DOSE:
4.5 oz
oral
Ayahuasca
(tea)
BODY WEIGHT:
175 lb
In a valley on the coast of a Hawaiian island, I took ayahuasca for the first time. I had been curious about psychedelics for a long time, and I had extensive experience with almost all of them. My experiences with smoked DMT led me to ayahuasca.
The first time I smoked DMT, I felt as though the drug was communicating with me, answering my questions and �showing� me glimpses of the Truth. I also felt an incredibly powerful fear of death, as well as the sensation that I was actually dying. It was terrifying, and beautiful, with a dimension to it that I had never before experienced in my psychedelic explorations.
Every time I have smoked DMT since, I have had a similar experience- a terrible fear, combined with the sensation of bodily death, as well as overwhelming beauty. It was like being shot from a cannon into a terrible and beautiful alien realm, and then yanked back before I had a chance to get my bearings. I wanted to spend more time there, to experience it more fully. This was the main impetus behind my decision to try ayahuasca.
I had met a few people who had taken it, and, as I learned more about the drug, I met more and more people who had �been there�. Their tales of communion with a mysterious force, of experiencing their own births and deaths, and re-experiencing trauma in a positive way only stoked my fires of curiosity.
Several options to try ayahuasca presented themselves, but none of them really worked out or fully appealed to me. They were of the �fly a shaman up from Peru, shell out $900, and spend a 3 day weekend at a rented venue� variety. All of my previous psychedelic experiences had been more of the DIY type, more exploratory and experimental than ceremonial or regimented, and I wanted to keep it that way my previous psychedelic experiences had been more of the DIY type, more exploratory and experimental than ceremonial or regimented, and I wanted to keep it that way