Ayahuasca 101

Posted April 16th, 2008 by blon

Dateline: Chucuito, Lake Titicaca, Peru.

The ayahuasca started a day later than planned, so it meant 2 days of greatly reduced food and no protein or milk products. Not my typical diet. The preparation for the ayahuasca took a month. No red meat. That was easy, I stopped eating it six months ago. No alcohol. That didn’t happen. I cut down dramatically, but in the wine business it’s tough to not drink wine. No sex. A lot easier than you think when you’ve been married for twenty two years. The master shaman from Bolivia, Miquel was also prepping the ingredients and saying his intentions for a month as well.

Miquel showed up around 6:30pm in the middle of Tyberonn’s Metatron reading and then declared that he needed time to get settled into his room and get setup. We agreed to meet in 2 hours. I went back to the room and I tried not to think about the fact that we still couldn’t eat! I did some slow forms to stay calm and focused while I waited. Later, as we sat in the room waiting for the ceremony to begin, my stomache already felt queazy from the thought that this was going to make me sick. One of the main attributes of this plant is help you release current and past life trauma through regurgitation. Cute, huh?

The shaman poured out a viscous brown liquid that was the most disgusting thing I’ve ever tasted. It was all I could do to try to keep it down until I got back to my spot and my special receptacle. When all were served, the lights and the fire went out. Only the street lamps outside shed a soft cast into the room. I settled onto the floor on some cushions and maintained slow deep breaths. About 40 minutes after consuming the liquid, I started to feel strange sensations throughout my body. Flashing across my mind were vivid images of sacred rainbow colored geometry. Forming, reforming. My stomache was getting very queazy but I didn’t throw up. Although clearly throughout the room, many had started their journey. The shaman was playing many different string, and percussion instruments and added soulful chanting and singing that was sending my mind off to other realms.
The sacred geometry had formed many different patterns and some formed into pyramids and began spinning like a top. I could feel a snake-like presence coursing throughout my body. The ayahuasca was clearly making its presence known.

A collage of images of people began appearing. Sometimes one at a time, sometimes 3 or 4 people appeared none of whom I recognized. I couldn’t tell if they were a review of my current or future life or from past lives. So I spent my time watching them and sending them love, all the while trying to maintain the slow deep breathing. The sacred geometry images often overlayed and intermingled with the faces.

Then about 3 hours into the ayahuasca something enormous happened. As I was sending love to those images I suddenly felt my heart chakra pop wider, bigger, like it had just doubled in size. And now with my new heart I still send love to all the images. It was a wonderful feeling.

About half an hour later, something shook through my whole body. It felt like an earthquake of love was sent through all time and space and expanded the hearts of all. It was enormous. It was beautiful. It felt like the veil of time had been removed and all were able to expand their hearts, as I had! I was now totally surrounded by love both inside and outside through time, and yet I was still fully aware of the present moment, the dark room and the sounds of all the others. The feeling was so strong, and so beautiful.
Fast forward two weeks later. I was doing the “inner smile” in my dark room at home, sending the love to the edge of the universe and back when I suddenly decided to send it back & forward in time like the ayahuasca. And sure enough, as I sent love through all dimensions of time and space, I felt the same tremor of joy and love shake the heart chakra in a wondrous jolt of pure love. It was an expansion again through time & space of the love and the heart, but on an exponential playing field. It was beautiful again. And a total thrill that the ayahuasca was continuing its work.