Ayahuasca retreats and their active form, the workshop, recently erupted on the radar of those seeking revolutions of thought and personal development.
Why?
With fear inducing headlines in the UK about young backpackers dying in Amazonian jungles after participating in misguided ayahuasca ceremonies — there must be a compelling attraction toward ingesting these substances .
And, there is…
Psychedelic journeys have always been a means to evolve thought and reach new insights about oneself and the world at large.
Moreover, there is something revolutionary about ingesting forbidden substances that free one from their subjective and routine experience of reality.
Entheogens are tools that allow individuals to gain perspective on their habitual thought patterns — they also tend to liberate seekers from ingrained belief systems and useless thought patterns.
It is via such disruption of the day-to-day that one begins to question civilisation and, thereby, they can begin their personal transformation toward greater appreciation of the arguments for dismantling civilisation.
Such rapidly encountered insights come with a certain amount of risk, the experiences remembered after s piritual encounters of the psychedelic kind are no quotidian vicissitudes — they are revolutionary breaks with all that came before; they are often life changing epiphanies.
To sincere seekers, the visions manifest during potent ceremonies, like those found from true Shaman’s schooled in the way of traditional potion making — ayahuasca, for example, can be the ultimate treatment to cure one of an unquestioning adherence to the belief systems that maintain the dominant and destructive warpath of modern society .
But how does one go about finding a workshop or healer to cure them of contemporary culture’s ideas?
Well, there are many liberating ayahuasca retreats — along with underground practitioners offering ceremonies within Western societies, Kentucky in the United States, for example — these are true rebels fighting legal battles on the front lines of spiritual and religious definitions, the type of legal wrangling that in the past was used to oppress minorities and steamroll cultures.
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The system is now being uprooted from within.
- How else can we explain the changes in law allowing for psychedelic studies to move forward?
- How else can we explain the UDV Church winning cases against the federal government?
- How else can we explain the legalization of recreational marijuana in certain states in the USA?
Yes, these are cherry picked examples — but the ground has shaken.
Attitudes of the populace are changing. Governments and power structures are adjusting.
Yet, it is no time to get complacent but to question deeper, why? Better to question who is benefiting and how have they gotten a hold of the mechanism of control?
Entheogens can move beyond being tools for personal liberation, with greater access to pure forms of god manifesting substances, societies can change, laws can shift, humanity can progress toward sustainable forms of livelihood and healing on a planetary level can begin.
I call bullshit on myself for such idealised musings, yet, all change begins with self — our own behaviour, our own thinking, our own actions.
It is now time for me to take some of my own medicine and head towards the fabled medicine men of the Amazon — to those who are said to be healers — I will book myself on an ayahuasca retreat and find out for myself whether liberation can be had in a cup of Amazonian tea.