It’s not easy to describe my experiences in Brazil so please bear with me as I try to do just that.
I am fast approaching 50 years of age and I have never taken any substances or drugs of any kind throughout this life in this world life. I really haven’t smoked a joint or sniffed any white powders. I have drunk a lot of ale during my life though.
After a series of events in early 2007 I received an invitation from a Mr PP to visit the eco-lodge resort in Bahia, Brazil and attend an ‘Ayahuasca Workshop’. During this workshop I was to drink the ancient medicine on three occasions. Here is a link to the Heart of the Initiate website. I will say to anyone that is in the position or inclined to take part in an ayahuasca workshop that they won’t find a better one than the one at Bahia. Not one.
http://www.heartoftheinitiate.com/
If any novice wants to read up on Shamans here is a basic description.
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I felt like
I was standing on the edge of Vesuvius but I
knew in my heart that I would take up his
kind offer and go. I am very glad that I
did. I am well pleased and I was not
negatively beguiled in anyway. PP is one of
the very few people I have met that actually
seeks the truth. I am becoming very
disillusioned with certain sections of the
conspiracy /spiritualists communities and I
fear that ‘yuppies’ are taking over the
asylum so to speak, where money and ego are
becoming the only tools to create
information. In my opinion the same
mentality that raped and pillaged the
material fads and material fashions of the
past is trying to do the same to the
spiritual events currently in progress in
this world. Please be warned that a sheep is
a sheep no matter what pen it is led to.
Anyway.
I arrived in Bahia on the 1st September
2007 after a very long journey including 3
planes, 1 boat, 1 train, two buses and a
land rover. I hadn’t a clue what I was doing
there! PP’s crew included some powerful and
wealthy people and I initially felt out of
place and so did my wife as she was the only
female present in the crew. The rest of the
crew soon put us at ease (thanks lads) and
my wife soon found other female company with
the wonderful staff at the eco-lodge resort.
The crew soon bonded and I can see that the
events of the long journey had caused us to
unite in spirit long before we actually
arrived at Bahia. It was just like we had
done it, or planned it, all before. Maybe we
had?
We settled in easily and before we knew it
was time for the first ceremony. Please
remember that I hadn’t taken any substances,
drugs or ancient medicines in my life before
and neither had the majority of the crew.
The majority of the crew were apprehensive
and who can blame us because lets face it we
weren’t just going to have a drink of orange
juice here and eat a chocolate biscuit were
we? We were going to take ayahuasca which is
a very powerful mind and spirit altering
medicine. We had been previously warned that
ayahuasca may make us vomit or shit
ourselves stupid or both! Not the most
positive of descriptive ways to encourage
people to take it is it?
“Oh, by the way, Matthew you are likely
to spew your guts up or shite through the
eye of a needle after you drink this
stuff…do you want one cup or two my dear!”
I had visions of my late mother
appearing in the forthcoming visions I was
about to experience, wagging her finger
whilst saying: “Have you got clean
underpants on laddie? You soon won’t have me
laddie boy so I hope you have brought a
clean pair for when they cart you off to
hospital! Go on get shit faced on drugs you
silly bugger… but don’t you dare show me up
at the hospital and turn up with dirty
underpants on”
(I swear that’s exactly how my Mam
would have seen the situation)
Anyway let’s get on eh?
What is it? I’ll take it
Ayahuasca Brew.
I could see it written in the faces of the gang that it was a case of ‘Oh OK it’s in us now so no turning back. I felt the same way and most people headed for their beds within five minutes of taking it. Ayahuascha acts rather quickly and within ten to fifteen minutes it makes you lie down. It literally knocks you off your feet. We hadn’t eaten for 6 or 7 hours before taking it. It was 8.30 pm when I took my first cup of ayahuasca.
By 8:45pm it started to take effect on me and I headed for my bed as the sounds around me started to speed up and literally vibrate at a much faster rate. The sound of the sea increased in intensity and the palm trees blew in sequence with it. My heart seemed to join in with the sea and the trees and go along in harmony with them. I had literally ‘joined in’ with the earth, the sea and with the breeze of the air. I was definitely spiritually unified with these elements. I shut my eyes and I saw magical colours swirling around forming patterns and shapes. I was actually starting to enjoy this brew! For those that think I was just shit faced on a par with being on LSD…. Forget it!
I opened my eyes again for a reality check and saw a wave of colours spread over the area of where all the crew were lying. I felt connected to the surroundings and every soul that was present. I was literally experiencing visions in and from another dimension. A spirit world if you like. I remembered being previously told that I could experience ‘journeys’ after taking ayahuasca so I shut my eyes again hoping I would be taken to someone or something that I really wanted to see and communicate with. Maybe from a long time ago I thought. To those that have read my book, ‘You will be wiser when you’re older’, I say you may remember the lady in the rainy dress I mention in it?
Suddenly a tunnel appeared and off I went flying down it hoping I would get what I wanted. It was not to be. I was stopped halfway down the tunnel. I started to get disappointed and slightly angry but then a voice appeared from nowhere and a face, a head, of a male appeared in front of me (with my eyes closed). The situation reminded me of the original Superman movie when Superman hears his father (Marlon Brando) for the first time in his own world that he created at the polar cap.
The face (Head) in my vision (eyes closed) resembled this picture above
‘You are here to show your true colours’ the voice added. The voice then told me that I was to stand up and face a challenge from the ‘spirit world’ and this would in turn allow me to achieve my aims and the aims of others in the crew, in the five sense world. I was shown my broken watch (It had literally fell apart just moments before I drank the ayahuasca) and I was told that I must not break my watch again at the next ceremony no matter what happens. I had to keep my eyes wide open. I was also told to pass on a symbolic vessel when the time was right to one of the crew and also get the blessing of the person’s blood ‘elders’ for doing so. I was told, by the head, that that the person I was to pass the vessel to was to going to carry out some very special tasks in the coming years and had been chosen to carry out these tasks because he had created a symbolic shield around himself which would keep him away from disinformation and give him the intuition he needed for guidance. I was told that the ceremony that night was mainly for his benefit and the collective spiritual energies that night were to endorse his shield and rid his path of negative spirits that may hinder him. I was told that a lot of effort had gone into creating the eco-lodge and although most of the people that had created it had no idea what they had created, it was a very special place.
I was also told the Shaman would create the atmosphere for these things to happen through his magic, skills and courage and I would be assisted by the organisers of the workshop. I was also told that I needed the assistance of 'The Rain’ to keep me on my feet and I had to officially request the help of the rain. I thought at the time that rain in Brazil in September was a rarity and indeed the people running the Heart of the Initiate workshop confirmed this. I automatically said to the face ‘Show me The Rain and I will not let you down’.
I was then told; to remember who I was and to shift my arse!
I staggered to the toilet, dizzy as buggery. I felt like I either wanted to vomit or shit. I had one hand on my stomach and one covering my arse hole, my face must have been a picture too. Sorry to be blunt but those that have taken the brew will know what I mean. I looked around and everyone was led down on their beds apart from the Shaman and his assistant. I looked at my broken watch and it was 9:50 pm. I had only been affected by the ayahuasca for one hour. I knew it could affect you for up to six hours. I knew that my experience was not over. I looked at the moon; there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. I thought there’s no flipping chance of it raining around here.
I looked at the moon again and it literally turned into a cup and saucer right in front of my eyes, like something out of Alice in Wonderland. I staggered back to my bed. I was told that when the moon was no longer a cup and saucer then I would no longer see what I was being shown. The show would be over so to speak. Over the next hour I started to look around me and I tried to focus my eye on each individual member of the ‘crew’. One or two of them were starting to come out of the initial bomb-shell effect that ayahuasca medicine has on you.
As I focused on them their faces and bodies changed rapidly into different shapes and sizes. It was just like I was being shown their previous lives that they had lived in this world and what they physically looked like. They all appeared to have lived many lives and experienced many deaths. A thousand lives came into my mind. Each and every one of them had suffered a thousand deaths. I was seeing all these lives flash past me, just like flicking a pack of cards.
I sat on my bed gob-smacked. I realised that there was a very special group of people in attendance. I got a strong urge to pass on the symbolic vessel, a symbolic bottle, to one of the crew whilst they were carrying out a ritual with the Shaman, so I did. Just like the head had told me I would. They were sat close to the Fire. I had brought the symbolic bottle to Brazil from the UK but before that it had been in some very symbolic locations around the world, including the Great Pyramid at Giza and the Temple at Abu Simbel.
I knew it wasn’t a coincidence. I knew when I was packing my things to go to Bahia that events were very important. I packed some things that I had only previously taken to ancient sites. I also wore desert boots which had great symbolic meaning to me and my white panama hat had also been on some very symbolic heads.
Anyway I eventually came around from my journey and to my surprise I wasn’t sick nor did I have the two-bob-bits (The dreaded shits). We ate soup and drank coffee to break our fast a round 3am. After each ceremony there is a group meeting later in the same day or the next day to discuss our experiences. I tried to tell the crew what I had experienced and I said that I wasn’t there to experience what they were experiencing. I told them that between them they symbolised everything in this world. Their collective symbolism from this lifetime and many others meant that no stone was left unturned and if they were all put under trance (on the same wavelength, not subject to being dumbed down, vibrating at the same rate) then they would become a very powerful spiritual force indeed. It is important that you grasp the idea that collective spiritual power can create a physical, but invisible, multidimensional energy.
Anyway. I knew that they had to experience what they were experiencing and that they had to get through the ceremony the way they thought was best for them. I also knew that their presence was vitally important not only to me but others in the crew. Indeed each and every one of them was just as important as the other. Each of them being part of a jigsaw picture of a power drill and if one piece was missing then the drill would not work. I knew some of them didn’t really want to be there, drinking ayahuasca, but I knew some had been led there in spirit and they were carrying out the spiritual promises they made long ago. They promised to collectively form a picture of a drill if you like.
The ayahuasca ceremonies were on alternative days but in between times we had group discussion sessions and lectures. The setting at Bahia is superb and I knew as soon as I set foot in the eco- lodge resort that it was a very symbolic place. Again if there is a way for any of you to take part in a workshop or you have a strong urge and the means to do so, then I highly recommend that you contact Ralph or Peter at ‘Heart of the Initiate’.
Drink till I drop down with one eye on my clothes
The shaman carried out his ceremonial duties and I drank the ayahuasca medicine knowing full well that I had to ‘stay on my feet’ (not lie down) and face the music. I hadn’t to break my watch so to speak. I watched all the rest of the group take their drink and then lay down. I felt the same effects come over me as they had done two nights earlier. This time it was in daylight though.
The sound changed all around and I felt and heard an increase in the speed of the tide. The trees started rustling like they were speaking to me. The birds in the sky changed and they kept doing the same manoeuvres just like they were trapped in a time loop or like in a ‘groundhog day’ sort of situation. If I looked away from the birds and then looked at them again they would simply carry out the same actions they had done before. It was like time was looping on itself.
I looked around and it seemed like all the plants and trees were trying to send me to lie down. The music of the Shaman was also very hypnotic and everything seemed to put me into a trance. The urge to give up and lay down was overwhelming but I knew I couldn’t do that. The temptation was immense. Within 45 minutes I knew the ayahuasca was at its most potent. I started to pace up and down like a caged animal. I looked at the crew. They were all flat out under one roof and I smiled to myself. Only the shaman and his assistant were active. They were looking over the crew, but so was I.
The magical music played by the Shaman kept the crew in a trance like state and I knew instinctively that this situation was important.
The desire for me to just lie down and shut my eyes was incredible. Only once did I nearly succumb to the temptation. I was just about to say ‘fuck it I’m beat’ when my watch literally turned into a bright light and flashed my eyes as though to say ‘no you don’t you bugger you are not beat yet’. It was just like the flashy thing in the MIB movie but instead of taking away my memory it restored it. A positive flashy thing!
I sparked into life and started pacing about and using my arms like a boxer when shadow boxing. I was stood in front of the swimming pool which was in an elevated position overlooking the sea and the beach. My attention was attracted to the waves of the sea. Then all of a sudden the waves grew in size until they were on a par with the size of a tidal wave. I got the urge to scarper rather sharpish as it appeared the tidal wave was going to drown me. I turned my head quickly away to my right, and the sound of the waves went away, only to see three raised serpents hissing at me. I was scared just for a moment as it appeared they were going to strike (bite) me. I was forced to turn my head back towards the sea. The tidal waves had disappeared but as soon as I started to look at the sea the waves increased rapidly in size again and the sound increased also. I turned my head to my left and my eye was attracted to a palm tree and at the top of this palm tree were several giant bees. The more I looked at them the bigger and noisier they got. The only way to get rid of the visions was to turn away. Remember I had vowed to stay on my feet and keep my eyes wide open.
No matter where I looked something happened that made me want to shut my eyes. I decided to stare at the swimming pool and just for a moment I felt like jumping in. The ripples of the water turned into snakes if I looked at them for too long so that vision slightly put me off taking a dip.
The urge to lie down and shut my eyes increased again. I thought about the flashy watch. What am I suppose to do now I thought? The song ‘Goodbye Blackberry Way’ by The Move came to mind. So I did just that…. I bloody moved!
I staggered for a drink of water I passed the group and they were mostly flat out on their beds. I drank and I drank the water as in defiance to something. I carried a bottle of water back to my previous position.
I looked at the sea again and sure enough the waves started to increase again. Out of the corner of one eye I saw the serpents rise again to my right. I took a swig of water and held it in my mouth. I watched as the waves grew and when they were at maximum height I suddenly turned to my right and spat the water at the serpents. Right in their mush.
‘Take that you bounders’ sort of thing, to put it mildly.
The serpents looked at me in a state shock but they immediately stopped hissing and then disappeared. I sat down for a while albeit with my feet on the floor. I drank the remaining water from the bottle and went to get another. The crew were all still flat out on their beds and the music of the shaman kept them in a trance like state. I smiled to myself again.
Picture shows the
swimming pool. The crew were concentrated under
the roof far centre on the second and third
ceremonies and the nearest Red Cross is where I
was for most of the second ceremony.
View of
the pool from the sea showing the small fence in
the foreground and the pool further back you can
just make out the path from the pool to the
beach.
I grabbed another bottle of water and returned
to my position in front of the pool. I looked at
the sea again and sure enough the vibrations
rose rapidly and another massive tidal wave
appeared in the distance. I looked out of my
left eye and saw the giant bees again, festering
in a palm tree type bush. Again when the tidal
wave approached me I spun round and sprayed the
bees with water from my bottle.
The water went straight through their wings and
dissolved them. The bees then fell to the floor
and they all started tap dancing like Fred
Astair. (I kid you not) I started laughing to
myself and they disappeared. I sat down again
with my feet on the ground. I suddenly felt a
presence behind me and a female voice said ‘It will come from the sea so be prepared for it
baby’.
I then looked at the swimming pool and it turned
into a mass of tiny black vipers swimming in
milk. It was starting to go dark, it was around
6pm.
I looked over to the crew and one or two were
coming out of the initial shell-shock period.
One symbolic member of the crew, a Doctor, came
towards me and said ‘we are over the highest
point’, meaning the highest part of the
effect of Ayahuasca. I thought if you can’t
trust a Doctors opinion about the effects of
medicine then who the bloody hell can you trust!
I knew then I was going to stay on my feet.
Thanks Doc!
The constant work carried out by the Shaman kept
the crew under trance and many members of the
crew were in and out of dream state or should I
say in and out of this world?
I grabbed another bottle of water and whilst I
was getting this water from the Shaman’s
location the blood elder of the person I gave
the symbolic vessel to had appeared where I had
previously sat in the shelter directly behind me
(see picture with red cross above) I immediately
sprayed him with my eau de cologne and I asked
him if he liked it. He said he did.
I then headed to the small fence that separated
the eco-lodge resort land from the sandy beach.
I drank the water apart from the last mouthful
and I spat that onto the beach. I then
vigorously paced up and down and at the same
time I banged/ tapped my now empty water bottle
on the fence in the form of some tune that I
didn’t understand. I was a bloody good drummer
though. (Keith Moon - eat your heart out) I knew
I was teasing something but I had no idea what.
I had no control over myself during this period
and it was purely an action brought on through
automatic physical and spiritual direction. I
have experienced this a few times in my life.
I then picked up a stick and drew a line in the
sand. I then placed the empty bottle on the
line. It was sunset. I then immediately vomited
violently over the bottle. It is called
‘purging’ when it occurs after drinking
ayahuasca. I call it ‘puking your ring up’ no
matter what caused it. I then heard a voice
behind me say ‘what ya doing’ I turned
round to see my wife looking at me! No bees or
serpents, just my wife looking at her husband
like he was a head the ball.
Well then, my little truth seekers, what would
you have told her in my position? Where could I
start? I felt like a teenager would feel after
being caught masturbating with the pages of a
porn magazine opened up wide in front of them.
What should I do first I thought, zip up my
trousers or shut the magazine and hide it?
I told her I was just shit-faced and had
unknowingly wandered down on to the beach. She
then led me back to the rest of the group where
I met one of the organisers. I sprayed him with
my eau de cologne. He liked it too. He might
have thought I was a head the ball too but he
still liked it.
The major effects of the ayahuasca during my
journey in the second ceremony were now wearing
off. I hadn’t broken my watch either.
I told the group, at the group session the next
day, that I had been in a ‘battle’ during my
journey at the second ceremony. Let me tell you
all now that it wasn’t an easy battle and I
nearly failed. I realise most of you will
believe that I was just hallucinating but even
if I was I still nearly failed. The pain of
defeat is still the same whilst hallucinating or
in another dimension just like it is in five
sense illusionary reality.
Anyway.
I had hoped that my spiritual challenge was over
after the second ceremony but I knew it wasn’t.
I knew that something else had to be done and I
knew that it had to be done in the spirit world
(another dimension) it didn’t really matter if
it was a silly hallucination or not, I still had
to live it.
Visions under Ayahuasca
Visions under Ayahuasca
Visions under Ayahuasca
The Third Ceremony
I’m going back soon - home to get that Baboon
Who cut up my eye - tore up my Levi’s
The third ceremony quickly came around. The Rain had been in attendance all day and the crew was again forced into the same small covered area. People were amazed at the amount of rain for September in Brazil because it is usually dry, pretty fair, sunny weather. I knew it was meant to be and I knew I couldn’t cope without the Rain.
We all watched the Shaman carry out the ceremony for the final time and we all drank the ayahuasca. I had for some reason placed a chair near the Shamans fire shortly after drinking the medicine.
The rest of the crew lay down on their beds but I knew that I had to stay on my feet again. Those that have taken a cup full of ayahuasca will know how difficult it is, during the first hour or two after drinking it, to just stand up.
I again felt directed to take up an elevated position near the pool looking out to sea. This time it was very dark. I wore my hat, just has I had done on the second ceremony. Sure enough within fifteen to twenty minutes of taking the medicine everything started to change. The noise of the sea increased again and the trees began to sway in tune with the sounds of the sea.
Again my heartbeat raised and unified with the Earth, the Sea and the Air. The magical chants of the Shaman and his music put the whole crew into a trance and I am sure that most of them were seeing visions. The lights in the sky stood out as the stars literally fell down forming beautiful patterns in front of my eyes. The clouds just seemed to disappear.
I waited for something to happen and the urge to just lie down and shut my eyes was tremendously hard to defy but I knew I had to stand my ground again no matter what. I was determined to see out whatever I had to see out. The love that brought the rain was keeping me on my feet.
Suddenly a small illuminated lamp-post next to me turned into a raised Cobra with bright red eyes. I knew I was stepping in and out of this world. The longer I looked at it the bigger it got. I felt it was going to bite me and swallow me. I looked away and paced up and down whilst still wearing my hat. I then approached the Cobra again but as I got near to it I turned around and pointed my arse in its direction. I bent over like I was going to break wind (fart). As I have said ayahuasca is probably the best laxative in the world and I believe the Cobra just didn’t dare risk staying there when I pointed my arsehole it its direction. Maybe it had hallucinations of being sprayed with shite, I don’t know if it did or not but I do know it buggered off!
I looked out to sea and saw two bright streaks of yellow coming towards the beach. I felt a sense of dread. I sat down but again my feet never left the ground. I heard a voice inside myself telling me to expose myself and represent the colours of the crew. I was relieved to comprehend that ‘exposing’ myself didn’t mean me showing my arse, mooning, like a drunken idiot but just meant revealing myself. Showing myself. Coming out.
I suddenly got the urge to approach the Shamans fire. As I approached the fire I noticed someone sitting in the chair that I had placed there earlier. I kindly asked the elder or the man in charge if he would kindly place my hat on the fire. I also placed some eau de cologne on his wrist for him to wear and asked him if he liked it (The aroma). He said he did and he then placed my hat on the fire and proceeded to burn the bugger! I knew I was symbolically revealing myself by doing this.
The well travelled Hat that is no more. (Sob)
I looked out to sea and noticed that the two yellow streaks had now reached the beach. I had the strongest urge to go and meet with these yellow streaks. I moved round to the front of the pool, nearer the beach, and then made why way down to the area in front of the beach.
There was a little segmented stone type ornamental pathway leading to the beach, indeed the same pathway ran around the whole eco-village. As I approached I realised that the two yellow streaks were really just one.
Just prior to reaching the small fence, separating the beach from the eco-lodge, I saw the yellow streak flash by at tremendous speed directly under my feet. It literally shook me off my feet and I fell over. Like a drunk would do after filling his belly full of ale.
I focused my vision as I stood up and the yellow streak turned into a giant snake. The path I was walking on had turned into a massive snake! I was literally riding a giant snake but I wasn’t going anywhere. I was staying in the same place and the snake was whizzing by under my feet. I put my arms out to help me gain balance like I was riding on a skateboard.
The head and tail of the snake were joined together like Oruboros with the snake’s head gripping the snake’s tail in its mouth. It was continuous and it was hard to know where the head was and where the tail was.
The path that turned into a snake. Seems silly now but I tell you the truth, it turned into a snake.
All of a sudden I stamped my right foot down and the snakes head popped up as in pain, dropping its tail at the same time. Without thinking I put my arms around the neck of the snake just like Tarzan having a pop at a crocodile would. I wrapped my legs around it too like I was going to hump it. The snake then vomited and a red assed baboon came out of the yellow snakes mouth, all wrapped in goo like a new born baby is. The baboon was holding a large eye with the pupil shaped as a number three or a letter m on its side. The baboon took one look at me and started to run towards the beach. I dropped the snake and ran after the baboon. Its red arse was glowing very brightly like a neon sign saying ‘kick me’.
I swung a leg in an attempt to boot it up the arse but I missed (so no emails from the RSPCA please) I started screaming and shouting at this baboon and in its haste to escape it dropped the eye it was carrying very near to the place where I was sick and where I had drawn a line in the sand on the beach. It was also the place where I had placed an empty bottle during the journey I experienced at the second ceremony.
My shouting at the baboon must have sounded like signs of distress and I must have alerted the elder of the ceremony and the Shaman’s assistant to my plight because they came to me asking what all the noise was about. I felt a bit embarrassed. I knew it was over and time for me to rest and after staying on my feet for two ceremonies I really was ready to collapse on to the floor.
I went to my mattress and tried to make sense of what had happened I shut my eyes for only the second time in three ceremonies. The same male face (Head) (like superman’s dad) from the first ceremony appeared again.
He plainly ‘said’ or I understood him to say; ‘It’s nearly done but when it is say so’. I was shown a ‘hole’ between this world and a sort of paradise world. In-between this world and the paradise world I was shown a world of imprisonment and misery and I was shown that the rulers in that world of fear like to keep this world in the same image of that world.
This in-between world keeps the human race as prisoners and keeps us in the lowest form of trance possible making a true escape impossible.
I was also shown that the powerful crew that had been put together had managed to drill a symbolic hole right through the negative band of energy (in-between world) showing me that collective spiritual energy can create physical invisible energy. I was shown that representatives from the paradise world beyond the in-between world were now present in this world as human beings and were breaking out of the trance state they were put under by the in-between world, just like everyone is put in trance.
I was told that ‘when these representatives were united there will be fireworks in this world’ and the face winked at me and smiled. The face then faded away. I wanted it to come back and tell me more but it didn’t. I knew my journeys to other worlds in Brazil were over.
I got up and noticed the elder of the ceremony (the bugger that burnt my hat!) was sat in a chair near my head. I got up and got a final bottle of water and looked to the stars and drank the bottle in one. I then gave the elder the empty bottle and he kindly took it.
That was the end of my journeys under the trance of ayahuasca and the guidance of the Shaman. I must say that even though I experienced some traumatic scenes I felt perfectly at ease after each ceremony. After the third ceremony I asked another symbolic member of the group if he knew the title of a song by Johnny Nash. He said Johnny Cash. I said No Johnny Nash.
‘I can see clearly now’ I said. ‘The Rain has gone’ someone else said.
The day after third ceremony was a cloudless hot and sunny day and all the crew laid around in the sunshine including me. I was exhausted but felt that it really was a beautiful day. I knew that without the rain I couldn’t have experienced my latter two journeys and I knew only love had brought the Rain.
On the last evening we had tobacco offering ritual to carry out. We had previously made ritual offerings to the Earth and the Sea using symbolic stones. I used a blood stone. For the tobacco offering every one of us had to wrap tobacco in little different coloured cloth parcels and attach them on a string. Just like a string of pearls.
Colours used in
final offering
Oh my brothers it was done.
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So there you have it. I have tried to be as
honest and as accurate as I can when describing
my journeys. Obviously the vast majority of
people will see it as though I had a ‘trip’
brought on by drugs that cause hallucinations. I
must say that not long ago I would have thought
the same thing. Remember I have never taken any
substances before so I have nothing to compare
ayahuasca to. I can drink a bucket full of ale
though and still stay on my feet.
I was also traumatically awakened to my
hypnotically suppressed childhood memories in
1999. I must admit that ayahuasca did seem to
appear to transport me to see another dimension
that resembled my childhood experiences and I
certainly reacted to what I was seeing.
So what can I really tell you about ayahuasca? I
have always said long before I went near
ayahuasca, and it is recorded, that I believe
the masses are dumbed down and we are forced to
spiritually surrender ourselves to a deceptive
force lifetime after lifetime. To put it in
simple terms our third eye is removed. Yes a
removal of our third eye (our intuition) takes
place leaving us at the mercy of the deceptive
force that caused the loss of sight in the first
place. Can ayahuasca medicine replace that third
eye if only for a few hours?
Far more intelligent people than me know about
these things and can explain it better too. I
have just reported what happened to me as it
appeared to me. Some claim that pineal gland
(that separates the two sides of the brain) is
affected by ayahuasca and in turn this allows
the individual taking it to access both sides of
the brain. Again I don’t even pretend to know if
this is true but I will say that I believe the
human race is somehow dumbed down to the levels
of a plastic dog turd from a joke shop and there
may be something in this. Here is a brief
explanation of the pineal gland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineal_gland
Ayahuasca is said to contain the natural brain
hormone ‘DMT’ and this DMT is only usually
increased when you are born and when you die.
Entering and leaving this dimension. So it is
possible that ayahuasca supplies you with
inter-dimensional visions during your life by
increasing DMT levels. Although from another
view point reduction of DMT levels may explain
the dumbing down process. Here is a brief
explanation of DMT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine
Can drinking ayahuasca raise your ‘vibrational
state’, for want of better words, and enable you
to see into other dimensions? Can the Shaman
create changes in consciousness that effect not
only individuals but also collective groups? Can
the Shaman use his skills to create a collective
hypnotic trance like state just like I believe a
deceptive race of serpents have hypnotised the
masses in this world to live in the trance that
creates all the misery in this world?
I am sure that the crew put together by PP and
others close to him know the answers to the
questions that I ask about the Shaman are true.
The crew I was with actually felt true
connection with each other simply because we
were all on a level playing field. There were no
material barriers, there were no class divisions
and there were no differences between us
whatsoever. None. We lived as equals if only for
a short period. Our true spirituality was
allowed to surface simply because we were
allowed to create our own world for once and in
that world there were no divisions, just human
beings collectively searching for some truth and
a way home. We allowed each other to experience
what we wanted or needed to experience without
restrictions. We allowed each other to be free.
I only witnessed positive results in the people
that took ayahuasca despite some of the people
having journeys that were not all fluffy bunny
experiences. I always felt good after the
ceremonies. The collective spiritual power of
the group made sure of that.
Ayahuasca has confirmed to me that this world is
an illusion created by mass thought. Sadly I
believe the collective thoughts of the human
race have been hijacked by a very deceptive
force and we live lives that the hijackers want
us to live. I believe we can change this world
by changing mass thought and if the majority of
minds can wake up to what is really going on
then a massive spiritual shift is possible and
we will reconnect with the paradise world that I
have been shown and seen. There will be no
prison warders and the world will not be a
prison anymore. If this shift happens you will
not be forced to surrender your spirit and live
on your knees in misery in this world ever
again.
A fairy tale is it? Matthew Delooze is just
another lunatic shooting his gob off whilst
being high off magic potions is he? A stupid
dreamer that knows bugger all and is living in a
delusion am I?
Well if I am it is a bloody prolonged and vivid
delusion then and my psychosis never fades and
to be honest if I am suffering from psychosis
then I really hope that I never get sane again
and end up like the bloke next door. I really
do.
So I tell you the truth when I say
representatives from the one true consciousness
are here in human form in this world to help
this world shift. They can only open up the
spiritual floodgates and help if this world
really wants to ‘shift’. It is time to think for
yourselves and let your intuition tell you what
you should do in the coming months and years. I
have said enough in this article and it is
nearly time for me to go. I say let your
intuition direct you in the future, not your
credit card statement or a lying politician.
Your subconscious is currently being reminded of
who you really are and when you remember it will
be a trustworthy guide. So follow it. It is a
difficult time for a lot of us.
Anyway.
Some force had subconsciously created the urge
in the crew to attend the workshop. It’s not
easy for some people to drink such things as
ayahuasca and I acknowledge the sheer bravery of
all those people who drank it, especially those
who, on a five sense level, didn’t really want
to swallow it. I can only suggest to those that
didn’t want to drink it that your subconscious
brought you to Bahia that week because of the
spiritual symbolism you carry and that you
spiritually promised to do so (sadly you cannot
remember the promises you made whilst you are in
this world). No one broke their spiritual
promises at Bahia.
I would like to thank PP and those close to him
for putting together the crew and making our
week at Bahia possible. I also would like to
thank those who found themselves at Bahia
through their own spiritual path for making it
possible because your involvement was just as
important as everyone else. I am excited for all
of you and all your futures.
To Ralph, Peter, Rod and the delightful Fiona
and the rest of the staff at Heart of the
Initiate I say a very big thank you, just for
being you and the wonderful thing you have
created. Again anyone wishing to know more about
Heart of the Initiate please visit their site.
It’s a mine of information with some very good
articles and other information, including some
very good stuff from Ralph and Peter. Ralph and
Peters skills are many and Ralph has even become
an expert hat burner as well! Here is a link to
articles at the Heart of the Initiate website
and some audio lectures if you are interested.
http://www.heartoftheinitiate.com/library/articles
http://www.heartoftheinitiate.com/tag/lectures
I realise the vast majority of people haven’t
the means to get to Brazil and take part in
workshops and that is why I have opened my heart
and put my experiences on show in this article.
If you have read this article carefully then my
experiences are also now in you and you have
seen and will carry the same symbolism and the
same colours as me. (Without having to puke your
ring up or worry that your arsehole was going to
explode or indeed worrying your mother about the
state of your underwear, I might add!)
I realise you will have totally different
experiences than me if you attend a workshop but
to those who will never attend a workshop I say
you now know as much as me about ayahuasca.
Last but not least, by a long chalk, I thank the
Shaman and his lovely assistant for the sheer
effort and hard graft they put in during the
ceremonies. I am sure their work will not go
unrewarded.
May love reign o’er you all.
Matthew Delooze
(PS Sorry my article on unions in the UK has
been slightly delayed)
On a lighter note I wondered if some of you
would like this colourful oldie from the 1970’s
(Although it’s just as important to the younger
end). It’s a bit blurred so look very, very,
carefully truth seekers! Remember then?
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