Ayahuasca

Antes que nada la pagina de Karina Malpica y su Investigación sobre el Ayahuasca, encontraran un trabajo muy bien echo que bien los puede guiar en su prorpia investigación.

En MAPS (Psychedelic Research Around The World) encontrarán muchisimo material de interes y una lista de todas las investigaciónes en acto en el mundo, tambien encontráran documentos sobre la situació legal de la medicina. Ayahuasca research in MAPS

En Wikipedia en español hay muy poquito, puede ser una ocasión de aportar y mejorar la información. Ayahuasca en Wikipedia en Español

En Wikipedia en Ingles hay un poco mas, Ayahusca en Wikipedia en Inglés.

EROWID es una web que se ocupa de la relación entre humanos y Psicoactivos, encontrarán una completa investigación sobre el Ayahuasca en Ingles. Investigación Erowid sobre el Ayahuasca

En la pagina de Diego Palma encontrarán tambien articulos sobre medicina tradicional, espiritualidad y Ayahuasca.

En Biopark otra extensa investigación. Ayahuasca en BioPark.

Otra Pagina con mucho material sobre el tema es la dedicada a la Ayahuasca en Deoxi.org.

Posteró quí alcuni video ch ho trovato in rete, il primo di questi é tratto da un film francese intitolato BlueBarry, l'uso degli effetti speciali rende abbastanza verosimilmente l'idea di una esperienza con l'ayahuasca, probabilmente il regista ha avuto esperienze dirette, alcune scene di visioni si avvicinano molto alle visioni che si possono avere durante la cerimonia. Posto questo video perché molti chiedono cosa si vede, cosa si prova, non si puó spiegare e questo video aiuta solo un po, ricordate peró che i lviaggio con Ayahuasca non ha niente a che vedere con un trip psichedelico, non si basa sulle visioni, ma sull'insegnamento che da queste si puó trarre.

Ayahuasca-Wasi organizza seminari sia a Pisaq che a Puerto Maldonado, in piena Amazzonia, in un bellissimo lodge sul Rio Madre de Dios.
I seminari durano una settimana, ospitati in stanze doppie, tutti i pasti e le bevande durante i pasti sono inclusi nel prezzo.
Durante il seminario si realizzeranno 3 ceromie tradizionali di Ayahusaca.
Durante i seminari si realizzano escursioni, forum e integrazione delle esperienze, per chi fosse interessato si realizzeranno sessioni di insegnamenti buddisti.
I seminari hanno luogo in due locazioni incredibilmente poderose, La Valle sacra degli Incas e il fiume Rio Madre de Dios nella Amazzonia peruana.

Partecipare a cerimonie di Ayahuasca nei luoghi dove da sempre l’Ayahuasca é considerata sacra aiuta a comprendere profondamente il significato di queste pratiche e immerge il seminarista in un atmosfera dove potrá beneficiare appieno della medicina e dei risultati che otterrá dalla pratica.

Con vari anni di esperienza e ricerca nelle pratiche tradizionali il team di Ayahuasca-Wasi offre una stimolante, responsabile e sicura esperienza durante seminari di Ayahuasca basati nella Cerimonia Rituale dell’Ayahuasca, per le persone che stanno cercando un autentico e ancestrale cammino verso la ricerca spirituale.

Il nostro interesse é focalizzato negli stati di coscienza alterati raggiunti nel processo dell’esperienza con L’Ayahuasca e le implicazioni di curazione e crescimento interiore que questa medicina ci offre, ci permette vedere chiaramente le cause psicosomatiche che portano a disturbi e malattie, ci permette trascendere a stati di coscienza piú elevati e cosí rimuoveri blocchi e paure.

I seminari di Ayahuasca offerti da Madre Ayahuasca sono realizzati in collaborazione con Ayahuasca-Wasi, si svolgono presso la cittadina di Pisaq, nella valle sacra degli Inca.
Ubicata a 45 min dalla cittá di Cuzco capitale dell’Impero Inca raggiungibile da Lima

Saremo accolti in Melissa-Wasi, ai piedi delle rovine Inca di Pisaq, circondati da maestosi “Apus” nel centro della valle sacra degli Inca a un kilometro dalla cittadina di Pisaq, famosa per la fiera di artigianato settimanale e per la semplicitá e ospitalitá dei suoi abitantiMelissa Wasi conta con amplie camere doppie complete di Bagno.

I seminari di Ayahuasca si svolgono in questo poderoso luogo spirituale delle Ande peruane, l’esperienza tutta ne risulta beneficiata, il luogo é ideale per la meditazione circondati dalla natura e dalla sua energia, il contesto adeguato per entrare in relazione con queste tradizioni ancestrali

Descrizione

I seminari di Ayahuasca sono diretti alle persone responsabilmente in cerca di una maggiore apertura spirituale.
I seminari ci offrono l’accesso a una pratica shamanica ancestrale che ci condurrá a stati amplificati di coscienza, una opportunitá di crescimento, riflessione e purificazione.
Durante i seminari si realizzeranno 3 cerimonie di Ayahuasca, integrate in un processo armonico con spazi di riflessione e fori aperti sull’esperienza.
Ognuna delle cerimonie produrrá una profonda azione nel corpo, mente e spirito, permettendoci una apertura verso blocchi emozionali, permettendoci confrontare e conquistare le nostre le nostre paure piú profonde, rivitalizzare l’energia vitale, risvegliarci a un livello superiore di coscienza, con la finalitá di aprirci al nostro maestro interiore.

In combinazione con lo sciamanesimo tradizionale amazónico utilizzeremo metodi come la filosofia tibentana centrata nella contemplazione de la impermanenza e esercizi di respirazione con la finalitá di incrementare il nosteo prendere coscienza e riconoscere la natura della coscienza, percepire la saggezza primordiale riflessa nel conoscere noi stessi e il nostro intorno come il tutto.

L’investigazione é centrata nell’uso dell’Ayahuasca, riconosciuta dalla tradizione indígena come “pianta maestra”, in una cornice rituale che include la cosmovisione dello sciamanesimo indigeno complementato e arricchito dalla visione della filosofia orientale.
visita il sito di Ayahuasca Wasi

Pisaq é famosa per le sue saline e le rovine Inca
Uno slideshow di immagini di Pisaq e della valle sacra degli Inca...

Il lodge si trova a 45 minuti di barca da Puertomaldonado, che a sua volta si trova a una ora di volo da Cuzco.

Il Rio Madre de Dios é uno dei Maggiori affluenti del Rio delle Amazzoni, Attraversa Perú Bolivia e brasile.

Il lodge dispone di confortevoli maloke (capanne con il tetto di paglia)

por Diego Palma
Pagina web: www.ayahuasca-wasi.com
Baja el pdf original ayahuasca-la-medicina-del-alma-diego-palma

INTRODUCCIÓN
Hace seis años atrás tuve mi primera experiencia con el Ayahuasca en la ciudad de Lima, lejos de la tranquilidad de la selva. Este encuentro con el brebaje sagrado de los indios amazónicos cambió mi vida, marcó un hito en mi propia historia. Existe un antes y un después. Ahora, años después, no deja de sorprenderme el poder transformador y sanador que conlleva su utilización. Pertenezco al grupo de aquellos convencidos que sienten como esta ancestral medicina utilizada eventualmente dentro de un contexto adecuado, puede ayudar a evitar en nuestra acelerada sociedad, toda una serie de enfermedades de origen psicosomático, resultado de frustraciones, dolores y bloqueos generados en un espíritu inevitablemente vulnerable. Dichas cargas tienen una manifestación más sólida a nivel corporal. El Ayahuasca, nos permite realizar una limpieza a nivel físico de estos sentimientos alojados corporalmente y a nivel psíquico permite al cuerpo y al espíritu realizar una limpieza, cambiar hábitos de vida, entender el sentido de nuestros actos y los verdaderos motivos escondidos detrás de la razón. Este trabajo es el resultado de varios años de auto-experimentación, en algunos meses muy intensa, viajando por diferentes comunidades, conociendo y tomando el ayahuasca con curanderos antiguos, aprendiendo, entendiendo su manejo interno y sobre todo, respetando su conexión espiritual con ese mundo místico que se abre cada noche de sesión. En el año 1999 iniciamos un proyecto de Investigación llamado Ayahuasca-Wasi, realizando Seminarios de Evolución Personal basados en la ceremonia ritual del Ayahuasca, los cuales reflejan resultados sorprendentes como una de las terapias alternativas más prometedoras en el campo de la Psicología Transpersonal1. El Ayahuasca es una medicina, es vista y sentida de esta manera por miles de comunidades que han podido experimentar sus beneficios. En nuestra sociedad contemporánea, estamos constantemente sometidos a tensiones, frustraciones, traumas, dolores, presiones laborales, en forma tan constante que ya no logramos recordar otra manera de sentir.

Interview with Ayahuasca Mestizo Shaman Javier Arevalo in the Amazon Rainforest - Part 1
By Howard G Charing

In this interview Javier discusses his involvement with the shamanic Plant medicines of the Amazon, and Ayahuasca in particular.

Healing is at the centre of the Ayahuasca experience. Ayahuasca not only has a powerful and profound effect on the mind and spirit, but also on the physical body. This kind of purification of the body, mind, and spirit in a Ayahuasca ceremony can be the beginning of a process of profound personal and spiritual discovery. This process can continue indefinitely even if one never drinks Ayahuasca again.

Ayahuasca is the jungle medicine of the upper Amazon. It is made from the ayahuasca vine ( Banisteriopsis Caapi) and the leaf of the Chacruna plant (Psychotria Viridis). The two make a potent medicine which opens the doors to experiencing the energetic world which underlies the world of everyday. The vine is an inhibitor which contains harmala and harmaline among other alkaloids, and the leaf contains vision inducing alkaloids. As with all natural medicines, it is a mixture of many alkaloids that makes their unique properties

Ayahuasca is a name derived from two Quechua words: Aya means spirit, ancestor, deceased person, and Huasca means vine or rope, hence it is known as vine of the dead or vine of the soul. It is also known by many other local names including yaje, caapi, natema, pinde, daime, mihi, & dapa. It plays a central role in the spiritual, religious and cultural traditions of the Indigenous and Mestizo (mixed blood) poeples of the upper Amazon, Orinoco plains and the Pacific coast of Colombia and Equador.

Our view is that by seriously looking at the way Ayahuasca is used we can improve our life experience and benefit more from this medicine.

Since the late 1990’s we have worked extensively with Javier Arevalo and we had many discussions on the role of the Amazonian shaman and the use of ayahuasca. Javier comes from Nuevo Progreso, a community of 50 families on the Rio Napo, Department of Loreto, Peru. Several generations of his family before him have been shamans and already at the age of 17, he knew this would be his future. However it was not until he was 20 when his father died from a ‘virote’ (a poisoned dart in the spiritual world) sent by a jealous brujo, (sorcerer) that he felt compelled to follow the arduous five-year apprenticeship to be a shaman.

Javier, what is the role of a shaman?

He learns everything about the rain forest and uses that knowledge to heal his people since they do not have money for Western style doctors. He uses Ayahuasca to discover in his visions, which plants will be effective for which illnesses.

How do you perceive this?

The sprits or plant doctors tell us. As they are pure, they are made happy when we are too, so we must diet in order to attract them. That means we should not eat salt, sugar or alcohol, and abstain from sex. The spirits come and say, for example they will cure in two months if the patient takes a particular plant. Then the shaman goes out to look for the plant.

It is said that every environments has the necessary plants to heal the people?

Yes, every plant has a spirit, the shaman goes into the forest as part of his apprenticeship and spends two years taking plants and roots. He takes Ayahuasca too and the spirit tells him what it cures. Then the shaman tries another plant, each time remembering which ailment is cured by what.

Javier was interviewed by Howard G Charing and Peter Cloudsley in the Peru, Amazon Rainforest 2000.

Howard G. Charing, is an accomplished international workshop leader on shamanism. He has worked some of the most respected and extraordinary shamans & healers in the Andes, the Amazon Rainforest, and the Philippines. He organises specialist retreats to the Amazon Rainforest at the dedicated centre located in the Mishana nature reserve. He is the author of the best selling book, Plant Spirit Shamanism (Destiny Books USA), and has published numerous articles about plant medicines. He was baptised into the Shipibo tribe of the Upper Amazon, and initiated into the lineage of the shamans of the Rio Napo. Howard is also an artist who’s paintings have featured in major exhibitions in London and elsewhere. His artwork has also been featured on book covers.

His website: http://www.shamanism.co.uk

email contact: eagleswing@shamanism.co.uk

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Ayahuasca Shaman and Peruvian Mystic, Alonso Del Rio Interviewed

By Howard G Charing

Alonso del Rio is a powerful maestro who interweaves Shipibo and other icaros with sacred music of his own to lead you on your journey; he is both a talented musician and an inspiring communicator of the Amazonian shamanic world. He first came into contact with ayahuasca in 1979 after spending three years working with huachuma (San Pedro). This was when he met Don Benito Arevalo, a grand Shipibo shaman with whom he developed a long relationship, and who gave him his first teachings in ayahuasca and other medicinal plants.

Later, taking ayahuasca alone as part of his traditional teaching, he says: “I didn’t feel comfortable reproducing the chants that I’d learned with my maestro, so one night I picked up my guitar and began to play what came to me and the result was surprising. From then on I was never without my guitar at ceremonies and over the years many songs came to me, set to different rhythms for ceremonies and incorporating teachings and revelations from the medicine itself.” He has published three CDs to date. Alonso lives in the sacred valley of Cusco where he runs a healing centre and a primary school for local children.

The potential and purpose of Ayahuasca

For most traditional shamans, ayahuasca is a tool for diagnosing illness, and as curanderos, (healers) they will mediate with plant spirits to heal their clients both physically and spiritually. More ‘popular’ urban shamans can also use their magical powers to change your luck, for example attracting money or a lover.
On this retreat we would like to develop another aspect, perhaps even more serious, and use the plants as powerful tools for self knowledge. Amongst all the spiritual paths that the world offers, Alonso believes that, at this time, teacher plants are the best way for people to gain a deep knowledge of themselves and at the same time this can solve some problems that other paths cannot.

During his 30 years experience with ayahuasca and San Pedro, Alonso never wanted to be a shaman or attain magical powers but rather gain self development through self knowledge. He will share his discoveries to help us ‘undo’ the mental programming and the cultural conditioning (family and ancestral) which models our minds. Ayahuasca is a powerful tool for being happy and free, says Alonso,
The retreat we are holding with Alonso, could equally suit a person who has some background in Buddhism, yoga or mysticism.

It is a space for having contact with divinity without intermediaries or interpretations. Ayahuasca allows you to be gently introspective, to see your fears, worries and everything that makes you suffer! It can take you back through your life to show you at what moment the suffering took hold in your body and in your memory, how it has made you live on a superficial level because underneath there is too much pain, and as we don’t want to feel pain, how we condemn ourselves to living on the surface. With ayahuasca we can enter the pain at the time when we were children, when we experienced the first traumas and agonies of life, and cleanse it by forgiving the whole chain of events and the people who made us suffer. Traumatic experiences are inevitable in life, but what we cannot afford to do is live with resentment and blame people, as this ruins our relationships.

Some people may not be satisfied with the life they lead. Ayahuasca enables them to see their priorities. Is it following a spiritual path that you want most, or making money? Do you want to start a family or do you want to pursue your career? Constantly doing what is expected of us we cause suffering. The answers are all inside us. We must live by what we profoundly want. Ayahuasca clarifies your priorities and feelings, which are neither good nor bad in and of them selves.
Conversation with Alonso

There are many myths about the origin of Ayahuasca and there is even one which has been growing fast in the West, that Ayahuasca is what we need to get us out of the mess we’re in! But can it work for Westerners the same way if they are outside the cultural context and all the associated beliefs that go with it?

I think it works but its different. The mind of a person brought up in the selva without much contact with the Western world, probably born about 50 or 70 years ago, as are the majority of traditional maestros, have lived without watching TV and other Western influences. His mind is very different from your or my mind. So to have access to the same visions, the same codes is difficult. But what I have found is that the expansion of the consciousness and the power that the plant gives you to understand many things is perfectly valid.

The magical space to which we are taken - call it the ‘unconscious’ or any term you want to use depending on your psychological model - is one where all the kingdoms of nature can communicate. That is people can talk to plants, and plants with minerals, minerals to animals and animals with humans… all in the same language. It is a very real communication and one of the greatest mysteries which exists. This is something which an English person, or a Peruvian born in Lima can experience just as an Amazonian person. Because you can do it without speaking in a native dialect, it doesn’t go through the mind but between one spirit and another.

Some Westerners have done themselves harm by not respecting the diet properly, and some have tried to make special exceptions for foreigners.

Yes its true, and the main point they have missed is respect, respect for a tradition. Its not that there is one diet for a native and another for a Westerner. There is one diet not two! Its more than what you eat, its sex and other things too. Otherwise anyone could come along and pretend that it was a bridge to a wonderful sexual experience! There is no limit to the imagination of some New Age gurus. If you follow these traditions which have been tried and tested for thousands of years and then you want to make modifications, then probably you can do it. But first you need the nobility to undergo the full rigors of the tradition, then you can have the authority to alter things for your people. But if you can’t hack doing a proper diet, then you are not in a position to underrate it.

There was a group of Germans who after sessions with Guillermo, would go to the disco, assuming they had come down from the effects of the ayahuasca. They would dance to the very loud music. It gives you an idea of how mistaken you can get from not respecting the tradition. You need to prepare your mind and body to receive all the information which comes to you, otherwise it might destroy you like lightening burns up a tree.

As you continue to work with plant diets, you have more intense experiences, and at the same time you develop a greater capacity to resist them, until you can take the strongest plants and live more in the other reality and to be able to return to your self, to your body.

Alonso relates an Ashuar Myth

In the time of the ancestors there was a ladder, like a rope which connected the world of the Ashuar with the upper world. Here lived other beings just like the Ashuar but they were spirits. These beings were very powerful and could transform themselves into anything they wanted. One day Moon-man cut this ladder so that the people could no longer communicate with their spirits above, and thus they lost their power. Moon man refers to the way of relating to all things in everyday reality through the mind. This is what gives ‘everyday reality’ its often disempowering quality, ‘its out there and we cannot change it’. In other words the mind came between man and the spirit world. The Ayahuasca is the broken rope, but it is always there.
In all cultures there is a recollection of an era when people could talk with the spirits directly. Then civilization arrives, and holds reason as the highest human achievement. What is not rational, does not exist, and that is what has reigned until today. For 2000 years we have suffered this kind of tyranny of reason. If its not logical its not worthy of us. The next step in our evolution is the reconciliation of these two things, and will be the union of reason with intuition. It will generate a new development in humanity leading to other states of consciousness and knowledge.

So what are we to make of taboos, supposedly irrational, but they must have served some purpose because our ancestors were not stupid?

In some cases they may have become distorted in some way but generally they come from something real, so its best to respect them without rationalizing them. If we try to do that we are already on the wrong track.

Alonso del Rio is holding a workshop, Ayahuasca and San Pedro Ceremonies at the Eagle’s Wing Plant Spirit Shamanism Retreat at Mishana, October 2007. For more information, visit the author’s website.

Howard G. Charing, is an accomplished international workshop leader on shamanism. He has worked some of the most respected and extraordinary shamans & healers in the Andes, the Amazon Rainforest, and the Philippines. He organises specialist retreats to the Amazon Rainforest at the dedicated centre located in the Mishana nature reserve. He is the author of the best selling book, Plant Spirit Shamanism (Destiny Books USA), and has published numerous articles about plant medicines. He was baptised into the Shipibo tribe of the Upper Amazon, and initiated into the lineage of the shamans of the Rio Napo. Howard is also an artist who’s paintings have featured in major exhibitions in London and elsewhere. His artwork has also been featured on book covers.

His website: www.shamanism.co.uk
email contact: eagleswing@shamanism.co.uk

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