See this is why I started this thread. I'm glad you said this tatt. This person drank vine and chacruna(doctor ayahuasca) in Peru. From the experience reports I read about pharma, they seem to be not as strong compared to what this person experienced. Granted, you can't take either one lightly, but I was thinking this and the fact that you say it only confirms my believe that there is truth to this. Although, they won't know until they try. I guess I need to do more reading on dosage times. I still don't understand why this is necessary considering they don't do that traditionally as far as I know.

This person just took it on faith that the shaman would give them exactly what they needed considering his parents were shamans and he was raised to be a shaman, and he did.