Hip-Hop Sampling Is Amazing

I can't tell you how many great artists I have discovered through the use of Hip-Hop sampling.  Some call it stealing but not me.  For the samples I do know, it allows me to reminisce on the good times in my past.  When I was young and had no bills to pay.  My mother would be playing her R&B in the car everywhere we went.  For the samples I don't know of, I search for the sample, and end up discovering an artist I probably never would have found otherwise.  

Big KRIT samples Erykah Badu

Day 3 - Day after Ceremony, and more

I awake, energized surprisingly.  We all receive our steam baths, given to us by maestra Amelia.  I ask Debbie, who is a hilarious woman, to be please translate for me.  I tell Amelia, Debbie, and Petra my experience.  Amelia says,  "Don't worry.  You don't have too many problems."  She also says that her first three times drinking ayahuasca were scary.  This is comforting.  Also, I notice the traditional Shipibo skirt Amelia is wearing.  It has patterns that I saw in my visions.  Debbie says these are icaros.  (The songs, or the knowledge, ayahuasca gives us.  At breakfast, we share our experiences.  Everybody's trip is so unique.  I feel most were positive.  Mike tells me, "When you were outside blowing your nose, I looked out to see what was out there, and I saw you as a goat man hybrid, with long white horns, as if in Pan's Labryinth.  You shook your body like an animal after a bath"  (maybe I was releasing some bad juju...)  Tucker, who was next to Mike in ceremony, says he saw the same thing.  I laugh at this.  Plus I am amazed.  That was one hell of a night!  The crazy thing is Mike never told Tucker this until breakfast.  I share my night with others, and they give me words of encouragement.  People speak of their past addictions.  One person speaks about bloating.  I tell her about gluten cross reactive foods.  Basically, the human race has been evolving for thousandths, if not millions of years.  Our ancestors 100,000 years ago did not have all the agrarian foods we enjoy now, such as potato, rice, quinoa, cacao, coffee, etc.  So for most of our time on this planet, we have been eating very basic foods, like meat, vegetables, and fruit, sparingly.  So some people in this century do not do well with these "new foods."  As for me, a blood type O POS, I experience bloating, sluggishness, and acne.  I don't hesitate to say that other blood types are better equipped to handle new foods, since their ancestors have been more accustomed to foods like dairy and grains, because they were able to adapt.
Gluten Cross-Reactivity
Speaking of foods, I feel my self control is at a all time high here.  I have no urge to drink energy drinks or coffee like I used to.  I feel like I can do anything.  I have nearly zero stress.  This place is the closest thing to a Utopia I've ever encountered.  I feel more connected to nature.  I give love to the people, animals, and plants.  If I accidently harm a plant, I express sorrow.  This oneness, plus the idea that everything is happening for a reason, allows me to do abs in the dirt, let mosquitoes and grasshoppers land on my body, and deal with certain people that I would avoid back home.  I let myself go, as muslims do.  "Insha'Allah" or God willing.  (It is Gods will.)
A group of approximately six military/police looking men arrive at the Temple.  They are here for me.  I think it is because they need me for my service.  Maybe WW3 has broke out?  
I can't remember if this was a thought, dream, or Ayahuasca vision, but this has been a recurring theme in my dreams.  I am back in the Navy.

DAY 3 CONSULTATION

This is what I told my healers...

I am here because I find little life purpose in the US.  I yearn to live a sustainable life.  I don't like supporting US actions with my taxes.   I want to learn your people's way of life.  I feel the world could use your gifts greatly.  Being in the US Navy for five years helped me grow tremendously well, but I feel somewhat guilty for being a part of a destructive force.

CONSULTATION FOLLOW UP

Dionnes said he could sense my militarism during the first Ceremony.  The three plant medicines(tantirao canella, albaca, and chimi pampana) will help me open my heart and mind.  This is exactly what I need.  I tend to overcomplicate things.  I also put a lot of burden on myself.  The medicines will also help me choose/find a path.  This is the main reason for coming to the Temple.  I am surprised at the curandero's psychic like minds.  This really motivates me to evolve spiritually.  The possibilities are endless.  I also want to heal people.  

Ayahuasca Ceremony Number 1

We arrive at the Maloka one hour before the ceremonie's beginning.  30 minutes into complete group silence, our maestra and maestro walk in, along with our facilitator.  Diogenes, the maestro, sings an icaro into the Ayahuasca bottle we are soon about to drink from.  We receive some mapacho cigarettes.  These are filled with nicotiana rustica, not nicotiana tabacum.(1)  Mapacho is much different than cigarettes from the states.  Mapacho protects us from spirits, they say.  I don't inhale the smoke, but blow it over my body, for supposed protection.  This stuff is pretty awful.  I gag.  Our facilitator turns off the diesel run lanterns, turning our space pitch black.  

After about 20 minutes, I feel like I am tumbling forward, as if I am in a hamster ball, and the ball, or journey, rolls to a start.  I then lie down.  Geometrical patterns start to form upon closing my eyes.  See (2).  The pattern's middle then folds in, almost as if a door or gateway is opening up.  I feel my perception of the universe is about to change.  These patterns are black and metallic grey.  My visions begin, in color.  I see scary images.  Dead people.  They taunt me by sticking out there tongues at me, making fun of me.  Rotting skin.  I get the feeling that this is a test, or a show.  Maybe a freak show? (3)  I start to laugh and smile.  "I know what you are up to," I say.  The dead smile back at me.  "You passed" they articulate.  Somewhere along this timeline, I open my eyes.  I no longer can see or sense the people around me, even though my near neighbors are a mere meter to my left and right.  I am in my own world.  There is a large witch-like character in front of me.  She is wider than humanely possible, similar to a computer screen with the wrong dimensions.  To my left I see the maestra on the floor.  She is on her side.  She signals for me to come.  "Come back to my journey," I think.  I close my eyes once again, going back to my tour.  Sometimes I sense my spirit body walking and/or moving my hands.  I also feel like my optical view is coming from inside my mouth.  Reminds me of Tony's character in 'The Shining', as well as the film 'Being John Malkovich'.  I see four or five white old men sitting around a half circle table.  One of the men, with glasses signals for me to come.  "Continue your journey," he says.  There are many other things I see, but remembering them is beyond me.  Throughout this trip, the maestra comes in front of me, and sings to me her icaro.  However, I don't vividly remember this.  I barely sense her touching my hair and face. (for protection)  Later, the maestro visits me.  More vivid.  We greet each other.  I laugh, saying the word "drunkie."  He laughs as well.  He blows mapacho onto me, then sings his icaro.  So beautiful.  I am purely happy.  

*back up* 

During my visions, I am scared.  I tell myself I want this to stop.  I tell myself I won't be doing Ayahuasca again.  My views change after this.  I welcome struggle with open arms.  This is where growth occurs.  I picture my family.  Sensing my father I cry.  I cry for my mother as well.  I then feel bad for my uncle.  I wish he could feel this medicine.  I also sense that I may not see my family for a long time.  I don't see how I could go back to that way of life.  The temple is magical.  Perfect.  

I do not sense the ceremony ending.  At some point, the ayahuasqueros and facilitator leave.  I, like others, stay in our beds.  I think and meditate on countless subjects until day break.  

*back up*

I go to the washroom (outhouse) to poop/purge.  After, I go into the grass and clear my sinuses.  I look at the half moon.  Oddly, the clouds are at a standstill. (later I learn this is due to weaker wind currents in the area)  

At around 5:30 AM, I walk to my room, immediately falling asleep for one hour.  

*One of the few positive visions was of a beautiful woman that is at the temple currently.  

NOTES

1- Mapacho / Nicotiana Rustica

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotiana_rustica

2- Ayahuasca Pattern

http://lainie.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c63c69e2010535e7edda970c-320wi

3- George Carlin on God, the planet, and "the freak show"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9CjBtv7j78

old FB quotes

If the words "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.
---------------------- Terence McKenna -------------------------------------

"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy"
---------------------------Henry Kissinger-------------------------------------

The purpose of life is a life with a purpose
So I’d rather die for a cause than live a life that is worthless
I don’t need the circus or the day of national observance
I need you to think for you and stop being a servant
-------------------------Immortal Technique-------------------------------

My last toast is to the dead is for the listener,
Human being or extraterrestrial visitor,
Remember us for more than our primitive ways,
When you study us long after the end of our days.
-------------------------Immortal Technique-------------------------------

"When you feel you have right on your side, you can do some horrific things"
-----Brian Flanagan-(The Weather Underground film/documentary)-------

""I'm tired of old men dreaming up wars for young men to fight."
--------------------------George McGovern-----------------------------

"Life is a test many quest the universe
And through my research, I felt the joy and the hurt
The first shall be last and the last shall be first
The basic instructions before leaving earth"
 ---------------------------Killah Priest--------------------------


"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
--------------  Eleanor Roosevelt----------------------------

"You must view with profound respect the infinite capacity of the human mind to resist the inroads of useful knowledge"
----------------Thomas Lounsbury--------------------------

"I wanna swing my sword decapitate
But what is a man if he acts like an ape
So I sit back, planning my great escape"
----------------------- K-OS-----------------------------------