First time

[theclimber2]

Hey, This is my first time posting and I don't really know where this topic should go. I'm just starting to delve deeper into this idea of self-discovery and shamanic healing. I'm trying to plan my first ayahuasca experience and just don't know where to start. I feel like there's plenty of tours that I couldn't trust or wouldn't be as real. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or could tell me what they did when they first started on their own path. I need help sorting through all the people who are only in it for profit and the people who are the real deal.

[Akasha]

Hey there, my first time posting too. Just thought I'd say that "reality" is what you bring to it. Not saying this from any personal ayahuasca experiences, as I don't have any. But the "real" is what you take away from experience... everything is real, because everything is one. Trying to impose another level of reality on top of that will more than likely falsify that which you seeking.

Make sense?

[Humming]

climber,

In those situations, usually the best course of action is to follow your instinct and if something doesn't feel right, don't do it.

As for specific advice about which tours are good and which aren't--I can't say, I've never been on one.

I recommend you do some research into the trips you'd like to go on, or try to talk to some people who've already done the tours.

[ March 24, 2006, 08:50 PM: Message edited by: Humming ]

[Dna]

Graham Hancock recommends a crowd called 'Il Mundo Magico'. I don't know their website, but you could google it.

Dna.

[sacha]

climber, I recommend you go to www.forums.ayahuasca.com (http://www.forums.ayahuasca.com) . Plenty of discussions related to your questions there.

[Isaiah Mpski]

I've had better luck with peyote and it's alot more spiritual if any of you would like to meet up at my compound in eastern Oklahoma and head south to the fields of enlightenment.
Be sure and bring plenty of good water.

[brother shamus]

I just visited the jeweled city and spoke with the inhabitant.
Terrence Mckenna's set and setting with reguard to our small fungal friends REALLY worked for me.
(A dark room alone or with a sitter if you are nervous, look for the bloom, with your eyes closed, and when the colors hit follow the yellow brick road and go to the emerald city and talk with the wizard.)
I am still processing the information but it is a very good local way to start. Read up on the Mazatec indians in Hallucinogens and Shamanism by Michael J Harner. Chapter 7 The Mushrooms of Language.