My experience with ayahuasca.
As I said in this post, I will explain my experience with ayahuasca. Well, ayahuasca (or santo daime) is a beverage produced by amazonic/andean natives with the liana Jagube, the leaf of a bush called Chacrona, water and fire. This beverage is a cup full of DMT (dimetiltriptamine, I believe), a strongly hallucinogenic (actually, entheogenic) substance that we produce through our pineal gland naturally, in very small proportions, that is responsible for dreams, trances, etc.
I met ayahuasca last year, 2014, in a place called Porta do Sol that manages rituals (called trabalhos, works) with ayahuasca, accompanied by musics that guides the trance (also explained by the post linked in the first line), sang by ourselves during the work, and well, it is really something that changes your life, wherever you believe in it or not, wherever you are religious or not. It is something so impossible to explain that when I say it is too impossible to explain, I am already corrupting the original idea behind it all.
( http://www.robinskey.com/ayahuasca-and-don-pablo-amaringos-paintings/ )
It is something out of this world, in my first ritual, it was a hard work, it was “horrible” for me, I suffered, but after that I saw it was really wonderful, as I learned a lot with myself. The next rituals I just blacked out and had lots and lots of endless visions that look like those paintings of ayahuasca you find on the internet, and after a while, I was able to control my trances and work as I decide to.
Sadly, we only have it in south america (while some people in the US are trying to bring it to them as well), but ayahuasca isn’t the only natural product that induces trance, for example the “priests” of Shiva used cannabis to disconnect themselves from the material world, and mexicans have peyote. By the way, using “drugs” isn’t the only way to find God, you can do it through meditation. But I assure you, it isn’t the same. Wherever you have the opportunity to experience ayahuasca, do it.