Ayaushka

Ayaushka
The panacea of the South American shaman is a brew of two plants that has been used as far back in to history as records go. Unlike western medicine the ayaushka can be taken by the seeker of medicinal benefit or by the shaman. This is because it is the magic caused that is the cure. It is often described as the most powerful hallucinogen known to man. It is also a purge. Projectile vomiting and diahorea usually occur as all poisons are expelled from the body. Those who choose to use it must avoid all drugs, any fermented substance from beer to Worcester sauce. Fasting is recommended but most of all one must enter the experience physically well. Banisteriopsis caapi is an MAOI and is referred to alone as ayaushka. This is boiled along with psychotrias verdis, though many other plants can be used and each shaman has their own recipe. This contains DMT however if taken alone has no psychoactive effect. The stomach is temporarily prevented from disposing of it by the yage or caapi. How the Amazonian people hit on this combination is a million to one chance. They say the plants gave themselves to the people. The brew contains the powerful hallucinogens. If you read the previous link it will give a fairly comprehensive explanation. This is no toy. No drug to take for kicks. This is first hand religious experience and most often life changing. Though the ingredients are legal it is not recommended one takes a journey into the other world, the real world or the spirit world, without an experienced shaman guide. In the last twenty years it has become fashionable for experience seekers to travel down to South America for the ayaushka purge. This respect for Amazonian religion and medicine can be a healthy thing however in recent years, crappy shamans with two or three years experience are taking tourists money. Shamans traditionally would apprentice for twenty years before claiming to have sufficient knowledge to take a person through such a significant experience. There are hundreds of plants to learn, hundreds of beings from healing spirits to demonic spirits that a good shaman should know.
Last week, in a million to one chance, the possibility came my way. This is as close to a gift from, who knows where or what? Me and two freinds had planned a trip to Peru to take part in an ayaushka ceremony. We are, however, without funds. The ayaushka God handed me this chance. It will require study and practice, a correct setting and a good carer to look after us. Someone like us. Steeped in years of psychedelic experience. Recent studies have blown away the myth that there is any connection between mental illness and psychedelics. Indeed, now studies have begun again they may be our best medicine to cure depression, addiction, fear of death, any rutted thinking disorder.
We, some say arrogantly, consider ourselves English shamans. Following in the hidden history of British witchcraft, we began taking Liberty caps, psylocibin in our youth. I did well over 1000 mushroom trips between 14 and 19. We all took many LSD trips. Our grounding in psychedelia continues to this day where, during the last few years we have been using the advanced lysergics. For a time LSZ was legal, as was AL-LAD. Both exciting new lysergics. More recently, since these were idiotically banned despite not a single reported bad experience by a governments utter stupidity, 1pLSD has been the only legal lysergic. Of course many others choose to track down many rarer hallucinogens online but these are illegal. PRO-LAD, ETH-LAD, DOC but can all be bought on the dark web as can LSD25. My point is, though our experience of ayaushka is nil, we have been experimenting with hallucinogens for 25 years. The concerns and societal ills in Britain are different, the community problems, the mental health problems, the depression epidemic, the addiction epidemics, the succumbing to a mundane and blinkered world view where the beauty of nature is lost to insurance policies, pension schemes, exhaust fumes and overwork, all quite different to Peru or Brazil. Aren't we more equipped, though self taught, to use our knowledge? For sure, with little heritage to draw on we stumbled in to our shamanic roles. Perhaps it took us 35 years instead of 20 to achieve our knowledge base. But, it should be remembered that amongst anthropologists there is no agreed upon definition of a shaman. They argue as achademics do, standing at the side of the disco, watching, studying the dance but never brave enough to take part, that we are not true shaman. It could be correctly said that shaman is a role or title bestowed on an individual by others, this I accept and use the term loosely. Strictly speaking we are shamanic witches, followers of the culture who speak out fellow shamans when we need medicine. Yet we too help the sick of soul. And we enter other domains to find cures for mans ills. Just how do we differ? I am not so sure a Peruvian boy raised here would have done different from us. Besides, the demons and spirits of modern Britain are far from those in the jungle.
I argue we are the true new shamans of England and it is our duty to help a people, a culture that is very unwell. What have we to lose? Travel to a three year fraud or back ourselves and our thirty five years training. Much of it was challenging, taxing, soul searching, but we've had the grounding on this soil. In this land. Our consiousness is connected to the native Laura and fauna of our own lands. It is our destiny and our duty. We shall research. Take all medical and spiritual precautions. Yet we boldly embrace this journey as the crowning of our lifetimes work and dedication.


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