Ayahuasca - Vine of the Dead....

[James S]

There seem to be a number of references being thrown around by a certain member on this forum about the great things that can be achieved through the use of the Vine of the Dead. Why bother spending so much time learning astral projection the hard way by practice and better control over the mind, when you can achieve a fuller and more memorable projection by using this naturally occuring drug, available at you're nearest South American rain forest.

So what is it exactly?

quote:From the web site: http://www.ayahuasca.com/cgi-bin/faq.pl

Ayahuasca: a Definition

This brew, also called yage, or yaje, in Colombia, ayahuasca in Ecuador and Peru (Inca "vine of the dead, vine of the souls," aya means in Quechua "spirit," "ancestor," "dead person," while huasca means "vine," "rope") caapi in Brazil, is prepared from segments of the vine Banisteriopsis Caapi. Sections of vine are boiled with leaves from any of a large number of potential admixture plants (such as but not limited to; Psychotria viridis or Diplopterys cabrerana) resulting in a brew that contains the powerful hallucinogenic alkaloids harmaline, harmine, d-tetrahydroharmine, and often N,N-dimethyltryptamine. This medicine has been used for millennia in order to enter the sacred supernatural world, to heal, divine, and worship.

Here's what one customer had to say:

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From web site: http://www.deoxy.org/shaman.htm

Pablo's Warning: Ayahuasca is not something to play with. It may even kill, not because it is toxic in itself, but because the body may not be able to stand the spiritual realm, the vibrations from the spirit world. Pablo said he had several frightening experiences with ayahuasca. Three times he thought he was going to die.*
One needs courage, a strong discipline, and to proceed by degrees. It is a long process that might take two or three years before one can venture into the higher realms. One needs a teacher that shows the correct procedures, and how to defend oneself against supernatural attack. But after some time, one needs to continue alone, because even one's teacher might become jealous of one's progress and could take away all one has learned.

*Frightening ayahuasca experiences are quite frequent. It is common that people take ayahuasca only once, and are afraid to take it again.

From Ayahuasca Visions by Luna and Amaringo

So lets put away our copies of Astral Dynamics and our CDs from The Monroe Institute, and project the easy way!
Oh, and those demons that might end up haunting you for the rest of your life? You know, because of the drugs you took that caused you to completely loose control over your projection and sent you somewhere you were really not ready to go? Don't worry at all about them. Just keep running. Maybey you'll be lucky and find a religion that will help you sleep at night.

Regards,
James.