When Ayahuasca started to become popular more than a dozen years ago the main approach to the experience was just copied from the shamanic beliefs of the natives in South America. Surely most of the sessions were taking place in their origin anyway. Then more and more people started to offer sessions in the west when Ayahuasca went mainstream. In these days there are Ayahuasca sessions taking place in almost every western country, in many cities and a lot of cities even have multiple facilitators. What mostly still remains is the view and belief system around the experience- that of a shamanic view. I see shamanism as nothing different than any other religion, a dual approach to the true nature of reality, which is unconditional Love. 

Without the separation in a “me” seeing “entities” and “spirits” or the need for a shaman “shifting energies” and “holding spaces”. The true guidance is taking place from within, not from a person guiding. This led to the creation of a sort of personality, a form of “shamanic Ego”, which is based on the idea that more “healing” or “medicine” is needed or more “release” of energy. This ends in a never ending search for more, by repeatedly visiting one session after the other. It is not rare that people tell me about dozens of sessions they had- however all never delivered a final healing. 

To be fair it surely doesn’t help that western Ayahuasca is in most cases just a fragment of the real jungle brew. But even in its origin greed for money brought up endless fake shamans to the surface, offering low to zero effective brews- or not even rarely sexual assaults. Which btw. also applies to some western sessions. Due to the publicity for Ayahuasca, word about its spiritual properties has spread to “spiritual circles”. A lot look down on psychedelics as a tool to achieve “enlightenment”, the holy grail of spirituality. Seeing it as cheap shortcut with no real “awakening” properties. But what I see is that the term “enlightenment” has become very popular in psychedelic communities as well. 

I guess partially due to that, the past few years 5MeO DMT is getting more and more attention. Word has spread that even repeated use of Ayahuasca, Peyote and even “Changa” (freebase DMT on plant material- with or without added MAOi) is not delivering enlightenment. It happens that for some 5MeO DMT can do exactly this. So many, many people are now trying, what is by its believers marketed as the “instant pill to enlightenment”. However- I personally have learned through working with many of such seeking people, that this is just another trap of the mind to have more, more, more. So the whole game starts again- now needing more 5MeO DMT sessions to be finally healed- pardon “enlightened”. 

So what is it that I do different, especially since I am also working with 5MeO DMT? The core is, that I am not supporting the belief that psychedelics are a guarantee to enlightenment. Especially 5MeO DMT I see much more critical than most of the sources on the internet. As a result I am not offering a session to everyone. The sign up/screening process is a crucial part of my sessions, and if someone is not openly sharing their background, process and beliefs I won’t be able to work for them. I believe that the information on what to do with the “spiritual awakening” is just as important as the actual experience itself. Not infrequently people already had a natural form of awakening, but just get obsessed with obtaining more of it, or seeking a “constant stage of enlightenment”. 

To be “spiritual” is already one step away from the truth which is unconditional (Love). Most of my clients, and you can also read this in the many testimonials, found that the wisdom I share, in how to grow from the awakening itself, is equally beneficial and valuable to them as the psychedelic experience itself. Let your remembering, that all conditions, all positions, all opinions are nothing but forms of the one, become a mantra for living a life in service and gratitude to your true self. Namaste.