Re:The Hacker Who Drank Ayahuasca
by thinkpad20 on Saturday March 21, 2015 @01:12PM
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> The quality tours have trained medics in the village
Somehow I don't derive much reassurance from that. :\ I guess some people are just more comfortable rolling the dice with their brains than I am...
"I guess some people are just more comfortable rolling the dice with their brains than I am..."
I feel the same way with people who take pharmaceutical anti-depressants.
>"Somehow I don't derive much reassurance from that."
If you live in a major urban area, and hang around in the right circles, it's very likely you can find a local party with which to partake, and thus get to take advantage of top-notch medical care in case of emergency (if that's your worry).
The MAOI has a prolonging and intensifying effect, and has psychedelic effects of it's own. Smoking DMT isn't the same as eating pharmahuasca, which isn't the same as drinking ayahuaska.
That said, it is very, very rare for anyone to have a reaction. The quality tours have trained medics in the village, and the villages are jammed deep in the forest like some of the hippy tours.
Smoking DMT is a very clean experience. It is intensely visual in nature and completely cerebral.
Pharma/Ayahuaska is a heavy body load as you drift in and out of the altered state often called "hyperspace".
I don't really recommend the MAOIs because of the complications they can cause, and you can have just as spiritual of an experience without drinking their "jungle juice". haha ;)