While some people attend medicine ceremonies to treat specific ailments, others trying ayahuasca for the first time are simply curious to experience its hallucinogenic effects. With its wide range of healing benefits, ayahuasca is a panacea for all kinds of mental, emotional and spiritual afflictions. Often giving drinkers more than they bargained for, this sacred […]
The Shamanic Link Between Myth and Medicine The origins of ayahuasca are rooted in the indigenous creation myths of the Amazon and its people. From a native Amazonian perspective, these ancient myths are far more than just simple stories and reveal deep truths about the hidden nature of ayahuasca and the holistic nature of healing.(1)https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/73583 […]
The Dissemination and Distribution of Ayahuasca RitualsContents1 The Dissemination and Distribution of Ayahuasca Rituals2 Cultivating and Cooking Ayahuasca for Ceremonial Consumption3 Different Approaches to Dosage4 Setting the Mood: The Impact of Ceremonial Spaces5 Intensity and Gentleness: Different Approaches to Ayahuasca Healing6 The Importance of Vine-Leaf Ratios7 The Many Tones and Rhythms of an Ayahuasca Ceremony7.1 […]
A Three-Fold Model of the World’s Oldest ReligionContents1 A Three-Fold Model of the World’s Oldest Religion2 The Endless Variety of Amazonian Curanderismo3 An Indigenous Understanding of Ayahuasca and its Role in Divination4 Ayahuasca and its Role in Sustainability5 Ayahuasca and its Role in Love Magic5.1 Pusangas: Shamanic Love Charms6 Some Miscellaneous Uses of Ayahuasca 7 […]
Santo Daime and the Origin of Brazilian “Ayahuasca Religions” Outside of the indigenous context of ayahuasca usage, there exists in Brazil several different “ayahuasca religions” that fuse together various cultural and ethnic worldviews, blending Portuguese Catholic, native and African elements. The most famous of these “ayahuasca religions” is Santo Daime, a syncretic religion that was […]
Drinking ayahuasca is believed to help make dreams more vivid, aiding with dream recall due to the compounds in ayahuasca binding with various neurological receptors that effect and modulate brainwave activity in humans. The chemical changes that occur as a result of drinking ayahuasca have been shown to stimulate various regions of the brain that […]
Ayahuasca and Chacruna: The “Perfect” PairContents1 Ayahuasca and Chacruna: The “Perfect” Pair2 Adding Other Plants to Ayahuasca: Why Three isn’t Always a Crowd3 Calling Upon The Plant Spirits4 The Many Faces of the “Goddess of the Jungle”4.1 Toé, Ego Disintegration and the Divine Feminine4.2 Mother Ayahuasca and Father Chiricsanango: The Alchemy of Opposites5 Ritual and […]
How the West “Discovered” AyahuascaContents1 How the West “Discovered” Ayahuasca2 How Ayahuasca Infiltrated the Cultural Zeitgeist3 Mestizos: Cultural Go-Betweens and a Bridge Between Two Worlds4 The Birth of the Ayahuasca Tourist Lodge5 Ancient Medicine for the Modern Mind6 A Return to Nature7 Spirituality and the Intellect8 Final Thoughts Apart from a handful of hippies, ethnobotanists […]
The spirit of ayahuasca is known as the “Mother of the Plants” to the indigenous peoples of the Amazon and because of her role as the creatrix of the world, she is believed to have the power to connect us to many different levels of reality. Ayahuasca and Rao NeteContents1 Ayahuasca and Rao Nete2 Ayahuasca […]
If you or someone you know is living with a mental illness as debilitating as schizophrenia, you might be tempted to try psychedelic therapy. Ayahuasca, LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, and ketamine are the most common mentions. But today, we’re looking at the relationship between ayahuasca and schizophrenia. The sacred medicine has this great-for-all thing going on. […]