Comment: Ayahuasca and the power of a new neural network

Daniel Schreiber is the creative director and curator of Starseed gardens in Byron Bay. He has researched ayahuasca and its effects thoroughly over the past several years and shares his thoughts on the hallucinogenic compound.

Ayahuasca

Ayahuasca is an Amazonian plant mixture that is capable of inducing altered states of consciousness. Source: The Feed

Ayahuasca is an incredible self diagnostic tool capable of projecting the subconscious mind onto the canvas of the conscious mind using our own symbolic language, much like a dream.

Our planet seems to have been hijacked by a strange virus or pandemic psychological parasite that some First Nation tribes of the Americas called Weitiko.

In his TED Talk Gabor Mate articulates the modern western cultural malaise whose symptoms include addiction, depression, anxiety, stress and all manner of psychological trauma that can be categorised by just one word : disconnection.

When we experience disconnection from self, others and the world, humans lay waste to the environment - destroying ecosystems, economies and human communities without compassion and empathy while acting as if we were not part of the same system and its destruction somehow had nothing to do with us.

Nothing could be further from the truth as we are one with the planet and our fates the same.
The deep hunger and seeking for healing, reconnection and spiritual awakening is indicative of the growing popularity in entheogenic plant and fungi use and ayahuasca is a worthy guide in this quest.

Today ayahuasca has entered popular culture and this Amazonian jungle genie is out of the bottle.

In his book Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception Into the Dreaming of Earth, Stephen Harrod Buhner explores the intelligence and neurochemistry in nature and how everything from microbes and plants to animals and humans share the same neurochemistry and the endogenous brain chemical DMT (dimethyl tryptamine) is no different.

This structural analogue of serotonin - combined with the beta carboline alkaloids of the now infamous ayahuasca vine - seems to enable humans to download the operating manual for our bodies and the planet while awakening our perception to recognise the intelligence of all living beings and our interconnectivity with all.

Buhner shows that human beings are not a plague on the planet, they have a specific ecological function as plants and bacteria.
The incredible synergistic chemistry and efficacy of ayahuasca is not unique and around 20 years ago in northern New South Wales, endogenous brain chemicals were rediscovered in wattles [acacia].

These wattles contain the same neurochemistry ingredients as ayahuasca and when combined with the Soma seeds of the near and far east they are known as Somacacia.

There are now numerous studies pointing to the use of ayahuasca in healing many ailments from diabetes and PTSD to addiction and even cancer, however ayahuasca and Somacacia do not heal directly: they are finely tuned diagnostics tools, sensitivity enhancers and a direct telepathic link to our past and future ancestors.

Their anti-parasitic qualities spurns us to purge physical, psychological and energetic parasites that block our 'clear vision' enabling us to see from a greater perspective and accept our life situation.

This process heals by allowing beings to come back into balance, softening the heart, inspiration and allowing the body intelligence to heal itself.

Ayahuasca, somacacia and other entheogens began an accelerating awakening.

This would swirl around the planet and stimulate it into growing a new nervous system through humans willing to clear the parasite and awaken to their role of custodian and curator of a greener more beautiful world that we know is possible!

The world is as you dream it and ayahuasca is a dreaming lubricant and catalytic plasma.

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