| Ayahuasca, is regarded as the 'gateway' | | | | deeply stored bile and sourness in our |
| to the Soul. The fifth and concluding | | | | bodies generated from these difficult |
| part of this article explores this | | | | events. The plants offer us the |
| fascinating plant brew from the Amazon | | | | potential for deep soul healing so we |
| Rainforest. Ayahuasca is the jungle | | | | can become stronger and more able to |
| medicine of the upper Amazon. It is | | | | engage fully in the precious gift of |
| made from the ayahuasca vine ( | | | | life. |
| Banisteriopsis Caapi) and the leaf of | | | | Developing a personal relationship with |
| the Chacruna plant (Psychotria Viridis). | | | | Ayahuasca is within a background of an |
| The two make a potent medicine, which | | | | ancient body of practices. The oldest |
| takes one into the visionary world. The | | | | know object related to the use of |
| vine is an inhibitor, which contains | | | | ayahuasca is a ceremonial cup, hewn out |
| harmala and harmaline among other | | | | of stone, with engraved ornamentation, |
| alkaloids, and the leaf contains | | | | which was found in the Pastaza culture |
| vision-inducing alkaloids. As with all | | | | of the Ecuadorian Amazon from 500 B.C. |
| natural medicines, it is a mixture of | | | | to 50 A.D. It is deposited in the |
| many alkaloids that makes their unique | | | | collection of the Ethnological Museum of |
| properties. | | | | the Central University (Quito, Ecuador). |
| In this context, the teacher plants can | | | | This indicates that ayahuasca potions |
| provide a doorway to great and | | | | were known and used at least 2,500 years |
| meaningful insights in the adventure of | | | | ago. |
| personal growth and healing. The growth | | | | For example, there is a dietary regimen, |
| and healing has therefore to be also in | | | | and prohibitions regarding libidinous |
| the physical world, thereby offering the | | | | thoughts and activity. These |
| opportunity to reveal our emotions, | | | | considerations need to be respected and |
| traumatic and turbulent experiences | | | | can not be ignored if one embarks on a |
| hidden or otherwise and so these can be | | | | path of communion with the plant. On |
| released and ourselves restored. This | | | | observation and study (also called trial |
| access to our soul companion (our | | | | and error), this regime helps us to |
| greater selves) , this flowing | | | | become more 'plant like', therefore |
| omni-present force guiding our life | | | | increasing our receptivity to the |
| which presents with what are often | | | | plant-spirit-mind. |
| called euphemistically "growth | | | | Many of my visionary experiences with |
| opportunities" for us to overcome. The | | | | Ayahuasca have led to a deeper |
| plant teachers can show us these, where | | | | understanding of my life and the role |
| we can transcend linear time itself, and | | | | that various people had played in it. |
| we journey within this eternal now at | | | | Sometimes I became those people, lived |
| the very place in time where we | | | | their lives, and came to understand why |
| experienced such a difficult event or | | | | they did what they did, what decisions |
| suffered a troubled pervasive period in | | | | they had to make in their lives. These |
| our life. We can re-experience this | | | | revelatory experiences invariably led to |
| albeit from a different perspective, | | | | some form of closure with that person, |
| learn what happened, the reasons why it | | | | like completing an open chapter, or a |
| occurred and the subsequent impact and | | | | profound healing of my relationship with |
| consequences on our life, and then to | | | | that person. |
| release any pain and trauma locked | | | | Medicines like ayahuasca can help us |
| within our being. This release within | | | | along our path but we still have to do |
| the Ayahuasca experience is called 'la | | | | the work ourselves. My experience is |
| purga' our purge, when we literally | | | | that these kind of allies can help us |
| purge this pain from our being, it is | | | | open the doors of perception, but what |
| not only the contents of our stomach | | | | we do when we get there is entirely our |
| which are being released but also the | | | | own challenge. |