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Good, well. Ayahuasca. Who doesn't know it? I had heard about it and it's a trip substance from Colombia, from which you can learn to know all kinds of stuff about yourself.
And as I said before, the Indians that take it can speak with gods.
It's a substance that Filemon could not pass on and Nicolette and I were very lucky, because it's also a substance that you take in groups. *smile*
In the Netherlands we usually use drugs for fun. To laugh, to relax, to dance all night or to just have sex.
But drugs can also be used for spiritual affairs.
For centuries, traditional medicine men, shamans, have used substances to contact their forefathers, to predict the future, or even to communicate with gods.
The ultimate substance in this area is the psychedelic brew ayahuasca. Today we're going to test this under supervision of a famous shaman from Colombia.
Ayahuasca is a beverage. Made of a liana, added with leaves of other plants.
The liana contains a substance which slows down an enzyme in the body by which an other substance, DMT (Dimethyltryptramine), becomes active.
Because one takes this drug mostly in small groups, I have asked if my favorite colleagues would want to participate.
Hey Filemon!
So, we are going to use the ultimate psychedelic substance. Are you guys nervous?
Yes, very. - No, I'm only really looking forward to it. You?
I find it a bit scary....
But I'm fine with it. So I'm not going to sit next to you.
We're both going to cuddle up to Sophie. - That's ok.
You're always so tough in these kind of things.
No, but I'm just really looking forward to it.
But, maybe a lot of traumas emerge, which I euh...
Yes, so? Then they emerge, then they emerge now and after...
I cannot say anything anymore, I'm just sitting... I'm in!
What's difficult about it is that maybe this plant wants to show you something that you don't want to see.
Or that it wants to tell you something that you don't want to hear.
Or that the effect will be so intense, that you feel 'I just want this to stop', but this plant is in your body.
And the best you can do is to submit to the effect.
Inside we can take it right? Yeah, there's the famous shaman from Colombia.
I heard he's 74, I heard he's the oldest shaman is 120, so you'll become very old because of it.
Drug use as we know it in the West, that's unknown with ayahuasca.
It's also a substance which isn't very compatible to it.
The side effects of an intense body cleaning whereby vomiting and diarrhea is very common.
So recreational use with vomiting and diarrhea is not a good combination.
Are we going to do it? -Yes.
The ceremony is conducted by , a famous shaman in Columbia (sic).
He's considered one of the three most famous shamans of Columbia (sic).
His work mostly consists of healing people.
Before the ayahuasca is poured, he first consecrates it.
And then one after the other gets to drink it.
Then mostly for a short while it becomes silent.
Euhhhhh. For 15 minutes, a half an hour silent, until it starts to work.
Oh bitter, oh.
If you take the spectrum of, oh god I don't if something is happening. What am I doing here?
I could also be doing other things on a free night.
Or, I don't know anymore who I am. I don't know where the planet earth is.
Within that spectrum, anything is possible.
It's possible that you'll experience the most beautiful night in your life.
It's possible that you'll experience a very horrible night.
You don't drink it for the taste. It's reduced wood and leaves, cooked for hours.
So it tastes bitter. It's not an inviting taste, in that regard.
So, you do it for the effect and not for the taste.
It's a tradition that the one who supervises also drinks the stuff.
And one can say that the intuition increases, so that the one who supervises better understands what's happening than when he would be sober.
Oh, I think I have to throw up.
*after 15 minutes*
God hey, damn puke hole.
I'm starting to feel it.
What do you feel?
Yeah, I feel like I'm tripping a bit.
*ughhuhuheugduegduegdue*
Heh, cosy. Yeah.
*ughhuhuheugduegduegdue*
This can't be good, this.
*ughhuhuheugduegduegdue*
Hey, you see everything as if it's a movie, but everything is much more colored.
Me, I'm very small. I also have a very small head.
It's as if the music touches me in my ears.
*after 3 hours* It's a bit like mushrooms, but with mushrooms everything is a bit turbid around you, and now everything is very clear.
As if I was flying above myself. And I could also watch how I looked.
You feel very clear and relaxed, right? Yes. Yes.
When you die then your soul is separated from your ... that's how it feels.
I saw these flow patterns full of little heads.
I have never felt like this.
But then they became some sort of Maria-like females that looked at you in a very sweet way.
Just a moment ago I was alone and then you experience it best.
Then I was starting to think very fast. And then it occurred to me that everything you do is scaring yourself.
And I have the feeling that I've learned from it already. For the rest I only have to continue tripping for the fun.
I had really hoped to see weird stuff, like you, I sink into the earth and idunnowhat, I just think that I'm too much relativizing for that...
The music pinched me like needles in my ears...
You're looking at me as if I'll get this later (??)
Also when you close your eyes, I saw the weirdest things.
Yeah me too.
I also saw a vase change into a loping horse. But you haven't seen all this stuff?
That's mean that you say that, you haven't seen this neither.
Yes, I have.
You've seen this? Yeah.
I've seen nothing weird...
I've had a moment that I thought, oh now something happens, and all kinds of red lights into a hole, and then I wanted to know what's in the hole, but then I was gone again.
I've really seen ballet dancers with their legs up, to dragons, to purple and green and...
So mean.