Yagé, becoming one with nature
A cold reminder that there is no space for our mind during rituals and times when we seek to reach the “higher inteligence”. After reading Graham Hancock’s Supernatural, and hearing so many stories from my friends my mind was racing with expectations and still after the 3rd serving of Ayahuasca I found myself sitting by the fire, still not “feeling” anything. It was only after the Shaman told me to be ok with it and go get some rest in the hammock that I switched off my mind and the journey had begun.
An Altar prepared for Yagé (Ayahuasca) Ceremony
Yagé or Ayahuasca was the final ceremony of the week long retreat we have put together with my Shaman brother for my FewGoodMen initiative, and I was the first one to do the test run of the whole week with him. After three days of cleansing with Kambo, Sananga, cold plunges, meditations and jungle walks I was ready to become fully one with nature, making my roots intertwined with all of the other jungle flora.
Meeting the New Being
My intent was to experience an introduction to this respected “grandmother” with all the kindness and gentleness possible. Therefore I found my personal experience to be exactly of that kind. I did not throw up, I did not experience extreme dizziness. I have met a being that was trying to communicate with me but I found it at first very confusing. If it came from a different world, how do you make sense of the structure of it, the “body parts” and the way with which it is communicating with you. Is it a frequency or gestures?
Once I switched of my mind, I was suddenly looking at a moving tangled, snake or DNA-like creature made of nature. When I opened my eyes to observe the sky, a bright neon textures of vivid green, red, and orange overlayed my view. Having learned from my mushroom trips, I realised what works best for me is to keep my eyes closed. That is when the experiences gets truly meaningful and I can focus on it.
We are all interconnected
What ensued after was a strong visual variety representing one key theme: we are all interconnected, and everything is a chain reaction. There were lots of personal messages and realisations that I won’t be sharing here as the basic principle of these experiences is to treat them a sacred gift for yourself. And not send it back to the universe by making it public. I would only add that I am very grateful for this experiences and upon waking up in the jungle, I felt more than ever that the nature, all the trees, plants and flowers are now really alive and communicate with me.
Taking the best of this experience in the jungle back to my life, I see myself
Caring more for nature and being truly grateful for its abundance, wisdom and strength in my every day life. The simple act of taking time to do this for few moments during the day grants me inner peace, internal feeling of joy and sense of being grounded.
Appreciating and nurturing the wild part of myself, doing specific exercises to reconnect with my primal instincts, finding ways to feel the freedom from the city life, and most importantly find some time to get out into the nature.
Being more mindful about the relationships that I hold and regularly revisiting the ones I keep, focus on, lose the ones I find perhaps detrimental to my journey, and explore news ones I feel I are missing in my life.
