Ayahuasca, Magic Potions to the Supernatural Gate

Ayahuasca is a 'magic potion' to jump to the supernatural gates of the Indian tribes in America, especially in the Amazon region which always had a powerful shamans who can cure many diseases, and even to predict the future. The mystery has been studied for the years by scientists to find out why.

Ayahuasca. Vine of the Soul.Rope of the dead. (Picture from: http://www.raisingmiro.com/)

It turns out there is a plant that can make people hallucinate and drove them to the supernatural gates. This plant is a grape vines type that called by botanists as Banisteriopsis caapi. When its stem is boiled or soaked in water and then blended with other natural ingredients, the result is a hallucinogenic substance they called Ayahuasca or Yaje (read: ya-hey) or Wine for the Soul.

Banisteriopsis caapi. (Picture from: http://commons.wikimedia.org/)

In the tradition of the Amazon isolated communities, has been formed the basis of beliefs that consider sacred the Ayahuasca drinking ceremony. Amaru or female shaman, prayer urns, and spirits in the universe is part of the reality.

After drinking Ayahuasca usually they feel one or more symptoms ranging from dizziness, sweating, trembling, seizures, nausea, prolonged vomiting, heavy diarrhea, mucus flowing from the nose, the fear of terror, and encouragement to act aggressively. But afterwards? It is remarkable, the user will feel moved to the spectacular infinite under world, as clear a view in real life.

An ethnobotany expert from Harvard, Wade Davis, who once lived in the Amazon for over a year, and at the request of Professor Richard Evans Schultes, the famous pioneer and expert in psychopharmacology (the study of hallucinogenic substances). From the professor, he get some tips, one of which is, "Do not ever come home before trying Ayahuasca."

Indeed, for some communities in the Amazon, drink a little of Ayahuasca like they usually do in a lot of opportunities with a variety of goals. For them, Ayahuasca is a "drug" that potentially treat physical and mental disorders.

For example, the Amahuaca which is renowned as the hunting expert tribes that connect their sensitivity when hunting animals with the ability to see spirits after drinking Ayahuasca so that they can learn the movements and habits of the prey animal. While the Tukanoan tribes using Ayahuasca to communicate with their ancestors and explore the sky.

In Davis records for Richard Evans Schultes about the Kofan tribes, "Ayahuasca is the source of all knowledge on the whole society. Drinking Ayahuasca means learning. From where every man hath power and life guidance."

When most hallucinogen substances will produce a picture of a very varied between one person and another, not so with Ayahuasca. Even the new users who are not familiar with the South American cultural traditions, Ayahuasca also gives an overview of the same hallucination, i.e a tiger or a large snake.

This fact has long been a question mark for psychologists. Some say, this picture may be a result of memory savings that is genetically inherited, form of fear cues are embedded deep in the human gene, which is restored by Ayahuasca.

Another overview similarity of Ayahuasca is the people who experience it can entered his mind to other people or creatures. The ability of the compounds derived from Banisteriopsis wine - which is now called harmine. No wonder originally they call it telepathine. Wade Davis was not surprised, the shaman is able to enchant the animals in the forest to come "surrender" as sacrifice animal. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | WAKING TIMES | ALTER NET] 
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