Ayahuasca

Most anyone interested in this blog, has probably heard of Ayahuasca.

Ayahuasca is a non-toxic blend of two plants from the Amazon - the ayahuasca vine and a shrub called chacruna, which contains the hallucinogenic drug DMT. Many do it as a way to cope with PTSD, addictions, and depression. It is popular with spiritual seekers also.

Unless you are on medication, it is very safe in my opinion. I am not suggesting that anyone do it unless they are called to do it. If you are interested, I do not have anything negative to say about it.

It is a plant based medicine, and somehow this fact is apparent while under its influence. It is best not to have an agenda, but rather let the medicine take you on a journey and show you whatever it is that you need to see.

Everyone is going to have a different experience because we are all coming from different places. The soldier with PTSD, and the truth seeker are likely to have very different experiences, however, both could have transformational changes for the better.

I can only say that it helped me. Ayahuasca is a short-cut, but only if you do the work. I did the work, and the medicine showed me everything. It took me behind the movie set so that I could see how the movie was made.

It was a portal into experiences that our human minds can not understand or imagine. This universe suddenly got much smaller, because I saw it from a POV that was not in the universe itself. I also clearly saw the substance of the universe. I could see that this experience is just one of an infinite number of possible experiences. I could see that nothing is ever created or destroyed. It is always just pure experiencing and that time is an illusion.

Just like watching different video games on your laptop. The phenomena is always changing but nothing is created or destroyed. The screen is the reality of the video game. The images come and go, but the screen is ever present. The images on the screen cannot exist without the screen, but the reverse is not true.

It is the same here. The reality of this current experience is Consciousness. Consciousness always is. Consciousness, or Being, exists independently of the body-mind-world, however, the body-mind-world has no existence without Consciousness or Being. In other words, the body-mind-world is an illusion.

This is easier for me to understand because of what Ayahuasca showed me. It is not necessary, but it helped. Like I said, it is a short-cut. And the true understanding of what the medicine showed me, did not happen immediately, because at the time, I was still too entrenched in my materialistic way of viewing reality. Nevertheless, it opened my mind.

Our minds are so incredibly limited, and we have imposed these limitations onto our concepts of reality. Our minds literally cannot imagine any kind of reality beyond time and space. Even our dreams are rooted in time and space (at least mine are).

For me, taking Ayahuasca was the equivalent of Neo taking the red pill in the Matrix. Morphesus said "Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself."

If you are struggling with these concepts I suggest experimenting with a really good Virtual Realty. Nothing we see or experience in the virtual reality game is real. It is always an illusion. Further, the game's reality doesn't appear anywhere in the game itself. In fact, there is nothing about the game that can give us any clue about the game's reality.

It is the same thing here, Consciousness, our reality, never appears in time and space and there is nothing about phenomenal experience that can tell us anything about Consciousness. Virtual reality is also a way of getting the experiential understanding that all experience is mind. And the essence of thoughts, sensations and perceptions is clearly Consciousness (if we choose to explore our experience).

Our minds are deeply conditioned to view matter as our reality. This is a deeply rooted belief. It is such a deeply rooted belief, we can't even imagine the possibility that it is a belief. I was on the spiritual path for years before I even got a whiff of the possibility that it might not be true.

Yes, the medicine wears off. Yes, we come back, but the perfume of these experiences still linger, and I find that it is getting easier for me to trace my way back if I wish.

I've met some truth seekers over the years who have said to me, "I want to do it naturally" as if Ayahuasca is cheating. I don't see it that way. I say we use any and all means available to see the truth, including science, yoga meditations, or a virtual reality game or anything else that will break our conditioned chains of perceiving reality. If Ayahuasca is cheating, then I'm happy I cheated.

I am deeply grateful that Mother Ayahuasca helped me see the truth more clearly, and I sincerely hope that anyone who wants it, always has access.