The Power of Ayahausca

[EYES WIDE OPEN]

Closing the DMT thread is ridiculous. There is nothing illegal about sharing information. Look here:
http://lucianarchy.proboards.com/ind...ay&thread=6007
I have been posting on that thread and it has not been a problem. The OMF forum is very much like this forum.

I think perhaps the mods on here dont know enough about DMT & Ayahausca to decide to close a thread.

As long as nobody is buying or selling or doing anything illegal, I see the shutting down of threads like these as giving into fear and self censorship.

Ayahausca IS legal in many countries.

I have had many Ayahausca sessions. It cured my of my Asthma in a single session. It has cured people of cancer, brain tumors, hepatitis and more. Many legal battles have been hard fought and have been won so that people can use Aya freely and stopping the free flow of information about it is an insult to those that battled hard for their rights.

Also I see the closed thread says "closed for DEA" review. What nonsense. Since when did the DEA stop us from talking? And the DEA is only responsible for American drug laws. I am skeptical of the reason for closing the thread and frankly, want to see some evidence of this supossed DEA review.

I respectfully ask that the mods not close this thread and refrain from knee jerk reactions.

Maybe reading the thread link above and also reading this wonderful report below will help to inform the mods....


[I]How Shipibo Healers Cured My Brain Tumor usiing Ayahuasca
Aprile Blake


Why I Chose Ayahuasca

I came to South America early in 2009, in search of a cure. I was acting on a gut feeling, that the legendary visionary plant, ayahuasca, would help me. I had a brain tumor, caused by a chronic degenerative condition, called "acromegaly" which had dogged me for 20 years. I had spent many years searching and trying a plethora of complementary and alternative approaches to restoring my health, continually postponing major brain surgery and radiation therapy, despite the progressive degeneration and deformation of my body. I wanted to avoid the conventional treatments, because in my case, they would have meant severe physical trauma, the destruction of a vital organ, and ultimately destined a life monitored by a hospital and dependent on heavy medications. I was so determined that I could never lead this life that I was, quite literally, prepared to die instead of give in to it. And this conviction was never so stark as when my doctors landed the final bombshell late in 2008; I was definitively out of time. My tumor was dangerously close to my brain stem, which, if it impinged on it, could have meant some vital bodily function just ceasing. It was also millimeters from my optic nerves. So, if not death, then I could expect certain blindness, followed some time thereafter by death.

I had been working periodically with ayahuasca in Europe, with various guides, for a couple of years. The plant had impressed me. It was the only thing, amongst the many alternatives I had tried, that had offered me a real hope of a resolution, whether that resolution be cure or death. At that point, it was ayahuasca that was helping me come to terms with the fact that I could not avoid death, and that it was something I had to prepare for. That said, I wanted to live. I wanted to be healed. I wanted to experience life in a healthy body. And I wanted to prove that my family, my friends, and my doctors were wrong -- that it was possible to heal a terminal condition that has no known cure. Because my very core ideals were encapsulated in this illness and in the choices I made with regard to it, it challenged me to confront my truth in the very bluntest way possible, and it was forcing me to pursue, and embody, my ideals -- that we are indeed the creators of our own lives, living in an earthly paradise, where absolutely everything we want for can be resourced through nature. If I managed to heal, managed to overcome a life threatening brain tumor and achieve full health, then it would prove that there is always hope, and that truly anything is possible, if only we believe, if only we pursue what is in our hearts.

And so, I came to South America with urgency, acutely aware the decision to reject the western approach in the 11th hour might mean imminent death. But if my illness were to seal this fate, then I knew ayahuasca would give me peace.

Ayahuasca, also known as "vine of the soul" or "vine of the dead," is a visionary plant and master curative. The active agent, DMT (dimethyltryptamine), is also the chemical that is released from the pineal gland during birth and death. In other words, DMT produces the consciousness that we experience at our major transition points between the material world and the spirit world. Ayahuasca is, therefore, literally a gateway to the spirit and as such, a very sacred medicine.

This potent liquid brew is comprised of two plants: ayahuasca (banisteriopsis caapi), a vine, and chakruna (psychotria viridis), a leaf. Sometimes other plants with different healing qualities are added. Chemically speaking, chakruna contains DMT, which is normally suppressed from activity in the body, by the MAO (monoamineoxidase) enzyme, but the vine ayahuasca contains natural MAO inhibitors, in the form of harmalines, which literally contain light. They allow the disintegration of the DMT to be by-passed, resulting in a psychoactive state. But it is naive to reduce the magical properties of this symbiotic combination of plants to mere chemistry.

Ayahuasca and other plants that produce trance states are grossly misrepresented in the West, often understood to be simply "hallucinogenic." This is a derogatory term for a medicine that is actually a master healer and teacher. The correct conceptual term for this class of plant medicine is "entheogen," meaning "revealing the divine within" And indeed this is what ayahuasca does; it clears toxicity on every level, removes the dross, the stuck patterns and programs, the negative thoughts and behaviors, and indeed, anything that prevents us from being who we truly are, by revealing the full potential of humans as divine creators. The spirit of ayahuasca is perceived as a female, a mother, or a grandmother (Abuela). This is because it is a very loving spirit, and compassionate, though the lessons and the cleaning process are not always easy. However, the depth of the process reflects the depth of the transformation. The results are always astonishing.



The Journey to the Right Place

Coming to South America, I had no specific destination in mind. I prayed that somehow I would find the right people and places, following the advice of an experienced friend who told me, "let the plant guide you." I arrived in Iquitos, a jungle city, accessible only by boat or plane, in Northern Peru, that is also renowned as a hub for ayahuasca. From here, I intended to go over the border into Amazonian Brazil to meet that friend, who was going to bring me to a powerful ayahuascero that she knew. However, our paths were never to cross as a couple of twists of fate thwarted my plans and instead led me to the Temple of the Way of Light.

I met the Temple's founder, Matthew Watherston, in Iquitos and he accompanied me to the premises, where its very first group retreat, in its present form, was underway. On the journey, he told me a little about the background of the Temple and its unique ethos. Matthew believes medicine and healing should be accessible to people of all walks of life, all races, and all financial circumstances, and so his vision was to create a place where money was not a barrier for anyone desiring true healing. And so, the Temple is not-for-profit, and is certainly the best value in Iquitos. This contrasted sharply with the rest of the ayahuasca based centers in the area, which are expensive and run as businesses. My cure was absolutely priceless; I would have paid anything for it, regardless of the financial repercussions. I just wanted to be sure I was spending my money wisely.

It pleased me that the Temple matched my own ideals concerning money and access to health services. And the greater vision for it also impressed me. Matthew plans to build a hospital to treat all sorts of dis-ease and illness, including those of chronic degenerative type, and to build a self sustaining community that would produce jungle superfoods and provide everything needed to create a truly healing environment. It also has a fundraising arm in the West, with a view to setting up projects in the indigenous communities such as water purification, dengue eradication projects, permaculture, cottage industries, etc., and to build a network of schools to restimulate the youth's interest in their traditional medical culture, focusing on plants, botanical gardens, and their cosmological vision of the world. But there was another aspect of the Temple's works which set it apart.

Ceremonies are led by at least four female indigenous healers and one male. This is an unusual and special situation as normally there is one central figure leading ayahuasca ceremonies. The ratio of healer to participant is thus very high, and as such the quality of the healing is deeper. The fact that it is mainly women led was also very unusual. Shamanic traditions, like every other facet of life in the modern world, have a tendency to be male dominated. On the other hand, women, Matt says, "have a gentler and more caring approach, working primarily from the heart with loving compassion, and therefore, offering a safe and comfortable environment in which to deal with personal issues." Being a woman, I was excited to work with female adepts, but, I was also doubtful as I had heard many grand proclamations of healing ability before, which had never lived up to the hype.

Matthew expounded on the history of the Temple, which began life in Feb 2007, when he bought a place near to Iquitos. He started to run workshops with the original male curandero connected to the property, but as time went on he became more and more concerned about the integrity of this individual, as he witnessed incidents that "showed his machismo, ego, control, and a begging bowl." It was totally at odds with the sacred process guided by ayahuasca, which involves opening to the higher self. After a couple of sinister occurrences involving alcohol and sexual inappropriateness, Matthew replaced him with a female curandera. It turned out she was not a true healer. However, the energetic content of the ceremony was completely different, and he realized that women brought a purer quality to the ceremonies as well as a significant lack of ego. Shortly after this, a series of synchronicities led him to a group of female indigenous healers, and drinking with them, he says, he "had my head blown off my shoulders by several Mother Theresas of the jungle, who were clearly the real deal, and who typically had not worked with Westerners. Some of them spoke only their indigenous language, not even able to speak Spanish." He recounted that he was "blessed with an incredible vision and healing that was connected to divine feminine energy." He was clearly shown that the world's suffering was due to domination of the negative aspects of the masculine, and that it was his mission to promote the work with female healers, thus connecting with Mother Earth and Mother Ayahuasca as a way to redress this global imbalance and bring in the divine feminine, in line with the transformation that is happening across the planet. These were the women he brought to work at the Temple, to the workshop I landed into.

THE REST:

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