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I have never tried any drugs/alcohol, but I'm curious about Ayahuasca. Don't know anyone personally who has been through the ceremony, but I've listened to a bu

by akudha 5y ago

I have never tried any drugs/alcohol, but I'm curious about Ayahuasca. Don't know anyone personally who has been through the ceremony, but I've listened to a bunch of interviews, read a bunch of articles about it. It mostly seems legit, but I have no clue. Anyone here tried it? What was the experience like?

potatoman22 5y ago
Try shrooms or acid before Ayahuasca. DMT is something not to be taken lightly
gojomo 5y ago
Googling [ayahuasca experience reports] should provide a better mix of writeups (including both rigorously-reported mainstream articles & deep-forum anecdotes) than any number of responses inline here could.
vincentmarle 5y ago
If you’ve never tried any drugs/alcohol then I would strongly recommend not do it. I’ve tried plenty of drugs but ayahuesca is still something that I would have to think about before trying it.
- katzgrau 5y ago
  Seconded. It's a door that's better off not opened. Of course, it's hard to know really good advice until you're well beyond not having taken it.
tudorw 5y ago
Ayahuasca, hmm, a drug you might choose to use for health reasons in the same way a car accident might re-align your back, it's extremely dangerous to use and anyone who tells you different is probably trying to sell something that cannot be bought.
jacquesm 5y ago
I've seen enough intelligent and otherwise reasonable people go down that road and not come back that I would caution you to be very, very wary and to suspect that anybody that invites you to join them in their trips is a lobster looking to pull you down into the pot, not to lift you out of it.
captainredbeard 5y ago
I know someone who, for all practical purposes, destroyed their life after an Ayahuasca trip. He was a VP at a major international company and is now a new age hippie.
- InitialLastName 5y ago
  Is he less happy now? A burden for anyone else?
- ipaddr 5y ago
  It sounds like he found something and left the rat race. Was his life destroyed?
  - ASalazarMX 5y ago
    Our lives in this backwater rock are short, and our acts meaningless in a universal scale. Leaving or staying in the rat race are equally valid life choices.
- piva00 5y ago
  Depends how you consider what is your life. If your life is work, yeah, stepping down from some VP-role looks pretty terrible. When your life doesn't revolve around work, you have enough money, etc... Better to fuck off from that VP position. Personally how I view myself destroying my life is by trying to climb the corporate career ladder. There is nothing in there except for money. Your morals, your values, everything that makes you "you" goes out of the whack when you are selling your soul to a corporation. No, thank you.

by akudha 5y ago

potatoman22 5y ago

Try shrooms or acid before Ayahuasca. DMT is something not to be taken lightly

gojomo 5y ago

Googling [ayahuasca experience reports] should provide a better mix of writeups (including both rigorously-reported mainstream articles & deep-forum anecdotes) than any number of responses inline here could.

vincentmarle 5y ago

If you’ve never tried any drugs/alcohol then I would strongly recommend not do it. I’ve tried plenty of drugs but ayahuesca is still something that I would have to think about before trying it.

katzgrau 5y ago
Seconded. It's a door that's better off not opened. Of course, it's hard to know really good advice until you're well beyond not having taken it.

tudorw 5y ago

Ayahuasca, hmm, a drug you might choose to use for health reasons in the same way a car accident might re-align your back, it's extremely dangerous to use and anyone who tells you different is probably trying to sell something that cannot be bought.

jacquesm 5y ago

I've seen enough intelligent and otherwise reasonable people go down that road and not come back that I would caution you to be very, very wary and to suspect that anybody that invites you to join them in their trips is a lobster looking to pull you down into the pot, not to lift you out of it.

captainredbeard 5y ago

I know someone who, for all practical purposes, destroyed their life after an Ayahuasca trip. He was a VP at a major international company and is now a new age hippie.

InitialLastName 5y ago
Is he less happy now? A burden for anyone else?
ipaddr 5y ago
It sounds like he found something and left the rat race. Was his life destroyed?
- ASalazarMX 5y ago
  Our lives in this backwater rock are short, and our acts meaningless in a universal scale. Leaving or staying in the rat race are equally valid life choices.
piva00 5y ago
Depends how you consider what is your life. If your life is work, yeah, stepping down from some VP-role looks pretty terrible. When your life doesn't revolve around work, you have enough money, etc... Better to fuck off from that VP position. Personally how I view myself destroying my life is by trying to climb the corporate career ladder. There is nothing in there except for money. Your morals, your values, everything that makes you "you" goes out of the whack when you are selling your soul to a corporation. No, thank you.