Sacred Ayahuasca

Posted on April 14, 2007
Filed Under Journal, Meditation, Dreaming, Spirituality, Consciousness |

Use of the sacred shamanistic brew Ayahuasca seems to have become a fairly common way to explore some of the deeper aspects of reality. I have often wondered what the experience would be like - yet haven’t tried the brew myself. A number of people I know have taken it, and without fail each of them have been changed on a deeply profound level. Our perception undergoes a massive shift once we wake up to the realisation that our five physical senses perceive only a fraction of reality. With enough time even meditation will allow you to explore realities vastness. On my limited excursions into other realms, I have always found myself humbled, and then ultimately at a loss to explain my experiences to anyone. It seems just as we all have unique views on life - we also experience each layer of reality in a unique manner.

Many recounts of these experiences - especially by popular figures - always have a personal aspect, carrying with them differing terms, language and beliefs. Currently I am reading through the book “Supernatural” by Graham Hancock, his experiences with ayahuasca confirmed for him his belief that much of the knowledge humanity posses was taught to the ancients by other-worldly beings. It’s easy to jump to the visuals of aliens landing in UFO’s, but that isn’t what he is saying at all.

• The evolution of modern humans has taken more than five million years but until less than 50,000 years ago we had no art, no religion, no sophisticated symbolism, no creative and innovative thinking, and quite possibly no language. Then, a dramatic and electrifying change overtook our ancestors in every part of the globe, and all the skills and qualities that we value most highly in ourselves today appeared suddenly, already fully formed, as though bestowed on us by hidden powers. Scientists describe this change as “the greatest riddle in human history”.
  
• Why have eminent scientists at the cutting edge of consciousness research, especially those who study the ways that hallucinogens work in the brain, recently begun to question long-established theories about the nature of reality? Why are some now even ready to consider the possibility, long ago embraced by shamans, that, far from being “false perceptions”, what we see in the strange imagery and experiences of hallucinations may be real perceptions of other “dimensions” and the beings inhabiting them?
• Why does the 97 per cent of DNA that scientists do not understand – so-called “junk DNA” – contain chemical “sequences” arranged in patterns and frequencies that are otherwise only found in the deep coding of all human languages?

Graham Hancock - Supernatural

As scientific research plods on - at its leading edges, questions are beginning to be asked as to the veracity of our currently beliefs on the nature of reality:

By 196,000 years ago, and on some accounts considerably earlier, humans had achieved “full anatomical modernity”. This means that they were in every way physically indistinguishable from the people of today and, crucially, that they possessed the same large, complex brains as we do. The most striking mystery, however, is that their behaviour continued to lag behind their acquisition of modern neurology and appearance. They showed no sign of possessing a culture, or supernatural beliefs, or self-consciousness, or any interest in symbols. Indeed there was nothing about them that we could instantly identify with “us”. Dr Frank Brown, whose discovery of 196,000-year-old anatomically-modern human skeletons in Ethiopia was published in Nature on 17 February 2005, points out that they are 35,000 years older than the previous “oldest” modern human remains known to archaeologists.

For Ian Tattershall of the American Museum of Natural History the problem posed by this gap – and what happened to our ancestors during it – is “the question of questions in palaeoanthropology”. His colleague Professor David Lewis-Williams of the Rock Art Research Institute at South Africa’s Witwatersrand University describes the same problem as “the greatest riddle of archaeology – how we became human and in the process began to make art and to practice what we call religion.”

I quickly realized that this was the mystery, and the period, I wanted to investigate. Not that endless, unimaginative cultural desert from 7 million years ago down to just 40,000 years ago when our ancestors hobbled slowly through their long and boring apprenticeship, but the period of brilliant and burning symbolic light that followed soon afterwards when the first of the great cave art of southwest Europe appeared – already perfect and fully formed – between 35,000 and 30,000 years ago.

Supernatural Article

Terrance McKenna’s journey gave him a profound feeling of nature:

Author Stuart Wilde speaks of the Morph and how it allows us to transcend our inner natures. At one time the conflicting views of all these perspectives left me dubious of the truth behind them. But when you really think about it - we all experience our environment in a different way. Two people can watch an event and both will see something slightly different - the symbols of the world speak to each of us in different ways. Why would it be any different in realms that are less physical? If our consciousness gives us unique perspectives in this physical reality, than surely that uniqueness will become manifold the deeper we travel into our consciousness.

Yet even still - one aspect remains, each of the people I know that have experienced these other realms. No matter that they have differencing perspectives, they are united in the belief and experiences of a deeper reality. To them their views are not conflicting, but proof that reality is spiritual, and deeply profound.

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