Ayahuasca

Information on Ayahuasca

Mother Ayahuasca, kwnown under different names in the languages on the town in the Amazon such as Burawehiak (Harakmbut people), Kamarampi (Matsigenka), Oni (Shipibo), Nanten (Shuar) and Nixipae (Cashinahua), is a holy beverage. Not a “hallucinogen”. The mother, doctor and teacher ayahuasca comes from the amazonic jungle, is known and used in an ancestral way by the indigenous amazonic towns; which consider her the spirit of nature. It constitutes the foundation of spirituality, chamanism, traditional medicine, chamanism and indigenous cosmovision.
In Brazil is denominated Caapi from which Banisteriopsis, its scientific name, comes name. In Ecuador is called Natema; Yaje in Colombia, in the Andes and the Peruvian is called Ayahuasca.

This word is of Quechua origin and means “rope that unites the world of the living ones with the world of the spirits”. The literal translation would be Aya – Death/ Huasca – Rope or drunkenness, due to the dizziness it causes once one drinks it.
According to studies made in the Ecuatorian forest, the use of ayahuasca goes back to approximately 5.000 years; its knowledge survives in the magical – religious therapeutic field of the indigenous towns of the Amazon. Ayahuasca is used to make the connection with magical worlds, in the “expansion of the conscience”, since it has a spirit. Boiled with the leaves of a shrub called Chacruna (Psychotria viridis), to this beverage can also be added toe or datura, tobacco or coca and others.
In the western slope of the amazonian river there are 700 different ways of preparing Ayahuasca; every indigenous culture that inhabits this vast territory has its own way of conceiving Ayahuasca.

A sacred origin is given to ayahuasca, as well as to other plants. In some towns the origin is magical, “the story tells that the vine was a man from the sky and chacruna a beautiful woman from the earth, they got married and when dying, swore that together they would always teach and cure the human beings, from their graves the ayahuasca vine (man) and chakruna (woman) grew up.
To some towns in the amazon, the ayahuasca vine “is the one that gives strength and chakruna the vision”. The beverage is drunk in purification, learning and healing ceremonies.
It is used to purify and to cure the spirit, the body, the mind and the emotions, which it takes us to a magic reality and to the state of superior conscience. Which show us realities that cannot be observed in an ordinary state of mind. Which might be defined as the visible thing of what is invisible and the rational thing of what is irrational. From the connection with the magic and spiritual worlds with which ayahuasca connects us with, conscience of the existence in its real meaning is acquired. It is a subliminal mystical experience, in which the conscious human being can modify the essence of his/her being.

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