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Ayahuasca - First Time - P. virdis & B. caapi

panthrax-nation

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Preparation: 2oz of p. virdis and roughly 100 grams of b. caapi were placed into a large, stainless steel pot and 1 liter or so of water was added to the plant material. The concoction was brewed on a low boil for 4.5 hours on a conventional kitchen stove, stirring occasionally with a stainless steel ice cream scooper.

After 4.5 hours, the tea was siphoned off from the plant material and the resulting liquid was added to a seperate pot which was used to reduce the volume down to a drinkable amount or in other words, concentrating the tea.

The tea was reduced down to about 2.5 cups of a dark, bitter/earthy-tasting brew.

[Had fasted 18 hours before ingestion]

Dose: 7:30pm - 1.5 cups was gulped down.
8:00pm - 1 cup was gulped down.

Experience: After both doses were ingested, I sat in my friend's empty apartment that he allowed me to use for the experience. I had brought over my Playstation 2 and had connected it to his T.V. so I could have something to do while I waited for the effects to begin. I tried playing a video game but it just didn't seem right for the setting and the experience. So I turned the T.V. off and stared out his window to the setting sun in complete silence.

About 10 minutes into staring out the window, I got up and inserted the CD I had brought over, "Shpongle - Divine Moments of Truth". I turned the volume up and sat back down and lit up a cigarette while I closed my eyes and listened to the music. About 2 minutes or so into the "Divine Moments of Truth" song, I began to feel quite strange. It was a sedation, almost like a marijuana sedation; without the euphoria. It has a strange 'DXM-like' psychedelicness to it, or so I thought.

What seemed to be like mere seconds after I first noticed this sedation feeling, I began to see a remarkable array of colors, shapes, geometrical patterns, blossoming into my closed eye vision. I opened my eyes to see if this too was happening with my open-eyed vision and how different things were! My perception of objects around me was very distorted. Things that I knew where close to me, appeared far away; and vise versa. The room had taken on a completely different shape altogether.

A strange sense of 'a person in the room' (that's the best way I can descibe it) came over me. I began to look around to see if my sense was correct. I couldn't see anything clearly. My vision was distupted by colors, shapes, and geometrical patterns, swirling about my vision. In my perheprial vision, I could see what appeared to be a lawn gnome, except much larger. As large as a person, standing to the left of me. This was quite creepy in all honesty. It's "Santa Claus" looking face, with rosy red cheeks, and that big stupid smile on its face. Suddenly, it spoke to me. I dashed back to the couch where I had pen and paper handy and wrote down the words he had said to me, "hello. welcome. enjoy your stay." - This seemed quite appropriate of him to say all of s sudden. I suddenly understood him to be the "welcome guy" to the DMT experience. He was welcoming me. But then I realized, "If he is welcoming me, then this must be the beginning of the experience. Which means this is going to get alot more crazy." - And that it did!

There was a time lapse that I cannot account for in real time, since my understanding of time was very distored. A minute seemed an eternity. So I have no idea how long it was from the time I noticed the oversized lawn gnome to now but things had definately gotten worse. I was no longer in the apartment. I was now in what appeared to be space. That's right, space. I was floating in a blackness, with small shining object in the distant background. I began to see an array of images in this darkness. Random colors, T.V. show images, scenes of war and violence, plants growing in the wild, rising and setting sunsets/rises, puppets on strings, unrecognizable numbers or letters, impossible shapes and patterns all flying into my vision at once. These were only some of the things I managed to get a good look at and remember.

It was like I was travling down a road of all these images. At the end of the road, I saw myself. Except I was see-through, and my hand went straight through my other-self. I don't think my other self could see me, because I tried to get his attention. I was excited, for some reason. There was something I desperately needed to tell him (myself) but (myself) wouldn't even look at me. (Myself's) eyes were locked towards the ground (or "down" because there was no visable 'ground').

Almost in an instant I was 'transported' back to my friend's living room. I was standing up, staring at a wall. I had removed my socks and shoes at some point, something I do not remember doing. I still felt funny, and there were still strange colors and shapes in my vision, but I was coherent, and no longer "full force" tripping.

I wrote down the time. It was 3:12am. I spent the next hour going over the experience in my head, writing down little bits and pieces that I felt were important. I smoked several cigarettes also, recollecting on my new understanding of myself, humans, and of 'the spirit realm' (as I somehow understood the "space" I was in to be).

Very powerfull stuff and is NOT to be taken lightly at all.
 
well wrote, enjoyed reading ur trip report, sounds visually intense, how was the body load ?
 
Yes, this was my first time using Ayahuasca or any other form of DMT.

The body load was actually not that bad. I forgot to mention "la purga" or "the purge" that I had experienced somewhere throughout the experience.

The next morning I had found vomit in the toilet, yet I don't remember vomiting at all.

After the effects were completely over with, the only negetive/neutral effects remaining were a general feeling of mental drain.

If I had to guess how long I was in that "void", I would say somewhere around the 5 hour mark, give or take.

This experience lasted remarkably long for me, however I am 5'11", 118lbs.
 
Heh, I got halfway through reading this before realizing I read this on Totse when you posted it. I've been really interested in the Ayahuasca brew lately and have even gone as far as tracking down the ingredients for future reference, but I know I'm nowhere near ready to try this.

Would you do it again if the oppurtunity arose?

Great report man
 
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very nice, i would hazard a guess that with every dmt experience you undertake, in some form or another you will inevitably see yourself at the end of each road :)
 
Terrence Mckenna always used to say he recommended that people take 5 grams dry mushrooms in the dark, in a silent space, lying down to really apprehend and deal with with the profoundity of the state.

I would say the same idea is very useful to apply to the ayahuasca state, which is similiar or almost the same to high dose mushrooms (depending who you talk to!)

remove sensory input, and the human mind and body can really allow some powerful integration and realisation to occur, as close to sensory deprevation and total safety that one can be in - the better!

I think its important to be aware the primary context of the traditiona of this brew, and the one in which it is completely legal, is in countries like Peru where such brews are usually given under the auspices of a curandero who sings icaros and works to heal and cleanse the people with the power of brew. And this is often outdoors at night and in a natural setting where you will have to look extremely hard to find a playstation!

Or else, in brazil where it is legal also, in the santo daime church, people sing songs to the rainforrest, the virgin mary and jesus (who all seem to be synononous!) and dance in circle in order to enter into the state together and travel through other dimensions in collective light body... (at least this is my interpretation!)

Much reverence is given to this plant and this brew in many parts of the world...

A lot of nuances and subtlties are there is openess can be given to it and that is perhaps much of the key...

Its a good idea to use white sage to cleanse a space before use of ayauasca...palo santo if you can get it! it is the best incense you will ever come across, no doubt, for cleansing etheric spce.


Julian.
 
Was the 2oz's of P. Viridis dry weight or fresh? [snip]
 
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I'm 99.9% sure it would have had to have been dry weight... considering wet plants usually weigh up to 10 times more, and 1 oz of dry viridis is often barely enough for a trip.
 
am brewing up 1/8th lb of b. caapi and 9 grams mhrb and 56m grams chacruna este noche, lol.i been foloowing intuition or spirit of caapi to make this my first time with the caapi vine. (previous was with syrian rue and jurmea 2 x's) in a mild medidtative mood i thrashed the caapi vine and shreddee das possible. layerd it with chacruna and added some jurema (9grams ) as admisture.slow simmering with clean water and some pineapple vinegar for extraction.will simmer this for a couple hours and repeat three times athen reduce. will get back to you people with results, as i pray to the spirits, i come to you with good intentions, give me what yu freely give and i will accept freelyu. i ask nothing but what yu freely give me. teach me heal me and cleanse me thank you mamahuasca.
 
i feel like i've had this exact same trip before, only it was with salvia. especially the 'person in the room' feeling
 
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