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Did a lot of research on ayahuasca and DMT, from the Amazon to the Royal Botanical gardens.
Ayahuasca
The original name for the drug was telepathine. It was also called Yage, pronounced Yah-hey.
The Amazonia explorer botanist Richard Spruce was first to describe the preparation of the botanical entheogen. Entheogen is a replacement term for "psychedelic" or "hallucinagen."
The active chemical ingredient in the botanical compound, DMT, has (as ayahuasca) zero abuse potential. This is because the accompanying physical symptoms, vomiting and explosive shitting are unpleasant.
One of the largest Brazilian ayahuasca Churches the Uniao Vegetale (The Union of the Vine) was headed in the US by Jeffery Bronfman, Edgar Bronfman's cousin.
It was Bronfman who brought a case before the Supreme Court of the US when a barrel of the churches Ayahuasca was seized by US customs. SOTUS ruled in favor of Bronfman and the church, which granted limited use for Ayahuasca as a sacrament used for religious purposes - under the same legal theory that won the right to use Peyote in religious ceremonies - an precedent setting 'landmark case' won by the "Native American Church"
https://udv.org.br/en/blog-en/15-years-since-the-udvs-u-s-supreme-court-victory/
Anon spoke to hundreds of shaman in the Amazon, Peru and the US about their use of the product, in religious ceremonies, in psychological and spiritual therapist, and for use in warfare and black magic.
The two giant Brazilian ayahuasca churches also use legal ayahuasca in their ceremonies and rituals. One of the churches is Christian syncretic, the Uniao is what used to be called "animist"
Santo Diame and Uniao Vegetale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Daime
https://udvusa.org/
This is a paper on the ritual use of ayahuasca in the Brazilian churches.
http://www.neip.info/downloads/t_edw11.pdf
Most of the Shamans told anon that they relied on the "little doctors" or the little teachers - personification of the plant spirits to diagnose and prescribe treatments for disease.
There is no possibility of abuse with Ayahuasca, the experience always involves both paroxysmal vomiting and diarrhea - bucket and toilets are a feature at ceremonies.
DMT the active ingredient of ayahuasca is a different story. It a soluble crystalline powder who synthesis is beyond the capacities of most meth cooking dements. It can only be legally synthesized with a special permit from DEA.
Rick Strassman MD who carried out one of the very few legal studies of DMT produced results just described by anon in linked post.
Ayahuasca's means of action are unique. It is a binary botanical formulation made from two plants - both of which are necessary, either plant alone is entirely ineffective.
Westerns wonder "how did they discover the two plants when cooked in combination would produce the sacred medicina?" "
The answer being the the doctores, the tree spirits, told them, the same way they obtained an effective botanical treatment for diabetes.
Ayahuasca's most valuable use is in the treatment of longstanding, recalcitrant heroin and alcohol addictions.
The only scientific study of ayahuasca for addiction treatment at the time was being conducted by a Canadian doctor, Gabor Mate on a group of native Indians (called "First Nations" in Canada) Mate stated that the treatment produced a spiritual awakening in the patient treated and the result was a complete remission of the addictions - remarkable since these were 20 year vet addicts and alcoholics. The study was shut down before completion by the Trudeau government who efforts to genocide the native are well known.
Ayahuasca concentrate made by the legendary gringo shaman is a hard tarry odorless legal substance, which, if consumed will make you vomit for 20 minutes or more, give explosive diarrhea
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Aya huasca and modern pschiatric drugs do not mix. Anyone taking an SSRI or a stimulant like Provigil, or any ADD meds will have a potentially fatal drug interaction, due to the MAO -b inhibitor in Ayahuasca. Most Shaman's insist a patient stop those meds and follow a special "dieta" for 10 days to 2 weeks,
It is a powerful drug which produces visions. It is unlikely to find wide use in psychotherapy, or be abused recreationally but possibly very useful in the treatment of chronic, inevitably fatal, progressive diseases like alcoholism and opiate addiction.
If we wish to interact with Higher Worlds, and with the Holy Spirit, prayer and meditation is the safest surest path.
https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/Knowledge-of-the-Higher-Worlds-Rudoph-Steiner.pdf
There are many path to God.