The site and setting of your Ayahuasca experience
is essential. This is not the substance to be taken within the hustle and
bustle of life around you, or more so to have when other others energies are
present that may be unwanted and wanting to affect your experience.
Choosing your site is essential and this should
be part of the research I suggest anyone does when curious about seeking an
authentic Ayahuasca experience.
The setting of the site chosen should allow you
to decompress to levels of relaxation that are challenging to get to in everyday
western life, due to our rat race and ways of separation. Once in the
appropriate setting and relaxation sets in, my guard comes down and I become
more allowing of the process to commence and not so apprehensive.
I was quite fortunate to have chosen a site and
setting perfect for my first experience and very grateful that I was able to
experience it here, The Temple of the Way of Light.
Ceremony
After over 18 months of research, intrigue and
digesting of copious hours of You Tube videos on Peru and the Amazon, it was
time. It was my time to walk up, sit in front of the Maestra (female
Shipibo Shamen) and drink my first cup of Ayahuasca. My initial thoughts
were that it wasn't too bad; it didn't taste as horrible as I had been
told....this was to change.
After all participants had drunk, the lights were
blown out (no electricity at the site I chose) and the darkness of the Maloka
was taken over by the night light. We then waited for the experience and
for "mariana", the name called for when one is under the influence of
Ayahuasca.
After about an hour, the song starts. The
Icaro - A genuine authentic Ayahuasca experience is nothing
without Icaro, the song sung by Maestras and Maestros (Male Shamen) during
ceremony, that works in concert with the medicine effecting you. The
Shamen work with the song and the medicine to assist in the healing.
The Shamen are highly skilled and have worked for
many many years in dieting on Ayahuasca and other specific plant remedies to
assist in their own unique healing gifts. Your Shamen should be
accessible and available to engage with you after ceremony.
For me, the first ceremony was a display of the
most fantastic lights over all colours of the rainbow, to the point I felt the
Shamen had LED lights in their clothes - ha :) The medicine affects the
hearing and I was hearing the Icaro's blend together in such a beautiful
reverbing sound, and was blown away by the experience.
The ceremony went for about 2-3 hours; I was
engaged by the medicine for about 8 hours. The balance of time spent marvelling
at the night sky, night animals, and the thousands upon thousands of thoughts
that were bouncing through my head as my ego played out it's egoisms and my
higher self started to take a more balanced place within me.
The ceremony acts as a great healer, therefore I
had incredible mental energy, however was very fatigued by the
process.
The first level the medicine works on, is the
physical level and clearing blockages in the body that are holding you back,
causing dis-ease and are there to be removed and healed.
The purging is very dehydrating and one needs to
be mindful to increase drinking of waters, teas and juices which are readily
available.
I had a total of 7 ceremonies, each very
different to the other. On my second ceremony I experienced the purge. I
was amazed that even after purging several times, there was still a lot of
purging to be done. It's quite an experience vomiting (purging via
one's mouth) amongst a group of 21 other people. It is a great leveller
and I definitely realised how much of a healing process it is.
You see, it goes beyond vomiting up substance;
it's the release at a guttural level of the energy blockage from a given point
within the body. An example was mine was a hissing and guttural belching,
and the feeling of issues, events and experiences that I have manifested within
my body..go into the bucket...gone. Each and ever dark thought and issue
that I was dealing with, came with a purge.
My subsequent ceremonies each held very personal
experiences, and as the retreat unfolded I began to understand the healing more
and more and what was happening to me as a consequence. My heart was
being healed and returned to the centered point of a boy that had never
experienced trauma, hurt, pain or sadness. What a gift to be given, what
an essential component of living that was returned to me. "Never
have I been relinquished from my ego so far and lived in my heart for so
long".
Amongst my unique experiences was a connection to
my star brothers and sisters, who I felt and saw quite acutely during my second
ceremony, a giant Arcturian woman, who took me up and up towards my spiritual
home of the Pleiades, only to look back and realise that my body wasn’t ready,
and it wasn’t time, and I wasn’t ready. I came back down into my body and
purged big time!!! Another experience
was witnessing those that live just outside our spectrum of vision who are
always there in the shadows and observing the healing process, these were quite
small and no higher than my knee and disappeared once I went out of my heart
and into my head to analyse what they were.
The next levels Ayahuasca and the Shamen work on,
the ones that are still working...and continue to do so and feel will do so for
the remainder of my existence in this form. The imprints of the
work and the medicine are now indelibly bound to my DNA.
I approached this experience with believing that
a 12 day retreat and 7 ceremonies will be enough. I've since found that for me,
It's only the start.
Integration
Returning to Australia after an extended period
having undertaken over 18 flights through 8 countries was a challenge to come
back to.
In hindsight, I would have approached my Amazon
experience first and then travel afterwards. But it all happened
perfectly as it should. I was quite wobbly returning home, sitting in a
western house, still feeling the effects of Ayahuasca and having absolutely no
one that I could talk to nearby who would understand or appreciate the
experience. It was literally a new me in an old me world - get ready for
feeling that should you take a similar path my friends.
I sit now writing this, 10 months after the
experience, after having had several moments where I had questioned my reasons
for going to the Amazon, only to have it all come full circle.
I am currently in the midst of preparations for
returning to the Amazon for another stint. This time with 12 ceremonies
over 21 days, which includes other healing modalities, such as Kampo, which is
healing using frog venom. And this time sharing the experience with
someone close to my heart, that I would not have found if it weren’t for my
first experience...amazing what happens when you let go and connect xx.
Look out for postings for Odyssey 2015 by
following me at Twitter and at my Blog. Very happy to discuss any of
these topics with anyone.
twitter: @davewaller_
Blog: http://thedavewaller.blogspot.com.au/
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We're all spiritual beings, having a human doing experience
We're all Children of the light with free will to
dance all through the night.
Dave Waller
