I have read a lot of anecdotal reviews about this spiritual ceremony, most of these accounts share that it is a way to get to know oneself better, and to get a connection with one’s higher Self.

There was one instance when I just had to release all the sexual tension I was feeling towards the shaman, a woman, in the ceremony.This experience helps many people overcome feelings of loneliness, isolation, anxiety, and depression. Beauty in any of its forms is an expression of the feminine essence, and we naturally respond with love and admiration. I saw a virtual reality-like figure that was very powerful and big and green and smiling and shifting or drifting upwards around an enormous Earth-like planet. After the second cup the musical instrumentation and the singing around me started gaining a qualitative dimension of “perfection”.

At the top of the pole I was eternal and all-knowing (not in the sense of “omniscient vis-a-vis the world” but in the sense of just “knowing” my own ground in-myself), i. Featuring the visionary art of Pablo Amaringo and the anthropological expertise of Luis Eduardo Luna, Ayahuasca Visions presents nearly 50 vibrant, full-color pieces of artwork. I hope you take my philosophy with a grain of salt because each life experience is different, though we will always end up with the same burial ground.The sacred ayahuasca tea taught me that there is nothing to feel ashamed about as I was just expressing myself, trying to release all the pleasures I was craving at the moment. This is, however, not entirely surprising, as previous functional neuroimaging studies have shown that visual hallucinations are associated with abnormal visual cortical activity. All of these effects are thought to be mediated by increased activation of serotonin receptors throughout the brain regions involved. Ayahuasca – meaning 'spirit vine' in Native South American Quechua languages – is a foul-tasting hallucinogenic brew that has been used for centuries by rain forest shamans as a religious sacrament.