Ayahuasca: The Visionary and Healing Powers of the Vine of by Joan Parisi Wilcox

By Joan Parisi Wilcox

A accomplished autobiographical account of the remodeling studies attainable with ayahuasca

• finds the protocols of a standard ayahuasca retreat and the significance of its ritual vitamin, isolation, and sacred songs

• Relates an intensive own account of the normal indigenous use of ayahuasca for therapeutic and revelation

Ayahuasca: The Visionary and therapeutic Powers of the Vine of the Soul is an autobiographical account of the author’s paintings with ayahuasca, a effective and sacred plant brew of the Amazon quarter that's identified for its striking visionary and therapeutic powers. As she discovered from her event, with assistance from ayahuasca we will snatch our paradoxical nature, step one to popularity of ourselves in either our excellent and darkish points. Ayahuasca teaches us the right way to free up the illusions we carry approximately ourselves and makes it attainable to combine our many diversified features to obtain our actual energy.

This e-book unearths the ritual protocols that has to be ahead of participating of ayahuasca, together with the conventional preparatory “diet”--which calls for enduring austere stipulations, isolation, and in basic terms small quantities of bland nutrition prior to receiving the powers of the plant spirit from an ayahuasquero, a therapeutic master--and the sacred songs, icaros, which are sung whilst imbibing the substance. even supposing using ayahuasca is becoming between “underground” religious seekers and during the burgeoning ayahuasca tourism exchange in South the USA, few of its seekers know the way it really is used regularly and the significance of the rituals the indigenous humans stick to. With this publication, the writer hopes to revive the significance of those indigenous practices in order that we may perhaps really comprehend all of the presents of ayahuasca.

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