Hi Dithy, hope you're well.dithyramb said:Dear Jees, in many non-Mestizo indigenous tribal cultures (Cofan, Secoya, Yawanawa, etc), the whole tribe drink ayahuasca together. What you describe is Mestizo Curanderismo.
this is amazing dithyramb, i was thinking about sprouted rue seed, how they may hypothetically have a different alkaloid profile. I wonder if they maybe contain more harmol/harmalol?dithyramb said:I also have a preference for fresh plant material, obviously with rue, and though I don't have experience with fresh caapi I am pretty sure I would appreciate a fresh caapi brew more than brews made from it's dried state.
Apart from harvesting fresh seeds I have been studying sprouted rue seeds, preparing them as soon as they are ready. Freshly harvested seeds and sprouted seeds have a profound depth and immersiveness in common which lacks in dried seeds. The character is a bit different though, freshly harvested seeds carry the energy of the land and the ecosystem they come from while sprouted appears to be more "universal." Aliveness, and access to Spirit is much superior to dried seeds. As jagube describes, it's like another dimension which was lacking is added and it becomes real vs symbolic representation.
Hey Jees. İ am well, studying phragmites after a decade. Hope you are fine as well
There is something liberating about this counter-narrative, rejecting the
ahistorical narrative that ayahuasca has been used in the same way for
millennia. If this is the case, we no longer need to see current
experimentation with ayahuasca as inherently wrong or an aberration, as
long as the medicine is treated with respect. Instead, today’s innovators
experimenting with the medicine are not “apostates” or “heretics” rebelling
against the presumed purity of an ancient lineage. They continue a dynamic
process of discovery and exploration – probably in the same way that
shamans, “technicians of the sacred,” to use Mircea Eliade’s term – always
have. Overcoming the idea of ayahuasca use as something fixed, ancient
and pure, we can understand ayahuasca shamanism as a practice – an
applied science – that continually changes as it evolves.