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They have more tools than we do and a much longer history of use. Ayahuasca is considered the master plant, but there are hundreds of other plant medicines that the West has never heard of. The Shipibo tribe have developed sophisticated psychologies and methods. Psychedelics are still illegal in most of the Western world. Until recently, there has been very little interest or research. Where does their claim to unearned knowledge come from? Or is it just ethnocentrism? https://www.cayashobo.com/master-plant-dieta/#:~:text=– What is Master Plant Dieta,of a master healing plant.

Vomiting or purging is a common indigenous health practice in the Amazon for good reasons. They give purgative plants to their children to vomit up parasites and worms. Purging is a big part of Kambo practice. Huancahui sacha makes you vomit for about 6 hours. Since their culture is not reductive, they consider purging of toxins to be both physical and psychological. The old reductive sciences can’t make sense of this. But maybe the new systems thinking will.

Anyone can call themselves a “shaman” even though he knows nothing. I would be very careful about anyone in America you meet who makes this claim. In Mexico, I have gone to ceremonies which charge about $100. In Peru, the shaman I went to grew up in the jungle and was trained by indigenous shamen deep in the Amazon. If anyone is interested in the Plant Diet, I have provided a link below which gives some explanation. https://www.takiwasi.com/en/teacher-plants-diet-ayahuasca-retreat.php https://www.ayahuascafoundation.org/courses/medicinal-plants/plant-dietas/

You are missing the point. The reason to detox is so that you get clear visions from the Ayahuasca rather than distorted imagination. And it isn't the Ayahuasca that detoxes, its the helper plants that I listed.

People are talking about Shamanism without really knowing how it works. The ayahuasca is only a part of the process. I did a plant diet in the Amazon. The plant diet consists of eating rice and beans, and a no salt or sugar diet for two weeks along with other plant medicines like Bobinsana, Clavo Huasca, Chirac Sinango, and Huancahuisacha. The plant medicines make you purge getting rid of toxins and chemicals (which are normal food supply is full of). Each plant medicine also teaches you something different. The isolation in the jungle purges the mental garbage. These other plants are considered helpers of ayahausca. Only after completing the plant diet and being in a pure state due to the detoxification, do you then take ayauasca. There are also many different types of Ayahausca, like Black Ayahuasca, which is the strongest known and comes from vines deep in the jungle that are a least 100 years old. The ayahausca changes with age, like wine. So, if you are taking ayahausca pill, you are treating it as just a chemical and not getting the benefits of the shamanic process. That’s not automatically bad. It is just different. And it is typical of the Western mindset: don’t bother me or ask me to do anything challenging, just give me the pill because my narrow Western mind can only acknowledge chemicals as being important, and I laugh at anything else.

If you see someone as spiritually advanced, you are already playing into a con game. Observe how infinitely tricky the human ego can be.

Demons play a variety of roles in Tibetan Buddhism. Some demons are even protectors of the Dharma. This would be a good area to investigate.

The mushrooms I take are ground into a fine powder, and is a mixture of three different types. You mix the powder into orange juice. The orange juice aids the absorption and it takes less than 15 minutes to start working. It's easy to drink. I wonder why everyone doesn't do this.

I have done 10 grams. But it wasn’t my deepest journey. I don’t agree that a larger dose means a deeper trip. It depends more on your state of mind, intention, and spiritual work you have done to prepare. I have never been able to predict when it will go deep. It depends if one is ready to jump to the next level.

https://pagesix.com/2023/03/04/prince-harry-psychedelics-are-fundamental-part-of-life/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11821233/Prince-Harry-extols-use-Class-drugs-cosy-chat-toxic-trauma-therapist-Gabor-Mat.html A summary of Prince Harry’s conversation with Dr. Gabor Mate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVEm8dRv6Ck

They both open the heart chakra.

I was relying on my own experience. A natural substance tends to have weaker concentration which makes it more benign. For example, in Peru you can chew on a coca leaf and it is no more stimulating than drinking a cup of coffee. But cocaine, which is concentrated coca leaves, can be harmful.

Here is a link to a BBC article on the interview of Prince Harry with Dr. Gabor Mate. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64850024 He is doing interviews to promote his book, but what I find interesting about this is that he shows how empty life is in a capitalistic society even for those on the very top, showing that ultimately there are no winners in a toxic system based on domination and greed. For that reason, it is worth listening to him. “Prince Harry also defended the use of psychedelic medicine, saying it had helped him "deal with the traumas and pains of the past" and was like the "cleaning of the windscreen".”

You have to hand it to Tate. He just doesn’t sit around and take it. It tries every angle – hiring a high priced feminist lawyer, threatening to sue one of the witnesses, and many more. Now he claims a medical condition that could bring him to Dubai – in a Muslim country which may be more sympathetic to him and allow him to stay there. The problem is that he has gotten himself enmeshed in a legal system where facts and evidence matter. His tricks that have been so successful with his fanboys won’t work on a judge.

Those are fearful thoughts generated by your mind. The alternative is to walk though life as a free man.

The culture is toxic and the social media is amplifying the toxicity. Communities and families are fragmented and everyone is living alone. It is easier to see this with food. One projection says that by 2035 more than half the global population will be obese. This can be directly linked to poisonous processed food which is full of chemicals, empty calories, and sugar. Look at pictures of the 1940s where almost everyone was mean and lean. That was in the days when house wives would cook everything from scratch – no processed food.

America today is still playing its role defined in post World War II reconstruction. Hence, the inevitable conflict when a rising China insists on its own independence.

When you lie, for example, in the example you gave, you are witholding a part of yourself, and thus preventing intimacy. You got the lollipop but gave up a part of yourself to get it. I did a workshop with Blanton, and he advocated just telling everything and then committing yourself to resolving the conflict and turbulence that follows. At the end of the rainbow, is greater intimacy and you are more in touch with your real self (which you refused to hide).

I use San Pedro. It is a natural substance so doesn't leave you depleted the next day.

Way ahead of what?

I keep a journal of triggers. They are excellent doorways into your unconscious mind. Typically, you are overreacting because the trigger has pulled up old memories of unresolved trauma. Keep asking “why” to discover the unconscious programming.

Google just gives you the Western view of Buddhism. The West is a left brain culture. When I lived in Thailand nobody ever talked about philosophy. They were more concerned about making merit. But here is a balanced article that considers both points of view. https://www.lionsroar.com/is-buddhism-a-religion-november-2013/

Buddhism is not a philosophy. Buddhism is a religion. It’s purpose is not to answer philosophical questions on the nature of consciousness. The other issue is on consciousness. Real consciousness includes an inner connection and integration of our unconscious. Thus, for example, if you get more angry than is appropriate, or you have a constant underlying anxiety, than you are not fully conscious. There are parts of yourself of which you are not aware. That is why healing is necessary for true consciousness. Then all the concepts, ideas, and chatter of the left brain just fall away and you fully live life in the moment.

A practice (e.g., yoga, meditation) over time changes the deep structure of the brain. Our left brain dominated society overrates intellectual understanding of the neocortex. Our consciousness is only the tip of the iceberg. A practice provides a context for realization through experience and requires instructions. Instructions are not dogma. Ramana Maharshi gave the instruction to inquire “Who am I?”.

It should be mentioned that Buddhism doesn’t focus on consciousness as a goal. The goal is to end “suffering”. The Buddha was focused on “suffering” and all his teachings were directed to that which ends “suffering”.