Visionary Plant Consciousness
Verfasst: 8. August 2008, 11:34
Schon als meine Kifferkariere anfing, hatte ich Schwierigkeiten nachzuvollziehen, wieso sich Leutz Pillen und Pülverchen einpfeifen können - egal ob Speed, Koks, H, oder was aus der Apotheke - für mich war das alles "Chemie" und das ist "BÄH!".
Komischer Weise habe ich LSD nie so empfunden, obwohl das ja auch Chemie ist, was imo aber daran liegt, daß ich zuerst Pilze in Florida hatte und die Acid-Trips eine Verlängerung dieser ersten Erfahrung darstellten, so wie ein Fortsetzungsroman.
Dieses anfängliche Bauchgefühl, das Chemie "BÄH!" ist, hat sich im Lauf der Jahre eher noch verstärkt und zwischenzeitlich auch eine intellektuelle Begründung.
Ich habe jetzt drei Zitate{leider nur auf englisch}ausgewählt, um das mal zu veranschaulichen.
Sie stammen aus dem Buch:

It's clear that ayahuasca is a powerful psychotropic, and that even though it's more or less brain-compatible because its main active ingredient seems to be the dimethyl-tryptamine (DMT) that mamma I brains also seem to produce, nevertheless it's a very powerful mind-modifying substance, so I think that just drinking powerful ayahuasca by yourself is a recipe for trouble. It's not something that I'd recommend widely, and it's certainly not anything I practice. My practice is going to the Peruvian Amazon (which happens to be part of my job, so it's kind of handy) and working with maestros who have a good reputation and whom I respect and who have a clean he art.
And half the experience is the singing of the maestro. The experience is not just about guzzling ayahuasca: it's about whom you drink it with and what you drink it for. It's something that one does to explore very important questions. That said, I think it can be very helpful, obviously, in some cases for well-prepared individuals who want to do personal exploration, enhance their creativity and so on, or just achieve some physical healing. *
The way we can offer it time; is to learn about it, sit with it, and maybe grow it. But even if you're just purchasing some of it, try to learn about that plant's world. When we use a plant, we're communicating with the entire chain of experience of that species through its evolution.
Medicine, in the traditions I've worked in, is not just about chemistry. It's about that which heals. Many cultures talk about the songs that come through the plants. If you listen well to a plant that you have solicited medicinal aid from, they say you can learn its song, and its song will be as effective a medicine as the plant material itself. That's when you've taken that plant in as your deep ally: when you can invoke its medicine without even necessarily touching or finding the plant. At that point you have access to the spirit of the medicine. **
A very important element in Amazonian shamanism is the use of songs inspired by the spirits; mestizo practitioners call them icaros. In 1986 I spent a month with Don Basilio Gordon, a Shipibo shaman Iiving in Santa Rosa de Pirococha, a small settlement on the shores of the Ucayali River in Peru. I was interested in which other plants, beside those involved in the preparation of ayahuasca, he knew about. He was treating patients, but I never saw hirn use any plants_ I asked hirn about it, and he said that when, through ayahuasca, one gets in touch with the plant spirits, they will teach you their songs, and you can use these songs to heal. Only if the song doesn't work do you have to go back to using the actual physical plant. ***
* Jeremy Narby
** Kathleen Harrison
*** Luis Eduardo Luna, Ph.D.
Den letzten Satz habe ich kursiv gestellt, weil es für mich der springende Punkt ist. Im Zusammenhang mit Pablo Amaringo habe ich ja schon mehrfach auf die Macht der Icaros hingewiesen. Imho ist "Realität" sehr viel formbarer als gemeinhin angenommen.
Komischer Weise habe ich LSD nie so empfunden, obwohl das ja auch Chemie ist, was imo aber daran liegt, daß ich zuerst Pilze in Florida hatte und die Acid-Trips eine Verlängerung dieser ersten Erfahrung darstellten, so wie ein Fortsetzungsroman.
Dieses anfängliche Bauchgefühl, das Chemie "BÄH!" ist, hat sich im Lauf der Jahre eher noch verstärkt und zwischenzeitlich auch eine intellektuelle Begründung.
Ich habe jetzt drei Zitate{leider nur auf englisch}ausgewählt, um das mal zu veranschaulichen.
Sie stammen aus dem Buch:

It's clear that ayahuasca is a powerful psychotropic, and that even though it's more or less brain-compatible because its main active ingredient seems to be the dimethyl-tryptamine (DMT) that mamma I brains also seem to produce, nevertheless it's a very powerful mind-modifying substance, so I think that just drinking powerful ayahuasca by yourself is a recipe for trouble. It's not something that I'd recommend widely, and it's certainly not anything I practice. My practice is going to the Peruvian Amazon (which happens to be part of my job, so it's kind of handy) and working with maestros who have a good reputation and whom I respect and who have a clean he art.
And half the experience is the singing of the maestro. The experience is not just about guzzling ayahuasca: it's about whom you drink it with and what you drink it for. It's something that one does to explore very important questions. That said, I think it can be very helpful, obviously, in some cases for well-prepared individuals who want to do personal exploration, enhance their creativity and so on, or just achieve some physical healing. *
The way we can offer it time; is to learn about it, sit with it, and maybe grow it. But even if you're just purchasing some of it, try to learn about that plant's world. When we use a plant, we're communicating with the entire chain of experience of that species through its evolution.
Medicine, in the traditions I've worked in, is not just about chemistry. It's about that which heals. Many cultures talk about the songs that come through the plants. If you listen well to a plant that you have solicited medicinal aid from, they say you can learn its song, and its song will be as effective a medicine as the plant material itself. That's when you've taken that plant in as your deep ally: when you can invoke its medicine without even necessarily touching or finding the plant. At that point you have access to the spirit of the medicine. **
A very important element in Amazonian shamanism is the use of songs inspired by the spirits; mestizo practitioners call them icaros. In 1986 I spent a month with Don Basilio Gordon, a Shipibo shaman Iiving in Santa Rosa de Pirococha, a small settlement on the shores of the Ucayali River in Peru. I was interested in which other plants, beside those involved in the preparation of ayahuasca, he knew about. He was treating patients, but I never saw hirn use any plants_ I asked hirn about it, and he said that when, through ayahuasca, one gets in touch with the plant spirits, they will teach you their songs, and you can use these songs to heal. Only if the song doesn't work do you have to go back to using the actual physical plant. ***
* Jeremy Narby
** Kathleen Harrison
*** Luis Eduardo Luna, Ph.D.
Den letzten Satz habe ich kursiv gestellt, weil es für mich der springende Punkt ist. Im Zusammenhang mit Pablo Amaringo habe ich ja schon mehrfach auf die Macht der Icaros hingewiesen. Imho ist "Realität" sehr viel formbarer als gemeinhin angenommen.