In the amazon... preparing Ayahuasca
Posted on Jul 4th, 2008
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Monday, June 16, 2008. In the Amazon, near Iquitos, Peru
Today we helped make the Ayahuasca brew... the psychotropic medicine that the amazonians have used for hundreds of years to heal and receive visions and information from the plant spirits.
The jungle shaman, Don Rober (DR), and his son, Carlos, beat the large vine to a pulpy mix and we questers tore up the chicaruna and borbanzoga leaves--and some others--into fine bits, and then we headed out into the jungle to watch them boil and brew the stuff.
DR sang icaros--songs to awaken the spirit of the ayahuasca and the other plant additions.
Every plant has its own song, and he knows hundreds of songs. I was able to record our last ceremony and I'll post an excerpt with his beautiful whistling and singing after I return.
I smoked my first cigarette today...actually two of the natural peruvian tobacco mapachos, as they're called. We did so to send our intentions for the ayahuasca ceremony and open sacred space to the seven directions... South, West, North, East, Earth, Heaven, and the inner dimension.
The mapachos made me a little giddy. The taste was to remain with me during the entire ceremony.
After we completed our personal ceremonies to the seven directions, Howard Lawler {Howard is the owner of SpiritQuest, the jungle lodge, and is the principal shaman. He goes by the medicine name of Otorango Banco -- the white jaguar. I'll abbreviate his name as OB} blew mapacho smoke into our head and crown chakras and DR patted our heads with a leaf rattle as he whistled an icaro. I could feel the energy blow clean through my body and into my limbs.
So far I'm very happy with the high level of integrity that I feel is given to the ceremony and the entire process.
May I be open to receive the healings of the plant spirits and accept the healing in each of my cells.
***
It's so damp here. Everything is limp.
***
It's raining now. Almost 8 PM. At 8:30 we'll have our first ceremony. I'm a little nervous. Trepidation, it's called.
It rained this hard last night, too. Buckets of rain, falling on the thached roofs. It helped me sleep. I imagine it will help with the ceremony, too.
Today we helped make the Ayahuasca brew... the psychotropic medicine that the amazonians have used for hundreds of years to heal and receive visions and information from the plant spirits.
The jungle shaman, Don Rober (DR), and his son, Carlos, beat the large vine to a pulpy mix and we questers tore up the chicaruna and borbanzoga leaves--and some others--into fine bits, and then we headed out into the jungle to watch them boil and brew the stuff.
Don Rober and Carlos brew Ayahuasca (photo credit Erich)
Every plant has its own song, and he knows hundreds of songs. I was able to record our last ceremony and I'll post an excerpt with his beautiful whistling and singing after I return.
I smoked my first cigarette today...actually two of the natural peruvian tobacco mapachos, as they're called. We did so to send our intentions for the ayahuasca ceremony and open sacred space to the seven directions... South, West, North, East, Earth, Heaven, and the inner dimension.
The mapachos made me a little giddy. The taste was to remain with me during the entire ceremony.
After we completed our personal ceremonies to the seven directions, Howard Lawler {Howard is the owner of SpiritQuest, the jungle lodge, and is the principal shaman. He goes by the medicine name of Otorango Banco -- the white jaguar. I'll abbreviate his name as OB} blew mapacho smoke into our head and crown chakras and DR patted our heads with a leaf rattle as he whistled an icaro. I could feel the energy blow clean through my body and into my limbs.
So far I'm very happy with the high level of integrity that I feel is given to the ceremony and the entire process.
May I be open to receive the healings of the plant spirits and accept the healing in each of my cells.
***
It's so damp here. Everything is limp.
***
It's raining now. Almost 8 PM. At 8:30 we'll have our first ceremony. I'm a little nervous. Trepidation, it's called.
It rained this hard last night, too. Buckets of rain, falling on the thached roofs. It helped me sleep. I imagine it will help with the ceremony, too.
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