...DMT is the most powerful psychedelic
hallucinogenic drug on the planet. Interestingly, it is found naturally in a
variety of plants, animals and even human beings where it is synthesized in the
pineal gland. This drug has been used in spiritual rituals and ceremonies in the
Amazon for thousands of years to promote out of body experiences and experience
higher spiritual dimensions. They administer DMT through the ayahuasca brew,
which has Dimethyltryptamine as it's active ingredient. Dr. Rick Strassman was
granted governmental permission to do medically controlled administrations of
DMT to volunteering participants to measure the effects of this drug. These
participants reported traveling to other spiritual dimensions and communicating
with various entities. They were completely transported to the world of spirits
and energy. His ground-breaking work was put together in the documentary "DMT: The Spirit Molecule" (trailer below) where
the participants gave in-depth accounts of their experiences. If you have not
seen this documentary or read this book, please do so. It will change your life.
We must now ask the question, why does this chemical exist in nature? What is
its purpose, and why is it being synthesized in our brains? When you take DMT,
your pineal gland gets flooded with the chemical it already naturally produces.
You essentially get a glimpse into the reality of spirit that already exists
within you...
Art by: Alex Grey
http://www.thespiritmolecule.com/html/media.php?media=Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FwdR7j7CyQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ommNRJeMQ
hallucinogenic drug on the planet. Interestingly, it is found naturally in a
variety of plants, animals and even human beings where it is synthesized in the
pineal gland. This drug has been used in spiritual rituals and ceremonies in the
Amazon for thousands of years to promote out of body experiences and experience
higher spiritual dimensions. They administer DMT through the ayahuasca brew,
which has Dimethyltryptamine as it's active ingredient. Dr. Rick Strassman was
granted governmental permission to do medically controlled administrations of
DMT to volunteering participants to measure the effects of this drug. These
participants reported traveling to other spiritual dimensions and communicating
with various entities. They were completely transported to the world of spirits
and energy. His ground-breaking work was put together in the documentary "DMT: The Spirit Molecule" (trailer below) where
the participants gave in-depth accounts of their experiences. If you have not
seen this documentary or read this book, please do so. It will change your life.
We must now ask the question, why does this chemical exist in nature? What is
its purpose, and why is it being synthesized in our brains? When you take DMT,
your pineal gland gets flooded with the chemical it already naturally produces.
You essentially get a glimpse into the reality of spirit that already exists
within you...
Art by: Alex Grey
http://www.thespiritmolecule.com/html/media.php?media=Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FwdR7j7CyQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ommNRJeMQ
A teenager on Sydney's northern beaches orders cocaine online and has
it posted to their front door. It is just one of the signs that
existing drug laws have "substantially failed", according to top
criminal barristers in NSW.The NSW Bar Association's criminal law
committee, chaired by Sydney barrister Stephen Odgers SC, has put
forward a "radical proposal" to replace the black market for drugs with a
highly-regulated system of legal availability.
The committee says existing laws aimed at curbing illicit drug use and supply are not working and are resulting in "considerable" harm including an unregulated black market, drug overdoses, and crimes such as prostitution and armed robbery that are committed to pay for drugs.
It says its preliminary view, subject to further research and consultation, is that the current prohibitionist approach to drugs should be abandoned and replaced with a tightly-regulated system where drugs are legally available.
The system might involve licensing controls on the production and supply of drugs, along with price regulation and comprehensive services for treating drug addiction. A ban on private trafficking, supply to children and advertising was also flagged by the committee.~
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/buying-drugs-online-nsw-lawyers-radical-proposal-to-decriminalise-drugs-20141222-12c011.html
ha ohyeh hand over what little freedom we have left to facism you say... haha .. lets see how long that too lasts, also a myopic ephemeral pursuit. just as the illegalization of nature drug war was. so what be the answer then u ask me? how about freedom :o no the answer couldnt possibly be that obvious. ~benjamin couwenberg more lore less law
The committee says existing laws aimed at curbing illicit drug use and supply are not working and are resulting in "considerable" harm including an unregulated black market, drug overdoses, and crimes such as prostitution and armed robbery that are committed to pay for drugs.
It says its preliminary view, subject to further research and consultation, is that the current prohibitionist approach to drugs should be abandoned and replaced with a tightly-regulated system where drugs are legally available.
The system might involve licensing controls on the production and supply of drugs, along with price regulation and comprehensive services for treating drug addiction. A ban on private trafficking, supply to children and advertising was also flagged by the committee.~
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/buying-drugs-online-nsw-lawyers-radical-proposal-to-decriminalise-drugs-20141222-12c011.html
ha ohyeh hand over what little freedom we have left to facism you say... haha .. lets see how long that too lasts, also a myopic ephemeral pursuit. just as the illegalization of nature drug war was. so what be the answer then u ask me? how about freedom :o no the answer couldnt possibly be that obvious. ~benjamin couwenberg more lore less law
Salvia divanorum personal experiences - first time
so i take toke think oh nothings happening start releasing then find myself a bit 'wobbly' (its important to note i was lying down and i meant in a mind sense wobbly) then looked strangly interested at my joint asif like what??? just happened did i put in there.. then it was like falling backwards into the eye so maybe transversing down your spine well since thats how the light of kundalini comes up the spine.. i suspect we can transverse it back as we r transversing consciousness.. anyway so then i fall back into a scenario like in a school i was bewildered and thought ohk random but not scared and kids were calling a little girl and perhaps a little boy or another girl but the prominent girl ended up twisting into a girl from my primary school (the same age as the setting the school was a primary not high school) and um now i have forgotten what she was initially yelling it was faint and hard to even moment by moment parse it into neuronal like memory.. ah however in a bid to hear her i was trying to lean over toward her more (it was odd though the whole time it was like i was running in the school yard and like i could lean into the situation more or pull back out into our 3d world) then she morphed into or maybe she just became clearer im not sure.. a girl from my primary school well this is what was stated 'ashley' 'from your primary school' (but not sure if i made that part up so eary, see i think salvia brings up childhood memories and this ashley girl i think i had a crush on so hence i would have her as a neuronal brain connection) was the jist and feeling parsed into english.. ah then i said what ok i think first thats right she said im dead i said what? she said she was a ghost she has died now, i said oh ok and she said ashley from your primary school or she didnt say anything this is what parsed into english from the jists of feelings of meaning . telepathic communication.. conected to the pictorial images that r like faint and imaginary so to speak .. however most people dont even understnd the mind sight third eye imagination and think there is some unrealness to it.. no i think its real inner language its memories saved whackily, as it exists what to make of it is only really ever the question there is always meaning tied to things u see in the mind sight. anyway so then i start hearing a witch like a scene fade change.. except im still hearing ashley. i am trying to hold onto the wierdness of the depth of the trip in my first confusions as this is my first trip on salvia times5, anyway i go so whats going on here energetic barriers? or what higher dimensions whats happening , and she is like yes energy codes, im right over here see.. im looking right in a twirl fashion like im spiraling down and of into a tear of dimensions. like energetic rifts. like energy barriers were temporarily torn. so strange and cool it was well i wanted to inspect it for longer.. immediately as the trip faded (it literally was like it was pulling away from me) wanting to go back and decipher more as i seamed to be there conscious as usual discerning.. so she said yes im right here im looking 'yes to the right here see' she says, im like lol yeh.. i see haha.. i could but it was funny because i could see it but not understand it.and see it was fading . O.o so i knew even then ohno its slipping away i need to observe for a bit longer to figure this out, its coming its coming on the tip of my tongue how to explain this.. no fading.. and then more witch laughing and really fading out of the core of the trip.. kind of like the neunomonous inner lacing to outside reality light was fading down. all these psychedelics cannabis psilocybin cubensis gold topped magic mushroom , DMT even though i havnt had it yet the dmt, but its like this salvia im now speaking of so all these have in common that they seem to open the eye so to speak open the third eye ahh its like it widens and u go into the light gap literally and then your in somewhere else. like rips and ruptures. then its always a challange to stay in there.. but they all open this pathway up all the psychedelics true plant hallucinogens.
every trip of salvia each hit, i think i had 6 all up, out of my little satchel bag, each had overtones of cartoonishness to it, for instance the above had a witch cartoonish laugh in the background at the end, which is again i think subconscious memory saving, youknow one way i have saved evil. the second toke joint, one long toke again had it in the tip of ajoint the salvia and some boy on the street as the jist of his self aura and telepathic response gave me. some boy he replied to my telepathic who r you's, he seamed either 1950's or 1800's, i think 1800 'some boy' anyway kept sayin 'your doin it wrong' quickly an quietly and i would go what?! ahaha and laugh too and be like what? and he'd go 'yer doin it wrong' ahahaha again and all this was really funny because i couldnt believe something was actually talking to me. and there was a floating image in the way kind of barrier like its asif u melt away into these scenes and the scene u end up in your vision is like the part of blackness that melted away, into well the light then into a scene like this and the barrier like thing image floating in the way of this boy scene tellin me i was doin it wrong! haha was like auhm alex grey like youknow his well known fractal head drawing it was similar to that winding twisting away and spots of it like the eyes on the alex grey drawing spots on this melting away leftovers like not fully melted parts in the way were dark and not melted and the rest melted with a kinda layer of fractal over it like multidimensional image. and i faded out of it a bit quicker this time the whole thing as i was so aware of i had taken it and i think i need higher doses and like a whole joint of salvia i think at times 30 not times5.. to fully go in is what u want.. we call that a post threshold dose in psychedelic. i knew salvia would be similar to what i heard described of whacky DMT trips. maybe DMT is much stronger although i have seen a salvia times*60 wheres i had *5 only, dose, and the guy looks asif hes completely gone inside this trip.. into this other place as it seems.. i done it a third time! i couldnt resist! hehehehe and well yeh its like your always being pulled somewhere and its good completly goes through heavy body energy , any discomfort . you dont feel any body pain anymore. like your being pulled into it for a while and some other reality and its whacky too and um twirling pulling feeling too and a literal ripping sound.. i like it.. i want higher dose not just *5 salvia divanorum. someone hand me some good psychedelics in this farce! so scarce in this farce! salvia is fun i think, has dark overtone bits to it but its creepy fun like cute because youknow its a trip atleast at times5 at the higher doses it sounds more like you dont know u have gone anywhere which may be a little disconcerting and confusing, and its always like someone or some thing or things are trying to pull u to some other dimension through a rip in space fabric, often fractals appear during this as part of a translucent mutidimenional layering. i had salvia from carrot pipe last night lol to try get a better hit and it was! lol Conclusion: like a bubble explodes inside u so cool! this ripping tearing feeling. i find it really light body enhancing, and it like bulges through all your heavy dense body electrical energy blocks like a bubble of warmth exploding under your skin but between the surface and u.. so u r consciousness the backdrop i assume. very healing and weird! so cool Recommendations: i recommend you study its health effects i am not sure of them. u can do this once a day just via its coolness i dont know how good it is for you to do it once a day like u can cannabis though. I also recommend u grow it, as it was double the price of cannabis sort of for me. Addendum: its like *5 was not enough and im always about to be pulled somewhere better (deeper) but dont quite make it because im on such a quick low dose i think. like trying to let go and go where the voices r so to speak (last night the 6th go at salvia*5 my car seats became talking entities who wanted me to go with them, i was keen to but the trip started fading.. bogus dude.. salvia helps (from my limited experience): powerful creation, alchemical shamanismo power increase, psi ability increase, long term chi increase + short term kundalini rise. yes u can use cannabis in association and or during it, goes well enough together, using cannabis seemingly increased my salvia *5 (weak multiple, me want salvia*30) trips ecstaticness, different to just toking cannabis by itself ecstatic too, because kundalini powerflux of the salvia. I also think salvia divanorum heals child hood trauma files, like helps delete them and or brings them to bear, or surface. but u will notice how weirdly these play out almost in a self mocking way.. very strange and dark it seems it was the most literal meaning of insanity inside you. very whacky ways u have saved traumas. 7th experience, same bag times 5 only.1 big cone. hold it in as long as u can till u see it starting to rip away and trying to emerge itself. and as u blow it out u barely feel yourself blow it out. so the salvia energetically heals, as the place leaves as i came back, it like ripped over my nervous system and took all the bad energy i had, blocks" pains in on the body, with it, so 7th go at salvia this is, i was looking into third eye, so it moves up through the chakras, i was in another place so to speak, like tiles began appearing then i was there in a giant tiled pool which like morphed into a empty like school or college. so i opened my eyes after a bit of that then back in and it started doing its twisting ripping dimensional tearing thing, as the images in the eye ripped away and twirled into themselves in a sucked away fashion, it is asif it energetically peels a layer of aura off you, very healing like lifting weights of u. Then it was weird.. i finally realized for sure an experience of similarity to one thing david wilcocks said about a meditation one time he was in then he went above earth then broke through like 7 energetic layers and into higher earths or something, upto some beings who were shocked to see him. i think i went to atleast the first layer then, so heres what happened after opening eyes, after the tiled schoolyard part of the initial vision, i was saying to linda, i can feel lighter and oh also i can now see like a white light so ill try pull into it, and i did! because sometimes u cant let go into it u just got to let go.. and so then i had the pespective back from up there ! it was lol under the whackiness of the salvia divanorum too, they said "congratulations was the feeling, "uv finally made it here now to this perspective" in funny voice mocking playing voice :) (salvia seems to have a little dark overtonage) an indeed it was like i saw the earth way away! kinda just basically seeing black with the notion of earth being long away, an i was hudled n like uno the cherub angel status of angels lyin about in heaven? well it felt like that them behind me, and i was like oh cool and just fascinated looking back with this view, cuz i said oh i wana go be up there where that light is, lol so at the view suddenly im all smiles so to speak haha.. and yeh then i realized to feel more.. and yeh really weird i thought. why does it feel like a sheet of whiteness behind me if i am up with stars literally, shouldnt it feel more like points of light around there behind me, was strange.. felt like a sheet then i couldnt tell if i was coming back through some energetic layer that might have been the sheet, as it is all happening quit quick. psychedelics r not just for your elucidation but see i like to bring something back for others. so this is a healer.. as u would expect of a plant hallucinogen, psychedelic. 8th time: saw a like orchid farm house and lady kinda resemblish my mum in feel faces not totally clear, and upon zooming they disappear inside out anyway, so ur best to try just not touch ur vision with ur mind too much and just observe. kept thinking what could this be, if i consider and cary the premise of these visions r childhood memories,truamas thinkings regrets etc , then this image presented me with how i used to be annoyed with living in a small unit 14 yrs growing up at mooloolaba, and so this farm house i have always wished i grew up on i guess was being represented to me in this vision, the 8th time i took the plant slavia divanorum X5, 1 cone. 10 minutes after the trip, i am considering even maybe the little boy was an alternate me yet information mixidge could have occurred as he looked slightly like a little kid version of the guy i was just now sitting next to as i took the salvia divanorum. so anyone else done salvia divanorum and agrees it brings up childhood memory saved in whacky ways, the so this information becomes visual in the third eye, the scene may mean a different meaning being brought up than the individual to the left or right or the type of tree there etc. things have their own layer of meaning within these visions i think i noticed, and figured. ??? 9th time: i smoked the rest in a joint, it is definitely a psychedelic and i want to smoke lots more mixed with cannabis in joint form, or cone form, cone seems better, as it gets alot of smoke deep, when with joints it may last slightly longer but more faint and trailing. *and im not sure if i mentioned this anywhere, but theres this sound !!!!!! its like a ripping of energetic planes or barriers something it literally sounds asif your heads ripping apart but it doesnt feel negative it felt kinda nice but a tearing ripping sound would accompany your passage to seeing things or these other places u end up landing in. very cool i highly enjoyed the feeling of that tearing and ripping sensation it was absolutely just cool and fun, it felt great, all body aches and pain would cease. and i almost forget to write this here, one time after salvia after the trip and on the end of it, i could feel everything with my heart field, heart torus, like when neo in the matrix is blind folded but can still see stuff. |
“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.” ―Terence McKenna.
A study on the effects of mushrooms and its active chemical compound psilocybin published in the peer-reviewed Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that the subjective effects of psychedelic drugs are caused by decreased activity and connectivity in the brain's key connector hubs, enabling a state of unconstrained cognition. This allowed them to concluded that this drug could be used to promote increased sense of well-being and enhanced open-mindedness: http://www.pnas.org/content/109/6/2138.full Mushrooms and proven increased sense of personal meaning and spiritual significance. 64% indicated that the experience increased well-being or life satisfaction: http://jop.sagepub.com/content/22/6/621.full.pdf Mushrooms promoting mystical experiences associated with long-term open-mindedness. In participants who had mystical experiences during their psilocybin session, Openness remained significantly higher than baseline more than 1 year after the session: http://jop.sagepub.com/content/25/11/1453.full A woman on acid becomes aware of the infinite beauty and unity of all things around her. "This is reality. I wish you could see this. It's so beautiful": https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iGf2loLAwVE “Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.” - Bill Hicks Graham Hancock banned TED Talk. A War on Consciousness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b6-0yW7Iaw It may natural to assume that psychedelics are evil, but why? Is there anything inherently wrong with them, and why are they illegal? They clearly aren't illegal for health reasons. If this was the case, alcohol and tobacco would be illegal as well as they kill infinitely more each year. As we move into this new age of open-mindedness, it's important to question the things we have been taught to believe and question the principles on which our opinions are founded. If someone wants to experiment with them to try to achieve higher levels of consciousness without harming anyone else, who is the government to say they don't have the right to their bodies and minds? Spirit Science and Metaphysics Spirit Science Earth. We are one.By: Spirit Science and Metaphysics i agree. from experience OF BOTH.
can u even say that ? Its like a birth right .. psychedelic plants. dying without taking them i consider like dying without having sex u societally brainwashed morons. ... Peyote : http://www.psychedelicadventure.net/2010/03/peyote-last-of-medicine-man-movie.html
ahhhhhh....
Psilocybian mushrooms are used for a variety of purposes. They have physical, mental and spiritual benefits to them, it is a journey one takes and discovers that there are other worlds out there all around us at all times. Everyone's experience is different, but those who experience meaning know that it is truly a good thing, these are azzies -daniel
conscious neb (ben couwenberg) azurescens mycelium? http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/18582505 no these are psilocybe cayenses, oh me wanty . i havnt had these. but im a little scared to pick them unless they have wavey caps so i know for sure. i think they grow during the winter season here in australia, so opposite to psilocybin cubensis which i have had which grow in summer time after days of rain out of cow dung. these grow out of woodchips.. oh man iv i ever find a mass of these im going to set up a little woodchip garden bed especially to grow them i hear they are quite powerful but i cannot comment further. yet :). "All mushrooms are edible, but some only once..... " IDEAA: TREATMENT OF TOXIC DEPENDENCE WITH AYAHUASCA In 2003 I worked in Ideaa (Institute of Applied Ethnopsychology Amazon), collaborating on the design and implementation of their therapeutic program. It is a center working with altered states of consciousness for healing and personal development purposes. Ideaa users are mostly drug addicts who wanted to change their addictive behavior, but now more often people are turning smoothly drug addiction who want to live an intensive process of personal development. Ideaa is located in the Brazilian Amazon, a day canoe from the nearest town. Its purpose is to provide the opportunity to perform exploration work and healing within oneself, pushing the limits of perception and self-awareness through the use of ayahuasca. Program Ideaa The work plan Ideaa integrates various methods and disciplines of self-knowledge and personal development. Daily program: The program starts at dawn everyday activities, starting with a kind of meditation and yoga, including breathing exercises and deep relaxation. Then comes breakfast, followed by good morning meeting where psychophysical reviews the status of each day's activities and proposed. At the end of the meeting and to mealtime work center maintenance and cleaning, carpentry, gardening and cooking are done. After the food, mostly vegetarian, weekly individual psychotherapy sessions are held. In the afternoon we take advantage of the last hours of sun and cooler temperatures for sports and practicing Tai Chi. After dinner and so it ends the day, relaxing in the common areas or individual cabins. Weekly program: Every Monday starts the week with a weekly assessment meeting where participants describe the week that just ended with their achievements and difficulties, value their process of change, make decisions and make resolutions for the coming week. Every Saturday night a session with ayahuasca is performed, and Sundays are dedicated to the integration of experience, first individually, writing and drawing in a journal, and then sharing and integrating the experience in a group meeting. Yoga, meditation and tai chi Many studies document the effectiveness of the practice of yoga (Calajoe, 1986) and meditation (Alexander, 1994) in the treatment of addiction, as well as through the use of entheogens (Grof, 1980). In his book on ayahuasca, Ralph Metzner advocates the development of centers linking all these methods in a highly effective combination that permits significant changes in the participants (Metzner, 1999). The daily practice of yoga, meditation and Tai Chi allows first regain fitness, strength and elasticity often lost having been until then a unhealthy lifestyle. Body awareness and the ability to focus attention on bodily sensations and movements develops. Practitioners learn to nurture your body, establishing the one opposite to self-destructive drug abuse constructive relationship. Mental faculties such as attention span and concentration are also developed. States can be considered achieved through the practice of yoga as altered states of comparable and complementary to the states achieved through the use of entheogens consciousness. The experiences of the participants Ideaa program suggest that there is a phenomenon of synergy between the daily practice of yoga and meditation sessions with ayahuasca. The course experience is strongly affected by the physical and psychological state of the person (called the "set" of the experience). Having learned to develop the power of concentration and introspection in a flexible and relaxed body knows a good posture and deep breathing and conscious seems to have a favorable influence for teachers working with plants. The person thus has training, knowledge and techniques that are helpful to develop in an altered state of consciousness that often involves all the difficulties of a foray into uncharted territories. He thus learns to channel optimally intense psychic activity driven by the substance, if not often overflows and can become distressing for the participant who lacks techniques to manage it. Another aspect of the synergy between yoga practice and work in ayahuasca sessions is that they all have in common the same learning process that leads to an increased ability to relax physically and mentally. In the stories of the participants about their ayahuasca experiences is common to find descriptions of states of deep serenity, enjoying inner silence and the ability to feel at peace, secure and completely relaxed in the center of themselves comes as the culmination of a process through phases of intense exposure to your fears and anxieties. This relaxation process is particularly helpful for people who want to treat drug addictions. Individuals who come to the center after years of substance abuse, both stimulants like cocaine and sedative like opiates, have great difficulty in relax and enjoy a serene state of consciousness. Having been compulsively abusing substances to achieve escape the craving produced by the same abuse, in addition to frequent imbalances and difficulties are often a result of addictive behaviors, subjects at the end of a headlong rush into the that they are their own persecutors. Having lost the ability to be at peace with themselves become slaves to their desires, needing to satisfy immediately, with a very low tolerance for frustration. And return to an infantile stage, and with little control over themselves and their constant craving. Users Ideaa In this state is manifested in initial difficulty adjusting to school life in compulsive behaviors (eg overeating or constantly call) and a rejection of the proposed activities. Wanting to break free from the trouble that would follow an effort or discipline, rather than manage to be free are increasingly prisoners of their drives. Paradoxically, when they decide to make the daily effort undergoing teach disciplines that focus on relaxation, silence and control of mind and body, is when can begin to find their lost freedom. When they stop always wanting to satisfy their desires and therefore begin to discover and address the needs of others, is when paradoxically manage to satisfy his inner desire, be at peace with themselves and achieve freedom from anxiety. The states of deep serenity that can be accessed through ayahuasca rituals, especially being on a regular daily meditation training, relaxation, yoga and Tai Chi can be learned and applied to everyday life, becoming a path therapeutic allowing suffering addiction free power of the constriction of their compulsions. These states of peace achieved during the rituals are very different from peace provided by opioids. A neurophysiological level, the price to pay for sedation and pleasure provided by opioids is increasing tolerance requiring increasing levels of exogenous substances in the blood, causing withdrawal symptoms getting off that level and the compulsion to repeat use. Perhaps because the active ingredient in ayahuasca is an endogenous substance to our body, dimethyltryptamine or DMT, its use does not create dependence or tolerance, and no reports of compulsive abuse of the substance. Ayahuasca also causes repetitive behaviors conditioned by seeking pleasurable stimuli such as those caused by opioids. As discussed below, the experience provided by the ayahuasca, unlike narcotics, usually involves suffering and confront difficult emotions (not to mention its extremely unpleasant taste and purgative properties). The joy and peace obtained at the end of the session of ayahuasca are the result of intense introspection and internal conflict resolution work, and this is usually not an experience I want to be repeated often because it costs a lot of effort. This is the lesson that ayahuasca share with the disciplines of yoga and meditation, learning to be happy getting goals by working and striving. Experiences of participants during sessions It can make a broad distinction between the types of experiences narrated by the participants. On one side are the visions or memories that have to do with painful or conflictual aspects of the participant's life. Participants repeatedly revived during rituals forgotten or repressed scenes from his past, realizing the impact they had and were having on their lives. These processes also biographical recap happened during yoga sessions, and were experienced as cathartic episodes. Among them have been able to find scenes of family violence, sexual abuse, death of loved ones, degrading aspects of the life of the addict as theft, lies and psychophysical degeneration, pain caused to loved ones and themselves, missed opportunities, exposure to caracteriales own flaws and shortcomings. This phase usually corresponds to the first sessions of ayahuasca, and is presented as a cleaning process, in which participants are exposed to their past mistakes. Often accompany this process intense emotions of guilt, fear, sadness and regret. These emotions are experienced as the result of confronting the conflicting aspects of the addict was running through his habit, and are often accompanied by somatic manifestations such as vomiting and diarrhea. The fictional character made up for the shortcomings interior cracks and participants go through a depressive phase where they are exposed to low self-esteem. At first most difficult sessions are more hopeful sessions where users fail to see the more positive aspects, strengths and virtues, as well as the possibility of a better life ahead. Sessions can then reach aborted for states of great peace and serenity, as observed and described by researchers from psychedelic therapy as the final phase of these therapies (Grof, 1980). Most participants mentioned the end of treatment have recovered or increased will to live and have transformed the way we view life, by showing more optimism. The developments in the participants throughout the sessions suggest that ayahuasca rituals promote healing and evolutionary processes that drive the development of individuals to help them overcome the stagnation resulting from their addictive behaviors. These processes are integrated and reinforced through individual sessions and group therapy. Group sessions integration Each participant expressed and shared with the group their own experience. Therapists often ask questions, clarifications and returns to each. Integration sessions are considered part of the process of change and learning. It's time to reflect on the experience, and understand what impact it can have on one's life and what changes can be implemented in one's conduct following the visions and intuitions developed during the intake of plant teachers. conclusions These observations, being preliminary to a more detailed study, consistent with those published so far on similar studies, where participants have experienced more changes towards healthy life styles and resolution of addictions. In his research on 15 users ayahuasca in Brazil, the psychiatrist C. Grob found that 73% of participants had suffered in the past addiction in all cases had been resolved to participate regularly ayahuasca ceremonies (Grob et al, 1996 ). In my aforementioned research participants ayahuasca rituals in London, the subjects described positive changes in their lives: addictive and unhealthy behaviors were replaced by healthier life styles. The good results obtained in Ideaa, often with difficult patients who had already failed in other treatment programs show a promising direction of work: the development of centers that facilitate the integration of different modification techniques for therapeutic purposes consciousness.
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