What is ayahuasca? It is the closest thing to an Out Of Body experience you will ever have.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Psychonaut/comments/o8rw5/ayahuasca_analogues_pharmahuasca_and_why_you/
The 'spirit' or essence of an Ayahuasca style experience is extremely cathartic. We have all experienced great breakthroughs throughout our tripping, and we know that the expanded awareness of ourselves can show us our faults and fixes. Ayahuasca plays that game on a totally different level. It will, with the tenderness of a lover, lay you bare and show you more of yourself then you might ever want to see, then it will help you heal. It will do the same for your life, for reality, for everything. As far as I am concerned an Ayahuasca experience is the greatest and most wondrous experience available to us. I cannot urge any of you who genuinely seek expansion and progress to try this strongly enough.
For context, here is artwork by a native ayahuasca drinker using it for medicine:
http://www.scribd.co...-Pablo-Amaringo
Notice the snake with a human head.
The band Tool has a song with a similar theme.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeXCm9-OoXw
What's coming through is alive
What's holding up is a mirror
What's singing songs is a snake
Looking to turn my piss to wine
They're totally void of hate
Killing me just the same
.....
And the snake is drowned and
As I look in his eyes,
My fear begins to fade
Recalling all of those times.
I could have cried then.
I should have cried then.
And as the walls come down and
As I look in your eyes
My fear begins to fade
Recalling all of the times
I have died
and will die.
It's all right.
I don't mind.
The band is addressing the theme of personal growth with ayahuasca. "recalling all of the times I could have cried" is about working through past memories. "all of the times I have died" is seeing your past lives. "I feel this coming over like a storm again" address the nature of purging on ayahuasca, where you vomit it up.
Through and through, it's a song about the nature of change on ayahuasca using the themes of a snake and a mirror into yourself.
Next, another song about ayahuasca, which poetically refers to the idea of an evolution in consciousness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tja6_h4lT6A
I've been crawling on my belly
Clearing out what could've been.
I've been wallowing in my own chaotic
And insecure delusions.
I wanna feel the change consume me,
Feel the outside turning in.
I wanna feel the metamorphosis and
Cleansing I've endured within
My shadow
Change is coming.
Now is my time.
Listen to my muscle memory.
Contemplate what I've been clinging to.
Forty-six and two ahead of me.
Hold with me.
This is compatible with Jesus says about the Kingdom of the Heavens in Matthew 13.
http://www.biblegate... 13&version=NIV
The transformation of a human in the Kingdom of the Heavens is like leaven in bread.
The Kingdom of the Heavens is like a pearl, where you will give up all possessions to purchase this one pearl.
It's also compatible with the parable of the weeds. Some people on ayahusca visit hell worlds. In those hell worlds they are forced to address things they would prefer not to address. In some sense, a part of you is purified like silver as another part of you is eliminated in the fire.
Matthew 13:29 “‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’”
In Mark 9:49, Jesus says that EVERYONE will be salted with fire.
On ayahuasca, everyone goes through a form of purification.
Sooooo.....
What do you think, is it possible for ayahuasca to be compatible with what we know about the kingdom of the heavens?
I can keep going on through all the parables. Some of them don't even make sense without this being the case. "Every one will receive their treasure. To those who have, more will be given. Those who already lack will receive nothing."
-Leo (the Lion) of Judah
Edited by LeonardElijah, 17 April 2012 - 03:28 AM.
