Jul 25, 2022
Visions of a guest of ours during his ayahuasca ceremony
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Visions of a guest of ours during his ayahuasca ceremony
Visionary Art by Alexander George Ward
I discovered that ayahuasca is a medicine, but one so unlike the Western understanding of medicine, which applies mainly to healing of physical symptoms. Ayahuasca is a medicine that works on every level: on the physical and nonphysical being, on our consciousness, on our emotions, and on our spirit. It is as if we are imbibing not just a liquid brew, but an “other” intelligence that knows exactly what is needed to help us. This act constitutes a communion in the true sense of the word. It can be an intense experience of euphoria: a journey of deep and profoundly meaningful personal and transpersonal insights. It can shine a searchlight on the hidden thoughts and feelings in the subconscious mind. It can bring an erasing of the ego boundaries and a merging with the whole of consciousness and creation.
THE CALL OF THE PLANTS
Ayahuasca is a shortcut. It’s as if we had been traveling down the same highway as the rest of humanity, but, in order to arrive at our destination more quickly, we took a side road … a shortcut that leads us to truth.
PADRINO ALEX POLARIDE ALVERGA
Among some indigenous groups of the Amazon, there is the idea that people take Ayahuasca not “to see the future” but “to create the future.” Brown (1985:60), who worked among the Aguaruna of Peru, writes: “The future exists as a set of possibilities that are given shape by the effort to bring them into consciousness within the visionary experience.” Rafael Karsten, who worked among the Shuar of Ecuador, writes that in the victory feast, celebrating the acquisition by a warrior of a new arutam spirit by slaying an enemy, both men and women, even half-grown children, take part: all “who want to dream” being allowed to drink natéma (Ayahuasca).
From the book The Divine Spark of Graham Hancock
The sixteenth-century alchemist and philosopher Aureolus Phillippus Theophrastus Bombast—better known as Paracelsus—introduced this notion in his Doctrine of Signatures treatise, which proposed that the Creator has placed his seal on plants to indicate their medicinal uses.1 This was not just idle speculation on the part of Paracelsus; nature itself taught him the truth of it.
“Seeking for truth,” he wrote, “I considered within myself that if there were no teachers of medicine in this world, how would I set to learn the art? Not otherwise than in the great book of nature, written with the finger of God… . The light of nature, and no apothecary’s lamp directed me on my way.”
....The doctrine of signatures, per se, is not something known to many indigenous shamans, but they understand the principle behind it well enough—that nature is alive, aware, and communicates with us. This principle is not regarded as fanciful at all, but practical and important enough to save lives.
Quote from the book Plant Spirit Shamanism of Ross Heaven
Visionary Art by Alfredo Zagaceta
