasca shots. Jeg havde ~100g mimosa og ~75g caapi

Jeg "kogte" det hvert for sig. Alt sammen var på ~80°c på intet tidspunkt kom det over kogepunkt.

Fremgangsmåde :

To liter vand til 100g mimosa. Ikke tilsat ekstra vand ved omrøring (hvert 20.min)

To liter vand til 75g caapi. Ikke tilsat ekstra vand ved omrøring (hvert 20.min)

Begge portioner var i opvarmning på tre timer.

Denne process blev gjort tre gange. Og væskerne var adskilt.

Ved fjerde omgang blev væskerne sammensat, til én væske på knap 4l. Igen blev det omrørt, hvert 30.min denne gang i 7 timer for at få en passende mængde.

Slut resultat var 3x1 1.5dl shots. Et shot som test og de andre to skulle være en hyggelig weekend med en kammerat. Test shottet gav ingen effekt. Absolut nul.

Hvad har jeg gjort galt?

#update

Jeg gjorde mig et nyt forsøg med de sidste to "shots" Jeg kogte det sammen igen, denne gang med 0.25dl eddike. Jeg fik kogt det ned til ca. 0.5dl det hele. Fasted igen i tolv timer. Varmede shottet op og knuste 3g syrian rue

De 3g rue mixed jeg sammen med et glas appelsin juice og drak det først. Vented små 10min før jeg tog shottet.

Denne gang kunne det mærkes. Hårdt endda, desværre kort efter jeg drak shottet (måske 15-25min) var det som at være på et samlebånd, hvor alt på min krop blev byttet rundt. Det fucked min mave helt op, så var nød til at knække mig. Det resulterede jo så desværre i at jeg ikke optog hele shottet. Men det var noget helt andet denne gang. Ikke så intens, men klart en effekt. Dog varede trippet kun i 3-4 timer. Så det lidt øv, men ved da hvad jeg skal gøre til næste gang.

So I've been struggling with some mental health issues for quite a few years now and modern medicine is not doing anything to help, nor is exercise and diet. Looking to take the leap and try an ayahuasca ceremony. I'm stuck in NZ until the borders loosen up so was wondering if anyone can put me in touch with a shaman in NZ or at least point me in the right direction. I know its not legal over here but I feel like I've come to a dead end with my mental health and I'm willing to give this a go. Thanks in advance x

Hello!

Since one year I am working deeply on myself and since around 10 months I used mushrooms as a catalyst for that transformation. For me it has become very important to integrate my learnings before going for another ceremony (which means atleast 2-3 week inbetween).

Since some time I am quite curious of ayahuasca (because of its said healing properties) but doing it alone for the first time is out of question for me (due to purging and MAOIs). I found a company that does retreats in my country and they recommend to stay atleast for 2 days (=2 ceremonies). This stands quite in contrast to what my experiences with working with mushrooms thought me since there is nearly no time for integration inbetween.

What do you who have experienced ayahuasca say to this topic?

Thank you in advance!

I’ve read some people with autoimmune diseases have been helped with ayahuasca. Can any tell me their own experiences of this? I’ve been having joint and muscle pain since October and I’m only 28F. I was sent to a rheumatologist who thinks it may be Sjogrens but I don’t know how accurate that is because I don’t have extreme dry eyes or mouth. Anyway, I have a local ceremony coming up here in the states and am hoping it will help my physical body and the pain I’ve been having.

I couldn’t find any where in Reddit information about bufo. Please share your thoughts on the differences and risks. I’v done aya 4 times in a ceremony with 30 people and I had a good experience but I felt like it wasn’t too personal

Has anybody had experience with not being able to drink alcohol after ayahuasca? I did ayahuasca about 6 weeks ago and since then, every time I drink alcohol, my body physically rejects it and I spew up. If I don't spew right away, I'll just feel sick the whole night and be bed ridden for the entire next day. Its gone as far as getting liver pains and spewing blood, I've never had this before. Prior to this, I could drink a box of alcohol without even as much as a hangover . I stopped drinking leading up to ayahuasca, so don't think it's over consumption of alcohol. When I say I get sick, I mean I start getting sick after about 3 or 4 drinks, not from excessive alcohol consumption

Anybody else experience anything similar? In general I'm very healthy, I train every day and eat very healthy, I don't drink much so its kind of puzzling me.

Interested to know if anyone has experienced something similar or if anybody has an idea of what it could be.

Thanks all 🙏

If anyone has tried Ketamine Infusion Therapy or Ayahuasca or ideally both for therapeutic purposes, could you please share your experiences in the comments.

been trying to identify the pros and cons of joining a big gathering for the ceremonies or a small one... I find more info on retreats in Peru than I do anywhere else.. and that adds to my insecurity around coming across a shaman that doesn't really have your best interest in mind.. or the health screening...

while in large gatherings I 'm skeptical as to the space they would hold for each and every one of us...

would love to hear thoughts & welcome recommendations

thanks a lot :)

Does anybody know of a reputable shaman in Utah? Thank you ahead of time.

Donde se puede hacer ayahuasca de manera segura cerca de Guayaquil?

Can I do ayahuasca if I have chronic nerve pain? Does anyone with pain have any experience sitting with the medicine?

I'm just beginning to research into ayahuasca. I'm at a point in my life where I feel at a loss with the pain I feel, and aya has been something i've heard of for some time and felt drawn to. I'm from Illinois, where could I find a retreat?

I'm unsatisfied with my life and I'm self-aware enough to realize if I keep walking the same path then I'll get the same result.

I researched that an Ayahuasca ceremony could lead to a new beginning, a new start, a potentially new outlook on life.

Curious what was your experience on Ayahuasca for those who went through this journey.

I had my first sitting with ayahuasca about a week. It was a difficult yet rewarding experience that I do not regret and I'm proud to say I worked through it alone in silence (aside the auditory stuff from the aya haha). I have enough in my jar of ayahuasca for 2 more equal trips, and for the past week I've planned on having my next sitting but I just didn't feel like it was right. It's almost like the plant is speaking to me saying "soon, but not now. Have patience." I may end up taking it tonight but it depends on that same instinct. Do you ever have this experience?

Note that I am referring to ayahuasca in a more personal sense outside the context of ritual or ceremony.