Can someone explain what an Ayahuasca Ceremony is?
Ayahuasca was called telepathine when Europeans first discovered it in South America. The concoction of two plants makes a sacrament/medicine that produces group hallucinations. These are usually used for healing. However, you’re right that it is spiritual, because while the healing may address physical problems, like cancer, often the experience goes well beyond this, into deep psycho-spiritual patterns. So in the sense of holoistic medicine, it goes to the “root” of the problem. Usually the ayahuascero (physician) leads the group using songs. These direct the visions. The experience not only opens participants to deeper parts of themselves, but often to commerce with nature. Often people talk about conversing with spirits of plants, animals, and other types of entities. In the Santa Daime tradition in Brazil, this shamanic tradition was mixed syncretically with Christianity, so those rituals involve Christan iconography. Rituals usually take place at night. Vomiting is often involved
