AYAHUASCA

Ayahuasca is a vine of the amazon jungle, its scientific name is: banisteriopsis caapi spruce.  The shipibos villages know it by the name of nishi or oni, it is used as a sacred plant and known by many inca villages and the indigenous peoples of the peruvian amazon. 

The sacred inca beverage “ayahuasca” (known as “the wine of the gods”), is the product of a concoction that we make of three plants, they are:

- the ayahuasca plant (that is, the umbilical cord between us and mother nature, la pachamama. This connects us with our ancestral spirit). 

- el chacruna (this permits us to see when we are in another dimension). 

- el thoe (gives the lucidity to recall and to analyze each vision, to recognize each energy and incan spirit that approaches us and to be able to recall it without losing our focal point.)

It is important to mention that the ayahuasca is eliminated naturally from the body in four days, but the effect only lasts for six or seven hours.

In the ayahuasca ceremonies one finds oneself in the presence of the gods of the land, water, fire, etc.  The incas were able to make contact with their divinities through ceremonies and taking sacred beverages.  These beverages carried them to the world of the gods where they connected with their inner spirit and eliminated their doubts. 

These beverages have the gift to open the third eye that we all have, and to be able to see reality from a higher point. 

Ayahuasca is also used to treat illness where traditional medicine cannot.  It makes for a very powerful, mystical beverage in the andean world. 

The sessions with these inca beverages must be directed by experienced guides and carried out in powerful places inside or outside of the city of cusco, this is due to the fact that a place of powerful energy makes the contact with the inca divinities more potent and direct. 

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