Ayahuasca: A Story of Death, Rebirth and Love. “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” - Schopenhauer The Ayahuasca experience was the most intense, spiritual, emotional, mind-blowing, frightening and loving experience I have ever had.
Nothing could have prepared me for the inner journey I am about to describe. Because I believe I died. ‘I’ meaning that which I am in this current form while I’m writing this. It was if my awareness that seems normally tied to this body shot loose and entered a world before unknown. Ayahuasca, the ‘spirit vine’ or the ‘vine of death’, is a brew containing the Banisteriopsis caapi vine and Psychotria viridis or Diplopterys cabrerana leaves.
With drugs like these it’s hard to extrapolate the meaning of your experience and use it for the benefit of your daily life, and so I was skeptical about what the insights could bring to me. I found out that two Peruvian shamans were visiting my country to give workshops on Ayahuasca healing. The Ceremony I don’t know. Why Do DMT Users See Insects From A Parallel Universe? Why Do DMT Users See Insects From A Parallel Universe?
By Cliff Pickover, Reality Carnival Related articles here and here. The material in this article is presented in final format in my book Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves. Why do so many people using DMT see insects? The DMT insect race comprises "larval beings," "alien space insects," praying-mantis entities and so forth. "Something in the insect seems to be alien to the habits, morals, and psychology of this world, as if it has come from some other planet, more monstrous, more energetic, more insensate, more atrocious, more infernal than our own. " -- Maurice Masterlinck, Belgian playwright, 1862-1949 Examples of DMT Insect Reports "It is a mental Mecca, an excellent reference point for all other psychedelics.
"The wasp came to me this time, stung me while I was senseless. "Oh dear lapidary insect friends... " "Inside were very tiny creatures. You can find many more examples of DMT insectoids using Google. Return to Reality Carnival. Charles Bonnet Syndrome. By Dr.
Cliff Pickover, Reality Carnival "People afflicted with certain eye diseases give similar reports of beings from parallel universes. " People afflicted with Charles Bonnet Syndrome see beings from another world. Many scientists would call these beings hallucinations. Others call this syndrome a portal to a parallel reality. People with Charles Bonnet Syndrome (or "Bonnet-people") are otherwise mentally sound.
Bonnet-people report that they see apparitions resembling distorted faces, costumed figures, ghosts, and little people. Most Bonnet-people see beings wearing hats. Magnification of head region of previous image. One patient described how a friend working in front of a tall privet hedge suddenly disappeared, as if he had suddenly put on a cloak of invisibility. Fifty percent of Bonnet-people see a disembodied or distorted face of a stranger with staring eyes and prominent teeth. Some of the beings have blank eye sockets. (Click to magnify the vortex.) 1. 2. 3. DMT, Moses, and the Quest for Transcendence. By Cliff Pickover, Reality Carnival "DMT in the pineal glands of Biblical prophets gave God to humanity and let ordinary humans perceive parallel universes.
" The molecule DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) is a psychoactive chemical that causes intense visions and can induce its users to quickly enter a completely different "environment" that some have likened to an alien or parallel universe. The transition from our world to theirs occurs with no cessation of consciousness or quality of awareness. In this environment, beings often appear who interact with the person who is using DMT. The beings appear to inhabit this parallel realm. Author Terence McKenna has used DMT and feels that, "Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... DMT is also naturally produced in small quantities in the human brain, and it has been hypothesized that DMT is produced in the pineal gland in the brain.