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Article #241: Ayahuasca - Medicine for the Soul Part 5

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Ayahuasca, is regarded as the 'gateway' our bodies generated from these difficult
to the Soul. The fifth and concluding events. The plants offer us the potential
part of this article explores this for deep soul healing so we can become
fascinating plant brew from the Amazon stronger and more able to engage fully in
Rainforest. Ayahuasca is the jungle the precious gift of life.
medicine of the upper Amazon. It is made Developing a personal relationship with
from the ayahuasca vine ( Banisteriopsis Ayahuasca is within a background of an
Caapi) and the leaf of the Chacruna plant ancient body of practices. The oldest
(Psychotria Viridis). The two make a know object related to the use of
potent medicine, which takes one into the ayahuasca is a ceremonial cup, hewn out
visionary world. The vine is an of stone, with engraved ornamentation,
inhibitor, which contains harmala and which was found in the Pastaza culture of
harmaline among other alkaloids, and the the Ecuadorian Amazon from 500 B.C. to 50
leaf contains vision-inducing alkaloids. A.D. It is deposited in the collection of
As with all natural medicines, it is a the Ethnological Museum of the Central
mixture of many alkaloids that makes University (Quito, Ecuador). This
their unique properties. indicates that ayahuasca potions were
In this context, the teacher plants can known and used at least 2,500 years ago.
provide a doorway to great and meaningful For example, there is a dietary regimen,
insights in the adventure of personal and prohibitions regarding libidinous
growth and healing. The growth and thoughts and activity. These
healing has therefore to be also in the considerations need to be respected and
physical world, thereby offering the can not be ignored if one embarks on a
opportunity to reveal our emotions, path of communion with the plant. On
traumatic and turbulent experiences observation and study (also called trial
hidden or otherwise and so these can be and error), this regime helps us to
released and ourselves restored. This become more 'plant like', therefore
access to our soul companion (our greater increasing our receptivity to the
selves) , this flowing omni-present force plant-spirit-mind.
guiding our life which presents with what Many of my visionary experiences with
are often called euphemistically "growth Ayahuasca have led to a deeper
opportunities" for us to overcome. The understanding of my life and the role
plant teachers can show us these, where that various people had played in it.
we can transcend linear time itself, and Sometimes I became those people, lived
we journey within this eternal now at the their lives, and came to understand why
very place in time where we experienced they did what they did, what decisions
such a difficult event or suffered a they had to make in their lives. These
troubled pervasive period in our life. We revelatory experiences invariably led to
can re-experience this albeit from a some form of closure with that person,
different perspective, learn what like completing an open chapter, or a
happened, the reasons why it occurred and profound healing of my relationship with
the subsequent impact and consequences on that person.
our life, and then to release any pain Medicines like ayahuasca can help us
and trauma locked within our being. This along our path but we still have to do
release within the Ayahuasca experience the work ourselves. My experience is
is called 'la purga' our purge, when we that these kind of allies can help us
literally purge this pain from our being, open the doors of perception, but what we
it is not only the contents of our do when we get there is entirely our own
stomach which are being released but also challenge.
the deeply stored bile and sourness in






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