What You Should Know About Taking Ayahuasca

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   Girvani Leerer on January 9, 2019 at 12:23 pm

   Thank you Jose for this very valuable article! As a shamanic practitioner and psychologist I often receive questions about ayahuasca as well as hearing about “fallout” from ayahuasca experiences and ceremonialists who are not in integrity. As you indicate, I think overly high doses are very common. I always tell those who are interested to to trust their own call to do the medicine rather than to do medicine because someone else said they should or because of fear of missing out, to carefully check out the ayahuascero/a, and to follow the appropriate diet. It is very helpful to have all this information gathered together in one article. Is there a way to download the article from the SSP website?

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   Sharon Bayer on January 9, 2019 at 1:26 pm

   Great article, Jose. I always appreciate your very balanced viewpoints and guidance.
   Deep gratitude.
   sharon

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   Eileen Mullard on January 10, 2019 at 2:30 am

   Thank You Jose for an amazing well written article! I have had some individuals come to me post ayahuasca in an unsavoury state. I feel in shaman training there should be a whole module on it! I thought I knew quite a bit but learned a few more things in your article. Thank you so much for taking the time, your lived experience to share in a well written article of Ayuahuasa! Ho! And a vey Happy blessed NewYear! Nameste Eileen

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   Susan McClellan on January 18, 2019 at 11:19 am

   Thank you for this very important writing. I feel that this subject should be part of Shamanic discussion in training programs. Your presentation would provide an excellent handout to students.

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   Winter Ross on February 18, 2019 at 7:57 pm

   Excellent article. Covers all the basics. After half a dozen times I am still terrified when I lift the glass to my lips!!! I expect my medicine days may come to an end as I age, but with all the difficulty of the experience there is no doubt about the very deep (dna deep) change it can bring. Advice: trust your instincts and psychic ability concerning an ayahuasquero or your own inner readiness. I rarely regret listening to my guides/inner voices when I decide to pass up a ceremony.

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   Judy Liu Ramsey on March 27, 2019 at 4:43 pm

   Thank you, Jose. In January, I traveled to Pucallpa to receive healing for my back. I have traveled to Peru every year and have taken small groups, but not to the rainforest or just for my own healing. I was never drawn to use ayahuasca. Twice before I traveled, ayahuasca came up in the background and one of those times was your article. I look for synchrony in my life and omens, and so I determined to remain open to my trusted healer, Alberto, and whatever he determined was best for my good.

   Sure enough, ayahuasca was on the menu. I opened to three beautiful journeys and significant healing. I so appreciate your recommendations–Alberto was the perfect practitioner according to your article, and I trusted him from the beginning as a result. I followed every suggestion you made of what to do and what not to do, and it made such a difference in my experience.

   I now have a relationship now with the vine’s spirit that is a gentle friendship that has, and will continue perhaps without even ingesting it again. Thank you so much for your thoughtful and practical article.

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   Martina Caporaletti on May 3, 2019 at 2:07 am

   Thank you very much for this article! You wrote evrything i think about this medicine! Thank you for sharing in such clear and honest way!!