Here is my Ayahuasca Experience. Tom's one can be found on his facebook here.
The community offers recently Ayahuasca ceremonies led by 2 amazing mamitas, a mum and a daughter, very talented. We agreed with Tom to do separate ceremonies for more space, so he left to town to do some work during the weekend while I would celebrate and heal, and vice-versa I would leave him space to do his ceremony in Padreqotcha, a tiny village where he had friends.
The ceremony took place on a Friday, first night of a new moon. It was a special ceremony, the last one led by the mamitas until 2 months, and the end of a big circle and beginning of a new one for many people of the group. The blow of the horn gathered us around 8pm in the Templo Sagrado, everyone took a place in the circle... I felt the excitement in me, and even though I was the only 1st-timer in a group of 25 people, I'm pretty sure I was not the only one; the excitement was not in me, it was in the air, almost palpable!
We all introduced ourselves and expressed to the mamitas our reasons to take the medicine that night, and then everyone in turn would come and sit in front of them to receive the healing potion. When everyone was done, they started to sing... How beautiful singing, reaching you straight and deep in the heart! They sang one or 2 songs together, and then started to go around the circle to sing individually to people. She would come, spit on the floor, sit down in front of you, blow mapacho smoke to you (mapacho is the pure tobacco of the jungle, its smoke is meant to protect you from bad spirits during your trip), start to share rhythmically a fan made of leaves, and gradually add her song, from whisper to intense singing, and after what seemed ages but was probably only minutes, back to whispering again, before going to the next person. When they went all around the circle, they gathered once more for a last good bye song... It sounded like the birth of a new world to me!
I have to say, after 2 glasses of the potion that didn't affect me, I went for a 3rd one, and only then started my trip... The time had already passed and at the moment of this last song I was totally travelling. It was first like if the landscape (which in reality was totally dark, at night, without moon and just ambers in the fire) started to flicker, like if someone would turn on the TV of your mind. Then visions started, fractal designs of graceful shapes dancing in front of me, showing me the way to the tunnel; started to go faster and faster in the tunnel, then the tunnel became a snake, and the snake would enter the bumhole of the dead body of a baby rat (I tried to save a litter of baby rats during the same week, but failed). I interpreted it in that way that I was attending the reincarnation of my dead baby rats. Interesting.
Not much more to say about the visions, I think I had a small dose of the drink. But when the intense visions had passed, I felt so light, clear, every little problem I had would seem so easily solvable, nothing would distract my spirit and mind from a growing unconditional love. After the mamitas left, the ceremony turned into a big jam sessions, where guys would play music and sing in harmony with girls dancing like demons! What a beautiful sight! Everyone was so full of love, gathering an amazing energy to send to Oneness! It lasted all night, and the intensity of mosquitoes forced us back to bad in the early morning, peaceful and again, so full of love! I felt so blessed to get my first Ayahuasca experience in such an amazing context, surrounded by a loving family! Thank you Rainbow Family in Iquitos, Thank you Arnaud, thank you Ayahuasca, thank you Oneness!
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| The family cooking the medicine |
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